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Notes DB 90: Psychogenesis_2024

Sunday 14 January 2024 - Saturday 20 January 2024

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Sunday 14 January 2024

Hilbert space is ideal for the description of cognitive and logical matters such as information theory and so has the power to explain space-time but is completely independent of space and time, as I have explained on page 13: Is Hilbert space independent of Minkowski space?

Monday 15 January 2024

Melbourne - Adelaide

cc23_network_QED: The Minkowski network takes care of all the Feynman diagrams which exchange momentum with inputs and outputs. What it may not touch are the internal loops. The big question is what is the logical and computational equivalent of momentum here. In classical terms it is simply a number with the dimensions MLT-1. This is a difficult point in the whole cognitive story. We have to get the quantum equation E = hf which converts from the angular momentum intrinsic to the quantum of action to energy. We use wavelength to transform from action to momentum p = ℏ/λ, so we are basically using temporal and spatial processing rates to transform from quantum to classical. Energy and momentum modulate the rate of communication [or vice versa].

In cc23_network_QED we wish to explore the idea that the Universe must be a wilderness insofar as it started with no previous structure and so it fulfils the whole space of

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possibility and may therefore be maximally peaceful and maximally interesting. The basis of omnipotence gives no control of the world. The evolutionary paradigm demands that the lower layers be stable before the higher layers are built so that the system can fail back to basic as with the black holes where unquantized gravitation, because it is unlimited, can destroy structure. So maybe the notion that the Universe starts as naked gravitation is a failure since we are beginning with a black hole. In a way my plan is to bootstrap a time reversed black hole into a Universe via quantum mechanics which develops mass or perhaps energy which can ultimately destroy itself. But why does this not provide a route for the evolution of black holes into new universes inside their event horizons? Here we are in a sea of troubles, but they are fun. The basic idea is to build the idea of wilderness into a stable Universe. Perhaps black holes have a creative role of some sort, acting as the gravitational centres of galaxies in a scale invariant image of the initial singularity seen as a 'black hole' being the source of the Universe.

Wilderness and the time reversed black hole. What distinguishes my story from Hawking and Ellis? Perhaps the fact that the initial singularity begins as an omnipotent quantum of action, the true power of omnipotence is its ability to reproduce and develop complexity via the no-cloning theorem, up to 0 and then on to 1 . . . via transfinite Minkowski.

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4D spacetime is analogous to three phase power transmission [one time, 3 orthogonal phases].

A week in Melbourne to wonder if I am getting anywhere. Outcome - maybe. Coming to the end of cognitive cosmogenesis and getting some light. We begin with the eternal structureless initial singularity; identify it with omnipotence and naked gravitation. Introduce time in the form of orthogonal clocks, Hilbert space. Introduce quantum mechanics which introduces stationary points by superposing clocks. This is how mind works, as we see in the superpositions in our brains, an unlimited system of superposition developed in babyhood, pruned through adolescence, connected to sensors and muscle [getting feedback from external reality]. In the time reversed black hole, the quanta of action multiply and differentiate, becoming real by the bifurcation of gravitation via potential and kinetic energy and spacetime, keeping the symmetry of the omnipotent eternal singularity intact but building concentrations of particles and energy sufficient to ignite thermonuclear reactions and create heavy elements, supernovas and black holes. But it does not seem possible to time reverse a black hole according to Hawking. This seems reasonable given the inevitable increase in entropy and the predicted heat death of the Universe. Synaptic pruning - Wikipedia, Hawking radiation - Wikipedia

The main issue with this work is political and the book should advocate for the new god which is just the old god responsible for all the good bits in the current religions.

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Religion is intimately connected with politics and most wars are at root religious because religion and theology are basically matters of life and death. I say this again and again. Reynolds & Tanner (1983): The Biology of Religion, Reynolds & Tanner (1995): The Social Ecology of Religion

The problem is that religion and theology have been politicized by the theocracies whose standard claim is that they have been established by and speak for god. Only a religion that speaks for all the people and the whole Universe is speakng for god if the Universe is divine. On this basis true religion and theology are democratic and green. Theocracy - Wikipedia

We seek a broad scale interface between mind and matter, since both work by superposition.

Tuesday 16 January 2024
Wednesday 17 January 2024

cc23_network_QED continued

cc24_trans_minkowski. Backup singers and the principal artist, SBS 20 feet from stardom. Music and religion. What we want to do on this page is introduce the Turing Vacuum, replaces the QFT vacuum with something computable and structured. 20 Feet from Stardom - Wikipedia

I want to be the theological liberation front. The political angle which I wanted to

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paint with a stroke of my personal genius, not so smart, but convinced. I have the last few pages of cognitive cosmology to get together. Keep the gift alive. What have I discovered? The trip from Hilbert space to Turing computation via the Fourier transform. Quantum mechanics is not infinite, it is quantized and countable. I am a background singer. Poor Things Poor Things - Wikipedia

Thursday 18 January 2024

What is the role of the vacuum in QFT? Read Zee with a view to replacing it with no-cloning and the Turing "vacuum" [quantum computational vacuum]. Anthony Zee (2010): Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell

I am gradually learning to go all the way with the distinction between Hilbert and Minkowski, modelling the distinction between mind and body, spirit and matter, kinematic and dynamic, based on the logical consistency, honoured by evolution, of fixed point theory producing new fixed points for every mapping of a suitably continuous set onto itself on the grounds of try everything possible constrained by no-cloning. This is the kinematic / dynamic bootstrap by which the world (and the interplay between entrepreneurs and capitalists) plays out.

