vol VII: Notes

2015

Notes

Sunday 13 December 2015 - Saturday 19 December 2015

[Notebook: DB 79: Galileo Wins]

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Sunday 13 December 2015

I am still, days later, feeling the effects of two days work in very hot weather laying a deck. It was an effort and brought home to me the Biblical observation that our portion of life is about three score and ten years. I am fading out of physical labour, just saving sufficient energy to complete my house and earn the money to do so. Renovating theology is now becoming my principal task, and instead of just idling along I am feeling the need, in the face of global social conditions, to put some real effort into it with a view to making come sort of mark in the theological space. Tired but inspired. The Psalms, King James Version

Kipling; '. . . What and Why and When and How and Where and Who. The scientific theology book might so this by an historical narrative leading to the conclusion the universe is divine.

Saving the world is dead simple, a simple change of mind, ie point of view, metanoia

My visible friend is better than your invisible friend.

I have recently begin to realize how bad things were when I went to school. The Child Abuse Royal Commission has

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done this.

Monday 14 December 2015

Tuesday 15 December 2015

Scientific theology — Kuhn and paradigm change. The change is simple: God is not to God is the universe. So simple. So powerful. So difficult for those who do not think scientifically, ie who are not very open to evidence. Here we examine the advantage of taking an evidence based approach to theology, it breaking the hold of ancient authority. Kuhn:The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Politics is played out with our lives, basically an attempt by all participants to maximize share of the cake with minimal expenditure. This is the solipsist view: Maggie Thatcher 'there is no such thing as society' as if she did not know that she is a society of cells that are societies of molecules which are societies of atoms which are ultimately societies of fundamental particles, ie individuals rather than societies. Why don't they stay individual? Because the socializing forces is more powerful than the individualizing forces [are they the same, society creating individuals and vice versa?]. How does this work? It is a thing about entropy and error, ie Shannon's theory; a computer network, I am betting, gives us a phase space for scientific theology. Margaret Thatcher, Phase space - Wikipedia

Another wearying day doing steelwork in he sun, heading for shade wherever I could. Inspired by the bloke down the road putting up a house, no shirt, no hat, no share on site.

At the bottom end are people who get their way by killing, criminals and warlords. The first stop toward polity is controlling the warlords all of whom are effectively criminal, killing extradjudicially. Perhaps even judicial killing is wrong. Socrates

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took the suicide option, but was the judgement of him fair and just? Socrates - Wikipedia

Corporations proceed on the basis that they own the bodies and minds of those subject to their power, ie employees and customers.

The paradigm change is just too easy, but the established alternative has a lot of momentum, that is a lot of nous requiring a change of state. Nous - Wikipedia

STATE = FORM

Wednesday 16 December 2015

Comment to Commonweal

The Roman Catholic Church is an alien power on our contemporary Earth. Between the Code of Canon Law and the Cathoic Catechism we get a pretty good idea of its personality. Constitutionally it is the most absolute of absolute monarchies. Doctrinally it worships an invisible God of its own making while it is surrounded by the truly divine Universe. It denies the right to power of the female half of the population. Its mentality is that of a Roman Emperor, God among its peers. This sense of entitlement is the power which has corrupted it. The child sexual abuse scandal is just beginning, and will possibly bankrupt the current Church. Its only hope is to get real. In more enlightened jurisdictions, the forces of justice are beginning to bring the Church into line. Radical salvation, however, requires that it abandon its ancient fantasies and replace them with evidence based theology. This requires that God be observable. The paradigm change needed in theology is very simple: we replace the words 'God is invisible and other than the Universe' with the phrase 'God is visible, and identical with the Universe.' Priests might then have something valuable to say instead of merely exhorting us to do what we are told. I am seventy years old and was taught by a notorious pedophile, now deceased. When I was at school the behaviour of the teachers seemed normal. Now I can see much of it was horrendous. The ultimate source of this error is that the papacy is modelled on ancient imperial warlords whose word is law regardless of reality. People indoctrinated since birth with the notion that the world is a defective creation awaiting ultimate redemption might find the realistic point of view difficult to accept, but I see nothing in the metaphysical foundations of theology to render this notion inconsistent with common experience.

Think of the book as a PhD thesis, a ticket of entry to academia and the literature.

Calculation = logical continuum.

