Notes
Sunday 9 April 2023 - Saturday 15 A ppril
[Notebook: DB 89 Cognitive Cosmogenesis]
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Sunday 9 April 2023
Easter Sunday, the Biblical origin of the false Christian dream of immortality. Fear of hell and desire for Heaven moulded my youthful outlook and led me to become a member of a Catholic religious order in order to ensure my salvation. Now I know all this is the biggest scam ever perpetrated on humanity and have moulded the intellectual side of my career around a new conception of God and theology: the universe itself is divine and the evolutionary process has sculpted us in the image of this divinity. By becoming aware of the process by which evolution has enabled the construction of enormously complex entities out of simpler parts, we can learn how to make peace in the human population of the planet by becoming ourselves elements of a more complex and harmonious political entity.All my ideas are published on the internet in real time and attract a small amount of traffic aggregating something of the order of 100 megabytes per month, a figure that has remained quite stable for about ten years without any systematic promotion. Now that my ideas are maturing, I can see the need to gather them up in
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a consistent package which I call cognitve cosmogenesis which will be an upgrade and clarificaion of my current main work, cognitive cosmology, which is designed to produce the union of physics and theology implicit in the hypothesis that the universe is divine. The key to this union is that a comprehensive theory of everything stretching from fudamental particles to planetary civilization will be based on the psychological and cognitive sciences of logic, computation, communication and understanding or insight, the evolutionary construcion of new perspectives that characterize science and the development of the universe in general. Jeffrey Nicholls (2023): Cognitive Cosmology, Bernard Lonergan (1992) Inight: A Study of Human Understanding
Michelle Goldberg: Comstock Michelle Goldberg: The Hideous Resurrection of the Comstock ActNew site for cognitive cosmogenesis QT, Quantum Theology: Headline " This site suggests that the Universe is the Mind of the Creator", [or] "This site describes how Divinity creates the Universe within Themself [as God creates the Trinity within itself] ".
The essence of it must retain the flavour of a theory of peace with the idea that creation saves and creation works fastest when entropy is maximized by the equality of the components of any system, in our case human equality as a subset of the equal values of all the systems that sustain us.
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From little things big things grow. / No good comes from big things. From Little Things Big Things Grow - Wikipedia
We've got to boil it down to one point. What is it? Action. The smallest and most perfect thing [the opposite in size of the traditional God]? The quantum of action. Instead we have become hooked on energy — quick action.
Monday 10 April 2023
William Birthday
Energy is inverse time. Entropy is simply a count of states. The quantum of action is a logical operator [like a Turing machine]. The speed of light is determined by the need for quantum contact through spacetime via null geodesics.
Tuesday 11 April 2023
The role of science is to delete delusions and replace them with truth.
Jackson Pollock: "Art is coming face to face with yourself ".
I can take some of the pressure off myself by thinking of my work as art rather than science and talking about the numbers from the mathematical remove, using the logic rather than the actual numbers, using a cognitive approach to mingle matter and spirit, going from god, through angels to the physical world. gravitation / Hilbert space / Minkowski space, kinematics to dynamics [formalism to causality].
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Wednesday 12 April 2023
SBS: Simon Napier-Bell: George Michael: Portrait of an Artist
Markatos: "My efforts are not to conclude a discussion but to begin it". Tim Markatos: Orthodoxy and Queerness: ‘Orthodox Tradition and Human Sexuality’
Brother Anthony is still with me 60 years later finally adding science to the poetry, music and mythology of theology, /p>
Thursday 13 April 2023
Good and evil; pregnancy and miscarriage; survival and extinction; profit and loss.
It might be argued that the countably infinite "Turing vacuum" does not have sufficient entropy to model the continuum [of] ststes that are enivsaged by quantum field theory in the vacuum. The question revolves around the differences betwen the first and second transfinite numbers, ℵ0 and ℵ1. The difficulty with the transfinite vacuum envisaged by the quantum field theorists are overcome with renormalization. The renormalization process has been shown to apply to electrodynamics and the Yang Mills theory used in quantum chromodynamics. It has been counted as a plus for this theory that it accommodates both screening (to deal with the [theoretical] infinite self enery of zero sized electrons and positrons) and anti-screening which is the preferred explanation for asymptotic freedom and the confinement of quarks and gluons. These ideas are based on the applications of
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statistics using the law of large numbers appled to very extensive Feyman diagrams to arrive at numerical results that appear to be quite close to observation. Insofar as there is a lot of flexibility available in renormalization to cut infinities down to size, these hopeful results may be the result of fortuitous choices. The Turing appoach, on the other hand, opens the way for a P vs NP approach to evolutionary selecion of alorithms that yield the world that we observe. It seems quite certain that given s spectrum of ℵ0 halting Turing machines which could be arranged in networks analogous so Feyman diagrams, there is sufficient entropy in this approach to cover the problem. The beauty of the Turing / evolution / P vs NP approach is that it potentially yields definite algorithms to describe the structure of the universe and ad hocery like screening and anti-screening, and renormalization to deal with infinities which are, from a philosophical point of view meaningless, [can be avoided] since any meaningful reality must be a definite and separate object.
