vol VII: Notes
2016
Notes
Sunday 28 August 2016 - Saturday 3 September 2016
[Notebook: DB 80: Cosmic plumbing]
[page 208]
Sunday 28 August 2016
The conclusion of this work is that we should do best, in guiding ourselves through reality, to acknowledge that the world is divine, so treating it as such and using evidence based methods to decide what we should do rather than the interpretations of ancient texts.
Evidence + logic (coupling points of evidence [traditionally done with continuous functions, now introducing logical functions (computers) also]).
We cannot navigate by stars we cannot see.
You cannot avoid taking offence if you hear it.
Monday 29 August 2016
dy/dx is an event, an element of a fiction, an operation.
Reltivity means that we no longer have an absolute distinction [between] motion and stillness, as fixed point theory also suggests. No more God's sensorium, no more stationary aether. All this is because we are observing the moving interior of the absolute where we find life and death, creation annihilation within the bounds of consistency proper to the absolute [every stationary point is bounded by a creation and an annihilation, eg me].
Quantum mechanics, action, no space, then we have the creation of local space whose essence is the Lorentz transformation induced by he bonding of space and time induced by the velocity of light which is distributed between the elements of massive bodies, ie those with internal processes all of which have to be transformed [individually] to move the massive body as a unified system, eg me and my momentum [the sum of all the little momenta of my current crop of fundamental particles].
From the gaussian to the gravitational metric and the more and detailed metrics, from scalars to vectors and vectors of vectors . . .
Tuesday 30 August 2016
Motivated and inspired; one and not the other; nothing. Progress comes from motivated and inspired, the old will + intellect = action.
[page 210]
A large proportion of the action in the human world is in the noosphere [the transfinite version of the cybersphere created by overlapping networks]. We do what we think we should do: murder, war, work, love. Here think embraces feel, ie our internal states guide our actions, something true for all systems.
Rearrange again:
st01_imagining_god
st02_language and ineffability
st03_creation
. . .
[page 211]
Some things can only be out together [like a puzzle], others like [building blocks] can be put together in a large number of ways approaching the cardinal of the permutation groups [of n blocks]. Assembling a car some parts like wheels and wheelnuts are interchangeable and add to the number of ways that vehicle can be assembled, but the end result will be indistinguishable from any other car assembled from an identical set of parts [or an atom, etc].
How many electrons are there? Two species maximum, f electrons and positrons. Otherwise identical and indistinguishable except there are also two spin states which govern their interactions. How does the universe distinguish different electrons? By placing them in different regions of space-time [Pauli exclusion principle] a process which maintains electron numbers at low energy. Pauli exclusion principle - Wikipedia
Perhaps it is time to go for broke and invest my savings in a concentrated effort to develop and publish the divine universe?
The local gods are represented in popular music - local in space-time.
Music, and all sound is a simplified representation of quantum mechanics [requires only time, not space?]
'Success' requires that we cover the spectrum from art to business.
Taylor Swift - The New Romantics 'The best people in life are free'. Taylor Swift
[page 211]
Chapter 1: imagining God
Wednesday 31 August 2016
Bad things don't just happen, failures also follow the rules. Nor does entropy (a good thing often billed as a bad thing) just happen, it has to be built a la Cantor. Transfinite numbers - Wikipedia
Thursday 1 September
One feature of scientific theology that needs emphasis is the historical development of the idea of God that leads to the conclusion that the next step forward is to identify God and the Universe to fully bring theology into the realm of science. We see it in the Australian Catholic University and other institutions that theology comes into departments of social studies which do use scientific methods to ask and answer questions about society and social conditions, which include views about God and the role of religion in society, ie Reynolds and Tanner. Reynolds & Tanner: The Social Ecology and Religion
On the other hand it is fitting to emphasize the institutional failings of the Roman Catholic Church which acts in many ways as a brake on social development, making women second class citizens, unreasonable intervention in sexuality, gender and reproduction, and worst of all, all this in the contest of a fallen world that only it can fix, even though most of its beliefs and actions have the opposite effect, establishing sin as a self-fulfilling prophecy by branding much normal and innocent behaviour as sinful. The only sin arises between people when one limits the human rights of
[page 213]
another, either in principle or through violence [like the cover up of priests molesting children]. Tapsell: Potihar's Wife: The Vatican's Secret and Child Sexual Abuse
Our fundamental task is to take the violence out of the mating game. This violence is induced by the expectation that couples mate for life and own one another, or more particular, the male own the female. The fundamental failure in human rights runs through the gender divide and it is fundamentally based on the ability to prevail in violence, ie sexual dimorphism wins often. World Health Organization: Violence against women
Ring us the night before and we wil organize the key. An algorithm designed to sort out an access problem.
Since birth I have been taught to suppress lust because it is feared that the positive feedback embodied in uncontrolled lust leads to sin. What we have found in the Catholic Church is that the suppression of lust does not lead to sin but to crime, the expression of lust on children instead of adults.
Women are electric.
Am I force for good or evil. Probably depends on who you ask. I am good for my customers, bad for the Catholic Church although it probably does not know this because it has taken no notice of me because it has never heard of me. But perhaps I will go viral some day. Just got to get the virus right to find its way into the noosphere.