Been pushing myself to work on these hot days, and find I can do it. But what I want to do is apply the same work ethic to developing and propagating my gospel. The good news is sitting there in the fact of evolution, The Universe did not just sit there, a featureless dust of fundamental particles, but the particles have worked together to create huge and complex structures like ourselves comprising E28 atoms each containing a number of more fundamental particles that are truly atomic, without structure, all of whose activities are measured by a quantum of action [a human lifetime comprises some E60 quanta of action (?)].

Walk while pouring a beer: an application of differential geometry controlled by a cybernetic loop.

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Thursday 17 December 2015

Stuck at Dev04_Physics/phys09SpaceTime.

'The story of science suggests that new scientific developments often take a broader view of the world within which the old view is a special case.' We can apply this idea to the mathematical models we use of the Universe. At present physics has its mathematical foundations in differentiable manifolds which are used to describe space-time which serves as the domain or independent variable for the whole of physics expressed as a field structure built on space-time.

The particular space-time of physics has 3 pace and one time dimension and a metric signature that looks like -1, 1, 1, 1. From a network point of view we can treat space more generally as a set of processes measured by steps in time and a set of memories which are read and written to by the processes. This general model of spacetime can then be discussed in terms of complexity beginning with one process in one unit of memory and expanding to a countably infinite set of computable processes in a transfinite array of memories.

Auyang: 4-space as we know it is an algorithm acting as a subroutine for every process in the universe. this subroutine itself has subroutines represented by fermions and bosons. Auyang

Written language is built on spoken language which probably predated the invention of writing by a long period.

Marty McCarthy Marty McCarthy: Invasive Species Council highlights conflict of interest in Queensland biosecurity system, calls for more independence

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Friday 18 December 2015

Spacetime is a subroutine of the Universe. In the layers beneath it we find spin (action) bosons and fermions In the layers above it we find all the proceses that take place in spacetime as described by the differentiable manifold and the forest of fibre bundles growing out of it which we intend to interpret as higher layers of the transfinite network. The instances of spacetime increase as more and more systems come into being that need them. Fiber bundle - Wikipedia

Saturday 19 December 2015

Stuart: Keynes and After page 76: 'Keynes to Bernard Shaw 1/1/1935: " . . . I believe myself to be writing a book on economic theory which will largely revolutionize — not I suppose at once but in the course of the next ten years — the way the world thinks about economic problems. Stewart

Creating new product has a technical side and a marketing side The development of Christianity in its first stable form took about 400 years from the birth of the Messiah to the standardization of dogma through generally accepted creeds whose archetype we take to be the Nicene reeds. The creation of natural religion will follow a similar course, starting with the hypothesis that the whole universe, and not just one man, is divine. This coupling of humanity and divinity gave a new impetus to theology in that there was now some evidence, the recorded sayings and doings of the Messiah and his fellow evangelists. First write the gospel and then evangelize = propagandize. Nicene Creed - Wikipedia, Vatican Museums

Autoeroticism: my downfall and my strength.

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Feeling is broadband., formalism is narrowband. Feeling is continuous (ie transfinite), formalism is limited to the countable infinities of the natural numbers, the rational numbers and (abstract) computers. Turing machine - Wikipedia

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Further reading

Books

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Auyang, Sunny Y., How Quantum Theory is possible, Oxford University Press 1995 Jacket: 'Quantum field theory (QFT) combines quantum mechanics with Einstein's special theory of relativity and underlies elementary particle physics. This book presents a philosophical analysis of QFT. It is the first treatise in which the philosophies of space-time, quantum phenomena and particle interactions are encompassed in a unified framework.'  Amazon   back

Kuhn, Thomas S, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, U of Chicago Press 1996 Introduction: 'a new theory, however special its range of application, is seldom just an increment to what is already known. Its assimilation requires the reconstruction of prior theory and the re-evaluation of prior fact, an intrinsically revolutionary process that is seldom completed by a single man, and never overnight.' [p 7]   Amazon   back

Stewart, Michael, Keynes and After, Penguin 1999 'Amazing how such a small book could give so much information about an economic theory that changed the world. In "Keynes and After," Michael Stewart does not waste any words in telling the reader how revolutions in thought occur when the prevailing theory can no longer be reconciled with the observable facts. That expression (in the "conclusion" in the book) could itself be an excellent thought for the current global politicians who seem to be clueless and not seeing the observable facts as to how to save the global economy. . . . ' Indrajith A Weeraratne  Amazon   back

