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Notes DB 90: Psychogenesis_2024

Sunday 24 December 2023 - Saturday 30 December 2023

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Sunday 24 December 2023

False theologies and dud religions are revealing themselves as the fundamental destructive element in the human soul of the world. America and Russia have always been at war, and at the root of the wars are the stupid ideas entertained by the leaders of the countries that they are on a mission from god to control the world in a way that they think appropriate, making out that these ambitions are not their own but their god wants them to do it. So we must kill all these gods that infect the minds of powerful fools and replace them with the one true God, that created us all, the Universe. The false gods do nothing by themselves except infect the minds of their victims with delusions of power and mission that sets them on their paths of destruction. The real god, the Universe is in fact enabling the works of Stalin, Hitler, Putin and all the other lesser destroyers, and these people must be brought under control by denying them the powers of the real world like guns, bombs, surveillance technologies and every other thing they use to hurt us, including infecting / indoctrinating the minds of their children in their own diseases.

Polkinghorne page 12. Point 3 from previous week: Polkinghorne (2008): Quantum Physics and Theology: An Unexpected Kinship

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Science has evidence and zero's in on the truth.

Polkinghorne page 12 point 3 from notes 2023_12_17:

' The religious scene, in contract, is substantially fragmented. The great faith traditions . . . display considerable enduring stability within their adherent communities. They all claim to report and nurture human spiritual engagement with sacred reality but there is a perplexing degree of cognitive clash between them concerning details about these encounters. . . . These clashes seem to exceed anything that could simply be explained as culturally diverse ways of expressing the same underlying truth.' Because there is no evidence [or more precisely, they ignore the evidence before their very eyes that the Universe is our creator and saviour in favour of their ancient false dreams].

Polkinghorne page 13 point 4: 'Religious belief is so much more costly than scientific belief '. Because it is enforced politically, often by violence, and hence it is 'dangerous'.

page 14: ' The diachronic character of theology, with insight spread across the centuries, deprives it of the simple appeal of manifest monotonic increase in understanding that is so persuasive in the case of science.' [This is silly, it is] because there is no new data. The same ancient scriptures still rule and all the religions hold that the real world counts for nothing compared to their holy texts.

page 15: ' The God truth will not be a deceiver'. This is merely an hypothesis; deception is part of evolutionary survival and Christian deception is no exception.'

ccg04_deception_surival [potential chapter of 'the book'].

5 points of relationship beteen theological and physical learning:

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Polkinghorne: page 15: 1. Moments of enforced radical revision

page 16: wave particle vs Jesus = God.

page 17: 2. A period of unresolved confusion - caused by the above.

page 18: 3. New synthesis and understanding - superposition and Trinity

page 19: 4. New problems

page 20: Measurement problem / Trinitarian contradictions / QFT infinities

page 21: 5. Deeper implications: EPR, Moltmann: 'Christian God is the Crucified God' : Stupid meaningless theological irrelevance.

page 22: Stop here. Silly book on application of critical realism to baseless fables without the courage to call them out.

Monday 25 December 2023

The birth of god: the first human to be recognized as divine. Now the whole Universe and every particle in it is divine and theology and physics have become one in subject and methodology.

Tuesday 26 December 2023
Wednesday 27 December 2023

Dull! 'the book' Chapter 5: Time and space. In the [physical / dynamic] time domain we can have only one source [but in the linear kinematic domain many sources can be superposed, as on the surface of the stone thrown pond]. We need space to make multiple [real] sources possible. The 'shield of the Trinity' can only be logically consistent if the divine persons (sources) exist in different regions of space if they are to be able to act (communicate) independently. Shield of the Trinity - Wikipedia

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My experience with my family suggests that I am literally incredible.

Thursday 28 December 2023

Slowly getting into 'the book' but need to finish cognitive cosmology in the next few days. How do I connect the recursive nature of the transfinite numbers to symmetry with respect to complexity? Cantor page 109, unitary law must be where we begin. Creation is recursive because all the children of God are divine. Hilbert space grows as [Minkowski] space and particles multiply and all the Hilbert 'interiors' of the particles connect via the null geodesics in Minkowski space. Now to visit Auntie.