The basis of this plan is the assumption that quantum computation is at least as powerful as Turing

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computation, if not more so. The advocates of quantum computation claim that it is more powerful that Turing because it is an analogue process with the power of the continuum rather than a digital process with the power of the natural numbers. The transfinite Minkowski postulate increases the power of the quantum computation to the power of the continuum

Reading Weinberg opens up a whole new world to me. In Quantum theory of Fields vol 1 (1995) he writes: 'quantum field theory is the way it is because it is the only way to reconcile the principles of quantum mechanics (including the cluster decomposition property) with those of special relativity . . . It is therefore important to understand the rationale for quantum field theory in terms of the principles of relativity and quantum mechanics.' Steven Weinberg (1995): The Quantum Theory of Fields Volume I: Foundations, page xxi

Cluster decomposition: distant places are independent. What about entanglement? What about null geodesics? Cluster decomposition - Wikipedia

cc24 is a critique of Weinberg based on Hilbert mind and Minkowski matter + particle = decomposed cluster with the ability to communicate with all other clusters.

Weinberg page 1: ' I have tried in this book to present the theory of fields in a logical manner emphasizing the definitive trail that ascends from the physical ptrnciples of relativity and quantum mechanics.'

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My greatest pleasure in writing a critique of Weinberg would be to find that I am on the right track. Perhaps a forlorn hope, but I must have faith in myself.

Particle interactions at all scales change the internal Hilbert states of the particles (internal = associated). De Broglie: Hilbert wave keeps up with the physical particles. Very similar to human interactions, distinguishing internal kinetic (self driven) from dynamic (externally driven) [wave - Hilbert, particle - Minkowski]. Louis de Broglie (1923): Radiation: Waves and Quanta

Weinberg Nobel: 'Symmetry principles made their appearance in twentieth century physics in 1905 with Einstein's identification of the invariance group of space and time' (page 543). Steven Weinberg (1979): Nobel Lecture: Conceptual Foundations of the Unified Theory of Weak and Electromagnetic Interactions

Weinberg page 544: ' It has been recognized in the 1920s that quantum electrodynamics has another symmetry of a far more powerful kind, a "local" symmetry under transformations in which the electron field suffers a phase change that can vary freely from point to point in space-time, and the electromagnetic vector potential undergoes a corresponding gauge transformation.'

Chen Ning Yang: gauge invariance = phase invariance; gauge fields = phase fields. Auyang page 44. Sunny Auyang (1995): How is Quantum Field Theory Possible?

Yang Mills 1954 SU(2)

Goldstone boson associated with breakdown of isospin symmetry,

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Friday 19 January 2024

Cognitive Cosmogenesis: Introduction. The purpose of this book is to complete the work begun in 1905 by Albert Einstein by drawing its theological conclusions. As Steven Weinberg notes in his Nobel Lecture: 'Symmetry principles made their appearance in twentieth century physics in 1905 with Einstein's identification of the invariance group of space and time' (page 543). What this means is that the true measure of distance in our Univerese is the Minkowski metric which combines space and time in such a way that the spacetime interval ds2 = dx2 + dy2 + dz2c2dt2. The most remarkable feature of this metric is that it shows that from the point of view of an observer a massless particle like a photon always travels at the speed of light following a null geodesic whose length is zero. The Earth of bathed in cosmic background radiation which has travelled 14 billion light years carrying information from the birth of the Universe. Minkowski space - Wikipedia

This enables us to understand its overall structure with the help of Einstein's second discovery: the cosmic invariance group which embraces the whole Universe, known as general relativity, or more accurately, general invariance. A remarkable consequence of general invariance is that an entity in free fall does not feel its own weight. Isaac Newton

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described the dynamics of the solar system with 4 laws: a body in motion continues to move in a straight line unless it is acted on by a force. This is called inertial motion, Second, the acceleration impressed by a force on a massive body is inversely proportional to its mass, in symbols a = F/m. Third, every force is met by an equal and opposite force; and fourth, his law of universal gravitation: the attraction between two massive bodies m and M is proportionate to the product of their masses divided by the square of the distance between them: F = GMm / r2. General relativity - Wikipedia

He used these laws to explain the orbit of the Moon. The centrifugal force generated by the Moon's curved orbit around Earth is opposed by the gravitational attraction between the Earth and the Moon. General invariance changed this. The Moon is in free fall in a circular orbit, but like an astronaut, it is weightless. The path it follows, called a geodesic is the path of inertial motion resulting from the curvature of spacetime caused by the mass of the Earth. It is a consequence of special invariance that mass and energy are equivalent, in symbols m = E/c2. Gravitation shapes spacetime in proportion to the amount of energy present.

Here we make our first contact between physics and theology. Einstein's general theory is quite complex and took a long time to be understood, but by the 1970s Penrose, Hawking and Ellis realized that very large concentrations of energy could destroy space-time structure

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to create black holes, singularities that are in effect outside spacetime in a way analogous to the way that the paths of photons are outside spacetime. They proposed that the Universe began as such a singularity, the initial singularity. This idea became the foundation of the big bang theory of the origin of the Universe, The point here is that the initial singularity is identical to the model of God developed by the medieval theologian Thomas Aquinas. Like the initial singularity the initial symmetry is eternal, outside time and space, structureless, and since it is the source of the Universe, omnipotent. All this story so far is part of classical physics and classical theology. It is historically half the story of our divine world. The other half is electric [and introduces quantum mechanics]. Hawking & Ellis (1975): The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time

The ancients were aware of magnetism, a property of certain samples of iron ore (direction stones or lodestones), and static electricity, the sparks that occur in dry weather when hair is brushed or certain fabrics rubbed. They may have connected these parks with lightning, gigantic sparks that cross the sky and heat the air, creating the crack and rumble of thunder. Eventually people began to study electricity and magnetism in detail. At first they only had access to static electricity that arose form friction but at the beginning of the nineteenth century Volta invented a chemical battery and electric current became available for research. Electric battery - Wikipedia

Michael Faraday described the relationships between electricity and chemistry and

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between electric current and magnetism and put us on the path to [electroplating,] electric motors and generators. Maxwell expressed the relationship between electric current, magnetism and the speed of light [in an equation], leading to the discovery that light is an electromagnetic phenomenon. Einstein was led to special invariance by realizing that Maxwell's equation demanded that everyone see the same speed of light regardless of their inertial motion. Newton had discovered that a prism breaks white light into a rainbow of colours and spectroscopists [with spectroscopes] began to see the characteristic colours associated with each of the elements. Michael Faraday - Wikipedia

Hot bodies emit light and Kirchoff deduced, in the 1860s, that there must be a fixed relationship between the temperature of a black body and the spectrum of the light that it emitted. In 1900 Max Planck expressed this relationship in an equation that marks the birth of quantum mechanics. Black-body radiation - Wikipedia, Planck's Law - Wikipedia

Einstein and Newton used continuous mathematics for their work. Now it seemed that the word was no longer continuous but a play of discrete events, extraordinarily small quanta of action. Mathematical physics was so closely attached to the idea that the world is continuous that it is still having trouble with quantum mechanics. A new view of the world is needed. We have to get closer to God. The quantum mechanical revolution in physics is forcing a conceptual revolution in theology.

