Notes
Sunday 25 June 2023 - Saturday 1 July
[Notebook: DB 89: Cognitive Cosmogenesis]
Sunday 25 June 2023
[page 107]
The writers of the New Testament devised a happy ending to the Old Testament at a time when the Jews were suffering from the Roman occupation and some were expecting a Messiah to set them free. The New Testament devised a spiritual liberation built around the murder of Jesus. It was a magnificent and influential work of fiction with no basis in fact which was later coupled to the same Roman Empire to consolidate its power.
Monday 26 June 2023
cc08_trinity. We model god as pure act and an empty set which has nothing in it because it is a continuum, so no matter to represent a form, but nevertheless fixed point theory
[page 108]
works so a fixed point, a formal quantum of action is formed. This we take to be the modern analogue of the procession of the Son within the Father. That will do for this page, and then we turn to the formation of Hilbert space, also an ideal like the first quantum of action, but we imagine now that we have a qubit do quantum mechanics is the kinematics of the [qubit], the first harmonic oscillator between |0> and |1>.
As I look back on my first break from orthodoxy (Nicholls 1967] I can see my long slow path from there to here which seems to have been more of less continuous and which has always given me hope for myself and humanity even though I read of evil deeds in the press every day and can track them back through history, like the Albigensian crusade and the Holocaust. Perhaps my central reason for this hope is that the Christian charade of cosmic battle between God and Satan, with Satan being cast as an antagonist equal to God, is false. Instead I see that all the evil in the world is a natural consequence of evolution by variation and selection so it is to a fair degree predictable, enabling us to study it scientifically and take precautions [like birth control against the Malthusian tragedy] which we do in our general orientation toward care and safety. Jeffrey Nicholls (1967): How universal is the universe?
I have now arrived at a clear starting point for evolution, a combination of he god of Aristotle and Aquinas and the initial singularity proposed by the physicists and cosmologists and an application
[page 109]
of the ancient Doctrine of the Trinity which explains how the universe is explained by a divine initial singularity. Is this right? Perhaps all I can hope is that it is not wrong and the unbounded power of the evolutionary process, operating in both science and nature, will naturally yield a faithful copy of the process that produced us in our own minds and social structures that will enable us to obtain the peace in the body politic that our own cells enjoy in our own bodies. Each of us will die through the accumulation of error within our selves, but reproduction and recycling will guarantee our existence until the Sun is no longer helpful in about 5 billion years time. My current version of 1967 seems to be coming along nicely in the web version, [and] then I hope to have converted into a book by the end of the year and then start on a story of the practical consequences of this theology for the religious and political management of ourselves.
The destabilization I suffered when my family turned against me has cost me about $100 000 in cash, but now I have recovered my stability and am looking forward to the payoff for my 60 years of intellectual and social work.
The role of religion is to provide faith that enables hope and charity. The core evil of the Roman Catholic Church and its analogues is that its faith, derived from the gnostic Paul, is based on authority
[page 110]
which serves up ruling class fantasies for which there is no evidence so tending to the destruction of humanity by the institutional violence used enforce their false faith. Robert Crotty (2017): The Christian Survivor: How Roman Christianity Defeated Its Early Competitors
I try to keep [as] much of the old story intact [as possible]. There is no reason to think that people 5-10 000 years ago were not as smart as we are, or that our modern education tells us any more about our world than their education taught them about theirs. So we assume that god or the initial singularity motivates the world, and in the light of quantum theory, they do this by emitting quanta of action.
We need to make much of the relationship between music and Hilbert space.
Tuesday 27 June 2023
Introductory note: The cosmic warfare of good and evil, god angels and devils forms framework for one stream of the religions of the world, Christianity, Islam and Hinduism. The other stream, Confucianism and Buddhism we may frame as administrative religions. The first is the product of warlords, the second of corporate managers. At the interface are those who study the art of war. The Christian vision of this framing, which is the starting point of this work, is the battle between God and Satan whose final ancient showdown is recorded in the book of Job. The founder of Christianity as
[page 111]
we know it was the warlord Constantine who brought the Christian bishops to heel to administer his Empire which they did under the umbrella of the Divine Right of military power, which power depends ultimately on logistics and administration. Jack Miles (1996): God, A Biography, pp 308-328
Reread and approve Synopsis (last revision 2020) Synopsis, Table of Contents.