Old note in Cantor page 14 (written before 2000): ' If mathematics is wholly logical all we need to do is find a mechanism (Turing) by which it generates its own logic and we have a way for it to create itself. So we start looking for the specification for a self creating Turing machine.' Georg Cantor (1897, 1955): Contributions to the Founding of the Theory of Transfinite Numbers

This machine must be [is] a P machine, but the current initial singularity is NP, relying on random kinematic Hilbert space. P versus NP problem - Wikipedia

Friday 29 December 2023

Cantor showed how to use the ordinal number as a means of breaking the cardinal number out of logical confinement [symbolic confinement, ie confined by the number of available symbols] to maximize entropy and creativity. This is where the creative power of the Universe

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lies and the basic weakness of the old religions, implicitly identified by Polkinghorne, is their dependence on ancient texts that emphasize the knowledge and eternity of god to the detriment of their creativity [ruling out continuous creation]. The most powerful feature of my god is their ignorance, since omniscience effectively limits creativity. Cantor showed us how to create space. Hilbert space enables us to exploit the full creative power of kinematic formalism as a consequence of its algebraic completeness [and freedom to create infinite quantities of symbols]. In the discussion of embedded mathematics we need to emphasize the way that the Universe discovered periodicity and so implicitly the complex numbers which, as de Broglie noted, give us integers and closure, just as general relativity gives us Lie groups and orbits. The answer to asymptotic freedom and confinement really has to do with periodicity and complex numbers. This is a guess, but it feels exceedingly sexy at this moment, a sort of periodic motion leading to orgasm so popular in the pornography industry. We have to find a subtle way to introduce this into the new religion so that we can take advantage of the marketing power of our fundamental drive to reproduce. Here is the core of cc26_chromodynamics. Louis de Broglie (1929): Nobel Lecture: The Wave Nature of the Electron

Because Hilbert space (like all formal mathematics) is kinematic rather than dynamic there are no constraints

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on its cardinal number, [the cardinal of] the set of basis vectors.

A little moment of despair. The baseless accusations my family make against me and the way they treat me is a consequence of their mental states, which have been formed by their conversations with one another and presumably by a misunderstanding of what the child at the centre of the situation told them are in effect proofs of the validity of my work on cognitive cosmology. [The] basic thesis is that all the costs and benefits of situations in the human sphere are the consequences of the mental states of the people involved and of their communication of these mental states to one another. Nowhere has more falsehood been conveyed to more people than within the major religions and theological traditions of the Earth, as we are seeing at the moment with the army of Israel murdering hundreds of Palestinians every day on the grounds that long ago their fictitious god gave them a promised land and sanctioned genocide for them to take control of it. Eco, The Island of the Day Before records how lightly princes go to war and murder people to achieve their aims. To go into the chapter 'the book' on deception. Umberto Eco (2008): The Island of the Day Before, Promised Land - Wikipedia

What does cc24_transfinity do? Introduces complexification by order, but also introduces the need for space

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so we return to further discussion of page 12: The quantum creation of Minkowski space et seq. so the initial singularity can go on having children as long as they are different and since they are images of their parent they also can have children. But they are isolated until they can communicate so they need Minkowski space and null geodesics. Confusion here, all these children crowded inside the initial singularity, so page 25: Transfinite Minkowski space is demanded to put the Universe together. Perhaps one more reversal is required, painting the generation of Minkowski space as a prerequisite for the implementation of the Cantor algorithm for complexification. Sleep on it. The end of the year is getting close. Also do we need a place for the no-cloning theorem and a bit more quantum mechanics and evolution, and work our way around to the application of mathematics in chromodynamics and the production of the proton, the first eternal composite particle. No cloning theorem - Wikipedia, Quantum chromodynamics - Wikipedia

What is the problem here? Things seem to be going so well. It would be good to be able to see into my mind to see what is stopping me. Time to take a holiday? Melbourne to see my bro & sister. The trouble lies in the creation of space. We can fudge it with a story about the invincibility of evolution but it would be better to have the real story.

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Have I lost faith in my story? Have I gone too far. How do I hang it all around symmetry with respect to complexity (Principle 5: Symmetry with respect to complexity) It is good but something is missing. Tomorrow work on 'the book' which seemed to be going nicely. Maybe getting a bit too technical, trying to reinterpret quantum mechanics. The book is where the weight it.