Historically the standard Christian model of God began at the interface between the ancient Greek Philosopher Plato and his student and colleague Aristotle. Plato was impressed by the work of Parmenides who argues (using a goddess as his spokesperson) that we could only have knowledge of the world if it has an eternal, invariant perfect heart. In this he was rather like Einstein. Plato was also influenced by Socrates who seemed to think that we are born with unconscious knowledge which can be brought to the surface by astute questioning. The result was Plato's theory of forms: all information about the world is contained in a heaven of invisible forms. These forms not only shape the physical world, rather imperfectly, but they are the source of the Socratic knowledge that we possess at birth. One by-product of Parmenides theory is that motion is an illusion. Zeno produced a number of subtle arguments to prove this contention. Theory of Forms - Wikipedia

Aristotle took a more scientific view of the world and accepted the reality of motion and set out to reconcile this with Plato's forms. the result was his theory called hylemorphism or matter-formism. The forms do not change, but change occursd when a material acquires a new form, the bronze sword being cast into a ploughshare. Aristotle extended this idea to psychology, the sense being able to accept new forms. To do this they need to be symmetrical or unbiased with respect to different sensations. our eyes would not be able t=see all colours if they were intrinsically coloured. He appears to have extended this idea to intellect. We cannot understand all material things if our minds are material, They must be immaterial, separate from matter. Hylomorphism - Wikipedia, Christopher Shields 1996: The Active Mind of De Anima III 5

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This idea, and Plato's theory of forms later entered Christianity as the idea that our souls are spiritual and therefore eternal because they have no parts and therefore cannot come apart and die.

Plato's forms and Descartes' clear and distinct ideas served in a way to quantize knowledge. Everything we see and feel is a discrete object, a tree or a grain of sand. This observation no doubt influenced Democritus's atomic theory and the quantum of action is the new atom, not so much a thing as an action, discrete nevertheless, like a kick, a goal or a fall. Practical telecommunications like the telegraph and the internet were greatly facilitated by Shannon's mathematical theory of communication. Shannon showed that we can defeat errors in communication by coding messages into packages so far apart in communication space that they are unlikely to be confused. As Descartes had noticed, clarity and distinctness are necessary features of communication and may explain why the Universe is quantized. Claude Shannon (1949): Communication in the Presence of Noise

The traditional god is said to be omniscient. This is a consequence of the ancient idea mentioned above that immateriality if prerequisite for intellect. The theory of communicatrion invalidates this idea because material symbols, like the letters in this text, are required to represent information. A perfectly simple featureless God or an equivalent initial singularity have no means to represent

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information. The traditional story if creation imagines that the omnipotent divinity created the world according to a preexisting set of ideas like Plato's forms, but this cannot be. Instead we must imagine the Universe emerging within an eternal omnipotent entity with no prior knowledge. A tall order, but one that can be met with quantum theory and evolution. The step here is analogous to Einstein's elimination of Newton's force from the structure of the Universe.

Darwin's theory of evolution is possibly the simplest and most powerful theory ever developed—it explains almost everything. Darwin knew nothing about genes, but he did know, from the experience of all the farmers around him, that creatures breed approximately true but there are variations between parents and offspring that can be used by selective breeding to move species in particular directions, like the colour of flowers of the fineness of sheeps wool. His experience in the Galapagos Islands taught him that what began as one species of birds distributed through the islands gradually became differentiated into different forms to suit the different environments of the islands. Here the environment is selecting successful progeny, not the farmers. Darwin (1859, 2001): On the Origin of Species: A Facsimile of the First Edition

Here we come back to Aristotle, forms, ideas, intellect and genetics. Every living creature carries two copies of itself. One is a formal genetic representation. The other is the living physical reality.

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Aristotle extended his idea of matter and form to a theory of possibility and realization. Matter is possibility. We can cast bronze into any number of shapes. Form determines matter to be a specific thing, sword or ploughshare. He devised an abstract system of causality to explain reality. The material cause is what things are made of. The formal cause makes things what they are. The efficient cause is the agent which unites matter and form. The final cause as the motivation, like pleasure or money, that makes the agent act. Within this scheme he proposed an axiom: no potency can actualize itself. To make the world go, he postulated a first unmoved mover, an entity of pure actuality which is the source of all motion, eternal, omnipotent and divine. Aquinas took over Aristotle's unmoved mover to be his God. Plato's forms are passive. The unmoved mover was necessary to implement change by empowering the agents to make new things by moving the forms. This is the Aristotelian source of the initial singularity. Unmoved mover - Wikipedia

The most fundamental agent in the Universe is gravitation which we identify with the initial singularity. We call this state naked gravitation because it is not yet equipped with the Minkowski metric which is the special invariant foundation of Einstein's general invariance. It is, however real, eternal and omnipotent, not just the initial singularity but the initial

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symmetry of the Universe. It is not yet equipped with the Minkowski metric which is the foundation of Einstein's general theory of relativity.

