vol VII: Notes
2016
Notes
Sunday 21 August 2016 - Saturday 27 August 2016
[Notebook: DB 80: Cosmic plumbing]
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Sunday 21 August 2016
A narrative is a logical continuum insofar as all the pieces of it, put together, make sense as a complete story with, as they say, a beginning, a middle and an end. Wodehouse Wodehouse
Permutation, creation, imagination. The transfinite network gives sufficient symbols to establish a correspondence with any structure no matter how complex and also opens the way to creation by exceeding the bounds of computability.
The transfinite network is a large enough structure to represent every fundamental particle in every atom of every leaf on every tree, every grain of sand and every event in the whole of space-time so it can serve as a model of the the universe, and the structure that create this network can serve as an explanation for the relationships of all these events to one another.
Machine infinity = local infinity.
Monday 22August 2016
My weak spot through the winter has been lack of confidence, perhaps related to my mother's death. She was such a faithful Catholic that the thought of upsetting her has long acted as a brake on my acceptance of my own ideas. I am proposing a radical change which, if it ever gains widespread acceptance, will require radical revisions of the Church's ideological foundations, although it will open it
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to a future based on the real god.
The development of ever more stable clocks reveals to us the precision built into the universe. It is there already, our clocks merely reveal it.
When we compare the doctrine of the Church with the bible [its reputed source], we see the creative development of meaning which has been required by the Church to obtain the revelation it has seen in the text. Here our text is the events of the universe, and science is our attempt to see meaning in the relationships of these events to one another. Our best success. quantum mechanics, reveals the relationships between the probabilities of events (the eigenvalues of their operators) to the nature of the event, its eigenfunction or algorithm. Eigenfunctions in some way reveal the digital (?) algorithms. How do we get at this?
We need faith. Faith is the product of experience. Having laid many bricks, one has faith in brick walls. On the other hand the experience leading to faith might be indoctrination or learning, as children learn their language by listening and talking, and we all learn from our experience of the world, often falling onto the pitfalls we have vee told about through laziness or curiosity.
Just hope to recover the youthful exhuberance that got me out of the Dominicans 50 years ago. I was truly fortunate to have that experience to destroy my faith in the Catholic Church and beget my faith in the world.
Perhaps what we want the most is a beauty contest between religions given that one of the epithets of God is beautiful. And a contest in every other dimension.
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Surprisingly enough, the greatest wormhole to understanding our place in the universe is not to regret the dead weight of matter, but rejoice in the creativity of the intellect that we share with our divine world, the foundation upon which we are integrated into the world.
The possibility of creation all comes down to the fact that the majority of the mappings of the natural numbers (turing machines) to themselves are incomputable and so [in]determinate. We imagine that the formal logic of mathematics, applied to the fixed points of the universe, reflects the "withinlying' consistency of the divine dynamics.
Tuesday 23 August 2016
Writing the book to my children.
In the past I have been ashamed to acknowledge my interest in theology because I have moved in circles that saw it as meaningless mumbo jumbo, which the ancient religions often contain. It was no use (and possibly remains no use) trying to introduce theology into science without an epistemological revolution in theology, from scripture to experience. The scriptures gain much of their power from their descriptions of human experiences, often quite extreme tales of murder, pillage, war and rape.
Wednesday 24 August 2016
Language: prayer. Maybe God listens to our words but does not reply [the state of the universe has been changed by their being said, however]. Prayer, in the form of action, does make things happen.
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Prayer is a social thing, coupling to other people who are also divine.
Chapter 2: Language. a version of Peri Hermeneias On Interpretation. All communication requires encoding and decoding and [as] they are inverses of one another, they can be treated at once. Local communications use local encodings and are simplified by reference to local events known to all communicants. Nicholls. Aristotle and Aquinas, De Interpretatione - Wikipedia
When I write what seems to me to be a good sentence it induces some mental excitement that tires me somewhat so I go and read the news until I am ready to have another go at the writing [just like resting between strenuous activities].
The idea that god is a magnificent being beyond compare may be an artefact of the way flatterers around the court extrapolated from their monarch to the monarch of all. [Their] God is exactly the opposite of commonplace. The alternative that god is everything, everywhere and everywhen makes it absolutely commonplace, the common property of every event, action.