Quantum mechanics says the Universe talks to us and it obeys the rules of communication theory which appear in the operator of quantum mechanics as unitarity. Maybe the problem is that I cannot keep all these ideas in my head at once, especially when I am going so far out on the limb. The good thing is that I have got most of these ideas on the net and about a terabyte of it is being downloaded each year so maybe it is seeping in (or out) somewhere. By the time the book is done, maybe it will all be in a seamless piece with all the lumps ironed out. Unitarity (physics) - Wikipedia

So we go back to the beginning and explain the initial singularity as the source of the world by a process of evolution which is what I thought I was doing up to page 17: Gravitation and quantum theory—in the beginning and then got sidetracked by trying to add bells and whistles. So now I get the book right on a more abstract scale. The critical step, needing some research, is from gravitation as the

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divine essence [or should it be esse?] of the initial singularity via fixed points and Hilbert to energy (bifurcated gravitation) then bosons, fermions and Minkowski, ie we explain Minkowski by the two possible spin states predicted by the Dirac equation boiled down to 4 Schrödinger equations in 4D spacetime bosons - spinors - fermions squeezing all the juice out of the idea that spacetime is a quantum mechanical product. First we simply attribute this to the work of evolution and the powerful attraction of entropy which got us to page 17, now we go back over the ground, via Schrödinger and Dirac, and introduce an alternative to field theory, in fact ditch the field altogether [because it is not a quantum thing] since bosons + fermions → Minkowski which covers all the possibilities. Of course we eventually have to get all the calculations right which may not be so easy, but at least we will have a physical picture and we can get all the details out of a quantum network based on Feynman diagrams. So at least I have a program of work. In other words I have to be much more ambitious and revise the model of quantum mechanics by beginning with gravitation and spacetime. In other words gravitation analogous to the Hebrew God Yahweh before the zero sum bifurcation which gave us potential and kinetic energy, which were the source of kinematic quantum theory and dynamic particles [with Hilbert spaces inside like their father the initial singularity] and 4D spacetime.

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Saturday 30 December 2023

Still singing the theological blues to myself but from a position of strength and joy because I know things now that I did not know 60 years ago when my theological career began. My big problem is now editorial, to get a clear statement of my new picture. The words are all there in cognitive cosmology, but jumbled so I now have to spend 2024 going over it and sorting it out and the first step is to clarify my understanding of quantum theory with Prugovecki. Eduard Prugovecki (2006): Quantum Mechanics in Hilbert Space

Now I am happy again: New plan - spend January revising cognitive cosmology to incorporate developments since last writing. Principal insight; gravitation is a theological phenomenon, is it spans both theology and physics. A new/old order [. . .]

The basic purpose of cc18_fixed_points is to establish the notion of symmetry with respect to complexity where complexity is measured by the size of the matrices used to find eigenvectors and eigenvalues.

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Further reading

Books

Cantor (1897, 1955), Georg, Contributions to the Founding of the Theory of Transfinite Numbers (Translated, with Introduction and Notes by Philip E B Jourdain), Dover 1895, 1897, 1955 Jacket: 'One of the greatest mathematical classics of all time, this work established a new field of mathematics which was to be of incalculable importance in topology, number theory, analysis, theory of functions, etc, as well as the entire field of modern logic.' 
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Eco (2008), Umberto, The Island of the Day Before, Random, Vintage 2008 ' The year is 1643. Roberto, a young nobleman survives war, the Bastille, exile and shipwreck as he voyages to a Pacific Island straddling the date meridian. There he waits now, alone on the mysteriously deserted Daphne, separated by treacherous reefs from the island beyond, the island of the day before. If he could reach it, time — and his misfortues — might be reversed. But first he must learn to swim.' 
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Polkinghorne (2008), John, Quantum Physics and Theology: An Unexpected Kinship, Yale University Press 2008 Jacket: 'Despite the differences of their subject matter, science and theology have a cousinly relationship, John Polkinghorne contends in his latest thought-provoking book.  From his unique perspective as both theoretical physicist and Anglican priest, Polkinghorne considers aspects of quantum physics and theology and demonstrates that the two truth-seeking enterprises are engaged in analogous rational techniques of inquiry. His exploration of the deep connections between science and theology shows with new clarity a common kinship in the search for truth.'   
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Prugovecki (2006), Eduard, Quantum Mechanics in Hilbert Space, Dover 2006 ' A critical presentation of the basic mathematics of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics, this text is suitable for courses in functional analysis at the advanced undergraduate and graduate levels. Its readable and self-contained form is accessible even to students without an extensive mathematical background. Applications of basic theorems to quantum mechanics make it of particular interest to mathematicians working in functional analysis and related areas.This text features the rigorous proofs of all the main functional-analytic statements encountered in books on quantum mechanics. It fills the gap between strictly physics- and mathematics-oriented texts on Hilbert space theory as applied to nonrelativistic quantum mechanics. organised in the form of definitions, theorems, and proofs of theorems, it allows readers to immediately grasp the basic concepts and results. Exercises appear throughout the text, with hints and solutions at the end. 
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Links