The first structure to appear in the initial singularity is Hilbert space, the space of quantum mechanics described axiomatically by John von Neumann. This space, like Plato's forms, is passive, kinematic, like a puppet. It is moved by the dynamic initial singularity which we may thin of as the first quantum of action. We may think of this arrangement as a combination of body and mind. The initial singularity is the body moving the mind to action as my body (brain) moves my mind (imagination). This universal imagination works like quantum mechanics, seeking clear and distinct ideas out of the complex variety of states represented by the Hilbert space. The identification of a quantum mechanical mind in the body of naked gravitation is the reason for calling this theory cognitive cosmogenesis. It is the process of mind creating the Universe as my mind motivates me to create things like this writing. Quantum mechanics works by superposition in the same way as the human mind works, neurons having signals from other neurons superposed upon them through their synapses. John von Neumann (2014): Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, Superposition principle - Wikipedia

In the evolutionary picture, the kinematic motion of the Hilbert space serves, like the genetic variation in living creatures, to provide the variety from which the natural selection chooses the creatures that come to be. The stationary points developed by quantum mechanics serve to split the structureless initial singularity into potential and kinetic energy.

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These two forms of energy add up to zero, but now we have within the initial singularity a real physical particle which has been given kinetic energy derived from the negative potential energy of gravitation. Like God the Father in the Trinity, the initial singularity has created a child identical to itself but distinct with the same creative power as its parent. Unlike the Christian Trinity which is limited to three divine persons, however, this process of creating new actions or sources has no limit, creating our enormous Universe out if the smallest possible entity, the quantum of action.

Thus narrative gives us new way to look at physics and theology:

1. First, gravitation itself in not quantized. The initial singularity is a continuous topological space described by the differentiable manifold which Einstein used to develop general relativity. It provides the necessary conditions for the operation of the fixed point theorems that create Hilbert space and quantum mechanics.

[Aside from text of Cognitive cosmogenesis Introduction]

[All the measurements in quantum theory are measurements of the rate if implementation of software encoded as particles.] Each calculation is built around a structure ie a particle interaction which is the logical process executed by quantum computation.

Weinberg page 547: 'In particular I was inspired

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by the fact that quantum electrodynamics could in a sense be derived from symmetry principles and the constraint of renormalizability; the only Lorentz invariant and gayge invariant Lagrangian for protons and electrons is precisely the original Dirac Lagrangian of QED. . . . I am more convinced than ever thst the use of renormalizability as a constraint ob our theorieds of the observerved interactions is a good strategy . . . important problem, of how to amek a renormalizable theory of weak interactions.'

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2. Hilbert space plays the invisible role of mind and consciousness guiding the visible role of body and action. The mind is the realm of kinematic computation driven by the dynamic body. As in the de Broglie picture, the waves guide the particles. Both quantum mechanics and the human mind work like waves in water, by superposition. Every particle is associated with a quantum mechanical mind, it is a person or source, able to carry, send and receive messages.

3. The scenario outlined above solves the problems raised by Kuhlman in two steps. Kuhlman's conclusion reads: (Abstract)

In conclusion one has to recall that one reason why the ontological interpretation of [Quantum Field Theory] is so difficult is the fact that it is exceptionally unclear which parts of the formalism should be taken to represent anything physical in the first place. And it looks as if that problem will persist for quite some time. Meinard Kuhlmann (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy): Quantum Field Theory

The answer is clear: the old distinction between kinematic mind and dynamic body mediated by the bifurcation of gravitation [Quantum mechanics in Hilbert space plays the role of mind, identifying fixed points; the dynamic potential of gravitation yields the energy necessary to make these fixed points real

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Saturday 20 January 2024

I am living in fantasyland again. My notion that particle interactions are like human interactions fail when we imagine the creation and annihilation of particles (people) that occurs in quantum field theory. How do we fix that? [but it succeeds if we modify our time scale to include the birth and death of individuals]. Basically I am talking about how people interact and the particles are the [physical] messages and responses they we to one another. We need to bring in something like social fields that create and annihilate social behaviour. Back to the drawing board, ie Weinberg volume 1. Steven Weinberg (1995): The Quantum Theory of Fields Volume I: Foundations

The question is how do we build out the simple story of creation developed in cognitive cosmogenesis into [an analogue of] quantum field theory. This has to be an interplay between Hilbert and Minkowski covering creation annihilation and bonding. This is the subject of cc24_trans_minkowski.

Born in van der Waerden page 20: 'each physical quantity depends on two stationary states, not one orbit as in classical mechanics.' Bartel Leendert van der Waerden (1967): Sources of Quantum Mechanics

Heinseberg on Bohr page 22: ' that [Bohr's] insight into the structure of the theory was not the result of a mathematical analysis of the basic assumptions, but rather an intense occupation with the actual phenomena such that it was possible for him to sense the relationships intuitively rather than derive them formally. This I understood. Knowledge of nature was primarily obtained in this way

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and only as a next step can one succeed in fixing one's knowledge in mathematical form and subjecting it to complete rational analysis. Bohr was primarily a philosopher, not a physicist, but he understood that natural philosophy in our day and age carried weight only if its every detail can be subjected to the inexorable test of experiment. (1922, before Helgoland). Carlo Rovelli (2021): Helgoland

It is in a way contrary to my logical plan to find that all applications of quantum field theory are basically built around calculus where I would like to see them built around logic. How do I move from Arithmetic to software? Maybe it is time to start coding: learn Python as I learnt Basic. Centre for computing history

The frequencies and energies revealed in quantum mechanics are the time rates at which logical quanta of action are being executed, and this connects logical structures to classical numbers.

A wonderful time of panic when I realize that everything is wrong, or it looks like that. So I must read Weinberg and Zee before I can go on. So much for finishing cognitive cosmology this month, but it is all good up to page 23 I think. Maybe, for potential financial reasons, I should draft 20k words of 'the book'. The introduction is written and I will do it in Nisus and print it in PDF.

I am doing what I have always been doing, reading and writing but no longer building. Maybe my rate of progress is the same as ever.

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I have made a story, rather like Agatha Christie (Murder on the Orient Express) but the ending still escapes me, the facts are clear, it is the Universe now, but how do we get here? The answer is clear too: Evolution and quantum computation. Christie (1934, 2017): Murder on the Orient Express

Why am I feeling so happy when my end is so dead? And is my idea that my mind works by superposition like quantum mechanics true? And how do we apply this to quantum field theory? By considering the group of elementary particles considered as subroutines of the Universe that all work together to span what we call (at the moment) 'quantum field theory', a spanning set of tools as a plumber or mechanic might say [ie no situation arises on the job which stops us, we have a means to deal with it].

spanning set of tools / vectors Notes10/notesm04d11.

