Notes

Sunday 23 April 2023 - Saturday 29 April 2023

[Notebook: DB 89 Cognitive Cosmogenesis]

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Sunday 23 April 2023

Gradually developing confidence in my physical theology project. It started as an impossibly quixotic atttack on the biggest and most powerful and long lived organizaion on the planet, the Roman Catholic Church. I am reaching the point where, although I know very few people will listen to me in either physics or

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theology, I feel that I am on the right track. My most powerful 'weaspon' is the heuristic of simplicity where the Thomistic model of God and the physics of the initial singularity meet. After clearing the decks with the first seven pages of cosmic cosmlogy I am now down to page 8, where I establish that the software children of god are also gods, quanta of action, and that once we put aside the dogmatic constraint of the Trinity the path is open to imagine a universe of ℵ₀ divinities, as envisaged by Thales. Quanta are divine and eternal and so the procession of each quantum adds one to the entropy of the world, establishing the second (should be the first) law of thermodynamics. The emergence of Minkowski space from Hilbert space is in effect the creation of the classical world of particles whose interactions are modelled [executed] by the communications and computations in quantum Hibert space. There seems to me to be (in my blindness) no way to fault this picture of the world whose long form is currently cognitive cosmology and whose propaganda package will be cognitve cosmogenesis. By the end of 2023 I hope to be ready for the road, to invest in myself with an exceedsingly simple theory of everything based on the heuristic of simplicity and symmetry with respect to complexity carrying us from the initial singuarity to human rights and the politics of peace. Thales of Miletus - Wikipedia, Gandhi (film) - Wikipedia

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I wish my dreams to come true, embedded in faith, hope and love. The function of art is to draw our attention to reality: Barry Humphries. Dame Edna pays tribute to ‘would-be comedian’ Barry Humphries in self-penned obituary, Telegraph Obituaries: Barry Humphries, Australian-born comic genius and creator of Dame Edna Everage – obituary

All I have to say is built around the meaning of words, their coupling to reality, which is sadly lacking in Christian doctrine and the embrace by physics of mathematical ideals like continuity and infinity that are not present in reality. The core of my story is the [logical] definition of continuity, embodied in the Turing machine and all computers, that communication occurs by contact, by sources reading from and writing to the same unit of memory, the same square on Turing's tape.

Sex sells, and the meaning of sex is embodied in Hilbert space, music and mind. I want my legacy to be brief and poetic backed by these thousands of pages of notes to document my painfully slow journey from Catholic baby to catholic humanity.

Monday 24 April 2023

Let us say that gravitation is the image of God and is the source of the quanta of action that increase the entropy of the universe by converting structures in Hibert space into structures in Minkowski space by the zero energy bifurcation of quanta of action into contributions to

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the undefined omnino simplex sea of of gravitational potential and the dynamic quanta of action thas build the entropy of the complexifying universe.

Tuesday 25 April 2023

Uncertainty is the foundation of creation, and both certainty and uncertainty are built into the quantum of action as a measure just like the uncertainy in the markings on a measuring tape or any other measuring insrument. The role of gravitation is the observable representation of divinity and its role in creating observable dynamic reality from the [kinematic] Hilbert system flowing from the divinity by the creation of quanta of action and their bifurcation into potential and kinetic energy. This seems more and more outrageous, but also closer to the truth. In a historical perspective it seems nowhere as far from reality as the Book of Genesis introduction to humanity: an evil god who saddled us with death and original sin, blaming us as permanent victims to be exploited by theologically motivated warlords and their servants.

Gandhi: "Make India proud of herself."

It is good to feel good, but we need more substance built around the intrerface between Hilbert and Minkowski where all the problems in quantum theory seem to lie.

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Lonergan follows Thomas and Augustine with relations to distinguish the persons of the Trinity but this is in effect a deus ex machina since relationships and the corresponding structures and differentiations are a consequence of communication and there is really no element of communication in the concept of ad aliquid, it seems purely formal with no dynamic content. Aquinas, Summa I, 28, 1: Are there real relations in God?

Wednesday 26 April 2023

The Catholic Church follows the same playbook as Fox News, telling the faithful what they want to hear at the same time as claiming to speak infallibly and authoritatively for an omnipotent and omniscient God.

Von Neumann's abstract Hilbert space defines a foundation for quantum mechanics. John von Neumann (2014): Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics

Thursday 27 April 2023

It is hard to have faith in myself after so many failures but I am the only one I have got and each time I write a bit more on my websites I feel a bit more hopeful. Soon I hope I will have something I can preach with integrity, not the false Veritas of the Ordo Praedicatorum that laid the foudations of my dissension from the Church. Ultimately success in this venture must be political, and so the goal for 2023 it to produce a preachable political

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package, the statement of the problem and a proposed comprehensive solution. Beginning with the simplicity of the initial sigularity and the heuristic of simplicity and working toward the universe with the symmetry with respect to complexity built into Hilbert spaces and communication networks. At the moment it is based on the structure of cc [cognitive cosmology] but some sort of radical revision may be becessary. Best to aim for a 2k word essay to start the ball rolling.