Introduction: Theology, good and evil, evolution. The fundamental problem for theology is how a god, billed as omniscient, omnipotent, loving snd benevolent towards humans allows the existence of the horrendous evils that we experience in our lives. Marilyn McCord Adams (1999): Horrendous Evils and the Goodness of God
A standard answer is that god allows such evils because the are the occasion of greater goods. The most succinct statement of this idea is that God so
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loved the world that they gave up their only beloved son, become human as Jesus of Nazareth, to be cruelly tortured to death by the Roman army occupying Palestine, because the result of this human sacrifice was to propitiate the Father for the insult delivered to them by humans [and so save the world from arbitrary damnation].
This explanation is obviously rubbish. The deck was stacked against humanity from the beginning. Our first parents were presumably pubescent teenagers full of romance and curiosity. God assigned the most intelligent of the angels, Lucifer, aka Satan to tempt them to disbedience, thus committing the original sin that led God to destroy the harmony of humanity and the world, making us all victims that God could blame for all their suffering. Of course God did not really do this. It is a story made up by the theologians working for the warlords who sought legitimacy for the horrendous evils they did to their fellow humans in order to maintain their hegemony.
The nature of God and the hidden nature of introspected psychological knowledge was radically revised by the invention of writing when it was realized that the articulation of speech had to be written in articulated symbolism, and
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both were traced back to the mental word which introspectively feels like a structureless spiritual thing but which can only be communicated when articulated by the symbolic representation of its information content. Nevertheless this insight does not appear to have penetrated theology, where the absolute simplicity of god is considered to be fully consistent with omniscience. Aquinas agues that god is omniscient precisely because they are maximally spiritual, that is maximally simple. Aquinas, Summa: I, 14, 1: Is there knowledge in God?
Here we come to the role of evolution and creation, differentiating the strucureless initial singularity into the transfinitely strucured universe by, we will claim, the ceaseless emission of quanta of action by the creative divinity. This, we might understand, is the theological rendering of the big bang, starting gently and only reaching very high energies under the compressive force of gravitation. How do we fit this into the story? By the bifurcation of action into kinetic and potential energy.
We have to tell the whole story in the introducton, but if the thing is to have a compact expression, we need to constrain ourselves to 25 pages of 1000 words, and this includes the introduction:
1. Theology and imperialism.
2. Secrecy, mystery and spirituality.
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3. The fecundity of the divinity - the doctrine of the Trinity
4. Evolution by variation and selection - symmertry,
5. From spirit to matter and information
6. Devolution and control - action energy, entropy. Action is conserved, it never dies [, the world is in perpetual motion].
Quantum theory and gravitation. In total 7 x 140 words = ~1000.
Friday 14 April 2023
Put theology aside for three months and concentrate on romance for a change, honouring Feynman's datum that physics starts with sound ideas? The union of physics and theology inherited from Aristotle seems to be enormously fertile and simplifies my picture of the world to the point where I can understand and feel good about it.
A physical understanding is completely unmathematical, imprecise, an inexact thing but absolutely necessary to a physicist. Richard Feynman: Lectures on Physics II Chapter 2: Differential Calculus of Vector Fields
Our evolutionary history suggests that 'feeling' goes back to the beginning and lies at a much deeper layer in most systems than actual implementation. See eg Roberts, The Age 14/4/23. See also 4 above.
The function of a harmonic oscillator is to pass quanta of action from one state to another, the states being created and annihilated but the quanta of action, the underlying symmetry, are eternal, simple, indestructible and possess all the properties of the classical divinity. The divinity creates new quanta which are never
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extinguished and contribute to the evolutionary complexity of the universe in a manner analogous to the emergence of the Trinity, although there is no limit to the number of persons or sources and their number is the measure of the entropy of the universe. According to the modern view, even black holes do not destroy entropy, but Hawking and Ellis's time reversed black hole creates entropy. Black hole thermodynamics - Wikipedia
Saturday 15 April 2023
cc02_introduction. Cath: Anaplastic thyroid carcinoma (ATC). Orphan disease with fatal outcome. DSS = Disease Specific Survival rate. Anaplastic thyroid cancer - Wikipedia
Brideshead revisited: Guilt: The ruling class foundation to control of the 'sinful' masses in the fallen world. Imperial magnificence built on the bodies of the poor. Wilkins, Fischer-Post and Herault Conversation. We all pray for God's forgiveness. Our Father who aren't in heaven. Brideshead Revisited (film) - Wikipedia, Wilkins, Fischer-Post & Herault: Unequal? Our analysis suggests Australia is a more equal society than has been thought
Like my god, I spend a lot of time talking to myself, as things happen in Hilbert space between sourcs in Minkowski space. [Brideshead:] "The only thing of consequence is the life hereafter." Living in sin.
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Introduction is to wholly repudiate Catholicism.
[More Brideshead:] "It is our duty, as Catholics, to save those we love from themselves." Religions and theologies arrogate to themselves control of life and death in the service of murdering imperialists like Putin, using the services of the Patriarch Vladimir of Russia. Evelyn Waugh on the evil of Cathlicism. Patriarch Kirill of Moscow - Wikipedia
The idea with cognitive cosmgenesis is to ultimately create something I can perform.
