vol VII: Notes

2017

Notes

Sunday 16 July 2017 - Saturday 22 July 2017

[Notebook: DB 81: Scientific theology]

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Sunday 16 July 2017

Maximize symmetry to create more powerful algorithms. All legislation must be tested for compliance with human symmetry. Get to the root of the problem and then build a linear tree that does not loop back and get caught in a self referential maze.

Freedom - symmetry

The relationship between the transfinite computer network and a complex transfinite Hilbert space is beginning to take some shape in my mind. The moving phase of the complex vectors models computation, along the line that has been in my mind since I first began to think of eigenvectors as Turing machines. Now we can examine this with closer focus. A computation is an ordered set of steps. How does this relate to the Born rule for determining the output of an eigencomputation?

We are empowered when things fit together, when they work. After weeks doing up a motor I have finally got it all together

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and ready to start. When it goes I am happy. I have not made a fatal eror somewhere. No doubt the same feeling my ancestors got when they captured something delicious.

Monday 17 July 2017

Could all this be true? The identification of God and the Universe is hypothetical but the payoff appear to be great: a scientific theology converging on true knowledge of the one God. Now the details - network theory seems obvious, layering of the universal software also.

Tuesday 18 July 2017

The devil is in the details. No process can complete unless every step is stable and consistent, or can be made so by a suitable error correction mechanism which needs feedback.

Simple minded revolutionaries like Lenin, Mao or Trump think that . . . if you destroy everything something new will arise which will be better. There is an idea afoot that disruption is good. Violent disruption is not. The internet has disrupted trade not by destroying it but by opening many new channels for entrepreneurship not previously available. Although I rail against Catholic theology, my principal effort is to develop the replacement before I become an advocate for it.

Weapons may not be the first order cause of war but they act in the second order by enabling combatants to convince themselves that by obtaining suitably effective weapons they can win the war.

Costello: 'The war in Syria, which is now in its seventh year,

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could not have lasted more than a year without armaments profiteering.' Amy Remeikis: 'Profiting from bloodshed': Tim Costello criticises Christopher Pyne's weapons export plan

Noosphere: so much of what I feel about myself depends on what I think other people think of me.

A layered network is a superposition of trees all rooted in the initial singularity ie God. Each new layer is a new symmetry created by breaking the symmetry beneath it in all possible ways. Each layer must obey all the symmetries down to the root, ie a path from the initial singularity to any point in the tree is the superposition of all the software up and down.

How many different states does my body have, ie how many different things can I do?

CCD: mapping 2D to 1D serial stream. Charge-coupled device - Wikipedia

All of Q[uantum] M[echanics] is just addition of complex phase — this is similar to the idea of gravitation, that it only sees energy and couples energy to energy, but quite weakly. This coupling is continuous, since it carries no information and so not digital. Nevertheless there exists in the differentiable manifold that we use to describe this the latent possibility fingered by Cantor, and as the continuous symmetry is broken under the condition of consistency we get the transfinite network, a dynamic system of communication. Cantor's proof is non-constructive so that the generator of the transfinite network is simply the requirement of consistency.

Wednesday 19 July 2017

The world begins without a metric. This was Einstein's greatest discovery, which took him a long time to assimilate. Auyang: How is Quantum Field Theory Possible? page 26

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When we remove the metric we have topology which is well represented in the differentiable manifold, continuous but unmeasured. All the metrics in physics originate in the quantum of action.

Decisions, ie actions, are per se all the same size. Their weights comes from the inputs and consequences.

Thursday 20 July 2017

Friday 21 July 2017

180° phase difference = annihilation / 0° - 360° = [creation].

Saturday 22 July 2017

Berger: Rumor of Angels Spirituality = supernaturality = complexity. God in a way lies at both ends of the spectrum and all along from absolute simplicity to maximum complexity = 'deep / high' culture. Berger: A Rumor of Angels: Modern Society and the Rediscovery of the Supernatural

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Further reading

Books

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Auyang, Sunny Y., How is Quantum Field Theory Possible?, Oxford University Press 1995 Jacket: 'Quantum field theory (QFT) combines quantum mechanics with Einstein's special theory of relativity and underlies elementary particle physics. This book presents a philosophical analysis of QFT. It is the first treatise in which the philosophies of space-time, quantum phenomena and particle interactions are encompassed in a unified framework.'  Amazon   back

Berger, Peter, A Rumor of Angels: Modern Society and the Rediscovery of the Supernatural, Anchor/Doubleday 1990 'This book deals with the state of theological and religious thought in the modern world, where the availability of several options for individuals to think and believe has caused a challenge to theological thought and religious institutions. He makes the case that a complete understanding of this is important for both religious and non-religious individuals, and also for theologians and scholars of religion.' Roland  Amazon   back

West, Morris, Lazarus, St Martins Press 1990 Amazon Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly: 'The Vatican trilogy that began with The Shoes of the Fisherman (1963) and The Clowns of God (1981) reaches a dramatic conclusion in West's bold limning of a modern pontiff presiding in a time of terrorism and violence. Leo XIV, a pope physically at risk as well as spiritually troubled, is unlike his warmly remembered predecessor, John XXIII. Reactionary and forbidding, out of touch with the faithful, Leo undergoes bypass surgery that puts him at the mercy of "Brother Death" and in the care of a Jewish Italian surgeon with Zionist connections. Amid political intrigue and counterespionage, both pope and physician become prime targets of Islamic terrorists. Convalescing, Leo experiences a "change of heart," considering abdication in favor of a simpler life. West's authoritative knowledge of labyrinthine Roman society provides a credible background for the gripping climax. ... ' Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.  Amazon   back