Turing machines: the spanning set of tools for the [classical] Universe.

Fermions and bosons: spanning set of operations Notes15/notesm04d12, notes23M07D16 ' Hilbert space spans the operator notthrough the harmonic oscillator, the clock spanning the gap between Hilbert space and Minkowski space. Notes, search term grep "span.* set".

Fourier transform is reversible and therefore operates at constant entropy.

We are looking for the little group of fundamental particles with hearts of Hilbert and distinguished by form like angels.

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and then spread out through Minkowski space. We imagine each elementary particle to be charancterized by a linear operators in a suitable Hilbert space. I love hearing all the different languages as I walk around the city each characterized by a linear operator, all of comparable entropy, and each with operators in a different basis being different languages.

Maybe each particle comes with an implicit piece Minkowski space that together form the Einstein space as they are rotated with respect to one another to form curved spaces which when we come to chromodynamics will explain asymptotic freedom and orbital closure, ie confinement. So here we have a coupling to gravitation and electrodynamics where we find that as in evolution individual species rely on their environment to provide them with the resources for survival as we see with quarks and gluons which cannot survive alone.

The first duality in the world is the complex numbers, we might say the first mathematical discovery of an emerging world.

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Auyang (1995), Sunny Y., How is Quantum Field Theory Possible?, Oxford University Press 1995 Jacket: 'Quantum field theory (QFT) combines quantum mechanics with Einstein's special theory of relativity and underlies elementary particle physics. This book presents a philosophical analysis of QFT. It is the first treatise in which the philosophies of space-time, quantum phenomena and particle interactions are encompassed in a unified framework.' 
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Christie (1934, 2017), Agatha, Murder on the Orient Express, Harper Collins 2017 Amazon: 'This beautifully crafted murder mystery ranks among Agatha Christie's finest. The dapper Belgian detective finds himself investigating the murder of an American businessman on board the Simplon Orient Express. The death occurs in a manner that implicates one of the twelve passengers in the Stamboul-Calais coach. Poirot carefully interviews the suspects, all of whom have cast-iron alibis. The case appears impossible to solve, until Poirot, using nothing but his wits and a few tiny, seemingly insignificant clues (including a monogrammed handkerchief, a pipe-cleaner, and a Hungarian passport), assembles one of his most brilliant explanations.' A reader from Anaheim, California. 
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Darwin (1859, 2001), Charles, and Ernst Mayr, On the Origin of Species: A Facsimile of the First Edition, Harvard University Press 2001 Amazon review: 'It was a very happy idea to publish a facsimile of the first edition of On the Origin of Species; the price of copies of the original edition has reached the thousand dollar bracket, and in contemporary literature all page-references are to the original pagination, which was not followed in previous reprints of the first edition. Now, with this very reasonably priced and beautifully produced book, not only historians of science but also biologists will have the opportunity of following the fascinating thought-trails, still far from fully explored, of that remarkable man Darwin. Few if any persons are so well qualified as Harvard's Ernst Mayr to execute so helpfully and gracefully the delicate task of writing a worthy foreword to such a classic.' --Sir Gavin de Beer (Science ) 
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Hawking (1975), Steven W, and G F R Ellis, The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time, Cambridge UP 1975 Preface: Einstein's General Theory of Relativity . . . leads to two remarkable predictions about the universe: first that the final fate of massive stars is to collapse behind an event horizon to form a 'black hole' which will contain a singularity; and secondly that there is a singularity in our past which constitutes, in some sense, a beginning to our universe. Our discussion is principally aimed at developing these two results.' 
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Reynolds (1983), Vernon, and Ralph Tanner, The Biology of Religion, Longman 1983 ' In conclusion, it is difficult to determine the intended audience of this puzzling volume. It has the format of a high school social studies text, though its topic is far too specialized for that purpose. It is too loosely argued for use in university settings and too overtly scholarly to appeal to a general readership. In terms of its professional contribution, one must certainly admit that this is an incredibly difficult topic, and one would like to commend the effort with a sentiment like, 'It's a dirty business, but somebody's got to do it'. Unfortunately, the book is too dissatisfying to say much more than that on its behalf.' Thomas J.Csordas 
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Reynolds (1995), Vernon, and Ralph Tanner, The Social Ecology of Religion, Oxford University Press 1995 Jacket: 'No society exists in which religion does not play a significant part in the lives of ordinary people. Yet the functions of the world's diverse religions have never been fully described and analyzed, nor has the impact of adherence to those religions on the health and survival of the populations that practice them. . . . this extraordinary text reveals how religions in all parts of the world meet the needs of ordinary people and frequently play an important part in helping them to manage their affairs.' 
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Rovelli (2021), Carlo, and Erica Segre & Simon Carnell (translators), Helgoland, Allen Lane / Penguin 2021 ' In June 1925, twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg, suffering from hay fever, retreated to a small, treeless island in the North Sea called Helgoland. It was there that he came up with one of the most transformative scientific concepts- quantum theory. Almost a century later, quantum physics has given us many startling ideas - ghost waves, distant objects that seem magically connected to each other, cats that are both dead and alive. At the same time, countless experiments have led to practical applications that shape our daily lives. Today our understanding of the world around us is based on this theory. And yet it is still profoundly mysterious. In this enchanting book, Carlo Rovelli, one of our most celebrated scientists, tells the extraordinary story of quantum physics and reveals its deep meaning- a world made of substances is replaced by a world made of relations, each particle responding to another in a never ending game of mirrors. 
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van der Waerden (1967), Bartel Leendert, Sources of Quantum Mechanics, Dover Publications 1968 Amazon Book Description: 'Seventeen seminal papers, dating from the years 1917-26, in which the quantum theory as we now know it was developed and formulated. Among the scientists represented: Einstein, Ehrenfest, Bohr, Born, Van Vleck, Heisenberg, Dirac, Pauli and Jordan. All 17 papers translated into English.
A 59 page historical introduction by Professor van der Waerden provides connective commentary. Quoting from relevant correspondence, noting the thought processes that lay behind each discovery, and evaluating the extent of each individual's contribution, he recreates the intellectual foment and excitement of the time.' 
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Weinberg (1995), Steven, The Quantum Theory of Fields Volume I: Foundations, Cambridge University Press 1995 Jacket: 'After a brief historical outline, the book begins anew with the principles about which we are most certain, relativity and quantum mechanics, and then the properties of particles that follow from these principles. Quantum field theory then emerges from this as a natural consequence. The classic calculations of quantum electrodynamics are presented in a thoroughly modern way, showing the use of path integrals and dimensional regularization. The account of renormalization theory reflects the changes in our view of quantum field theory since the advent of effective field theories. The book's scope extends beyond quantum elelctrodynamics to elementary partricle physics and nuclear physics. It contains much original material, and is peppered with examples and insights drawn from the author's experience as a leader of elementary particle research. Problems are included at the end of each chapter. ' 
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Zee (2010), Anthony, Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell, Princeton University Press 2010 ' Since it was first published, Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell has quickly established itself as the most accessible and comprehensive introduction to this profound and deeply fascinating area of theoretical physics. Now in this fully revised and expanded edition, A. Zee covers the latest advances while providing a solid conceptual foundation for students to build on, making this the most up-to-date and modern textbook on quantum field theory available. This expanded edition features several additional chapters, as well as an entirely new section describing recent developments in quantum field theory such as gravitational waves, the helicity spinor formalism, on-shell gluon scattering, recursion relations for amplitudes with complex momenta, and the hidden connection between Yang-Mills theory and Einstein gravity. Zee also provides added exercises, explanations, and examples, as well as detailed appendices, solutions to selected exercises, and suggestions for further reading.' 
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20 Feet from Stardom - Wikipedia, 20 Feet from Stardom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, ' 20 Feet from Stardom is a 2013 American documentary film directed by documentary filmmaker Morgan Neville[3] and produced by Gil Friesen, a music industry executive whose curiosity to know more about the lives of background singers inspired the making of the film.[4] Using archival footage and new interviews, it details the behind-the-scenes experiences of such backup singers as Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer, Judith Hill, Jo Lawry, Claudia Lennear, and Tata Vega. back

