vol VII: Notes
2015
Notes
[Sunday 8 November 2015 - Saturday 14 November 2015]
[Notebook: DB 79: Galileo Wins]
[page 134]
Sunday 8 November 2015
Auyang is a bit disappointing in that she seems to follow the standard model and the standard mathematical approach without much fresh insight. Not that I have got much further. Auyang
I like to see spacetime as the visible screen on which the results of invisible computations are projected and that the algorithms of spacetime are a layer in the universal network which are built on the basic quantum layer of energy time by the advent of a three dimensional system of memory which enables communication without interference, that is without crossed wires. But have not progressed from here for a long time.
Paul Ehrlich Q & A: 'If you teach people details about non-existent supernatural monsters and then behave in relation to what you think they are telling you. That's child abuse. You don't raise your kids that way. FitzSimons Peter FitzSimons
Auyang page 176: 'Without a comparison we cannot tell if events are different. Without the relations of similarity and constancy, we cannot have any notion of changes. Without change, the notion of succession loses much of its meaning. No sense of a world obtains from such a heap of disjoint events.'
Mathematical physicists conceptually digitize the continuum by using point sets to study it on the assumption that the continuum is a set of points that can be addressed in a one to one manner
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by real numbers. At the same time they are having trouble with the infinities that arise by dividing by 0. The fundamental difficulty arises from failing to distinguish between logical and geometric (physical) continuity. Mathematical analysis shows that we can develop a logically consistent theory of continuous spaces and real numbers, but these properties are realized in reality not with measureless points but with quanta of action, atoms of action with finite size which is measured by the 'distance' between true and false, 1 and 0, p and not-p. Our obsession with continuity in physics has blinded us to the discreteness and logic in our own communication.
Auyang page 176: 'To bring our inquiry closer to the traditional philosophical debate we can use the same mathematical model to represent the empiricist notion of experiences. In this case the curve γ(x) represents my world line and the events represent a successive sequence of sense impressions. I successively have the sense impressions vx, vx' etc. The impressions are loose and separate, conjoined but not connected, as Hume described.
Wrong (?): the succession of experiences is logically connected by the local environments of my world line ie through which my world line is passing, like this chair in this room in this house.
Here is a glaring example of the ignorance of logical continuity brought on by concentrating on the mathematics of 'analytic' continuity.
The digital universe: revealing the role of logical networks on our perceptions of our world.
Physicists assume the existence of a differentiable manifold as the background of all their work, but logically is must be constructed. We want to understand how our home is built.
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Auyang page 177: 'The above mathematical model shows that when the global convention is purged, the notion of similarity collapses.' It cannot be purged, however, because it is built into the Universe by its logical descent from the one God.Memory, nothing happens, a continuum in time, stillness, but quantum mechanics tells us the wave function is still going round, eit. Nothing observable happens. Is nothing happens equivalent to nothing observable happens? Yes, but nothing observable happens does not mean nothing happens because there may be invisible processing, there must be otherwise (according to the invisibility theorem) nothing would ever happen because a watched computer never halts because it must use up all its cycles to cooperate with being watched, leaving none for actually making progress toward its halted state.
Auyang page 180: 'When the absolute primacy of sense perceptions is taken seriously, we cannot break the solipsism of the moment. Similarity and the regular succession of events are as shaky as identity and causality.' Maybe for a philosopher but not for a person living in the real world. Symmetry is the key to knowledge.
page 181; 'In physics, the recommendation of a satisfactory conceptual framework that includes the relativity of events is embodied in the principle of local symmetry also known as the gauge principle.' Which we imagine is based on shared communication protocols.
page 183: 'In field theories, each event is free to choose its own conceptions in expressing definite quantities. The conventions of various events are mediated and their randomness compensated by the interaction potential' [text represents potential, ie form: this text represents an interaction potential between you and me].
page 185: 'To find relative phases, we need to reconcile the phase
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conventions of various events. The mediation is provided by something akin to the heat [flow] . . . and is called the potential . . . The concept of force, which is prominent in classical mechanics, almost disappears in modern dynamics. In its place we find the potential. Potential is the integration of force, and indefinite integrals come with arbitrary constants. Thus the potential is intrinsically relative and can be determined only up to a constant.'
Auyang page 186: 'When we do measurements we effectively substitute one partner of the interacting system with our experimental equipment and discount the equipment.'
Fibre bundle: parallel / serial / parallel
page 188: 'In stark contrast to classical mechanics, field theories admit no path-independent means of comparing and correlating. This is epistemologically satisfying for universal and path-independent standards of comparisons are conventional [fictional?].
