vol VII: Notes
2015
Notes
[Sunday 24 May 2015 - Saturday 30 May 2015]
[Notebook: DB 78: Catholicism 2.0]
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Sunday 24 May 2015
Computation and decision: which eigenfunction will the system choose to exhibit?
We may assume that the tension between competition and cooperation exists at all levels in the evolutionary process, and so the idea of symmetry with respect to complexity allows us to carry it back to the relationship between bosons and fermions which has been a sticking point since before I left Elands on 15 May.
Monday 25 May 2015
Tuesday 26 May 2015
Jesus was a tradie. God is wild. Maximum entropy, maximum stability.
Wednesday 27 May 2015
My parents are no longer communicating with the world and so I feel free to speak out. The Catholic Church I grew up in is slowly being revealed to the world by the Royal Commission into the Institutional abuse of children. Sexual abuse is the tip of the iceberg, but like every disaster, it is the culmination of a mental state which first came to notice in the ascetic movements of ancient times. In
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their minds the body is the enemy of the soul. 'The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.' Matthew 26:40-43
A confession: destruction of Catholicism, a [partial] demolition of Catholicism
A creed: construction of the alternative.
Thursday 28 May 2015
Friday 29 May 2015
Special relativity may blur the distinction between fixed and moving oints, since the decision depends upon the motion of the observer. Special relativity - Wikipedia
Battling with my god to replace the Volvo 240 trailing arm to back axle bushes. One done, one to go.
Dorothy Parker: 'If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at who he gave it to.' He's a boy. Dorothy Parker
Saturday 30 May 2015
I have been tacitly assuming that each new fixed point in the divine dynamics is a new degree of freedom, a new symmetry, a new boundary on reality, where by boundary we understand a borderline between consistency and inconsistency. This assumption may arise from the conditions of the Brouwer theorem which are a continuous, convex and compact set, ie a set containing its own boundary. So, as in quantum mechanics, the existence of boundaries induces the existence of fixed points, as in the nodes of a vibrating string.
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I have been trying to imagine the fixed points of the divine dynamics growing like the transfinite numbers, but I do not understand why this should happen. One approach has been to abandon the Platonic and formal notions that the infinite set of natural numbers can exist and replace it with Landauer's idea that all information is represented physically, so that the simplest realization of the first transfinite cardinal is simply a two state system. Rolf Landauer: Information is a physical entity
I had been aground before I left for Melbourne on the emergence of space from time, fermions from bosons, and am still not much further afield. There must be a big clue in the quantum mechanical notion of amplitudes adding and subtracting, and in the notion of the event horizon and spacelike separation, which makes possible the existence of more than one particles. Can we see the dimensions of space as spacelike separated?
Reading Clark's biography of Russell and his commentary on Russell's attempt to understand the nature of space. The best thing I have come up with is that space enables the existence of independent (orthogonal) units of memory (memory cells [which may contain any value]) which we can see as particles capable of independent motion. Their independence is not perfectly 'Platonic' however, but we have some coupling or entanglement which manifests as the four 'forces'.
What we are thinking is the emergence of discrete digital dynamics (logical dynamics [continuous processes leading from p to not-p[) which we somehow attribute to the Dionysian mode of an absolutely simple God.
Russell is very upper class Platonic, thinking the invisible world of his mathematical imagination to be superior to the concrete world of everyday experience.
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With the loss of my mother's ability to hold a coherent conversation I no longer have to skirt around her hope to meet her dead children again.
Russell to Berenson Clarke page 77: 'I have been making myself a shrine, during the last 8 months, where I worship the things of beauty I have known, & have learnt to live in this worship even when I am outwardly occupied with things that formerly would have been unendurable to me. A private world, a world of pure contemplation, is a wonderful refuge, but it is very necessary to preserve it from pollution. Strange, the isolation in which we all live; what we call friendship is really the discovery of an isolation like our own a secret worship of the same gods.' Clark
The Platonic (monastic) dream.
As a child Russell was indoctrinated with the formal, impersonal ruling class mind. He thought his way out of this beginning when he began to fall in love and find it necessary to hide in order not to fal foul of the constraints imposed by his social and academic matrix.
Ruling class mind is a fundamental error in the Church and it has trickled down from the Pope to the Catholic Prime Minister of Australia who would like to rule as a dictator but is too stupid to dictate for a democratic polity. The Prime Minister of Australia
Clark page 78: The Free Man's Worship Russell
Clark page 79: 'In action, in desire, we must submit perpetually to the tyranny of outside forces, but in thoughts, in aspirations, we are free, free from our fellow men, free from the petty planet on which our
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bodies impotently crawl, free even, while we live, from the tyranny of death. Let us learn, then, that energy of faith which enables us to live constantly in the vision of the good, and let us descend, in action, into the world of fact with that vision always before us.
The Platonic delusion again. The Earth is not a petty planet; it is a divine system we would do well to understand and worship.
Wealth does not trickle down as well as violence.
Orthogonal: outside eachother's light (action) cone [independent].
TheCatholic Church is not Christian, it is imperial.
We might guess that about 100 billion lemmings have leapt over the Catholic cliff since the Church took over the Empire [more like 10 billion].
