Notes DB 90: Psychogenesis_2024
Sunday 31 December 2023 - Saturday 6 January r 2024
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Sunday 31 December 2023
The cosmological constant problem: the axiom garbage in garbage out may prove that if garbage comes out garbage has gone in, and so some of the field theoretical ideas that cause the cosmological constant problem must be garbage. Cosmological constant problem - Wikipedia
Is Dirac's equation right? He started with the energy momentum Schrödinger equation and took the square root of the momentum operator [to make it compatible with relativity] eliminating the cross terms with the gamma matrices, but did this really produce an equation in Hilbert space as the pure energy/time version of the Schrödinger equation is? True, it gave the right answer for the hydrogen atom, or can we do a better job by making the Schrödinger equation a pure kinematic energy / time equation with a Hamiltonian matrix in Hilbert space without reference to Minkowski space and then apply the Lorentz transformation to the resulting eigenvalues?
The connection between spin and behaviour is modelled by the spin statistics theorem in quantum field theory. This theorem works from the Minkowski metric to spin, but if we assume quantum mechanics is prior to Minkowski space, as we do on this site, maybe the line of argument goes the other way, ie the differences in spin are the cause of the Minkowski metric, particularly the most salient feature, the null geodesic which enables quantum states to be carried through spacetime, as we see with
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the cosmic background radiation. The argument here is similar to the argument in the case of gravitation. Initially gravitation is like the divinity totally without structure, and having nothing to do with energy. Cosmic microwave background - Wikipedia
Then, because the gravitational divine initial singularity (identical to the classical singularity proposes by Hawking and Ellis) is convex, compact [and] continuous fixed point theorems arise, creating a complex algebraically complete Hilbert basis state which enables the evolution of quantum mechanics which splits gravitation into potential and kinetic energy (page 26 principle 2: Zero sum complexification), the source of the particles that now fill our space.
This sequence suggests that the particles and quantum mechanics have a role in the creation of Minkowski space which then has a role in creating the structure of general relativity, Minkowski space acting as the tangent surface controlling the implicit structure of gravitation. So why does quantum mechanics split particles into fermion and boson? We may guess that the answer lies in the logical rather than the dynamic role of the quantum of action, and what we see is that there is an evolutionary benefit in creating a system with two degrees of freedom, that is something like the Pauli matrices arrived before the gramma matrices that Dirac introduced for his equation. In other words, we are saying that the boson/fermion divide is another example of the gratuitous application
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of the zero-sum complexification that gave us potential and kinetic energy ( a situation that arises at random proves its worth and becomes established. Spin (physics) - Wikipedia
Now we just have to explain how the metric of Minkowski space was derived from this and the obvious answer is first that if we want to have lots of particles, we have to have fermions that [avoid one another] in space, but on the other hand if these particles are going to talk to one another we need null geodesics too.
This is a consequence [of the assumption] that Hilbert spaces are to be found inside all particles, which have arisen by multiplication of the initial singularirty and if the Universe is to remain one all these Hilbert spaces have to be able to talk to each other using the intergalactic phone line, the null geodesic.
All this looks fantastic (phantastic), have a snooze on it and then we will be able to . . .
Monday 1 January 2024
Scientific physicists are bound to take the data as they find it and provide explanationas of what they see. I am being a bit more poetic and taking a God's eye / theological view of how I would create myself because I am [part of] the content of the Universe that started as an omnipotent empty mind like a
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Hilbert type formal mathematician trying to invent mathematics on the basis of something like the symbolic system used by Whitehead and Russell. The difference is that their published work is purely kinematic created by their dynamic minds but my effort is starting from the dynamics that define my omnipotence which I currently place in the abstract concept of gravitation developing within itself, as an example of the empty set [and] the abstract concepts of Hilbert space and quantum mechanics which [are] in effect the meeting of Cantor's multidimensional ordered sets with Fourier's transformations. Whitehead and Russell (1910): Principia Mathematica, Cantor (1897, 1955): Contributions to the Founding of the Theory of Transfinite Numbers, Fourier transform - Wikipedia
I have spent much of my life out on a limb and as I get older I wonder if I have been wise; but what I have written on the web and in these diaries convinces me that maybe some day my ideas will have an effect despite my tiny current impact. I am very happy with my overall understanding of quantum mechanics as the theory of conversation between particles acting in concert with the silent omnipotence of the deity we experience as gravitation.
Quantum mechanics, like network's and Cantor's theorem are all scale invariant and support symmetry with respect to complexity.