Papers

Collins, Scott L, "Biodiversity Under Global Change", Science, 326, 5958, 4 December 2009, page 1353-1354. 'Many common plant species, such as prairie grasses, have evolved traits for the efficient capture and use of two key resources that limit terrestrial productivity: nitrogen (N) and carbon dioxide (CO2). Over the past 60 years, human activity has vastly increased the availability of these resources. Atmospheric CO2 concentration has increased by 40%, and N availability has more than doubled. These changes are likely to have important consequences for species interactions, community structure, and ecosystem functioning. On page 1399 of this issue, Reich investigates one important consequence, biodiversity loss, based on a long-term elevated CO2 and nitrogen fertilization experiment '. back

Sussman, Michael R, George N Phillips Jr, "How Plant Cells go to Sleep for a Long, Long Time", Science, 326, 5958, 4 December 2009, page 1356-1357. 'Seeds are plant spores—desiccated, dormant cells in which metabolism and growth have been drastically slowed, so that the organism can wait out adverse conditions. This is especially important for plants, which cannot run away from environmental threats. Instead of motility, they use dormancy to outlast adversarial conditions caused by pathogens or severe weather. Indeed, some seeds remain viable for hundreds of years. On page 1373 of this issue, Nishimura et al. (1) and four other groups (2–5) report the initial biochemical mechanisms that allow the complex cellular machinery of this multicellular eukaryote to live for so long in a dormant state.'. back

Links

Composition of the human body - Wikipedia, Composition of the human body - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'The composition of the human body can be looked at from the point of view of either mass composition, or atomic composition. To illustrate both views, the human body is ~70% water, and water is ~11% hydrogen by mass but ~67% hydrogen by atomic percent. Thus, most of the mass of the human body is oxygen, but most of the atoms in the human body are hydrogen atoms.' back

Fiber bundle - Wikipedia, Fiber bundle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'In mathematics, and particularly topology, a fiber bundle (or, in British English, fibre bundle) is a space that is locally a product space, but globally may have a different topological structure. Specifically, the similarity between a space E and a product space B × F is defined using a continuous surjective map π: E → B that in small regions of E behaves just like a projection from corresponding regions of B × F to B. The map π, called the projection or submersion of the bundle, is regarded as part of the structure of the bundle. The space E is known as the total space of the fiber bundle, B as the base space, and F the fiber.' back

Heath Ashton, Ending four tax lurks would deliver $38 billion budget relief for Scott Morrison, budget office finds, 'The latest worsening of the budget deficit, to be revealed by Treasurer Scott Morrison on Tuesday, could be plugged by abolishing a handful of what the Greens claim are "unfair tax breaks". Research by the independent Parliament Budget Office, conducted for the party, found the government would be $38 billion better off over four years if four entrenched tax lurks, including negative gearing, capital gains tax discounts and public subsidies for fossil fuels, were abolished.' back

Nous - Wikipedia, Nous - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'Nous . . . , sometimes equated to intellect or intelligence, is a philosophical term for the faculty of the human mind which is described in classical philosophy as necessary for understanding what is true or real. The three commonly used philosophical terms are from Greek, νοῦς or νόος, and Latin intellectus and intelligentia respectively. To describe the activity of this faculty, apart from verbs based on "understanding", the word "intellection" is sometimes used in philosophical contexts, and the Greek words noēsis and noein are sometimes also used. This activity is understood in a similar way, at least in some contexts, to the modern concept intuition.' back

Kirkland An, Do Muslims and Christians worship the same God? College suspends professor who said yes., 'Wheaton College, a prominent evangelical school in Illinois, has placed a professor on administrative leave after she posted on Facebook that Muslims and Christians “worship the same God.” The official school statement Tuesday about associate professor of political science Larycia Hawkins’s suspension said Wheaton professors should “engage in and speak about public issues in ways that faithfully represent the College’s evangelical Statement of Faith.” / back

Margaret Thatcher, Margaret Thatcher - Wikiquote, 'Margaret Thatcher (13 October 1925 – 8 April 2013) was the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1979–1990). 'They're casting their problem on society. And, you know, there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first. It's our duty to look after ourselves and then, also to look after our neighbour. People have got the entitlements too much in mind, without the obligations, because there is no such thing as an entitlement unless someone has first met an obligation"' back

Marty McCarthy, Invasive Species Council highlights conflict of interest in Queensland biosecurity system, calls for more indpendence, 'Currently, the state's Department of Agriculture manages pest and disease incursions and is responsible for the control and eradication of them. However, in a submission to the Biosecurity Capabilities Review, the Council said more money was spent controlling agricultural pests that posed a commercial risk at the expense of environmental ones. The Council's Andrew Cox said future pest and disease decisions needed to be made independently of the Department of Agriculture to remove any conflict of interest or favouritism.' back

