vol VII: Notes
2017
Notes
Sunday 24 September 2017 - Saturday 30 September 2017
[Notebook: DB 81: Scientific theology]
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Sunday 24 September 2017
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The sources of social software on a national scale are governments and bureaucracies who have to deal with social issues that they see as disturbing the social equilibrium.
I can tell my story politically or scientifically. Politically I am a believer encouraging people to accept my belief. Scientifically, I am a theoretician, a proposer of hypothesiser offering snippets of thought designed to deal with the issues facing us. The scientific aim is to create a model of the world that enables us to increase the consistency and functionality of the software we design and impose upon ourselves.
As a scientist my marketing strategies in exposing my ideas to be taken or left by the passing trade No pushing necessary, the customers will eventually come to me.
Perhaps I am having amid life crisis now. What to do now that the children are gone? Back to school.
The dynamics of mind is metanoia, changing mind. What drives changes of mind? [inconsistency, something doesn't fit] We night more easily ask what doesn't? [consistency, all good]. The aim of preaching however, is changing the minds of others in the direction of the preacher's mind [thought control] (represented by a suitable Hilbert space). The addition of computers is equivalent to embedding the complex Hilbert space into the Cantor universe, the universe of theological discourse.
Our most immediate line of preaching comes in childraising, during which we try to get the child learn a set of values designed to help them on their path through life.
Transfinite network might be seen as fibre bundles identified by an index set (natural numbers) and growing into transfinite space
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as discrete orderings of their subspaces. So the cardinal of the first layer is is ℵ0!, and the permutation process continues on up the line.
Its a hot windy day and the world feels like a dangerous place so I hope my pager will not go off and drag me to a fire. Stored energy is dangerous as in fires, explosions and big bangs,
Cantor universe: the filing system of the world. Every folder can have subfolders, all inside the initial singularity, logically confined (like quarks).
Aquinas and co identified science in terms of logical continuity: science is a deduction of conclusions from principles, some per se nota and some revealed by god.
Monday 25 September 2017
Very little of the doctrine of the presence of God in the Universe [needs to be changed]. The old view is that God is outside the Universe, but nevertheless controlling every event through its unlimited knowledge and power. The new view that God [is] the Universe has exactly the same consequences since we are saying that every event controlled by God is a direct revelation of God.
Quantum mechanics is reversible because it is a codec and would be useless if it were not.
Teilhard de Chardin, Phenomenon Huxley page 24: '. . . he was conscious of a prophetic mission.'
page 32: 'so that,when they reach the end of their analyses they cannot tell with any certainty whether the structure they have made is the essence of the matter they are studying or s reflection of their own thought.' Both [?]
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Teilhard page 36: 'The true physics is that which will, one day, achieve the inclusion of man in his wholeness in a coherent picture of the world.' And woman.
page 40: 'Plurality, unity, entropy : the three faces of matter [but maybe plurality and entropy are the same measure].
page 47: 'cosmogenesis', creation, evolution, emergence of fixed points.
page 48: 'complexifiation' made possible by error control.
page 56: 'coextensive with the Without, there is a Within of things.'
page 59: Atomicity is a common property of the Within and the Without of things.
consciousness - the communication network that maintains the existence of a thing, eg exchanged of photons in the electronic structure of the atom.
How do we account for the vast numbers of fundamental particles in the universe if we want to make them leaves on a a tree whose root is the initial singularity? Their number implies many branches which seems to be inconsistent with their simplicity. On the other hand we see them being continuously created and annihilated in the physical world, the creations and annihilations being connected by various symmetries like the conservation of energy, momentum, spin various forms of charge, etc. We see these symmetries as logical boundaries that can only be broken in so many ways, ie charge and spin ½ give rise to dualities, up and down, positive and negative, etc. We want the layered network to explain all this.
Each new layer involves a new implementation of network computation, the complexity arising from the networking that connects the atomic logical operations of computation, not, and, nand, etc.
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Teilhard page 93; 'Were cells at the outset monophyletic or polyphyletic?'page 104: 'In itself cell division seems to be due to the simple need for the living particle to find a remedy for its molecular fragility and for the structural difficulties involved in continued growth [need for vascularization].
page 122: 'The Layer of the Mammals page 127: 'If we, working back from the mammals, want to enlarge and prolong our vision of the tree of life downwards, we must calculate in layers,' The geologist / paleoontologist view [yes].
