vol VII: Notes
2016
Notes
Sunday 18 September 2016 - Saturday 24 September 2016
[Notebook: DB 80: Cosmic plumbing]
Sunday 18 September 2016
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Monday 19 September 2016
Pure pornography: representation of people enjoying sex without political, racist, sexist or abusive context. (frame: 'sluts are doing their evil thing')Classical electrodynamics: charge = propensity to communicate (so a force). Propensity / potential = rate of execution of electromagnetic codec.
Tuesday 20 September 2016
Thompson: The root of all our troubles is that we worship the wrong god. Sean Thompson
The transfinite network can execute any possible mathematical proof from the point of view of both communication and computability.
COMMUNICATION <=> COMPUTABILITY
The whole book is an attempt to explain this identification (formal) and its consequences, both as a fit to history and a bridge to the future that models the real bridge to the future in the Universe that enables us to predict elements of the future from the past, eg that the Earth will still be here in 4 billion years time, inhabited no doubt by our children's children's . . .
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Insight: Thinking about buying a pressure gauge I realize that I can use the GPS feature of the iphone to measure the height of the header tank. The pressure gauge would also give real time data on the amount of water in the header tank.
Writing : coding :: communication : computation
I have sometimes resented the need to follow a trade in order to survive but now I see it as my theological laboratory, since it requires me to deal practically with everything from physics to the credit worthiness od potential customers. Like Galileo (!) an interface between science and technology.
In physics we create mathematical phase spaces, state spaces and function spaces in general and then seek to constrain these universal spaces down to the systems we actually observe: not 'all mathematically possible particles' but the 60 or so fundamental particle that we actually observe. In the transfinite computer network the formal limit is computability per se, but in the real phsical world time of of the essence, and if the process can not be completed in the available time with the available resources then it is practically incomputable and the outcome of the potential computation is a matter of chance.
The transfinite computer network embodies self pruning, that is natural selection and so can create itself.
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The physical order in a line must be maintained by bonding between the points. If this bonding does not see the individual identities of the bonded particles, then they can freely permute with one another - every permutation is equiprobable, a continuum of probabilities.
Quantum mechanics is all a matter of local timing / phase. It is local because it exists before the emergence of space so that the only differentiation is events marking the passage of time.
Wednesday 21 September 2016
Engineering and metaphysics.
Back to computer-network, rename computer_universe, rename network_universe.
So to 'network_universe'
Why is the universe quantized? To defeat error.
What does quantum mechanics predict? The form and frequency of messages in the universal network.
Extracting information from the universe and interpreting it.
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We build a good society by detecting and correcting error is existing society. By errors we mean circumstances preventing people exercising the full spectrum of human right guaranteed by the Universal Declaration of human rights.
Layers are defined by their peers.
I will enter academia when my investments come good. In the meantime I can economize and even save a little bit by working from home. I would like to socialize but I would have to move to a high rent area to go to university.
Domestic violence may arise when people are bound by the strong potentials of reproduction which not being otherwise suited to one another. An irretrievable breakdown should probably lead to divorce so a couple are not imprisoned in a bad situation.
Lungs: trees of blood and air brought into correspondence in the alveoli, the tips of the branches. Bit like government, tax and sped through corresponding trees [we are the leaves].
The most embarrassing time in my life. I knew no girls. My friends found someone to be my partner at the prefects dance but I went away and did not meet her, and went to the dance alone. Must have been something to do with my pre-monastic upbringing since now (only 55 years later) I get on well with women.
Thursday 22 September
Friday 23 September 2016
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Everyone is entitled to a voice, that is a vote and accompanying speech. The fundamental attack on humans rights is denial of the vote or elements of the voting procedure.
Rights — respect. Fermions respect one another?
Happiness comes with a flow of ideas, insight, mental orgasm.
The big job now is to establish an interface between the model and the day to day information we receive and experience of the events in the world ranging from murder to childbirth.
Traditionally virtue is considered to be a narrow path with vices on each side.
Aquinas: 'Moral virtue perfects the appetitive part of the soul by directing it to good as defined by reason. III, 59. 4. Aquinas, I II, 59, 4: Are all moral virtues about passions?
Drutman. Lee Drutman: The Divided States of America
I fell far from the tree. In a solid professional family I became first a priest, then an activist, then a hippy and now am spending my older years trying to put theology on a realistic foundation.
We are all leaves on the human tree and are coupled back through the braches to our common root. From a software point of view, we are all children of god.
