vol VII: Notes
2016
Notes
Sunday 26 June 2016 - Saturday 2 July 2016
[Notebook: DB 80: Cosmic plumbing]
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Sunday 26 June 2016
The complexity of quantum fied theory may be a consequence of the limitd variety of the continuous mathematics used to describe the world.begin computer_network again.
Creation: the passage from continuous (nothing) to discrete (something) from real [complex] to integral. Annihilation - from integral to continuous.
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The mystery of Ramanujan's mind: page 280 sqq. Network. Kanigel: The Man Who Knew Infinity
page 281: Mark Kac: 'R was a "magician" rather than an "ordinary genius".'
'T J Rojagopolan . . . would tell of R's insistence that after seeing in dreams the drops of blood, that according to tradition, heralded the presence of the god Narasimka, the male consort of the goddess Namagiri, "scrolls containing the most complicated mathematics used to unfold before his eyes".'
page 283: '. . . taking their cue from Hardy, most Western observers, and some Indians, have wholly detached R's mystical streak from his mysterious ability to form new mathematical linkages. Hailing the one, they have dismissed the other, and written off his credulousness—his weakness for astrology, his arrant superstition, his devotion to Namagiri—as an unfortunate eccentricity peripheral to his mathematical inventiveness which has somehow to be stomached for the sake of it.
All power to the imaginative network that created us.
Monday 27 June 2016
King: Churchill: 'The trouble with committing economic suicide is that you live to regret it.' Stephen King
Tuesday 28 June 2016
The ideal way to be listend to is to tell a perfect story, in the minds
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of one's listeners, who are relatively few. Only a few people per month spend more than an hour on the site, and a few download the whole thing.
Not feeling perfect. A few twinges of pain. Have hardly worked [for a month].
Gaussian coordinates: general relativity sees only events and we have to impose a metric on the Gaussian coordinates to arrive at a fixed point the intersection of covariant and contravariant matrices, ds2 = gμν dxμdxν.
The events have no metric - they are just there, but they are connected by the underlying dynamics [causality], which we seek to understand. At root, everything depends upon timing, that is relative phase.
A production line works most effectively when all the workers and machines on the line work at the same rate so there is no buildup of unattended work in progress languishing in a warehouse. Computation and manufacturing are both algorithmic activities that can be managed by automation.
We may not be able to get the story perfect but hopefully we have created an attractive scenario: a scientific theology. It is time, theology is the last frontier which is still running on ancient myth rather than contemporary evidence [the most importance of which are documents determining the extent of human rights].
What are we saying: a network can do anything quantum mechanics can do. Interrupts create, they form [initiate] the wave function which runs deterministically between interrupts [like any computer which may interrupt itself].
Because orthogonal basis sets can be chosen at random (an infinite dimensional space of rotations) this degree of freedom can make a real message seem random, because its entropy is at a maximum [every orientation of the basis is a different code / language, which can be deterministically transformed into another basis. A message is a string of basis states, ie eigenfunctions / values, ie a string of symbols.].
What we seek is a bridge between the Hilbert space representation of quantum mechanics and the computer network. This should be easy because the network can do anything quantum mechanics can do and much more because the network implements Cantor's transfinite numbers.
Each ordered set is a structure, a form in the sense that it has sufficient entropy to represen any structure of some cardinality, that is the set of all permutations [of turing machines] generates the maximum possible entropy. This is a representation of . . . ?
A quantum operator represents a network. Superposition does not make sense.
Wednesday 29 June 2016
Can the transfinite network yield a thery of lovemaking = bonding. From quantum mechanics to totally involved sex between fully conscious people. Input nerve endings; outputs muscular effor and conscious awareness of pleasure / pain. Everything is an investment of capital. A government must invest in its people, not in financial abstractions of the world.The mathematical theory of love.
My life is full so I must decide what to do work or play etc etc, although I try to cut these down to bare necessities so I can get this job done, which does not yet count as work because fifty years of capital investment in intellectual property has yet to yield an income. Sad, but to be expected because is is an impossibly big job,
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turning around monarchical and patriarchical institutions many thousands of years old. So I console myself for not finding anyone who will listen.
Thomas Institut te Utrecht Thomas Instituut te Utrecht (Tilberg University)
Real death [we cannot endorse literal belief in eternal life, which in the religious world probably sells better than sex].
First step is from 'observable' to music, ie superposition of samples with both intensity and phase, phase encoded in order of samples.
Insofar as the rules of inference are deterministic, they can be executed by a turing machine.
Jane Mayer Dark Money Mayer
The existence of Plancks constant suggests that there is no real continuum in nature. Continua are unreal, the outer boundaries of reality, a self contradictory entity in terms of point set theory [nevertheless I am also inclined to identify symmetry and algorithm: perhaps the symmetry resides inside the algorithm, the indifference of the algorithm to the data it is fed].
Thursday 30 June 2016
Can I ever achieve what I set out to achieve? First step is to become a believer myself which means up putting up a consistent story [which I can believe myself].
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What needs adding are the properties of the transfinite network and its limiting power. No shortage of memory no shortage of processing power, but an overwhelming preponderance of incomputable functions kept somewhat in check by the power of computability which tells us which functions can 'breed' and fill the space of mathematical resources [physical representations of information].