Monday 9 November 2015
Auyang's description of the world of quantum field theory and the standard model sets it up for conversion to the network model by interpreting every point in the physical continuum as an event, a discrete operation which we an easily take over as the transmission and reception of a message which takes place in the tangent space of the event.
Differentiability means that nothing happens, the move from point a to point b (measured by ε) is a bounded function of the movement from f(a) to f(b) (measured by δ) so that there are no unbounded jumps in the continuum as we find in the output of a communication source.
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Evolution and P vs NP. The source of evolutionary variation is logical in the sense that NP errors introduced by noise in the preservation and copying of the genome may have P consequences which often appear in the phenotype, maybe affecting the selection process.
It's one world, dudes, we are all in it together and if we don't keep up we'll get left behind. The old guard think they are entitled, but these days you have to earn your title, inheritance no longer counts. The white Australia drongoes that are opposed to education are making us dependent on foreign [skilled] labour, just the opposite of what they thought they were doing.
Statisticians bin and count; theoreticians want to know why bins have the observed counts.
Auyang page 204: 'An individual ω is an entity that can be subject to a proposition. Individuals have qualities which are their their properties'.
What is a property? A form or algorithm. Smells like x means has a molecular form which stimulates the sensation x in the human olfactory tract.
Tuesday 10 November 2015
The potentals operating in human space (and every other space where there is competition for resources). Which of the ℵ1 mappings of the natural numbers onto themselves will get the most resources? The ℵo computable ones, because they can reproduce themselves by collecting the resources to make copies of themselves, the principal element of which is simply the ability to make copies of oneself — biology [and also literature, and all other reproduction of existing strings].
Wednesday 11 November 2015
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How to map network layering to fibre bundles. [Auyang page 214]
From differentiable manifold to transfinite computer network [via point set theory, ie digitization of the continuum].
Auyang page 214 Fibre Bundles - a communication link is a fibre.
Thursday 12 November 2015
Newspapers have to entertain to boost sales, but the fundamental cybernetic role of the investigative side of journalism is negative feedback pointing out errors in the infinite dimensional course of the body politic through its environment.
In order to steer a deterministic course we need to control every degree of freedom. Ships, for instance, are controlled in the vertical dimension by buoyancy so they have only two degrees of freedom. Trains are controlled in the vertical dimension and one horizontal dimension, leaving the driver to control tangent velocity.
Time is the affine parameter in an infinite dimensional logical space and the single time reflected in the conservation of energy is bifurcated into the infinity of local (proper) times corresponding to processes in the universe.
Lower energy correlates with higher entropy, more states per Joule. S = ∫ dQ/T. Carnot machine conserves entropy but uses less energy to carry the same entropy in the low temperature 'source'.
Sex is our common language, the reproductive potential that keeps us alive in the face of individual inevitable death.
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On generation and corruption. The invisibility theorem and the limits to self repair. Aristotle
Friday 13 November 2015
Copy of Francis to Commonweal to review. Letters to Pope Francis
Next book: The root of peace, radix pacis
The causes of war and disturbance: resources; culture. Can I say my culture is my total learned (as opposed to inherited) information content [the noome?].
A Theory of Peace concentrated on the size of the space we can occupy (so reducing pressure, viscosity and friction). Now we turn to our common origin in God. So the roots of peace are: a) our unity in God; and b) the unbounded creative space open to us. A theory of peace , 1987
Conflict and corruption (inconsistency)
peace and cooperation (consistency)
The network + Cantor + computability / incomputability give us the ingredients for the theory of peace. Radix pacis: A theory of peace.
Common descent: common protocols. Evolution builds humanity into the overall scheme of things.
Although death and destruction through war may be on a general downward trend, the exponential increase in media coverae of every event on Earth makes us feel that violence and corruption are on the rise
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Secular humanity : ie basing our humanity on reality (the saeculum ) has moved far ahead of the traditional religions whose conflicts are generally based on radical misunderstanding of the nature of our world. Saeculum - Wikipedia
Saturday 14 November 2015
The root of our unity is that we are all personalities of God, like Jesus and the prophets. Every event in the universe, including ourselves is divine revelation.
We are all prophets. We are all Jesus. And a large number of get crucified by reactionary and occupying forces, like Jesus did.
Churchill bombing Mespotamia [Iraq] Marek Pruszewicz
You can never [overestimate] the gullibility of a population and the Catholic Church takes full advantage of this, preaching the power of prayer while leaving it to others to make their prayers come true.
Democracy: making prayers come true. We pray for equality, but we must also do it in our own lives.
Of course I am on a mission from God. When one writes the script one can take on any role. I wish to reveal the God hidden in every detail of everyday lie.
It is the feeling that generates brand wealth: Gruen. Wil Anderson
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