The tacit layers of the internet are invisible to the users. Polanyi: The Tacit Dimension
Thursday 15 August
An Introduction to Scientific Theology Maybe a coupled series of essays, allowing some repetition so each has continuity, moving from the traditional picture of God to a new vision of God to the political consequences of what we see. Finding places for all the large and small essays I have written so far. I have been digging around for a long time finding lots of little nuggets that now have to be assembled into a new history
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of salvation.
Have written myself into happiness again after a slightly depressing morning of uncertainty.
As I move away from being a steady tradie working to existing designs to attempting to design a new Weltanschauung I find my mood swings have become a bit wider. interesting.Keeping a close eye on my microcosm [self]. World view - Wikipedia
People may make a living in any way they please as long as they do not infringe on the rights of other elements (including people) of their environment.
Friday 26 August 2016
Perhaps the time has come to anticipate some of the feedback that I will receive if my book goes public, and look for weaknesses in the argument before I put it out. I imagine being questioned by a scientific audience and being in a position to explain every sentence and proposition.
The oral presentation makes it real. I have not done that since my time at Riverview Road, trying to explain
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science to the brethren. Was it called the Albert Society?
Darwin: pigeon breeding to natural selection: Me: Internet to everything.
I have remained to a large degree monasticized, spending whole days on reading and writing when I am not drawn outside by the need to work.
Secord page 178: 'The fancier's view of the pigeon, Darwin thought, was not so much like a naturalists' as like that of nature itself.' James A Secord
page 183: 'In turning to literature on breeding that extended back to the Old Testament, Darwin found a source that he could treat as a 'domesticated' version o the geological record.
page 186: 'In scientific investigations . . . it is permitted to invent any hypothesis, and if it explains various large and independent classes of facts, it rises to the rank of a well grounded theory.' Darwin, Variations I:8 Darwin: The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication - Wikipedia
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication (London, John Murray, 1868) John van Wyhe (editor, 2002): The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online
The universal computer works because every bit is alive, able to move itself so sequences of processes can form and break up to give different entities, ie more complex processes.
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Saturday 27 August 2016
Inspiration / insight. The divine world implements that our own intelligence is a spark of the divine intelligence in a much more universal manner: every quantum of action is a spark of the divine intelligence. Active intellect - Wikipedia
Action is infinite in the sense that it has no content, no metric [metric must be 'inside'?].
We give size to quanta of action by giving them an essence, that is a formal representation of the Turing machine network that is embodied in that action. This essence is the foundation of the metric. We can identify the quantum of action with a gaussian manifold, holding within itself all the possibilities of a consistent system.
Politicians who keep telling us what is wrong with 'them' should perhaps emphasize more what's right with 'us' and then, having identified the right heuristic approach, proceed to put it into action : the public good. A good is a process insofar as it is the stationary points of the process [my kitchen and all the systems within it].
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Act has no metric? Unit of angular momentum, one cycle.
360o phase change must bring you back to your starting point unless you are executing a spiral in a space that separates the loops.
The 'logical' metric = event + form (eg eigenvector).
So there is no distinction between god and a quantum of action. The universe is one quantum of action, its inverse, measured by Plack's constant is one quantum of action because no metric, just an event.
Computer chess: using random numbers to choose options and computation to derive consequences.
Quantum mechanics puts a metric on action by closure, return to starting point, 360o of phase (2π)
All I've got to go on at the moment is that it all makes [a bit of] sense to me.
The Gaussian manifold is an image of the Cantor Universe (?). Every point has a name but there is no metric, only differentiability. From this Riemann developed differential geometry. Here we make the [to page 210] differentials into Turing machines and then integration becomes like a permutation because the points are discrete processes (events, actions) [that can be assembled in any order].
Hoe do we implement a formalism? By giving physical representation to its elements.
Mass, length and time are the local components of inertial space [encoded as energy and momentum].
All we really know about eigenfunctions comes from the eigenvalues we observe. How they do it is a legitimate question [whose current answer is quantum mechanics]. The answers must respect the eigenvalue equation and the Born rule. [to page 208]
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What should we feel like? The unconscious phase is the unnoticed passage of time while engrossed in something, The opposite of 'doing time'. This is the mystical phase. In my monkish days I used to kneel up straight (somewhat painfully) during the half hour's meditation in the choir, starting at 5,30 am before we began singing the office at 6 and mass at 7 or so followed by breakfast, in silence of course, and so on through the day.
You write on my private memory, that is noise to me, like cosmic ray damage.
Bombing is easy. Ascertaining the mental state of the people you want to kill is not so easy. Missy Ryan, Zakaria Zakaria and Thomas Gibbons-Neff