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The thin line of virtue, if we think of optimally rational behaviour, is mapped by computability, ie it follows the engineering route rather than a guess or uncertainty. This idea of virtue connects with Aquinas' view of divine determinism tempered by human free will, where the ideal path for the will (geodesic) follows the divine will, manifest in the potentials of the world, exactly.
The Cantorian extension of Hilbert Space. The permutations of the vectors of the countable Hilbert space gives us the second transfinite Hilbert space and so on. I am a non-mathematical trying to appropriate the language of mathematics to express a theological idea.
Where are the weak spots in the line of descent from the traditional gods to the divine universe? We concentrate here on the Catholic god as a clear and well defined model of god, and one central to the theological tradition which I am seeking to replace.
Do I take myself seriously? Not so much. I do think the Catholic Church can be improved, but I am not inclined to be an activist (ie committed) but only a researcher open to seeing a new version of God.
We can improve an existing system by tweaking its performance here and there but there often coes a time when a radical change is needed to achieve the desired ends by removing perverse incentives and other problems leading to performance failure [eg the Church's view that it is above the law has led it to hide the criminal activities of many of its clergy]. So we replace piston engines in aircraft with turbines, beginning a new
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line of development. So replace witchdoctors with universal [evidence based] health care. David Marr: Farrell puts Catholic Church's atitude to Australian law under the microscope
Saturday 24 September 2016
network-universe: In a sense it is perfectly obvious. Everything, ie all events, are the outputs of the underlying process of communication which we currently understand as the evolution of a gigantic wave function which operates in a transfinite Hilbert space. Insofar as this activity is deterministic we model it with error free (ie digital) computers. In a way I am now bored with it and need a holiday of some sort to build up steam to do the writing. It is interesting that now that physical labour is becoming a bit of a struggle, writing is going the same way, so I need to get onto both finishing the house and writing my story while I am still young. The time constant for the creation and annihilation of humans is about a century.
The reality of the network seems assured and it becomes (in Aquinas' terms) the new standard of rationality and hence (again with Thomas) the new standard toward which virtue tends. This is an echo of the deterministic view. We add the indeterministic which is based on the fact that that most functions [from the natural numbers to themselves] are incomputable and therefore may lead to destructive outcomes (errors) which must be prevented where possible by careful attention to the failure modes of random events. Here is where the mathematical theory
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of communication [becomes useful], a form of statistical mechanics adapted to sources whose alphabets have unequal frequency, ie less than maximum entropy.
Now some excitement draws me on: the theory of communication teaches us how to be deterministic in a random world. We note that in current political discourse concern for true communication has been obscured by deception and spin, and this corruption is leading to a breakdown in high level political structures while the lower levels forge ahead whenever the opportunity presents. Here we find truth and accountability [ie engineering]. Nicholas Kristof: The Best News You Don't know
Am I born to revise Catholic theology? I think I think so, and have devoted as much of my time and money to this task [as possible] since I moved here in 1978. This does not, of course, guarantee good success.
We want to replace the fundamental equation ∂φ / ∂t = Eφ, where E is a matrix, φ a vector, and the whole thing represents a flow of energy between different dimensions of ψ.
The 'layer significant' (like position significant) measurement of entropy. The amount of entropy in an act depends upon the layer in which it is executed. Positional notation - Wikipedia
'Mine eyes have seen the coming of the glory of the lord. A fantasy, a false hope for those who place their future in the hands of a Messiah instead of taking it into their own hands
There is only one person who can promote my vision of god and that is me.
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Too much of the world is run by gutless little men who think that security lies in the ability to inflict violence.
The fu? (distracted to change the music volume) I've forgotten; its moved out of the space of my consciousness, and such a brilliant insight, a flash in the light of intellect. So come back. What as I thinking about? Hey Mr Tambourine Man. Bob Dylan
Syria: The government, no matter how bad, has the upper hand because it controls the army and the secret police and this advantage in violent power takes a lot of careful social and political construction to combat.
War is possible because people value some things more greatly than life, even if they are misguided by their environment.
The cognitive dissonance I experience in the Church had the effect of putting me into a state of suspended animation insofar as I have put much of my life on hold until I solved the theological question, and have been heavily constrained by the need to achieve this before I could relax and come alive again, Those days are approaching, I feel. My voice is coming back.
Physical difficulties can be difficult but metaphysical difficulties can be worse because the deny all grounds of recovery outside
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of assistance from imaginary friends. I am beginning to hear music again.
Jesus wept. Jesus wept - Wikipedia
From dry formalism to living concert.
Some people seem to be secure from birth and easily find their voices. I feel that I have taken a very long way around.
'The wheel's still in spin.' Bob Dylan: The Times they are a-changin'
