vol VII: Notes

2016

Notes

Sunday 27 March 2016 - Saturday 2 April 2016

[Notebook: DB 80: Cosmic plumbing]

[page 49]

Sunday 27 March 2016

A message is a structure which persists through (space)-time. I am a message. Three of the most persistent messages are the conservations of action, energy and momentum, which appear not to change for the life of the universe.

Dawkins Climbing Mount Improbable. Inclined to throw out the baby with the bathwater, not realizing the power of order whose source is almighty God, as discovered by Dawkins. Dawkins

Monday 28 March 2016

Tuesday 29 March 2016

Always trying to get in under the radar, not confronting Catholicism head on, but that won't do. Catholic theology is wrong at the root, and must be called as such. It is based on a fundamental error, which seems to be politically motivated, of an institution trying to guarantee its existence by granting itsef a monopoly on a god of its own invention. The church that stope a false God and then marketed it as the true God.

The proof that the universe is divine rests on the fact that it is a network of universal Turing machines, and so powerful enough to fill the whole space of formal consistency and [so meet the criterion for divine universality].

Wednesday 30 March 2016

Language transforms structures from parallel to serial

[page 50]

What does the chapter [2] on language need to say?

1. Physical foundation /sight
2. Correspondence between words and things, etc
3. Syntax and grammar
4. Power of long strings
5. Error and misunderstanding / on interpretation / insight
6. Recursive conversation
7. Linguistics
8. Science and writing
9. Computer language, learning and context - tacit dimension
10.Language, politics and the rule of law.

Then chapter 3: The scientific world view

1. The history of hypotheses — evolution / species as languages
2. Scientific method — peer review, law courts, fact.
3. Consistency and locality
4. Invariance and divine law
5. Hierarchy — big operations made of small operations
6. Faith vs fact; observation and interpretation.
7. Modelling & interpreation: finding the logic in the behaviur — if we can link A and B by a continuum, A is B
8. Symmetry and continua
9. Broken symmetry and communication
10. Knowledge to action; science to technology; theology to religion

[page 51]

Chapter 4: Imagining God

1. Most of the traditional gods have amazing powers and personalities
2. The principal function of God: make lie worth living, ie suicide prevention
3. Contributing to the Christian God — Elohim, Yahweh, Trinity . . .
4. The next step: the universe
5. Divine perfection vs Worldly imperfection
6. From images of wealth and political rulers to a logical model
7. The most important role of God is mediating human relationships
8. Protocol: the universal declarations of human social properties
9. Peace, wilderness and maximum entropy
10. God made visible: scientific theology

Chapter 5: Network model

1. Social life
2. The internet, communication and network
3. Cantor [creating the symbolic playground]
4. Gödel — bandwidth and algorithmic information theory: uncertainty
5. Turing — the limits to computation limit what the universe can do determinately
6. Shannon — determinism in the presence of noise — quantization of messages
7. Coding and computation: it takes a network to know a network. The central nervous system
8. Layering and the transfinite numbers
9. The limits to communication
10. The limits to science: divine revelation

[page 52]

Chapter 6: Constructing the world

1. Does our model fit the world?
2. Relativity
3. Quantum mechanics
4. Symmetry and statistics — symmetry = uncertainty, a whiteout
5. Broken symmetry: fermion / boson
6. Generations of particles
7. Communicating and bonding
8. The body
9. The mind
10. Complexification

Chapter 7: The human network (local)

1. Communication protocols in human space determined by the nature of humanity
2. Humanity as an organism — the body politic
3. Evolution and network layering: how we came to be
4. Cells
5. Tissues
6. The senses
7. The central nervous system
8. Mind, brain and network. Edelman
9. The divine mind
10. Our local role in the divine mind

[page 53]

Chapter 8: From theology to ethics: religion

1.Private life / public life
2. Cooperation and survival
3. Values and consequences
4. Prediction and prudence
5. science and truth
6. Cooperation and symmetry: the Nicene Creed as a symmetry: the rule of law
7. The fundamental human symmetry = God - Universe
8. From war to peace — climbing layers of complexity
9. Trust in God
10. The meaning of life

Chapter 9: Universality and propagation: the scientific method

1. We are all in this together
2. We are split by our localization — where we are born and brought up
3. The invisible world that controls our lives
4. Divine right of rulers — a broken symmetry
5. The divine right of the divine world
6. The consistency of the universe
7. The language of the universe
8. Decoding: the scientific method
9. Networks and collective intelligence
10. The way forward

[page 54]

Thursday 31 March 2016

Edelman page 23: 'Forethought is meaningful, important and practical because it pays to anticipate the future, and because it is possible to do it by consulting the past.' Made possible by invariants or fixed point in the universal dynamics, the most basic being the conservation of action (angular momentum), energy and linear momentum. Edelman

page 27: Bayes theorem. Bayes' theorem - Wikipedia

page 30: 'It turns out that a network of neurons is a natural biological medium for representing a network of casual relationships.

page 31: 'The collective doings of the brain's multitude of neurons may be mind boggling to contemplate, but that's only because explanatory value — that is conceptual simplicity — is found in the principles, not the details of what the brain does.'

