vol VII: Notes
2015
Notes
[Sunday 31 May 2015 - Saturday 16 May 2015]
[Notebook: DB 78: Catholicism 2.0]
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Sunday 31 May 2015
Like Russell and probably everybody else, I come to apparent dead ends as (in a game) a new puzzle has to be solved before we can move on. To some degree these hindrances can be glossed over by faith : I have faith in my overall network picture of the quantum world, but I do not yet know how to apply it to produce an evolutionary picture of the applications of quantum field theory. Insofar as the layered network theory is good, we can put this aside and move up a layer to network communication in biology which are easier to see given their molecular implementation. Then on to psychology, which we can talk about the forces in the human network that play boson and fermion roles, binding and separating us. FERMION —> SPACE. TIME (FERMI ALGORITHM)
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SPACE.
All of Russell's logical work contributed to Göel, Turing and the computer. ? Neither Göel nor Turing's papers contain logical symbolism. Kurt Goedel I, Alan Turing
Having got this off my chest, I can now proceed happily to the necessary demolition and reconstruction necessary to bring theology into the scientific fold.
Bertie Russell: a self sufficient star on the boundary between ruling class arrogance and democratic science.
Science is democratic ( statistical ): democracy is scientific. Statistical mechanics and the dictatorship of large numbers.
What have I got that Russell has not got? Earthy ambition to bring theology down to Earth for everybody in the world.
Faith in the unity of the whole reflected in the unity of the model allows us to bypass some of the cracks while we wait for full understanding. Quantum field theory as seen by Veltman has many cracks and [dis] continuities but its saving grace is that it gives many correct answers despite its apparent weaknesses, so we are inclined to think that it is onto something. Veltman: Diagrammatics
The perversion at the heart of Catholic Universities: they owe institutional fidelity to the Papacy; as if a department of engineering had to believe what General Motors told it. John Paul II: Ex Corde Ecclesiae
Monday 1 June 2015
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We say democracy is scientific insofar as it is data based decision making. Policies are in effect hypotheses that governments put up for judgement. So making the Church both scientific and democratic amounts to the same thing, the opposite of imperial and authoritarian.
For Bertie, his intellectual life was the text of a struggle and he appears to have had a series of epiphanic events, both intellectual and romantic which redirected his thoughts. I am neither so smart nor so exacting and have arrived at a stable phase space into which to fit my model. We may think of this model as a manifold, that is a set of named points whose names are vectors of a certain dimension, working our way through natural, rational, real, complex, [and] transfinite numbers at each level generating more complex vectors, that is more dimensions. The first dimension is time, closed to the past, open to the future. — ie it has a fixed point (the closure) and stretches from there to infinity, ie no upper bound in the set. It is only bounded by the next transfinite number. The beauty of this manifold is that it is self addressing: the points are not continuous and amorphous, but discrete and named by a structure or algorithm. My algorithm is me.
Luckily I asked the right question: What is God? and got the right answer: this is God and, like Einstein, we can extrapolate from our local gods to the global God. A five year dose of Thomas was enough to inoculate me, plus the conviction that we could produce a new picture of God by giving new meanings to the technical terms of Aristotle-Thomas theology. Remarkable that Aristotle's ideas lay dormant from about 320 bce to 1260, ie 1580 years.
MASS = ENTROPY = NUMBER = MOMENTUM — global democracy means every person has the same weight.
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Getting excited by my own ideas. Mental masturbation. Bad. We do not want people getting ideas above their station.
Santayana Winds of Doctrine: Clark page 186. George Santayana (1913), Clark
Clark page 187: Santayana letter to BAG Fuller: '. . . he gave what was in 1913 a widely held professional opinion of Russell: . . . not a very trustworthy thinker . . . ' .
page 259: Russell in preface to The Principles of Social Reconstruction: 'Liberation of creativeness ought to be the principle of reform both in politics and economics.'
We are slowly, after nearly a century, breaking the curtain of secrecy thrown around the Church by Crimen sollicitationis. Supremae Sacrae Conregationis Sancti Officii, Tapsell: Potiphar's Wife
From the point of view of monarchy, the original sin is independence. From the point of view of independence, (maximum entropy) monarchy is the original sin.
Catholicism is the biggest lie. Who said the bigger the lie the better the chances of getting away with it? Adolph Hitler
Tuesday 2 June 2015
Cybernetic theology. Cybernetics shows us the limits of consistent action and so the boundaries of God. We know the interior of things through their boundaries, that is their interfaces with us. On the other hand, quantum mechanics shows us that our
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Universe attains its boundaries, that is it is divine.
Cybernetics is the fundamental science of tradieship.
Cantor developed a natural scale of entropy.
It is a great pleasure, one might say an orgasmic pleasure, to be able to say what one wants to say, in writing or in our process of reproduction.
I am beginning to feel that the end is coming for this grim monstrosity which has dogged the lives of so many people by declaring them inherently evil, original sinners.