Friday 28 April 2023

Hilbert space is kinematic, driven by god, which, with the discovery of the Minkowski metric, brings spacetime and dynamics into existence, driven by god [the initial singularity of pure act] at one remove and so on through the universal hierarchy made possible by the combinination of gravitation and quantum mechanics. Gravitation is a closed [and therefore curved] version of Minkowski space.

Saturday 29 April 2023

I have always been rather sceptical of the biographies of the 'mystics' like John [of the Cross] and their ilk, but now they begin to fall into place as I begin to understand my own mental evolution in the contxt of the evolution of the universe as it is beginning to emerge in cognitive cosmogenesis. Dark Night of the Soul - Wikipedia

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I have been having a bit of a dark night of the soul partly brought on by the failure of my old computer and the difficulties I have been having getting the new machine to execute the old code and keep the [internet] publishing operation going. This has led me to work on an essay designed for conventional print to encapsulate my story in brief. This has led me to think again with the doctrine of the trinity as it was developed by Augustine, Aquinas and Lonergan by their introspection into their own minds which has led me to the concept of the intial sigularity creating Hilbert space by the active creation of quanta of action which are analogous to the persons of the Trinity, feeding the Hilbert space that lies at the kinetic foundation of the universe. All the stories about the self imposed privations of the desert fathers and generations of mystics fall into place as somewhat misguided efforts to torture themselves into speeding up their mental evolution toward some sort of personal theory of everything that serves to anchor them in the sea of life by establishing a mystical connection to the divinity. Einstein and Darwin, and everybody really, are on the same trip which explains the nature and progress of science bringing us closer to the divine heart of the Universe with the usual array of false steps that lead us astray, like Einstein's attachment to general covariance that

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showed him general relativity but blinded him to quantum mechanics. Now I feel that I will be out of the dark night by my 80th birthday and will have something to contribute to the development of the science of peace when this is done and this reassures me in the midst of the difficulties of life and in some way bolsters my mental heath in a space of faith, hope and charity. This inspiration, I hope, will finally justify my lifetime of theology and give me something that I can honestly preach to the world, honestly share with a romantic partner, honestly profit from economically and hopefully convince my children and various ex's that I an authentic and valuable member of my species, all a sort of happy ever after which is the aim of so much artistic endeavour. The Cloud of Unknowing - Wikipedia

What I am seeking to do is to replace the fiat of creation in Genesis with a mechanical process analogous to the procession of the persons of the Trinity through which the Initial Singularity (aka God) creates the Universe within itself.

Gravitational potential realizes the logical structures created by Hilbert space by contributing the kinetic energy necessay to bring them into existence from its bottomless well of potential energy. So the page on gravitation needs to be moved

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right up next to the page on the discovery of Minkowski space.

Let us say that the initial singularity, aka god, is a continuous, compact convex set; and let quantum mechanics be the set of functions [algebraically complete] mapping this set onto itself; and let every one of these different functions maybe ℵ₀ or ℵ₁ of them have a fixed point which we can imagine to be a basis vector in a Hilbert space [formed inside the initial singularity just as the Trinity is in God]. Further let this set up be part of a zero energy universe whose potential energy (gravitation) contributes the potential energy to give the energy which realizes the kinetic energy to make each one of these fixed points into a real particle in Minkowski space. This is take 1, now beautify it. The short essay is to be written according to the Feynman plan, no mathematics, just ideas: A physical understanding is a completely unmathematical, imprecise, and inexact thing, but absolutely necessary for a physicist. Feynman, Lectures on Physics, II: Chapter 2: Differential Calculus of Vector Fields

Let us contrast the zero energy universe with the cosmological constant problem and conclude that quantum field theory with its continuous mathematics, point particles, infinities and renormalizations is rubbish and what we really want is the music of the spheres described in Hilbert space and Fourier transformed into the Turing vacuum, the computational logical network ideal that is isomorphic up to a Fourier transform with Hilbert space.