Computability digitizes [how dense are computable functions in the space of all functions? they are 'almost nowhere'], digitization makes computation possible. An essay on the continuum and symmetry vs the discretum and broken symmetry: a fixed point is a broken symmetry.
Observable (operator) - unitary / hermitean. Observable - Wikipedia
One step forward may be to go for 'long reads' and abandon the cryptic search for brevity, giving myself time to say everything in detail. So we make scientific_theology book length vs computer-network a platonic version.
Kate Moss: the only toilets she can use have no doors: 'How am I supposed to get in then?'
The overlap integral gives us the probability that observing [with] φ we see ψ, the probability being the inner product of the two states. This is all a matter of phase = timing. Things resonate when φ = ψ, superposing both frequency and phase (boson), frequency and −phase (fermion). It is a measure of how much states get along, somewhere between 0 (orthogonal) and 1 (parallel) [and −1 opposite].
Order of measurement is significant. AB − BA ≠ 0
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A narrative: an interesting and pleasing sequence of symbols with intelligence, variety, information and beauty. Cannot do it very well but will try — how to explain the nature of the digital universe and the need for it. But I have no results, am stuck in heuristic mode and would like to get practical.
Mayer page 54: '[Charles Koch:] "Ideas do not spread by themselves; they spread only through people. Which means we need a movement," he wrote . . .. "Our movement must destroy the prevalent statist paradigm".'
page 58: 'In order to alter the direction of America [the Kochs} realized they would have to "influence the areas where policy ideas percolate from: academic and think tanks".'
page 61: 'The League to Save Carthage'
page 64; US federal income tax 1913.
page 69: [Wealthy citizens] 'In order to shelter themselves from taxes . . . were required to invent a public philanthropic role.'
page 73: "Attack on American free enterprise system" Lewis Powell.
page 75: 'Income in America in the mid 1970s was as equally distributed as at any time in the country's history.'
Friday 1 July 2016
'Moment' vs 'movement' (two moments, ie a differential). We are accustomed in the macroscopic world to see motion as continuous, but it is an illusion, as the kinema testifies. Continuity is relative, depending on he relationship between the time constant of the sensor (ie human vision) ad the sensed (a sequence of still images). Calculus works in the macroscopic world, but is it relevant when the minimum movement is a quantum of action? Instead of dx/dt being defined as the limit of δx/δt, we define it as one quantum of action and assume that any quantized action may be represented by a halting turing machine. From this starting point, we look for a new interpretation of relativity and quantum mechanics based (as I have been saying [to myself] for about 50 years) on the transfinite neural (computer) network which like our brains, is based on the addition of signals and when a threshold is passed, emission of a new signal from the target neuron. This is in essence (I guess) how quantum mechanics also works. And general relativity describes a system with no selective threshold, each input is passed straight through.Woke conscious of the usual sea of troubles (situations to be dealt with) and having written the paragraph above, am at peace given a sequence of insights that render all the other issues infinitesimal. All can be solved by work, and I need the money after a burst of grandparenting and mum's funeral [far away].
Letter to Waleed Ali - PhD in political theology.
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Rule of law controls the rule of violence, structure controls energy [because it creates orthogonality = freedom ?]. Law is fixed points, power vs energy, but it may have difficulty moving fixed points, What determines the orbital energies of electrons? The establishment of standing waves determined by the potential existing between protons and electrons, their electrically motivated desire to communicate explained (?) by QED.
We observe the fixed points of an operator. When the engine is running we can see the block but not the pistons, which are moving too fast, even if they were visible.
Mayer page 101: Alice Longworth on her father, Theodore Roosevelt: 'He wanted to be the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral.'
page 108; Piersen: "Law and Economics is neutral, but it has a philosophical thrust in the direction of free markets and limited government. That is like many disciplines it seems neutral but it isn't in fact." But if we observe the world we see that it is cooperative, socialist and progressive, taking itself from the initial singularity through hydrogen to the solar system and beyond. The basic idea seems to be that higher (more complex) layers must curate lower layers to guarantee their own existence.
Saturday 2 July 2016
Koch and co: Many people have a price and can be bought, particularly in an environment where there are minimal ethical
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standards. The task is to bring natural theology and the notion of the divine universe to bear on the ethical foundations of maximizing real health and welfare and leaving nobody behind (dead or alive). The hierarchical network model can do this through the notion that higher layers must look after lower layers to preserve their own lives, as in we must maintain global ecosystem services to guarantee our own survival. This requires the creation of a global ethical milieu which focusses the spotlight on those who are subverting the system for their own profit.
Libertarianism defends the right to damage the system for private profit by attacking environmental and public health regulation.
Mayer page 153: ' "You take corporate money and give it to a neutral sounding think tank," which "hires people with pedigrees and academic degrees who put out credible sounding studies. But they all coincide perfectly with the economic interests of their funders.".'
At present contradiction is built into both the roots of theology and the roots of physics: the notion that a structureless system like a completely simple god or a continuous manifold can carry information without markers (particles). Because both god and wave functions are not observable, imagination can run riot (in theology), although it is constrained in quantum mechanics by the requirements of observation, and the dimensional structure of Hilbert space gives us fixed points (basis vectors) from which to describe the world. The mathematical root of the problem may be in the digitization of the continuum by point set theory.