The cosmological constant problem tells s that the quantum field theoretical computation of the energy of the vacuum is wrong by a factor of abut 10100, the wrongest number in the whole of physics. Stephen Weinberg
The eigenfunctions of an operator are immune from its action as to their proportional dimensional composition [ie direction], but their probability is modified by the corresponding eigenvalue.
Wednesday 3 June 2015
The conflict between eternity and dynamism is one of the inconsistencies in the Catholic mode of God that is papered over by the claim that God is an invisible mystery far beyond our ken, but which can be understood by fixed point theory.
The Church has been on the defensive since the declaration of infallibility. This was followed by the syllabus errorum, the twenty four theses and Crimen sollicitationis bringing a
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curtain of secrecy down around the infallible heart of the Church. The secular authorities are now gradually exposing the crimes committed behind the curtain. + Ordinatio sacerdotalis or some such. First Vatican Council: Infallibility, Pius IX: Syllabus, Pope Pius X: Theses, Richard Ackland: Crimen, John Paul II: Ordinatio
The Rule of Law and Natural Law. Our enactments will be most effective when they follow the laws of nature, that is consistency, which in a mathematical context means no point in the observable structure where p and not-p are both true. Ie, the world is concrete. There is no real superposition. We are all individuals in the concrete layer, but the concrete layer is built on the software which has evolved since the beginning of time. Any changes to the system must respect this legacy. One of the beauties of the layered network model is the spectrum is creates from the simplest of hardware to the most complex software. Here is my old question. If the Universe is a software system, that is a computer network, what is the hardware on which it runs?
Bounds of control / bounds of proof, ie what is provable. Many (most) things are not provable [but some can be checked]. Kurt Goedel 1
Russel and his generation laid the logical foundations for the cybernetic age, or more correctly, the age of cybernetic awareness, when we became aware of the complex interlacing field of feedbacks that grounds the natural process, the algorithms of wilderness, ie formal variables, structural variables, the means we use to communicate structures, language, art, mathematics, etc.
The hardware = { computable functions }
The software = { incomputable functions } [?]
My question is: do the ideas I have been chewing over
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most of my life show a path toward the peaceful coexistence of Earth and humanity.
We expound by assumptions, set of axioms we take for granted. They may or may not be true.
Did Russell want to micromanage the world, trusting no-one to do it as well as he? I am going for micromanagement: change one bit at the root and then stand back and watch the consequences work out in all fields of human knowledge including theology.
I understand the transfinite network by applying it, and it is only applicable in finite form, Cantor's principle of finitism. Hallett: Cantorian Set Theory . . .
Clark page 517: Russell: 'men must learn to think of the human race as one family, a change of outlook which "could be brought about in a generation if educators cooperate in bringing up the young as citizens of the world instead of as predatory warriors" .'
page 519: 'If matters are to improve the first as essential step is to find a way of diminishing fear. The world at present is obsesses by the conflict of rival ideologies, and one of the apparent causes of conflict is the desire for victory of our own ideology and the defeat of the other. MONARCHY DOWN, DEMOCRACY UP.
Thursday 4 June 2015
Friday 5 June 2015
What is corruption? Formally correlation or non-orthogonality [in the wrong place].
Gravitation is the consequence of non-orthogonality brought about by communication at a rate proportional to the product of the masses divided by the square of the distance between them, to
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the Newtonian order in which the [gravitational influence is transmitted at infinite velocity]
Corruption: leakage. We begin by imagining the transfinite computer network as a pipe system which enforces the conserved flow of energy, which may be subdivided into transfinitely small pipes through which very little happens, so the sources coupled by the pipe are effectively independent = orthogonal.
There is a flow of 'social energy' through the community which should ideally be organized to maximize the value of the energy flows for the concurrent wellbeing of individuals and society, the point of maximum entropy / energy.
Hopefully my life of long shots and wild speculation is coming home to a safe haven. At least I feel it is better than the existing model, and as it slowly fits together and fits my experiences, I slowly gain confidence in it.
Bless me father because I have not sinned. I was righteous all along.
Saturday 6 June 2015
My idea is to develop an irresistable mathematical model which suggests ways to improve human stability by maximizing 'social entropy' by maximizing freedom, democracy and the scientific study of history. [model based on communication theory]
The Platonic escape, motivated by fear of the concrete, where danger lies. In our reproductive process, women dealing with childbirth and nurture live a lot closer to the concrete than the ruling class of (predominantly) males reluctant to get their
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hands dirty,
On Bertie Russell and the rule of law.
Christianity has embedded in us the conviction that most of life is bad and one way to create evidence for this position is to make sure that the ife of the subjects is bad by legislating as far as possible against natural human behaviour.
Clark page 624: Voltaire: 'One owes respect to he living. To the dead one owes nothing but truth.'
page 625: " "Sir Stanley", says a close friend, "knew his place. He was a good tradesman. Russell was an aristocrat" . '
Aristocracy: Determinants of the goods
Trade: realizing the interface between goods and money
Control
Measurement
Computation
Actuation
Our fundamental delusion is that we are smarter than the world which made us because we are specially made by God.