Associated Press (2023_12_25), Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny located in Arctic prison 3 weeks after contact with him lost, ' Associates of imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Monday that he has been located at a prison colony above the Arctic Circle nearly three weeks after contact with him was lost. Navalny, the most prominent foe of Russian President Vladimir Putin, is serving a 19-year sentence on charges of extremism. He had been imprisoned in the Vladimir region of central Russia, about 230 kilometers (140 miles) east of Moscow, but his lawyers said they had not been able to reach him since December 6. His spokesperson, Kira Yarmysh, said on X, formerly Twitter, that he was located in a prison colony in the town of Kharp, in the Yamalo-Nenetsk region about 1,900 kilometers (1,200 miles) northeast of Moscow. The region is notorious for long and severe winters; the town is near Vorkuta, whose coal mines were among the harshest of the Soviet Gulag prison-camp system. “It is almost impossible to get to this colony; it is almost impossible to even send letters there. This is the highest possible level of isolation from the world,” Navalny’s chief strategist, Leonid Volkov, said on X. . . . Navalny has been behind bars in Russia since January 2021, when he returned to Moscow after recuperating in Germany from nerve agent poisoning that he blamed on the Kremlin. Before his arrest, he campaigned against official corruption and organized major anti-Kremlin protests. He has since received three prison terms and spent months in isolation in Penal Colony No. 6 for alleged minor infractions. He has rejected all charges against him as politically motivated.' back

Frank Pattyn & Matthieu Morlighem, The uncertain future of the Antarctic Ice Sheet, Abstract: 'The Antarctic Ice Sheet is losing mass at an accelerating pace, and ice loss will likely continue over the coming decades and centuries. Some regions of the ice sheet may reach a tipping point, potentially leading to rates of sea level rise at least an order of magnitude larger than those observed now, owing to strong positive feedbacks in the ice-climate system. How fast and how much Antarctica will contribute to sea level remains uncertain, but multimeter sea level rise is likely for a mean global temperature increase of around 2°C above preindustrial levels on multicentennial time scales, or sooner for unmitigated scenarios.' back

Louis de Broglie (1929), Nobel Lecture: The Wave Nature of the Electron, ' Nevertheless, it was still necessary to adopt the wave theory to account for interference and diffraction phenomena and no way whatsoever of reconciling the wave theory with the existence of light corpuscles could be visualized. The necessity of assuming for light two contradictory theories-that of waves and that of corpuscles - and the inability to understand why, among the infinity of motions which an electron ought to be able to have in the atom according to classical concepts, only certain ones were possible: such were the enigmas confronting physicists at the time I resumed my studies of theoretical physics.Now a purely corpuscular theory does not contain any element permitting the definition of frequency. This also renders it necessary in the case of light to introduce simultaneously the corpuscle concept and the concept of periodicity. On the other hand the determination of the stable motions of the electrons in the atom involves whole numbers, and so far the only phenomena in which whole numbers were involved in physics were those of interference and of eigenvibrations. That suggested the idea to me that electrons themselves could not be represented as simple corpuscles either, but that a periodicity had also to be assigned to them too. In other words the existence of corpuscles accompanied by waves has to be assumed in all cases. However, since corpuscles and waves cannot be independent because, accordingt to Bohr's expression, it must be possible to establish a certain parallelism between the mot They showed clearly that it was possible to establish a correspondence between waves and corpuscles such that the laws of mechanics correspond to the laws of geometrical optics. This prompted the thought that classical mechanics is also only an approximation relative to a vaster wave mechanics. I stated as much almost at the outset of my studies, i.e. "A new mechanics must be developed which is to classical mechanics what wave optics is to geometrical optics". This new mechanics has since been developed, thanks mainly to the fine work done by Schrödinger. I cannot attempt even briefly to sum up here the development of the new mechanics. I merely wish to say that on examination it proved to be identical with a mechanics independently developed, first by Heisenberg, then by Born, Jordan, Pauli, Dirac, etc quantum mechanics. The two mechanics, wave and quantum, are equivalent from the mathematical point of view. Since the wavelength of the electron waves is of the order of that of X-rays, it must be expected that crystals can cause diffraction of these waves completely analogous to the Laue phenomenon Thus to describe the properties of matter as well as those of light, waves and corpuscles have to be referred to at one and the same time. The electron can no longer be conceived as a single, small granule of electricity; it must be associated with a wave and this wave is no myth; its wavelength can be measured and its interferences predicted. It has thus been possible to predict a whole group of phenomena without their actually having been discovered. And it is on this concept of the duality of waves and corpuscles in Nature, expressed in a more or less abstract form, that the whole recent development of theoretical physics has been founded and that all future development of this science will apparently have to be founded' back