Tuesday 26 September 2017
Teilhard page 174: 'Hominisation . . . . From now onwards it was not merely animated grains which the pressure of evolution pumped up the living stem, but grains of thought. What was to happen under this influence to the colour or shape of the leaves, the flowers, the fruit? . . . What is spontaneously psychical is no longer merely an aura round the 'soma'. It becomes an appreciable part, or even a principal part of the phenomenon. . . ..'
page 176: 'Which brings us . . . on the track of the fundamental discovery with which our study of the phenomenon of man is to culminate—the convergence of the spirit.'
page 179, n: 'Even if the Lamarkian view of the heritability of acquired characteristics is biologically vieux jeu, and decisively refuted, when we reach the human level and have to reckon with history, culture, etc, "transmission" becomes "tradition".
page 180: Noosphere . . . 'The biological change of state terminating in the awakening of thought does not represent only a critical point that the individual or even species must pass through. Vaster than that, it affects life in its organic totality, and consequently it marks a transformation affecting the state of the entire planet.' And has brought us to a dangerous level of overexploitation of 'ecological services'.
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We live in a psychological universe and our best armchair approach to understanding is to understand our own psychology, both insofar as we are conscious of it, assisted by our knowledge of network computation as we work to understand the neural network which produces our conscious mind, and from that writing like this, to be assimilated by conscious readers. The path to psychology is lined with logical continuity. Lonergan started me on this road but he was bound by his contract with his employer. I lost my contract by breaking the bond and having my solemn profession revoked by the pope. There is very little documentary witness to this.
The boson / fermion distinction is (for me) a vestige of the Trinity.
If it is as big as the transfinite numbers it is as big as God. Science is the work of connecting the fixed points in the universe by understanding why they are fixed, because they are attractors in the abstract network space.
Teilhard is trapped in the belief that we humans are very special rather than another special product of a divine milieu.
Gospel: fake news. If it sounds to good to be true, it probably is. God looks after those who look after themselves, mostly by cooperative insurance.
page 181: 'Psychogenesis has led to man. Now it effaces itself, relieved or absorbed by another and a higher — the engendering and subsequent development of all the stages of the mind, in one word noogenesis.' I would not say absorbed but preserved because the lower layers are necessary to support the higher layers, but are nevertheless open to revision by their higher layers, making the industry that supports our civilization greener and more efficient.
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Teilhard page 182: 'For instead of representing a more or less vague grouping [the biosphere] forms a single piece, the very tissue of the genetic relations which delineate the tree of life.'
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Honours: on the psychological approach to cosmology. The fundamental elements of the world are logical operators, which can be strung together into sequences and networks, just like our brains [so a neuron is an embodied logical operator, ie a computer].
page 182: 'With hominization, in spite of the insignificance of the anatomical leap, we have the beginning of a new age. The earth 'gets a new skin'. Better still, it finds its soul,' You wish. We are an infinitesimal element of the planetary soul, although we can cause much trouble.
page 183: 'This sudden deluge of cerebralisation, this biological invasion of new animal type which gradually eliminates or subjects all forms of life that are not human, this irresistible tide of fields and factories, this immense and growing edifice of matter and ideas — all these signs we look at, day in day out — seem to proclaim that there has been a change on the earth and a change of planetary magnitude.' Just like what the Archaea did, probably. Archaea - Wikipedia
'the psychozoic era' built on the psychophysical. Noosphere is physical.
page 186: 'As we know, each time a new living form rises up before us out of the depths of history, it is always complete and already legion.'
Motion: changing superposition of characters.
page 194: All particles are intelligent beings, working their environment
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for survival.
Teilhard page 204: 'In a matter of ten or twenty thousand years man divided up the earth and stuck his roots in it.'
'In regard to property, morals and marriage, every possible social form seems to have been tried.'
206: History / Pre-History
219: 'Is evolution a theory, a system or a hypothesis? It is much more: it is a general condition to which all theories, all hypotheses all systems must bow and which they must satisfy henceforward if they are to be thinkable and true. Evolution is a light illuminating all the facts, a curve that all lines must follow.' No wonder [the Church] would not let him publish!
page 220: 'However materialistic they might be it did not occur to the first evolutionists that their scientific intelligence had anything to do in itself with evolution.'
page 221: 'Man discovers that he is nothing else than evolution becoming conscious of itself, to borrow Julian Huxley's concise expression.'
page 277: 'Without going beyond the limits of scientific probability, we can say that life still has before it long periods of geological time in which to develop.'
page 291: 'The Christian Phenomenon . . . Either the whole construction of the world presented here is vain ideology or somewhere around us, in one form or another, some excess of personal, extra-human energy should be perceptible to us if we look carefully, and should real to us the great Presence. It is at this point that
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we see the importance for science of the Christian phenomenon.'
Teilhard page 292: 'In reality, taken in its main lines, it contains a extremely simple and astonishingly bold solution of the world. In the centre, so glaring as to be disconcerting , is the uncompromising assertion of a personal God.' ie us.
page 313: 'In one manner or other it still remains true that even in the view of the mere biologist, the human race resembles nothing so much as the way of the cross.' But will things be better in heaven? A good yarn ruined by the need to fit Christianity.