Aimee Ortiz, The World Hasn’t Seen Cicadas Like This Since 1803, ' The cicadas are coming — and if you’re in the Midwest or the Southeast, they will be more plentiful than ever. Or at least since the Louisiana Purchase. This spring, for the first time since 1803, two cicada groups known as Brood XIX, or the Great Southern Brood, and Brood XIII, or the Northern Illinois Brood, are set to appear at the same time, in what is known as a dual emergence. The last time the Northern Illinois Brood’s 17-year cycle aligned with the Great Southern Brood’s 13-year period, Thomas Jefferson was president. After this spring, it’ll be another 221 years before the broods, which are geographically adjacent, appear together again. “Nobody alive today will see it happen again,” said Floyd W. Shockley, an entomologist and collections manager at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. “That’s really rather humbling.” back

Bartel Leendert van der Waerden - Wikipedia, Bartel Leendert van der Waerden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, ' Van der Waerden learned advanced mathematics at the University of Amsterdam and the University of Göttingen, from 1919 until 1926. He was much influenced by Emmy Noether at Göttingen, Germany. Amsterdam awarded him a Ph.D. for a thesis on algebraic geometry, supervised by Hendrick de Vries.[1] Göttingen awarded him the habilitation in 1928. In that year, at the age of 25, he accepted a professorship at the University of Groningen.' back

Black-body radiation - Wikipedia, Black-body radiation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'Black-body radiation is the type of electromagnetic radiation within or surrounding a body in thermodynamic equilibrium with its environment, or emitted by a black body (an opaque and non-reflective body) held at constant, uniform temperature. The radiation has a specific spectrum and intensity that depends only on the temperature of the body.' back

Centre for computing history, Home > Browse Our Collection > Computers > SWTPC > SWTPC 6800 , ' The SWTPC 6800 Computer System is designed around Motorola’s outstanding 6800 microprocessor chip and its integral family of support devices. The basic system includes the following: 15 1/8” W x 7” H x 15 1/4” D chassis with cover, mother board, memory card with 2048 bytes of 8 bit static RAM memory, serial 20 Ma. TTY teletype­writer/RS-232 terminal interface card, micro­processor card featuring a ROM stored mini­operating system, power supply capable of driving the system with a full 16K bytes of memory, assembly instructions, diagnostics and programming manuals.' back

Christopher Shields 1996 (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy), The Active Mind of De Anima III 5 , ' After characterizing the mind (nous) and its activities in De Animaiii 4, Aristotle takes a surprising turn. In De Anima iii 5, he introduces an obscure and hotly disputed subject: the active mind or active intellect (nous poiêtikos). Controversy surrounds almost every aspect of De Anima iii 5, not least because in it Aristotle characterizes the active mind—a topic mentioned nowhere else in his entire corpus—as ‘separate and unaffected and unmixed, being in its essence actuality’ (chôristos kai apathês kai amigês, tê ousia energeia; DA iii 5, 430a17–18) and then also as ‘deathless and everlasting’ (athanaton kai aidion; DA iii 5, 430a23). This comes as no small surprise to readers of De Anima, because Aristotle had earlier in the same work treated the mind (nous) as but one faculty (dunamis) of the soul (psuchê), and he had contended that the soul as a whole is not separable from the body (DA ii 1, 413a3–5). back

