Notes DB 90: Psychogenesis_2024
Sunday 24 March 2024 - Saturday 30 March 2024
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Sunday 24 March 2024
The fact that we can measure and compute physical quantities to very high levels of precision suggests that they are defined in reality to something approaching absolute precision and our belief that quantum computation may be able to go as far as solving NP complete problems shows us the versatility of quantum evolution. We must approach computational solutions of the three body problem and the Lamb shift by recursive methods such as Feynman diagrams when we suspect that nature reaches and maintains these values in a single step. Wilczek explains the precision of quantum chromodynamics and the enormous amount of computation nevertheless required to achieve results that appear to be reached almost instantaneously in protons. Frank Wilczek (2008): The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces
We may say that the relationship between a theory and the corresponding reality is a messaging process which requires an equivalence of entropy or information between sender and receiver to achieve perfect precision. Although Dirac and others attribute
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absolute precision to processes in continuous nature the practical application of notions such as the Dirac delta require smearing out which reduces the precision to that of rational numbers the precision is still within the grasp of quantum theory executed in C n space where n is a natural number whose least upper bound is ℵ0. There is therefore no reason to suspect that nature needs recursive processes to achieve the precision that we actually observe and we can quite easily imagine the existence of eigenvalues that exactly represent the values measured by the Lamb shift. Streater & Wightman (2000): PCT, Spin, Statistics and All That, Lamb shift - Wikipedia
Looking for the Einstein moment and I think it has crept up on me: Gravitation is the vision / feeling / reality of god at its simplest and most rudimentary, just after quantum mechanics endows it with Minkowski space which creates the structure of Einstein gravitation and the shape of the Universe. This is the fundamental reality of the divine Universe,
[Nan Goldin on the suicide of her sister] She was in and out of institutions for most of my childhood. Once they started sending her away they kept sending her away. My parents took away her credibility and silenced her by calling her mentally ill. The police came into our house, my father started wailing on the front lawn, wailing. They were talking to my
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mother saying that we found your daughter and she committed suicide and I heard my mother say: Tell the children it was an accident. My interpretation from that minute was denial. She did not want us to know the truth. That's when it clicked [7.15 - 10.38]. Laura Poitras: All The Beauty and Bloodshed [Biopic of Nan Goldin]
Monday 25 March 2024
I'm running out of things to say at the end of cognitive cosmology, which is probably a blessing as I want to get it finished. Fields_end might be the last page, but why do I want to get rid of field? Because it is continuous and not logical, so what we really need to end is a fanfare to logic, and we might want to replace physics_theology with consequences and make principles the last page,
Tuesday 26 March 2024
Step 1: First break in the symmetry of naked gravitation: the ℵ0 basis vectors of C n Hilbert space mapped onto naked gravitation by the ℵ0 Turing computable functions mapping naked gravitation onto itself. Step 2: Quantum mechanics searches this space for linear operators and eigenfunctions. The Hilbert space in the initial singularity is (let us say) eternal. Also we let ℵ0 be anything from 1 to the cardinal of the natural numbers. This takes care of the memory problem and gives us the cosmic genome, the Hilbert vacuum.
Wednesday 27 March 2024
The basic problem with field theory from my point of view is that it tries to describe a discrete logical one-to-one interaction process between particles with a continuous function describing a field in which all particles are smeared together into a continuous field. It is like trying to represent a series of software statements describing a program for a digital computer as a continuous function trying perhaps to use a Fourier transform built around the roots of unity to create a continuous description of the operation of the computer whereas a software analyst will read each statement in the program and consider the effect just as biologists examine the discrete steps in photosynthesis [or the transcription of messenger RNA into a protein].
So I go for the examination of individual interactions, say between a single photon and an electron in an atom. Instead of attributing the process to a field acting on a photon and the electron I see it as a quantum process between the operators in the Hilbert spaces carried on the photon and the electron, in other words an observation made by two particles on one another analogous (in the idea of symmetry with respect to complexity) to the conversation between two persons or sources.
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In my hypothetical world gravitation plays the role that Aristotle gave to matter, enabling the formal kinematic statements generated by quantum theory to be created into real dynamic systems or annihilated by giving them energy to make them real or taking it back to return them to a formal state [ie the energy becomes available from the omnipotence of gravitation rather than quantum fluctuation in Minkowski space].
We take the view that all particles are children of the singularity, carrying with then a Hilbert space so the field is in effect inside the particles and controlling the kinematics of their relationships to one another as the field of quantum field theory exists outside the particles, manifesting a real particle [then it] is excited with energy from somewhere, maybe the quantum fluctuations!? So my story comes very close to quantum field theory but inverted, the fields in the fermions being shared by bosons travelling outside spacetime on their null geodesics [made possible by the metric of Minkowski space].
Thursday 28 March 2024
Pharmaceutical design.