Nicene Creed - Wikipedia, Nicene Creed - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'The Nicene Creed (Greek: Σύμβολον τῆς Νίκαιας, Latin: Symbolum Nicaenum) is the profession of faith or creed that is most widely used in Christian liturgy. It forms the mainstream definition of Christianity for most Christians. It is called Nicene because, in its original form, it was adopted in the city of Nicaea (present day Iznik in Turkey) by the first ecumenical council, which met there in the year 325. The Nicene Creed has been normative for the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Church of the East, the Oriental Orthodox churches, the Anglican Communion, and the great majority of Protestant denominations.' back

Nicholas Kristof, Take my quiz on religion, 'Donald Trump's proposal to bar Muslims from the United States may be a gift to Islamic State recruitment and a grotesque echo of the sentiment behind the Chinese Exclusion Act and the internment of Japanese-Americans. But, like those earlier spasms of exclusion, the Trump proposal has plenty of supporters. In one recent poll, more than three-quarters of Republicans said Islam was incompatible with life in the US, where there is a widespread perception that Islam is rooted in misogyny and violence, incorrigible because it is rooted in a holy text that is fundamentally different from others.' back

NYT Editors, Normalizing Carnage: Democracy vs the National Rifle Association, '. . . studies have shown that, here in America, states and municipalities with more gun restrictions have fewer gun-related deaths. . . . studies have also shown that people who live in households with guns are less safe overall than those who live in households without them. In short, the politics of gun control may be complicated, but the epidemiology is surprisingly simple: all other things being equal, more guns mean more bloodshed.. back

Phase space - Wikipedia, Phase space - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'In mathematics and physics, a phase space, introduced by Willard Gibbs in 1901, is a space in which all possible states of a system are represented, with each possible state of the system corresponding to one unique point in the phase space. For mechanical systems, the phase space usually consists of all possible values of position and momentum variables. , , , back

Sarah Lipton, The Words That Killed Medieval Jews, 'Ferocious anti-Jewish rhetoric began to permeate sermons, plays and polemical texts. Jews were labeled demonic and greedy. In one diatribe, the head of the most influential monastery in Christendom thundered at the Jews: “Why are you not called brute animals? Why not beasts?” Images began to portray Jews as hooknosed caricatures of evil. The first records of large-scale anti-Jewish violence coincide with this rhetorical shift. Although the pope who preached the First Crusade had called only for an “armed pilgrimage” to retake Jerusalem from Muslims, the first victims of the Crusade were not the Turkish rulers of Jerusalem but Jewish residents of the German Rhineland.' back

Socrates - Wikipedia, Socrates - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, Socrates (. . . 470/469 – 399 BC) was a classical Greek (Athenian) philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy. He is an enigmatic figure known chiefly through the accounts of classical writers, especially the writings of his students Plato and Xenophon and the plays of his contemporary Aristophanes. . . . Through his portrayal in Plato's dialogues, Socrates has become renowned for his contribution to the field of ethics, and it is this Platonic Socrates who lends his name to the concepts of Socratic irony and the Socratic method, or elenchus. . . . Plato's Socrates also made important and lasting contributions to the field of epistemology, and his ideologies and approach have proven a strong foundation for much Western philosophy that has followed.' back

The Psalms, King James Version, Psalm 90;10, 'The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.' back

Turing machine - Wikipedia, Turing machine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, A Turing machine is a hypothetical device that manipulates symbols on a strip of tape according to a table of rules. Despite its simplicity, a Turing machine can be adapted to simulate the logic of any computer algorithm, and is particularly useful in explaining the functions of a CPU inside a computer. The "machine" was invented in 1936 by Alan Turingwho called it an "a-machine" (automatic machine). The Turing machine is not intended as practical computing technology, but rather as a hypothetical device representing a computing machine. Turing machines help computer scientists understand the limits of mechanical computation.' back

Vatican Museums, Propaganda Fide, 'Propaganda Fide It is the Department (Congregation) of the Holy See founded in 1622 by Pope Gregory XV with the double aim of spreading Christianity in the areas where the Christian message had still not arrived and of defending the patrimony of faith in those places where heresy had caused the genuineness of the faith to be questioned. Propaganda Fide was therefore, basically, the Congregation whose task it was to organize all the missionary activity of the Church. Through a provision of John Paul II (in order to better define its tasks), since 1988 the original Propaganda Fide has been called the "Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples". Official Propaganda Fide website: http://www.fides.org/ita/index.html' back