Minsky: 'Mind is what the brain does.' Mind is also what the universe does. Minsky: The Society of Mind

page 34: 'This line of reasoning . . . exposes the mind-body problem as an artefact of old ways of conceptualizing cognition that can be safely dismissed.'

Friday 1 April 2016

Integral (digital) can be perfect, ie addition and multiplication of whole numbers.

Saturday 2 April 2016

Wollongong

Edelman page 53: Representation space - transfinite network.

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Further reading

Books

Click on the "Amazon" link below each book entry to see details of a book (and possibly buy it!)

Dawkins, Richard, Climbing Mount Improbable, W. W. Norton & Company 1997 Amazon editorial review: 'How do species evolve? Richard Dawkins, one of the world's most eminent zoologists, likens the process to scaling a huge, Himalaya-size peak, the Mount Improbable of his title. An alpinist does not leap from sea level to the summit; neither does a species utterly change forms overnight, but instead follows a course of "slow, cumulative, one-step-at-a-time, non-random survival of random variants" -- a course that Charles Darwin, Dawkins's great hero, called natural selection. Illustrating his arguments with case studies from the natural world, such as the evolution of the eye and the lung, and the coevolution of certain kinds of figs and wasps, Dawkins provides a vigorous, entertaining defense of key Darwinian ideas.'  Amazon   back

Edelman, Shimon, The Happiness of Pursuit: What Neuroscience Can Teach Us About the Good Life, Basic books 2012 Jacket: ' "The anceint injunction to 'Know thyself' gets a lively update in Shimon Edelman's eclectic examination of 'knowing' and 'self' through the lends of twenty-first century cognitive science. Its human to wonder thoughtfully through real and imaginary landscapes, learning as we go—this is happiness, embodied in Edelman's witty odyssey, which provkes the very pleasures it describes.' Dan Lloyd, Brownell Professor of Philosophy, Trinity College  Amazon   back

Minsky, Marvin, The Society of Mind, Simon & Schuster ISBN-10: 0671657135 ISBN-13: 978-0671657130 0671657135 'For some artificial intelligence researchers, Minsky's book is too far removed from hard science to be useful. For others, the high-level approach of The Society of Mind makes it a gold mine of ideas waiting to be implemented. The author, one of the undisputed fathers of the discipline of AI, sets out to provide an abstract model of how the human mind really works. His thesis is that our minds consist of a huge aggregation of tiny mini-minds or agents that have evolved to perform highly specific tasks. Most of these agents lack the attributes we think of as intelligence and are severely limited in their ability to intercommunicate. Yet rational thought, feeling, and purposeful action result from the interaction of these basic components. Minsky's theory does not suggest a specific implementation for building intelligent machines. Still, this book may prove to be one of the most influential for the future of AI.'  Amazon   back

Links

Bayes' theorem - Wikipedia, Bayes' theorem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'IIn probability theory and statistics, Bayes' theorem (alternatively Bayes' law or Bayes' rule) describes the probability of an event, based on conditions that might be related to the event. . . .Bayes' theorem is named after Rev. Thomas Bayes (1701–1761), who first provided an equation that allows new evidence to update beliefs. It was further developed by Pierre-Simon Laplace, who first published the modern formulation in his 1812 Théorie analytique des probabilités. Sir Harold Jeffreys put Bayes' algorithm and Laplace's formulation on an axiomatic basis. Jeffreys wrote that Bayes' theorem "is to the theory of probability what the Pythagorean theorem is to geometry".' back

Brian Greig, History repeats; 20 years of political homophobia from the religious right, 'Almost 20 years ago in 1997, a federal youth suicide prevention program aimed at gay and lesbian teenagers was scrapped after a backlash from the religious right. . . . Two decades later the exact same politics is playing out in the Coalition on a plebiscite for marriage equality. Turnbull is misreading the mood of the electorate by not taking more decisive action on this matter while Brandis is paralysed by those causing delay in the vain hope it will all just go away. It won’t.' back

Gay Alcorn, Victoria tackles domestic violence never flinching, and never forgetting, 'The royal commission into family violence was asked to identify how to prevent family violence, support victims, make perpetrators more accountable, make systemic changes in responding to family violence and look at how to coordinate services better. It was to make practical recommendations to get all this done. In just over 13 months, the commission has delivered a comprehensive, thorough, detailed, ambitious report that answers its brief in a way that is impossible to pick apart. As the commissioner, Marcia Neave, said, it’s all interlinked, one recommendation is dependent on others, and all the parts of the family violence system rely on all the other parts to work well. back