Wednesday 27 September 2017
The purpose of the theory of peace is to demonstrate clearly that violence destroys wealth, making us all poorer. It can do this by demonstrating the strong coupling between peace and productivity as a function of trust and universality in trading networks.
The transfinite computer network serves as a ladder to carry us formally from simplicity to complexity and back again.
Preventing error is expensive and the payoff is great, but there is probably a sweet spot that allows us a fair bit of leeway so we tend to muddle through with many retries.
Thursday 28 September 2017
The beauty of my life (in a way) is that I always wake up in some sort of existential crisis about the course of my life. Rarely do things go smoothly from day to day. Instead I find myself questioning everything all the time trying to write down the things that seem (at least for the moment) fixed as a foundation of my next
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move. Exciting but exhausting, but (I hope) the fastest way forward given my limited abilities.
FERMI Thermodynamics Fermi : Thermodynamics
page 4: '. . . we can produce a reversible expansion of a gas by enclosing it in a cylinder with a movable piston and shifting the piston very slowly [so that the gas stays infinitesimally close to equilibrium].' Reversibility. A codec is a digital version of reversibility, moving a system from one state to another and back. Where does work come in the digital process? Processing absorbs energy to drive the computation in both directions [But only by deleting? Landauer]. And what has this got to do with probability = ψψ* ?
Compressing and decompressing we are increasing and decreasing the energy of the molecules which conserve their energy by elastic collision.
page 7: Isochore = transformation at constant volume. Isochoric process - Wikipedia
page 11: Work performed by on on a conservative system depends only in initial and final states. Reminiscent of Lagrangian mechanics. [a consequence of conservation]
page 12: 'We consider an arbitrary chosen state 0 of our system and, by definition, take its energy to be zero: Uo = 0 - standard state,
page 14: 'only differences of energy are considered in practice.' As in quantum mechanics.
page 15: 'heat and mechanical work are two different aspects of the same thing, namely energy.
Friday 29 September 2017
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I've lived in this village for 40 years thinking theology and have gone as far as I can go by myself, so now it is time to set out and seek my fortune by joining academia.
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis : Same Love with Mary Lambert. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Morning depression and now going like a charm. Should give up worrying in the morning and just get on with it. Writing is a trade and my conversion from builder to writer is a version of the psychological dynamics I am writing about: logical continuity, computation and uncertainty.
Accused of heresy, playing for the other side.
Next question: renormalization. Human movement.
Saturday 30 September 2017
It may seem rather reductionist to think of love in terms of potential. Potential is a formal mathematical concept, however, which places no constraints on the nature of love but gives us a handle to deal with love as a definite physical object which we can talk about and work with. It is a state of the divinity — god is love, and we take god to be both absolutely simple, in no way controlled from outside, so pure isolated dynamism, and of unlimited complexity represented by the combination of unlimited memory in the Cantor universe and the limited power of computation embedded within it, which gives us the predictable features of the divinity revealing itself through events.
Theology and religion write the rules for political management. We see a lot of this around, with religious leaders giving direction
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to politicians.
Transfinite computer network is a formally consistent structure. We may conceive each layer as a Hilbert space, a net of orthogonal dynamic symbols [processes] that we can conceive as computation.
God is love we take to mean that god is potential, that is the power to act if inhibitions are removed. Our most fundamental experiences of love are built around reproduction [from the time we are loved by our parents as children until we becomes loving parents ourselves] and we can assume that similar experiences are common to all acts of creation.
One of the feelings associated with transforming from one religion and theology [to another] is the uncertainty associated with the possibility that it might not come off and I will be back where I started. The monastery used to be a nightmare, but it is gone now. Now I am pretty secure in my own state and willing to spend some savings to gain academic recognition for my position with a view to becoming a centre of condensation for scientific theology.
Renormalization: the cardinal of a set of natural numbers may be any number from 0 to ℵ0, where we may renormalize the natural numbers by setting ℵ0 to a fixed value, say 2, to give us a two state picture of the world. This does not limit the expansion of space in the long run since the exponential of 2 is eventually as large as the exponential of any other number (when blurred by transfinity).
We can estimate the value of truth by counting the cost of false information. This cost is context dependent. Its minimum is 1, the cost of the routine check of a packet and the cost of retransmission. It has no upper bound, since ultimately a one bit error could be responsible for the thermonuclear destruction of the planet.
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Teilhard, Letters Claude Aragonès page 23; 'Once the truth has made its presence felt in a single soul, nothing can ever stop it from invading everything and setting fire to everything.' New York Times, 3/1955.
page 47: 'However, mysticism remains the great science and the great art, the only power capable of synthesising the riches accumulated by other forms of human activity.'
page 62: 'Sooner or later, the unification of the human race is bound to come, and if the world wishes to survive there must be an end to racial conflict. For its maturity the earth needs every drop of its blood.'
END DB 81 Scientific Theology
DB 82 life and Death follows