Having fled from the Christian God I am slowly sliding back to them via the initial singularity that follows
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from Einstein's general relativity. I am writing a new story of the big bang. At the beginning of my 'toward natural religion project' I rejected the Christian idea of God and proposed that the Universe itself is divine. The project has hummed along for 60 years and I have sought all the evidence I can find to differentiate the world from the Christian God while at the same time trying to build my new picture on the scientific work of Aristotle and Aquinas who seem to me to have grasped the substantial truth of a divinity shorn of ancient mythology. Hawking & Ellis (1975)L The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time
In the last few months, the end of 2023, I have reached a new vision of God and the initial singularity within which the Universe has grown and have come to identify God with gravitation. All along the way I have been feeling that the quantum theory is the true path to the heart of God and have been rather sceptical of Hawking and Ellis's work showing that the initial singularity from which the world grew is a consequence of Einstein's classical theory of general relativity. Because it is classical, I felt that it fell outside my quantum mechanical project and set out to design a quantum initial singularity based on the Christian doctrine of the Trinity developed by Augustine and Aquinas. Aquinas, Summa, I, 27, 1: Is there procession in God?
In the last few days I have not been so
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happy with this idea but it has led me to a startling conclusion – that out experience of gravitation is experience of God. The turning point that led me to this conclusion is page 17: Gravitation and quantum theory—in the beginning; so now am on a new trajectory, developing quantum theory inside the initial singularity which I take to be a manifestation of god. Now, beginning with page 18: Fixed points I can restate all that it have said in the beginning in this new light. The story is not much changed. The first step in the emergence of the Universe within the divinity remains the development of kinematic Hilbert space and quantum theory and the contribution of divine gravitation in turning this kinema into reality.
Perhaps we can say Part I: cognitive cosmlogy; Part II: cognitive cosmogensis. Part I: kinematic; Part II: dynamic. Once again the most exciting thing in my life that lifts me out of despair is insight. The theological problem: the ignorance of god solved by kinema; the omnipotence of god: making the movie come true [see page 5: God's ideas, cybernetics and singularity]
Kinematic realities are monoid so they have no constraints. Dynamics on the other hand are dual [diploid] like quantum measurement and so are constrained by their partners.
Tuesday 2 January 2024
Fixed point theory has enabled me to come in off my distant limb
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toward the mainstream big bang trunk by identifying the structureless gravitational singularity with my idea of a quantum initial singularity so that now am closer to the big bag with an evolutionary picture of the origin and the consequences of quantum field theory and the answer to Einstein's dilemma detailed in his Herbert Spencer lecture. A good start to the year. I have pondered for a while why Einstein did not think of fixed point theory when he tried to make a theory if everything with continuous groups. I think my new insight may preserve most of the entries in my list of principles. The notion that we can eliminate all the difficulties in quantum field theory by thinking of the universe as cognitive and logical remains in place as does the notion implicit in the idea that both networks and quantum theory are scale invariant models of communication, love and bonding. The evolutionary approach provides an argument against Lonergan's idea of empirical residue and the heuristic of simplicity removes his distinction between proportionate and transcendental being and knowledge so my basket of eggs remains unbroken and my campaign for the unification of physics and theology seems to take a leap forward for 2024, which makes me feel that much younger, no longer oppressed by ancient evils and rising toward a new heaven. New Year's dawn fireworks. Albert Einstein (1933): On the Method of Theoretical Physics: Herbert Spencer Lecture 1933, Bernard Lonergan (1992): Insight: A Study of Human Understanding[page 93]
Every quantum 'observation' is in effect a person to person negotiation to find a stable eigenfunction and eigenvalue at all scales.
I suppose that every effort to develop something new depends on criticism of the old, so the emotional impact of my dismissal from the Dominicans when I thought I was trying to help the cause of theology has lingered in the background of my theological efforts, strongly supported by my conviction that so much of Catholicism is simply an imperial political ploy by the priest class to consolidate their wealth and influence in the world. I was vaguely conscious at the time that my carefree and well fed life in the monastery was being supported by the faithful deluded by the "truth" (Veritas) being preached by the Order.
We can imagine the universal Hilbert space as a large collection of subspaces beginning with qubits and gradually being assembled with the help of Minkowski space and the real dynamic particles [with their own Hilbert spaces 'inside' them] communicating with one another through null geodesics to create a connected space for the whole Universe. This is [to be] the burden of page 24: Transfinite Minkowski space.