No cloning theorem - Wikipedia, No cloning theorem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'The no cloning theorem is a result of quantum mechanics which forbids the creation of identical copies of an arbitrary unknown quantum state. It was stated by Wootters, Zurek, and Dieks in 1982, and has profound implications in quantum computing and related fields.' back

P versus NP problem - Wikipedia, P versus NP problem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, ' The P versus NP problem is a major unsolved problem in computer science. It asks whether every problem whose solution can be quickly verified (technically, verified in polynomial time) can also be solved quickly (again, in polynomial time). The underlying issues were first discussed in the 1950s, in letters from John Forbes Nash Jr. to the National Security Agency, and from Kurt Gödel to John von Neumann. The precise statement of the P versus NP problem was introduced in 1971 by Stephen Cook in his seminal paper " The complexity of theorem proving procedures" and is considered by many to be the most important open problem in the field.' back

Patrick Wintour, Iran says it executed four people it claims engaged in ‘sabotage’ for Israel, ' Iran has announced it has hanged four people it claims were engaged in “sabotage” on behalf of Israel. They were executed in Iran’s north-west province of West Azerbaijan, the judiciary’s Mizan website reported. The three men and one woman had been sentenced to death on charges of “moharebeh”, or “waging war against God”, and “corruption on Earth” through their “collaboration with the Zionist regime”. The group “committed extensive actions against the country’s security under the guidance of Mossad”, Mizan said. The three men were identified as Vafa Hanareh, Aram Omari and Rahman Parhazo. The one woman was named as Nasim Namazi. back

Promised Land - Wikipedia, Promised Land - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, ' The Promised Land (Hebrew: הארץ המובטחת‎, translit.: ha'aretz hamuvtakhat; Arabic: أرض الميعاد, translit.: ard al-mi'ad; also known as "The Land of Milk and Honey") is Middle Eastern land that Abrahamic religions (which include Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and others) claim their God promised and subsequently gave to Abraham (the legendary patriarch in Abrahamic religions) and several more times to his descendants. It evokes the concepts of a homeland for the Jewish people and salvation and liberation in modern contexts. The Abrahamic God is claimed to have spoken the following promises to Abraham in several verses of Genesis (the first book of the Torah), which a modern English Bible translates to: The LORD had said to Abram, "Leave your country, your people and your father's household and go to the land I will show you." – Genesis 12:1 The LORD appeared to Abram and said, "To your offspring [or seed] I will give this land." – Genesis 12:7 Later in what is called the covenant of the pieces, a verse is said to describe what are known as "borders of the Land" (Gevulot Ha-aretz): On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram and said, "To your descendants I give this land, from the Wadi of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates – the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites." – Genesis 15:18–21' back

Quantum chromodynamics - Wikipedia, Quantum chromodynamics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, ' In theoretical physics, quantum chromodynamics (QCD) is the theory of the strong interaction between quarks and gluons, the fundamental particles that make up composite hadrons such as the proton, neutron and pion. QCD is a type of quantum field theory called a non-abelian gauge theory, with symmetry group SU(3). The QCD analog of electric charge is a property called color. Gluons are the force carrier of the theory, like photons are for the electromagnetic force in quantum electrodynamics.' back

Shield of the Trinity - Wikipedia, Shield of the Trinity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'The Shield of the Trinity or Scutum Fidei is a traditional Christian visual symbol which expresses many aspects of the doctrine of the Trinity, summarizing the first part of the Athanasian Creed in a compact diagram. In late medieval England and France, this emblem was considered to be the heraldic arms of God (and of the Trinity).' back

Unitarity (physics) - Wikipedia, Unitarity (physics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, ' In quantum physics, unitarity means that the sum of probabilities of all possible outcome of any event is always 1. This is necessary for the theory to be consistent. This implies that the operator which describes the progress of a physical system in time must be a unitary operator. This operator is e iHt where H is the Hamiltonian of the system and t is [an increasing number, not necessarily time since we are in Hilbert space where there is no space-time].' back

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