Zee, Anthony, Fearful Symmetry: The Search for Beauty in Modern Physics, Macmillan Publishing Company 1986 Jacket: 'Fearful Symmetry invites us to view physics not merely as a body of theories and facts, but as a spirited quest to to fathom the workings of the universe It is the first book to offer an accessible explanation of how symmetry forms the intellectual and aesthetic foundation of modern physics. We go from the left-right symmetry of living forms to the deep, abstract symmetries of the fundamental laws of Nature. Zee shows how symmetry guides Nature's grand design in such diverse phenomena as the longevity of stars, the magic of light, the expansion of the cosmos, and the life and death of particles.'  Amazon   back

Links

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Alison Rahill, How 88 days can turn into nightmare of debt and despair for backpackers, 'The requirement to qualify for the second year of the working holiday visa is for 88 days of farm work, but the only days that count are the days actually worked. As a result, backpackers are sometimes spending more than seven months (more than 210 days) in regional and rural Australia trying to find enough work to comply with the visa requirement. ' back

Amy Remeikis, 'Profiting from bloodshed': Tim Costello criticises Christopher Pyne's weapons export plan, 'World Vision Australia chief Tim Costello said Australia would be "exporting death" and "profiting from bloodshed" if it followed through on Defence Industry Minister Christopher Pyne's plan to see the nation become a major arms exporter.' back

Charge-coupled device - Wikipedia, Charge-coupled device - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'A charge-coupled device (CCD) is a device for the movement of electrical charge, usually from within the device to an area where the charge can be manipulated, for example conversion into a digital value. This is achieved by "shifting" the signals between stages within the device one at a time. CCDs move charge between capacitive bins in the device, with the shift allowing for the transfer of charge between bins.' back

Chris Doucouliagos and Cong S. Pham, Counter-terrorism measures permanently reduce international trade: new study, 'Enhanced counter-terrorism measures help to protect lives, but unfortunately also reduce trade, our study shows. The costs of increased security measures are also not shared equally. While some costs are passed onto consumers, exporters and importers often bear the higher costs. . . . By reducing trade, counter-terrorism policies inadvertently drive a wedge between nations and make nations poorer. Making countries poorer in turn makes it harder to combat terrorism.' back

Dan Conifer, Creating security portfolio carries risks, expert warns, 'A proposed super-portfolio combining border security, the federal police and domestic spy agency ASIO carries serious risks, a security expert has warned. Federal Cabinet is today expected to consider the new ministry, which is tipped to be headed by Immigration Minister Peter Dutton. But John Blaxland from the Australian National University warned against tampering with a system that was "arguably the envy of the world".' back

David Patrikarakos, There will be no justice for Flight MH17 until we contain Rusia's financial power, 'The MH17 tragedy illustrates two things: first, an increasingly aggressive Russia is becoming more of a problem not less. While the world has turned its eyes from the Ukraine conflict, it continues to rage. Second, that we in the west, especially Britain – with a City of London that Russia uses to launder its dirty money – are complicit. According to Ben Judah, author of the Kleptocracy Curse: “Two powerful trends meet in London: the rise of the offshore financial system and the rise of globalised authoritarians.” ' back

John Paul II, Ex Corde Ecclesiae, '27. Every Catholic University, without ceasing to be a University, has a relationship to the Church that is essential to its institutional identity. As such, it participates most directly in the life of the local Church in which it is situated; at the same time, because it is an academic institution and therefore a part of the international community of scholarship and inquiry, each institution participates in and contributes to the life and the mission of the universal Church, assuming consequently a special bond with the Holy See by reason of the service to unity which it is called to render to the whole Church. One consequence of its essential relationship to the Church is that the institutional fidelity of the University to the Christian message includes a recognition of and adherence to the teaching authority of the Church in matters of faith and morals. Catholic members of the university community are also called to a personal fidelity to the Church with all that this implies. Non-Catholic members are required to respect the Catholic character of the University, while the University in turn respects their religious liberty. back

Monique Mann, Adam Molnar and Ian Warren, Spyware merchants: the risks of outsourcing government hacking, 'An Australian Tax Office (ATO) staffer recently leaked on LinkedIn a step-by-step guide to hacking a smartphone. The documents, which have since been removed, indicate that the ATO has access to Universal Forensic Extraction software made by the Israeli company Cellebrite. This technology is part of a commercial industry that profits from bypassing the security features of devices to gain access to private data. ' back

Paul Krugman, The New Climate of Treason, 'Branko – who knows something about Yugoslavia! – argues against the view that civil wars are caused by deep divisions between populations who don’t know each other. The causation, he argues, goes the other way: when a civil war begins for whatever reason, that’s when the lines between the groups are drawn, and what may have been minor, fairly benign differences become irreconcilable gulfs.' back

Tim Arango, Falih Hassan and Omar al-Jawoshy , Iran Dominates in Iraq After U.S. 'Handed the Country Over', 'Iran is a Shiite state, and Iraq, a Shiite majority country, was ruled by an elite Sunni minority before the American invasion. The roots of the schism between Sunnis and Shiites, going back almost 1,400 years, lie in differences over the rightful leaders of Islam after the death of the Prophet Muhammad. But these days, it is about geopolitics as much as religion, with the divide expressed by different states that are adversaries, led by Saudi Arabia on one side and Iran on the other.' back