Claude Shannon (1949), Communication in the Presence of Noise, 'A method is developed for representing any communication system geometrically. Messages and the corresponding signals are points in two “function spaces,” and the modulation process is a mapping of one space into the other. Using this representation, a number of results in communication theory are deduced concerning expansion and compression of bandwidth and the threshold effect. Formulas are found for the maximum rate of transmission of binary digits over a system when the signal is perturbed by various types of noise. Some of the properties of “ideal” systems which transmit at this maximum rate are discussed. The equivalent number of binary digits per second for certain information sources is calculated.' [C. E. Shannon , “Communication in the presence of noise,” Proc. IRE, vol. 37, pp. 10–21, Jan. 1949.] back

Cluster decomposition - Wikipedia, Cluster decomposition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, ' In physics, the cluster decomposition property states that experiments carried out far from each other cannot influence each other. Usually applied to quantum field theory, it requires that vacuum expectation values of operators localized in bounded regions factorize whenever these regions becomes sufficiently distant from each other. First formulated by Eyvind Wichmann and James H. Crichton in 1963 in the context of the S-matrix,[1] it was conjectured by Steven Weinberg that in the low energy limit the cluster decomposition property, together with Lorentz invariance and quantum mechanics, inevitably lead to quantum field theory.' back

Electric battery - Wikipedia, Electric battery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, ' talian physicist Alessandro Volta built and described the first electrochemical battery, the voltaic pile, in 1800. This was a stack of copper and zinc plates, separated by brine-soaked paper disks, that could produce a steady current for a considerable length of time. Volta did not understand that the voltage was due to chemical reactions. He thought that his cells were an inexhaustible source of energy, and that the associated corrosion effects at the electrodes were a mere nuisance, rather than an unavoidable consequence of their operation, as Michael Faraday showed in 1834. back

General relativity - Wikipedia, General relativity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'General relativity or the general theory of relativity is the geometric theory of gravitation published by Albert Einstein in 1916. It is the current description of gravitation in modern physics. General relativity generalises special relativity and Newton's law of universal gravitation, providing a unified description of gravity as a geometric property of space and time, or spacetime. In particular, the curvature of spacetime is directly related to the four-momentum (mass-energy and linear momentum) of whatever matter and radiation are present. The relation is specified by the Einstein field equations, a system of partial differential equations.' back

Hawking radiation - Wikipedia, Black hole - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, ' Hawking radiation is dependent on the Unruh effect and the equivalence principle applied to black-hole horizons. Close to the event horizon of a black hole, a local observer must accelerate to keep from falling in. An accelerating observer sees a thermal bath of particles that pop out of the local acceleration horizon, turn around, and free-fall back in. The condition of local thermal equilibrium implies that the consistent extension of this local thermal bath has a finite temperature at infinity, which implies that some of these particles emitted by the horizon are not reabsorbed and become outgoing Hawking radiation.' back

Hylomorphism - Wikipedia, Hylomorphism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'Hylomorphism (Greek ὑλο- hylo-, "wood, matter" + -morphism < Greek μορφή, morphē, "form") is a philosophical theory developed by Aristotle, which analyzes substance into matter and form. Substances are conceived of as compounds of form and matter.' back

John von Neumann (2014), Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, ' Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics by John von Neumann translated from the German by Robert T. Beyer (New Edition) edited by Nicholas A. Wheeler. Princeton UP Princeton & Oxford. Preface: ' This book is the realization of my long-held intention to someday use the resources of TEX to produce a more easily read version of Robert T. Beyer’s authorized English translation (Princeton University Press, 1955) of John von Neumann’s classic Mathematische Grundlagen der Quantenmechanik (Springer, 1932).'This content downloaded from 129.127.145.240 on Sat, 30 May 2020 22:38:31 UTC back

Louis de Broglie (1923), Radiation: Waves and Quanta, Note of Louis de Broglie, presented by Jean Perrin. (Translated from Comptes rendus, Vol. 177, 1923, pp. 507-510) back

Meinard Kuhlmann (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy), Quantum Field Theory, ' Quantum Field Theory (QFT) is the mathematical and conceptual framework for contemporary elementary particle physics. In a rather informal sense QFT is the extension of quantum mechanics (QM), dealing with particles, over to fields, i.e. systems with an infinite number of degrees of freedom. (See the entry on quantum mechanics.) In the last few years QFT has become a more widely discussed topic in philosophy of science, with questions ranging from methodology and semantics to ontology. QFT taken seriously in its metaphysical implications seems to give a picture of the world which is at variance with central classical conceptions of particles and fields, and even with some features of QM.' back

Michael Faraday - Wikipedia, Michael Faraday - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, ' Michael Faraday FRS September 1791 – 25 August 1867) was an English scientist who contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. His main discoveries include the principles underlying electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism and electrolysis. Although Faraday received little formal education, he was one of the most influential scientists in history. It was by his research on the magnetic field around a conductor carrying a direct current that Faraday established the concept of the electromagnetic field in physics. . . . His inventions of electromagnetic rotary devices formed the foundation of electric motor technology, and it was largely due to his efforts that electricity became practical for use in technology.' back

Minkowski space - Wikipedia, Minkowski space - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, ' By 1908 Minkowski realized that the special theory of relativity, introduced by his former student Albert Einstein in 1905 and based on the previous work of Lorentz and Poincaré, could best be understood in a four-dimensional space, since known as the "Minkowski spacetime", in which time and space are not separated entities but intermingled in a four-dimensional space–time, and in which the Lorentz geometry of special relativity can be effectively represented using the invariant interval x2 + y2 + z2 − c2 t2.' back

Oxfam, Inequality Inc., ' Since 2020, the richest five men in the world have doubled their fortunes. During the same period, almost five billion people globally have become poorer. Hardship and hunger are a daily reality for many people worldwide. At current rates, it will take 230 years to end poverty, but we could have our first trillionaire in 10 years. A huge concentration of global corporate and monopoly power is exacerbating inequality economy-wide. Seven out of ten of the world’s biggest corporates have either a billionaire CEO or a billionaire as their principal shareholder. Through squeezing workers, dodging tax, privatizing the state and spurring climate breakdown, corporations are driving inequality and acting in the service of delivering ever-greater wealth to their rich owners. To end extreme inequality, governments must radically redistribute the power of billionaires and corporations back to ordinary people. A more equal world is possible if governments effectively regulate and reimagine the private sector.' back