Every day is the same. Wake in fright and then a new insight (synopsis of data) carries me forward like the statement above, replacing the imperial dream of cosmic warfare between good and evil by the upsides and downsides of unconscious evolution, pointing to a major discontinuity in cosmic cosmology between Christianity and reality at the interface of page 8: The theology of the Trinity and page 9: The active creation of Hilbert space. After the initial insight I often feel that I have done my day's work and all that remains is to spend the rest of the day documenting it.
Higgins: 'Imperium: constitutional power to lead troops. Charlotte Higgins (2023_06_27): Prigozhin crosses his Rubicon in echo of Caesar’s march on Rome
Insofar as the initial singularity is eternal both before and after it may not be described as quantized. What does quantization mean? An open set with a fixed beginning and now end. An orbit? a holomorphic function? [An event circumscribed in time whose energy is the inverse of its duration]. Holomorphic function - Wikipedia
Superposition is vector addition which is a function of the dimension of the space we are working in: |qubit> = a|0> + b|1> etc.
Wednesday 28 June 2023
[page 112]
I wonder if I regret my choice to retire to the country and live a quiet life trying to rebuild theology after I was effectively excommunicated from the Church? Now I see myself as an old man who has spent 60 years chasing a rainbow as I work through my cognitive cosmology website trying to work out if it has any value. Of course I owe it to myself to think that it does and now I am beginning to feel the sting of poverty because I have not earned myself a fortune for a comfortable retirement. I have to keep working toward a publication which will justify my life. The shape of the book version of cognitive cosmology is slowly emerging from the mist. I am trying to revise and upload a page every day and then I will begin to boil it down to a book text while I can rely on the website for all its background evidence and details of my personal experience. Reread the natural theology synopsis yesterday, last revised in 2020 and was quite pleased with it which is all I need to make me go on, secure in the knowledge that my pension will keep me well fed and housed even if I never score a best seller. The 64k question? Have I deceived myself in my attempt to escape the deceptions of the church that nurtured me and supported my amazing mother until she died. One conclusion: the evil in the world is not due to malicious spirits but is just the downside of evolution by variation and selection that brought it all to be. This illustrates the old idea
[page 113]
that god allows (needs?) evil on order to establish greater good. From a cybernetic point of view it is the error signal that steers us back onto the straight and narrow. It is the faults that drive us to improve our serve.
Quantum observation is the search for fixed points in Hilbert space, so this is the role of fixed point theory in the divinity, yielding the quanta of action that actually happen. Minkowski spacetime is is a basic such fixed point, the symmetry embedded in every observable event in the world.
Thursday 29 June 2023
Now we are down to the origin of Minkowski space and contact communication made possible by null geodesics. But why did this happen? What was [is] the selective advantage. Later, when we get down to transfinity and gravitation and the zero-energy universe we will see the bifurcation of the quantum of action into potential and kinetic energy [two versions of action-time] is the foundation for making particles with positive energy real and in some cases with rest mass. All this must fit together and we take a first guess by saying that gravitation is the kinetic reality of the quantum initial singularity. We have to tease this into separate episodes page by page because here lies the core of my story and the relationship of gravitation to quantum mechanics. Einstein gravitation exists as a featureless continuous 4D space with time split into the universe of the three spatial dimensions perhaps through the mediation of fermions and spin ½, ½ to the particle,
[page 114]
½ to gravitation.
What I would like to do is write a non-technical non-mathematical book like the Origin of Species which nevertheless gives a compact and consistent explanation of the origin of the Universe which explains our place within it and the steps we should take to establish a peaceful and sustainable lifestyle which can last for 5 billion years.