Wednesday 3 January 2024
Thursday 4 January 2024
The Trumpish wing of my psychology tries to portray me as a victim of the Catholic Church on grounds of mental abuse, but although a lot of what they taught me was and is complete rubbish they were all sincere believers and could not know any better after thousands of years of indoctrination. Instead they gave me, as history gave Copernicus, an incentive to explore new realms of realty which have given me an exciting intellectual life. [This] has led me to much good feeling and new insight which I hope to profit from in the final years of my life. The flow of insight has never really abated so the time it has taken me to reach my current position is a measure of the distance between the old and new theologies, almost 10 000 years of
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history. And so often I imagine that I am carrying a precious cargo which I am gradually learning how to unload. Whatever happens, I an feeling good about my fate.
Given the success of cc18_fixed_points and the replacement of general covariance by conversational particles the process of establishing a linguistic interpretation of quantum mechanics can now proceed in the direction of quantum chromodynamics.
Friday 5 January 2024
page 18: Fixed points, laws and symmetries. I have worked my way from general covariance in gravitation to fixed points in quantum mechanics, taking the view that the particles in the Universe observe each other as cognitive entities. The view taken by Einstein of gravitation treats it as a closed, convex continuous space describable as a differential manifold using absolute differential calculus, ie tensor analysis, which ignores reference frames and honours Einstein's version of general covariance. Von Neumann's operator description of quantum mechanics has a similar property, isolating the interactions between the Hilbert spaces of particles from any connection to reference frames. This point needs to be made at the end of cc18. The states of the particles interacting are given. The Hilbert basis in which this is effective must be covariant.[page 96]
Einstein in Alice Calaprice (ed) page 148: I maintain that the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest motive for scientific research. Alice Calaprice (2005): The New Quotable Einstein
' It is very difficult to elucidate the [cosmic religious] feeling to anyone who is entirely without it. . . . the religious geniuses of all ages have been distinguished by this kind of religious feeling which knows no dogma and no God conceived in man's image; so that there can be no church whose central teachings are based on it. . . . In my view it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are receptive to it.' [On "cosmic religion" a worship of the beauties and harmony of physics that become the common faith of physicists.] Professor Albert Einstein (1930_11_09): Religion and Science
Saturday 6 January 2024
What am I? An island in the sun, alone in a wide wide sea, self sufficient and divine, bearing the seed of a new theology and a human understanding of quantum mechanics slowly converging on completeness and the salvation of the world. This has been necessary because none of the old religions are attuned to reality. This has been my life's work but I have yet to find a collaborator so I have bowed to necessity and tried to do it all myself, which seems to me to be my primary characteristic. I
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look forward with anticipation to laying down my load and enjoying my peace. Meanwhile my image is infinite reduction and infinite traction so I am unstoppable. Someone has to do it. I am hoping that this assumption of invincibility will carry me to my goal, faith and hope leading to a significant act of charity. Meanwhile I sail through life without making a ripple. My greatest strength is forever thinking that ultimately I am going to get somewhere, although I am becoming more and more conscious of leaving my run very late. On the other hand I feel that my messy life has been a cumulative endeavour distilling a theology from 60 years of reflected experience, often moving on a and leaving a lot [of things and people] behind.
Stillness has a selective advantage in a moving world as I may claim since I have had the same theological hypothesis, that the Universe is divine, since about 1965 when I first read Lonergan's Insight. The same goes for hermitian operators in kinematic Hilbert space inside and driven by a dynamic particles like the initial singularity and all its children. How do these children define Minkowski space? Because Maxwell's equations describes a qubit.
The big mistake in the cosmological constant problem is the belief that the possibilities implicit in Hilbert space and quantum theory are supposed to go immediately from kinematic to dynamic without
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the intervention of quantum fixed points and gravitational potential. We could have said this back on page 19 but now it can go in page 20 as part of the quality control system in evolution that guarantees consistency through the action of the Hermitean operators and gravitational potential. This observation in effect uses the cosmological constant problem to prove my view of the creation of particles and perhaps Minkowski space with the intervention of quantum theory adds structure to gravitation and the Universe.
cc20_memory. My habit is to dream up titles and then try to write something to them. In this case I am looking for a memory to play the role in the evolution of elementary particles analogous to the role of the genome in biology. These memories must be 'eternal' massless bosons and massive fermions and that is all there is to say unless we get into some calculation and more details of the quantum origin of Minkowski space.
Bohr, Father of the atom (Pais 132). Jeffrey, father of god. Einstein page 167: ' The state of mind which enables one to do the work of this kind . . . is akin to that of a religious worshipper or a lover, the daily effort comes from no deliberate intention but straight from the heart'. I have rarely been a worshipper or a lover. [All my time in the monastery was make believe and the only one I loved was one of the inaccessible brethren].
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Logical constraint works on the ground state of the atom and in fact on all the constraints on atomic orbital structure, which we take as evidence that the quantum of action is a logical operator.