Planck's Law - Wikipedia, Planck's Law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'In physics, Planck's law describes the spectral radiance of electromagnetic radiation at all wavelengths from a black body at temperature T. As a function of frequency ν. back

Poor Things - Wikipedia, Poor Things - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, ' Poor Things is a 2023 science fantasy black comedy film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and written by Tony McNamara. It stars Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef, Christopher Abbott, and Jerrod Carmichael.[5] Based on the 1992 novel by Alasdair Gray, the plot focuses on Bella Baxter, a young woman living in Victorian era London who, after being crudely resurrected by a scientist following her suicide, runs off with a debauched lawyer to embark on an odyssey of self-discovery and sexual liberation. Development on the film began in 2017, while Lanthimos was filming The Favourite, and production commenced in 2021 in Budapest, Hungary.' back

S-Matrix - Wikipedia, S-Matrix - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, ' In physics, the S-matrix or scattering matrix relates the initial state and the final state of a physical system undergoing a scattering process. It is used in quantum mechanics, scattering theory and quantum field theory (QFT). More formally, in the context of QFT, the S-matrix is defined as the unitary matrix connecting sets of asymptotically free particle states (the in-states and the out-states) in the Hilbert space of physical states. A multi-particle state is said to be free (non-interacting) if it transforms under Lorentz transformations as a tensor product, or direct product in physics parlance, of one-particle states as prescribed by equation (1) below. Asymptotically free then means that the state has this appearance in either the distant past or the distant future. While the S-matrix may be defined for any background (spacetime) that is asymptotically solvable and has no event horizons, it has a simple form in the case of the Minkowski space. In this special case, the Hilbert space is a space of irreducible unitary representations of the inhomogeneous Lorentz group (the Poincaré group); the S-matrix is the evolution operator between t = − ∞ {\displaystyle t=-\infty } (the distant past), and t = + ∞ {\displaystyle t=+\infty } (the distant future). It is defined only in the limit of zero energy density (or infinite particle separation distance). It can be shown that if a quantum field theory in Minkowski space has a mass gap, the state in the asymptotic past and in the asymptotic future are both described by Fock spaces.' back

Steven Weinberg (1979), Nobel Lecture: Conceptual Foundations of the Unified Theory of Weak and Electromagnetic Interactions, ' Our job in physics is to see things simply, to understand a great many complicated phenomena in a unified way, in terms of a few simple principles. At times, our efforts are illuminated by a brilliant experiment, such as the 1973 discovery of neutral current neutrino reactions. But even in the dark times between experimental breakthroughs, there always continues a steady evolution of theoretical ideas, leading almost imperceptibly to changes in previous beliefs. In this talk, I want to discuss the development of two lines of thought in theoretical physics. One of them is the slow growth in our understanding of symmetry, and in particular, broken or hidden symmetry. The other is the old struggle to come to terms with the infinities in quantum field theories.' back

Steven Weinberg (1997), What is Quantum Field Theory, and What Did We Think It Is?, back

Superposition principle - Wikipedia, Superposition principle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, ' The superposition principle, also known as superposition property, states that, for all linear systems, the net response caused by two or more stimuli is the sum of the responses that would have been caused by each stimulus individually. So that if input A produces response X and input B produces response Y then input (A + B) produces response (X + Y).' back

Synaptic pruning - Wikipedia, Synaptic pruning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, ' Synaptic pruning, a phase in the development of the nervous system, is the process of synapse elimination that occurs between early childhood and the onset of puberty in many mammals, including humans. Pruning starts near the time of birth and continues into the mid-20s. . . . Pruning is influenced by environmental factors and is widely thought to represent learning.' back

Theocracy - Wikipedia, Theocracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, ' Theocracy is a form of government in which one or more deities are recognized as supreme ruling authorities, giving divine guidance to human intermediaries who manage the government's daily affairs.. . . The term was initially coined by Flavius Josephus in the first century AD to describe the characteristic government of the Jews. . . . according to Josephus, the government of the Jews was unique. Josephus offered the term theocracy to describe this polity in which a god was sovereign and the god's word was law. . . Iran has been described as a "theocratic republic" by the CIA World Factbook, and its constitution has been described as a "hybrid" of "theocratic and democratic elements" by Francis Fukuyama. Like other Islamic states, it maintains religious laws and has religious courts to interpret all aspects of law. According to Iran's constitution, "all civil, penal, financial, economic, administrative, cultural, military, political, and other laws and regulations must be based on Islamic criteria". ' back

Theory of Forms - Wikipedia, Theory of Forms - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'Plato's theory of Forms or theory of Ideas asserts that non-material abstract (but substantial) forms (or ideas), and not the material world of change known to us through sensation, possess the highest and most fundamental kind of reality. When used in this sense, the word form or idea is often capitalized. Plato speaks of these entities only through the characters (primarily Socrates) of his dialogues who sometimes suggest that these Forms are the only true objects of study that can provide us with genuine knowledge; thus even apart from the very controversial status of the theory, Plato's own views are much in doubt. Plato spoke of Forms in formulating a possible solution to the problem of universals.' back

Unmoved mover - Wikipedia, Unmoved mover - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, ' The unmoved mover (Ancient Greek: ὃ οὐ κινούμενον κινεῖ, lit. 'that which moves without being moved' or prime mover (Latin: primum movens) is a concept advanced by Aristotle as a primary cause (or first uncaused cause) or "mover" of all the motion in the universe. As is implicit in the name, the unmoved mover moves other things, but is not itself moved by any prior action. In Book 12 (Greek: Λ) of his Metaphysics, Aristotle describes the unmoved mover as being perfectly beautiful, indivisible, and contemplating only the perfect contemplation: self-contemplation. He equates this concept also with the active intellect. This Aristotelian concept had its roots in cosmological speculations of the earliest Greek pre-Socratic philosophers and became highly influential and widely drawn upon in medieval philosophy and theology. St. Thomas Aquinas, for example, elaborated on the unmoved mover in the Quinque viae. ' back

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