vol VII: Notes
2014
Notes
[Notebook: DB 78: Catholicism 2.0]
[Sunday 10 August 2014 - Saturday 16 August 2014]
[page 8]
Sunday 10 August 2014
Dialogue is necessary to get at the truth (except in the lowest one-to-one correspondence physical layer.
Monday 11 August 2014
[page 9]
Tuesday 12 August 2014
Piketty, Capital Piketty
Piketty page 6: 'the alimentary imperative'.page 16 'The economists of the nineteenth century deserve immense credit for placing the distribution question at the heart of economic analysis and for seeking to study long term trends.'
Wednesday 13 August 2014
page 581: World Top Incomes Database: Facundo Alvaredo, Tony Atkinson, Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez
page 21: '. . . there is no natural spontaneous process to prevent destabilizing, inegalitarian forces from prevailing permanently." (?)
page 22: 'Over a long period of time the main force in favour of greater equality has been the diffusion of knowledge and skills.'
page 25: r > g, r = rate of return on capital, g = rate of growth.
52: Fundamental law of capitalism: capital share of income (α) = rate of return (r) × capital/income ratio (β).58: '. . . wealth accounts are still far from perfect, natural capital and damages to the environment are not accounted for.'
page 71: '. . . historical experience suggests that the principal mechanism for convergence at the international as well as the domestic level is diffusion of knowledge.
[page 10]
page 77: '. . . everything follows from the law of cumulative growth . . '
Thursday 14 August 2014
page 166: Second fundamental law of capitalism:
capital/income ratio (β) = savings rate (s) / growth rate (g)
In many cases a potential is a fixed point, like the field surrounding the proton in a hydrogen atom which guides the motion of the electron. On the other hand, in an atom with many electrons the potential felt by any electron is a time varying function of the motion of all the other electrons.
What we need is a clear statement of the duality between dynamics and fixed point which we might find in gravitation, These are physical questions: from a modelling point of view the existence of fixed points is enough and we can take guidance from observation to develop the mathematical treatment. So we go straight from fixed points to transfinite numbers.
Friday 15 August 2014
The cancer thing palls a bit but the excitement and hopelessness of writing the website is back, going over things I did in 2006. The project is beginning to look do-able.
Layers are parametrized by space-time.
The next step it to couple this model to reality, done in two stages, cybernetics and physics.
Saturday 16 August 2014
[page 1]
Build yourself on a strong foundation. I feel that i have always been somewhat self sufficient because I do not believe that I have ever really been a believer. Somehow I always felt that there was something suspicious about Catholicism. There can be little doubt that the this aspect of my character was connected to my father's expressed agnosticism, One needs to feel that the world is in some way under control (I would say foolproof). The believers attribute this control or foolproofness to God. I attribute it to the nature of things insofar as things that do not work do not exist.