Graham Bowley, How Do You Tell the Story of Black America in One Museum?, 'WASHINGTON — When the National Museum of African American History and Culture was conceived in 2003, Barack Obama was a state senator in Illinois; the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the death of Trayvon Martin was years in the future; and Bill Cosby was a symbol of family decency. Now, as the museum prepares to open here in September, the nation’s first black president is nearing the end of his second term, Mr. Cosby is accused of being a sexual predator and Americans are engaged in the most charged conversation about race in decades.' back

Latika Bourke, Government senators question diplomatic push in wake of Iran's 'eye-for-an-eye' human rights abuse, 'Australia's Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has described reports of an Iranian man being sentenced to eye-gouging under Islamic sharia law as "deeply concerning" amid warnings from pro-Israel government senators the case exposed shortcomings in Australia's quest to normalise ties with Iran. Oslo-based NGO Iran Human Rights is highlighting the case of "Saman", whom Iran's Supreme Court has ruled must be gouged, as punishment for allegedly blinding another man in a street fight. Saman has argued he accidentally blinded the other man with a metal rod during their fight.' back

Martin Conway, The bitter fruits of alienation: Belgium's struggle is the problem of our age, 'Belgium is not, by contemporary European standards, a conventional state. It lacks an instinctive ethos of centralism. Belgians know themselves to be diverse and are rightly proud of the fact that they do many things at a local, rather than national level. That works when the participants sign up to rather basic values of co-existence, but it fails when they contain populations who do not experience the basic amenities and opportunities which draw people into the European social contract.' back

Matthew Sharpe, Westall '6; 50 years on, still stranger than fiction, 'What, for instance, could you believe if, barely an adolescent, you went to high school one fine April day—a bright morning like numberless others—and, playing cricket in the yard before morning recess, you suddenly became aware of what looked like a disk-shaped metallic object hovering above the oval? Then, before you had the chance to rub your eyes, the air around you filled with excited cries: “Look! Look! Flying saucers!”' back

Michael Bradley, Career politicans and the slippery ideological slope, 'The interesting aspect of Napoleon's words was his subtle subversion of the Revolutionary values of libertè, egalité, fraternité into "property, equality and liberty". Fraternity, or brotherhood, was and remains an essential value of the socialist understanding of the world - it means that we are all in this together; that a just society requires that we work collaboratively and support each other for the common good; that we each place community before self-interest. Napoleon replaced fraternité with property, promoting it to the top of the list. He was a pragmatic rationalist before anything else; he was also personally acquisitive and mercenary, preferring the interests of himself, his family and his favourites ahead of his subjects.' back

Nino Bucci, Taskforce has serial family violence offenders in its sights, 'Police have Victoria's worst domestic abusers in their sights after uncovering a hard core of vicious serial criminals with more than 10 victims each. Detectives from the newly established Family Violence Taskforce are following this trail of tears to link historical murders, rapes, and serious assaults dating back decades.' back

RCFV, Royal Commission into Family Violence (Victorial), back

RCFV, Royal Commission into Family Violence (Victorial):Report, back

Rory Callinan, Secret archie of paedophile crime kept by Catholic Church's insurers, 'Victims of some of the worst sexual abuse perpetrated by the Catholic Church are being denied access to a vast archive of clergy crime, as the church continues to ensure the offending is kept secret, despite the files being handed over to the royal commission. The nearly 2000 files – which include evidence about at least 63 offenders – have been amassed by the church's insurers, but the church appears intent on paying millions of dollars in victims compensation settlements to ensure the documents are not made public.' back

Tina Rosenberg, Letting (Some of) India's Women Own Land, 'This month, 600 women gathered under a huge blue-and-yellow-striped tent in Baripada, a small city in Odisha, a state in India’s east. They were among India’s most neglected people. Widowed, abandoned or divorced, many had ended up living like servants in the households of their fathers, brothers or in-laws. But on March 5, each woman clutched a single light-green sheet of paper that would change her life: a patta, or title to a small plot of land.' back

William Irwin, Godis a Qustion, Not and Answer, 'Any honest atheist must admit that he has his doubts, that occasionally he thinks he might be wrong, that there could be a God after all — if not the God of the Judeo-Christian tradition, then a God of some kind. Nathaniel Hawthorne said of Herman Melville, “He can neither believe, nor be comfortable in his unbelief; and he is too honest and courageous not to try to do one or the other.” Dwelling in a state of doubt, uncertainty and openness about the existence of God marks an honest approach to the question.' back