John Lennon Imagine: 'Imagine all the people living life in peace.' John Lennon
[page 214]
Language belongs to the land, ie everything. The land is the language of God, the land embodies all experiences, long and short.
Friday 2 September August2016
The root of scale invariance for an individual is the relationship between a quantum of action and an insight. An insight it the conscious output of network activity in the brain. The creation and annihilation of a particle is the output of the fundamental physical network. Act has no metric - in the old language its essence and existence are identical, ie its nature is to be [the act of being is communication].
Basic act = act of reproduction. Some acts reproduce. At the fundamental level there must be come annihilation associated with each creation. Reproduction increases entropy and (if our own feelings are something to go by) a pleasant occupation at least in its initial phases. eg intellectual excitement / sexual excitement.
The book: A journey out of the wilderness between rejecting one theology (god outside) in terms of another (we are inside god). We are all inside God [So God is still outside, but now we are part of it].
Pres the button: a binary world of switches, on, off.
Testing scientific hypotheses: per sic et non following Abelard. Sic et Non - Wikipedia
[page 215]
We have been thinking of a digital process underlying the collapse of the wave function. This idea sees not so much a collapse a the completion and hating of a computation represented by an eigenfunction. Why does the quantum version work so well? How does the computational model represent it? Step 1 is to think that the interval between annihilation and creation is a period of linear / flat/ symmetric probability which is tailored by the computational process to give the probabilities predicted by quantum mechanics. Step 2 is to extrapolate from the fact that some quantum processes can be used to model computation to the assumption that all quantum processes are computations, and all computations can be performed by Turing machines, which are digital.
We can only control the computable fraction of our lives at the most. For the rest we are subject to surprises: flat tyre, sick child, etc.
Advertising changes people's perceptions. Gruen The Gruen Transfer - Wikipedia
Saturday 3 September 2016
'No news is good news' carries the implication that bad news is good for the news media because it attracts interest and also serves as negative feedback tending to encourage the investigation and removal of the sources of bad news like murders, rapists, both individual and institutional. By concentrating a lot of bad news in one place the media can be depressing reading, but it also serves as a database for those seeking to construct a more human polity, eg William Wan. William Wan
Wilkinson: The god/king symbolizes the unity of the community in one
[page 216]person bringing peace and harmony through shared culture / ideology / language — one king, one god, one people, bound by the power of life and death. In the end all things are decided by battle, the higher layers of the network failing and the system falling back to the highest intact layer of the lower layers [the least upper bound of intact layers]. Wilkinson: Writings from Ancient Egypt
I am always impressed by the immense power of some individuals to rule or influence the lives of others. This is a sort of going viral and, in quantum mechanical terms, suggests that the influence is a measure of the overlap between the minds of leaders and followers. On the whole such politicians gain power by promising wealth and peace to their followers. These may be the leaders of an army which will then fight and die to impose their will on others, or the leaders of a religion who inspire a population with a vision of heaven, a spiritual promised land which attracts them to work together in a way that might cause migration towards heaven on earth. So Christianity is a meliorist religion.
The Book: We want to draw a clear line between the Catholic Church (the institution that has tried to own god, sequestrating it from the commons) and Christianity, an abstract attitude or feeling that it is best to love god and your neighbour, since they are effectively the ame. What we seek to do is change the attitude of the Catholic Church, its sense of entitlement based on the notion that it is the one true Church of the one true religion (church = institution, religion = noetic operating system).
Corruption = failure of orthogonality.
Scientific theology embraces Christianity by explaining it in terms of information,
[page 217]
creation and entropy, the same forces that operate at all scales.
eternity = unbounded stasis = unbounded point (does this make any sense?).
What we are saying is that the total lack of structure in the initial point (god or singularity) is the source of creation, that is the sources of fixed points arising out of unstructured dynamics.
We can't think if it unless it is bounded because all known processes have a beginning and an end, ie boundaries [a lifetime]. So 'in the beginning' but logic seems to require something before the beginning, the creator. Our plan is to merge the creator and the created into one god.
To be part of God is to be local source of action, energy and life, an atom (not that you can't cut it, but if you do cut it you kill it, so that it is uncuttable as long as it exists [the time dimension to consistency]).
Language gives us the tools for imagination. With an image of a cart and a horse, we can put the cat before or after the horse, a permutation which can be generated by permuting not just the two objects, cart and horse but a countably infinite set of objects that can be put into correspondence with the natural numbers, eg Turing machines, each equivalent to a word, so a word of code specifies an action.
Transfinite imagination leads us to god. Not empty mind, but full mind.
[page 218]
Wilkinson page 234: 'Yet it would be a mistake to dismiss these [Tales of Wonder] as mere children's tales. for the imagery is highly layered and the subject matter is at times highly controversial. Themes such as the character of the king and the royal succession or the inevitability of fate and the relationship between humans and the divine were sensitive in ancient Egypt, especially in a court setting. Only in magical tales, with their evidently and unmistakably fictional character, could such subjects be explored without offending the rules of decorum or—worse— being accused of lese-majeste or blasphemy.
Cantor universe - the mathematical foundation of imagination.
We imagine in words, we imagine in feelings, in symbols, in anything definite and separate enough to be permuted. Bodily imagination - every possible arrangement of one's bones and joints, with associated sensations.
Life = self motion = energy (d(action)/dt) [Energy and motion are connected tautologically in the time dimension].