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The new order for qt [quantum theology, cognitive cosmogenesis]

New title: An old theology: the genesis of divinity

Table of contents

1. Abstract
2. Plato and Aristotle
3. Action: the fundamental symmetry
4. Physics and theology describe the same world
5. The initial singularity knows nothing
6. The theory of the Trinity: From triplicity to infinity
7. The creation of Hilbert space:
8. Evolution I: Random Variation

Currently up to here, to be continued (and no doubt modified]

9. Evolution II: Quantum mechanical selection
10. Communication requires contact: no action at a distance
11. From Hilbert to Minkowski space
12. Gravitational potential enables the realization of kinetic energy
13. Hilbert space is independent of Minkowski space
14. The quantum measurement is a conversation
15. Fully occupied processes are invisible
16 . Logically connected network communications occur at all scales
17. The total energy of the universe, the sum of potential and kinetic, is zero
18. Classical spacetime is the universal memory and and operating system
19. The combinations and permutations of elementary particles are transfinite
20. Universal quantum theory is a logical computational network
21. Quantum chromodynamics
22. Principles
23. Conclusion

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Aquinas, Summa I, 28, 1, Are there real relations in God?, 'Reply to Objection 4. Relations which result from the mental operation alone in the objects understood are logical relations only, inasmuch as reason observes them as existing between two objects perceived by the mind. Those relations, however, which follow the operation of the intellect, and which exist between the word intellectually proceeding and the source whence it proceeds, are not logical relations only, but are real relations; inasmuch as the intellect and the reason are real things, and are really related to that which proceeds from them intelligibly; as a corporeal thing is related to that which proceeds from it corporeally. Thus paternity and filiation are real relations in God.' back

Christian Tornau (Stanford Encyclopedia of Phiosophy), Saint Augistine, ' Because of his importance for the philosophical tradition of the Middle Ages he is often listed as the first medieval philosopher. But even though he was born several decades after the emperor Constantine I had terminated the anti-Christian persecutions and, in his mature years, saw the anti-pagan and anti-heretic legislation of Theodosius I and his sons, which virtually made Catholic (i.e., Nicene) Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire, Augustine did not live in a “medieval” Christian world. Pagan religious, cultural and social traditions were much alive in his congregation, as he often deplores in his sermons, and his own cultural outlook was, like that of most of his learned upper-class contemporaries, shaped by the classical Latin authors, poets and philosophers whom he studied in the schools of grammar and rhetoric long before he encountered the Bible and Christian writers. Throughout his work he engages with pre- and non-Christian philosophy, much of which he knew from firsthand. Platonism in particular remained a decisive ingredient of his thought. He is therefore best read as a Christian philosopher of late antiquity shaped by and in constant dialogue with the classical tradition.' back

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Dame Edna Everage, Dame Edna pays tribute to ‘would-be comedian’ Barry Humphries in self-penned obituary, ' Dame Edna Everage writes: Barry Humphries was an unknown aspiring actor and would-be comedian when I first met him in the early 1950s. It is true that he put me on stage for the first time in December 1955, but it was in order to belittle me and get cheap laughs at my expense and ridicule the great Australian way of life. How the tables were turned! I became the star and he merely a footnote to my spectacular career. His tragedy was his desire to be an artist and we know what happens to failed artists – Hitler, for example – they either become interior decorators or mass murderers. Barry was spared this fate. He became rich due to my efforts and signed me up to a contract that bound me for life. He had a lovely family and my heart goes out to them as well as to his unfortunate wives and numerous stage-struck research assistants. If these words seem uncharitable in the context of an obituary, I am fortunate that The Daily Telegraph, unsurprisingly, was eager to publish them.' back

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Gandhi (film) - Wikipedia, Gandhi (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, ' Gandhi is a 1982 epic biographical film based on the life of Mahatma Gandhi, the leader of an Indian independence movement against the British Empire during the 20th century. A co-production between India and the United Kingdom, the historical drama was directed and produced by Richard Attenborough from a screenplay written by John Briley. It stars Ben Kingsley in the title role. The biographical film covers Gandhi's life from a defining moment in 1893, as he is thrown off from a South African train for being in a whites-only compartment and concludes with his assassination and funeral in 1948. Although a practising Hindu, Gandhi's embracing of other faiths, particularly Christianity and Islam, is also depicted.' back

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Thales of Miletus - Wikipedia, Thales of Miletus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, ' Thales of Miletus (Greek: Θαλῆς (ὁ Μιλήσιος), c. 624/623 – c. 548/545 BC) was a Greek mathematician, astronomer and pre-Socratic philosopher from Miletus in Ionia, Asia Minor. He was one of the Seven Sages of Greece. Many, most notably Aristotle, regarded him as the first philosopher in the Greek tradition, and he is otherwise historically recognized as the first individual in Western civilization known to have entertained and engaged in scientific philosophy. Thales was a hylozoist (one who thinks that matter is alive, i.e. containing soul(s). Aristotle wrote (De Anima 411 a7-8) of Thales: " Thales thought all things are full of gods." ' back