Friday 30 June 2023
page 12: The quantum creation of Minkowski space. How does making Minkowski space the domain of Hilbert space cause confusion in quantum field theory? Read Kuhlmann again. I begin this page by explaining the radical differences in metric between Hilbert and Minkowski spaces. It is interesting that one feels a barrier between thought and action. When building I have often had the need to achieve a [difficult] physical result like lifting a long and heavy object. The first phase is to think out how to do it. The next phase is to do it, and it takes an act of will to begin. In the thinking business I have come to the point of discussing the difference between Hilbert space and Minkowski space metrics and the action required is to read the EPR paper and see how they applied the Hilbert metric to arrive at spooky action at a distance, but I face a certain resistance to face this work, illustrated by the idea that I will do a bit of shopping and then
[page 115]
read EPR. Meinard Kuhlmann: Quantum Field Theory, Einstein, Podolsky & Rosen (1935): Can the Quantum Mechanical Description of Physical Reality be Considered Complete?
Le Carre: Most Wanted Man p 342: 'Only God can transform information into knowledge.' Gravitation. John Le Carre
Saturday 1 July 2023
I am out of my depth and must therefore keep swimming. At the time when I first thought of the quantum origin of Minkowski space I thought it was quite a big deal and held the possibility of a solution to the quantum field theory mess. [notes22m01d30, notes21m09d05, notes21m08d01, notes21m07d18] 'By separating quantum mechanics from spacetime we create a new degree of freedom within the universe analogous to the god outside proposed by the Christians. This continues an analogy with Aristotle who placed his god inside an eternal universe rather than outside a created universe.' [notes21m06d10, notes21m04d18] 'Entanglement and spooky action at a distance indicate that quantum mechanics predates space and is a matter of energy alone and so seems on a par with general relativity which also sees only energy.' [notes19m12d01, notes15m11d01] Quantum mechanical entanglement lies in a layer beneath space.
These references in my notes show that the independence of quantum mechanics from spacetime goes back to at least 2015, although the connection with the Minkowski metric is more recent and may be dated to about 21_02_2022 when this page of cognitive cosmology was first drafted,
[page 116]
The next thing to explore in the transition from the classical to the quantum if the Lagrangian formulation of mechanics carried over from [classical to quantum] beginning with Dirac in 1933. Dirac's point is that the Lagrangian does not apply to spacetime kinetic and potential energy but to phase [which is the medium of communication in quantum theory] and Feynman picked this up with the path integral method. Although he called it the space-time approach to quantum mechanics it really had only to do with the search for stationary phase, ie the fixed points of the operators in Hilbert space which appear as eigenfunctions and corresponding eigenvectors which determine the nature and probability of possible events. Measurement carries this quantum system over to Minkowski space.
Dear John, you might have guessed that I feel that theology and physics are both built on foundations of infinite rubbish and it has always been my mission to fix this. The fundamental hypothesis is that the universe is divine which implies that the subjects of physics and theology are identical so that the corresponding theories must also be identical. Here is my latest in this realm, based on the idea of making sense of quantum field theory by showing that Hilbert space is prior to and the source of Minkowski space thus providing a simple and infinity free interface between special relativity and quantum mechanics which I believe is worth publishing. The interface between physics and theology is in Dirac's 1933 paper about the role of the Lagrangian in quantum mechanics. Paul Dirac (1933): The Lagrangian in Quantum Mechanics
[page 117]I have to recite my program every now and then. The heuristic of simplicity rules and is present in the fundamentals all the time, beginning with the initial singularity which is the only object of calculus type infinity [which I will eventually identify with gravitation and the differentiable manifold.] No fields, no continuous spacetime, only logical continuity, particles, phases quantized by the roots of unity. This looks too simple, but if we are to believe in the initial singularity it must be, followed by complexification by variation and selection [superposition (?) in the Hilbert space created within the initial singularity by the operation of fixed point theory.]
Watch cricket, wait for inspiration. What do we need? Initial singularity, qubit, particle, gravitation, boson, kinetic energy, potential energy, the fundamental creation machine. The execution of a quantum requires 2π phase. And phase = action and every event can only happen when the system can enable a quantum of action, ie harmony, matching energy / frequency / interval / timing since time is the fundamental measure.
Nature, timing, music, but we can only observe fixed points and the fixed points are a quantum of action part = remember the clock in a computer.