After fifty years of plodding along I have finally got a beta of my view of the relationship between theology and physics. Abstract, URL [to go to Linked In]
There is a difference between a space and a field. A space [is a set and] stands alone and serves as a domain for a field. So we can speak of the Minkowski field on a Hilbert space.
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Friday 29 March 2024
We might get an insight here from Everett III's structure of the world. He proposes a wave function of the Universe (ie a Hilbert space + quantum theory) that bifurcates at every observation and is experienced as the real dynamic universe in the world of the person making an observation which splits off into orthogonal subspaces of the whole set of subspaces of the total reality. Here we do not think in terms of creating new universes, but see each particle emerging from the initial singularity as a real dynamic system carrying an orthogonal element of the overall Hilbert space within it and using the communication provided by massless bosons 'travelling' on the null geodesics in Minkowski space to connect the particles to one another and so through the agency of null geodesics proving local phase symmetry to one another which connects the flat Minkowski space associated with each fermion into the curved manifold observed by Einstein. Something like this. Need to read how Deutsch deals with this. David Deutsch (1997): The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes - and its Implications
Deutsch page 5: The physical world is our oracle.
page 7: 'deeper explanations are more remote from experience.' So of course we can accept loony explanations like many
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worlds because they are deep?
Deutsch page 11: Einstein: explanation brings a subject to rest - invariance [this is what quantum mechanics does with eigenvectors to get eigenvalues!]
Deutsch: Notes02m01d27.
page 29: 4 theories; 1: Quantum mech; 2: evolution; 3: epistomology; 4: computation. No help here; I have read this book and it is nearly all ad hominem.
So turn to the real thing: Everett I: Introduction
page 1: 'The relationship of this new formulation to the older formulation is therefore that of a metatheory to a theory, that is it is an underlying theory in which the nature and consistency, as well as the realm of applicability, of the older theory can be investigated and clarified,
page 2: ' The special postulates in the old theory are omitted in the new [meta?]theory. It has to be analyzed in and for itself before any identification becomes possible before the quantities of the theory and the properties of the world we experience.'
2: Realm of Applicability of the Conventional "External Application" Formulation of quantum mechanics.
Process 1: Discontinuous change brought about by observation [communication with another particle via boson?].
Process 2: Continuous change of isolated system ∂φ / ∂ dt = A φ, where A is a linear operator.
page 3: Consider an isolated system of observer and observed system. How is one to apply the the conventional approach to spacetime itself?
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Everett page 4: How do we deal with the quantum mechanics that is internal to an isolated system? This paper proposes to regard pure wave mechanics (process 2) as a complete theory . . . [ie no observation, no real world?]. It postulates that every system that is subject to external observation can be regarded as part of a larger isolated system. ' The wave function is taken as the basic physical entity with no a priori interpretation. Here as always the theory itself sets the framework for its interpretation.'
Relativity of states 'a consistent system cannot be said to be in any single well defined state independently of the remainder of the composite system.' ' In other words, the states occupied by the subsystems are not independent of one another, but they are correlated.' In other words, they are observing one another. Here we can say that particles have independence because they carry independent Hilbert spaces with themselves, thus disconnecting these Hilbert spaces? pages 5-6
4. Concept of relative state: S = S1 + S1, Hilbert spaces H1 and H2, S = H1 ⊗ H2 tensor product.
page 7: 'Summarizing: There does not in general exist anything like a single states for one system of a composite system. . . . subsystem states are generally correlated with one another. One can arbitrarily choose a state for one subsystem and be led to the relative state for the remainder' [observation again].
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Not much future in this. So still waiting for the great conclusion to cognitive cosmology. Resurrection day is the last chance!
Call Me Kate: Katherine Hepburn. Lorna Tucker (Director): Call Me Kate
Saturday 30 March 2024
I have been skirting around the quantum field theory problem motivated by my two pet peeves (and motivators) Wilczek and Deutsch, both of whom seem to be to be rather hubristic extrapolators of the available physical data. So, in the last two days of my cognitive cosmological project, I have to sort it out. The final conclusion, built around symmetry with respect to complexity, is the notion that the intelligence of the Universe is illustrated by its ability [using evolutionary methodology, perhaps like all intelligence] to solve the eigenvalue problem. The way to demonstrate this is to use a new interpretation of the current interpretation of quantum field theory, so the last two pages are quantum chromodynamics: the data; and quantum chromodynamics: the explanation.
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cc23_insight_belief: reread and made a few corrections, but overall happy with it. Now the focus is on cc24_fields_end. So I have saved a days work here.
24.6 Quantum mechanics and evolution? What is there to say?: variation, selection, memory. Have said all this before. The job is coming to an end and there seems nothing more to say [so now to 'the book' Cognitive Cosmogenesis: A systematic integration of theology and physics and my personal saga through 60 years of theology].
