Notes DB 90: Psychogenesis_2024

Sunday 21 April 2024 - Saturday 127 April 2024

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Sunday 21 April 2024

Spitfire /Battle of Britain. War at different scales from bacteria and viruses to nations and alliances. Basically we rely on immune systems to correct errors. The first step in error correction is to have a standard of correctness and a means to detect deviations and propose corrections. David Fairhead, Ant Palmer (Directors): Spitfire (2018)

Aquinas designed a god and a Universe in the first part of the Summa and the rest of the book was first the pars secunda which defined the target and the behaviour to get there and the third part the role of "god" in helping us to get there, built around a human sacrifice by the Son to cheer up the father. My little contribution is an attempt to follow a similar track beginning wth creation, cognitive cosmogenesis, the creation simultaneously of complexity and the control necessary to keep the order in place. As I approach 80 I can feel in my body and mind some loss of order but I have a high ambition to record what little I have learnt.

Monday 22 April 2024

The totally deterministic world of Catholic theology is marvellously simple and reassuring and has its roots in Parmenides, Zeno and Plato , but it is self contradictory and does not seems to have much contact with reality.

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Maybe after eternity and time (Chapter 4) we get in the groove and make chapter 5 the image of page 3 action and introduce the psychological and logical attitude to action vie Parmenides. Then skip page 4 theological paradigm and pick up the thread at page 5 gods_ideas, 6 network_brain (Chapter T. . . ) to . . . .

Weird computer problem has shut me down: Localhost/ returns "it works". Localhost/anything on the computer says "file not found". Revised page 3 action and page 4 theol_paradigm but cannot get machine to read BBEdit file to Firefox to preview, so have got the 2020 machine downloading a new copy of Monterey 05 which will fix it (?). Much complaint about Monterey on the net but all the fixes involve trying to reconfigure Mac's apache, so I have left that alone.

So now I am simply loading the cognitive cosmology web page into Nisus and picking out the good bits to get them down to 2000 words, no refs, which will give me a book of about 60 000 words. There is a fair bit of duplication in cognitive cosmology because I have written the pages to stand more or less alone but it will not be necessary in the book. Hopefully this will be quicker and more thorough than writing them from scratch. Chapter numbers are cognitive cosmology +3.

Biggest cognitive cosmology file is cc18_fixed_points, 233 kb

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to become chapter 21 = 18+3. 11 800 word (text + refs). Complete cognitive cosmology = 4 182 500 Bytes = 209 125 words @ 20 Bytes per word, 26 chapters, average 8040 words, so divide by 4.

Tuesday 23 April 2024

My interaction with the Catholic Church goes round and round in my head but I feel confident about the overall picture and this is to be the takeaway from the book. I will now rough out all the chapters parallel to cognitive cosmology and then go over it to produce some consistency and reduce duplication.

Darwin aced evolution without knowing anything about the mechanisms which are now becoming apparent as we learn how to sequence DNA and use computational linguistics to work out what it means. We are going the opposite way in physics with enormous expenditure on data gathering but using nineteenth century [continuous] mathematics to understand what it going on. My delusion is that I can explain physics to the physicists by working from the beginning like a theologian, Gn 1: In the beginning . . . there was an omnipotent initial singularity. The evolution within the singularity is the central issue, like the Trinity, but more so [like the father, every particle has Hilbert space "inside" it and creates particles (gods) more or less identical to itself, an analogue of the big bang].

Wednesday 24 April 2024

Very paindful eye injection. Second time this has happened.

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Think of the paradigm change in biology and health care or in physics from classical to quantum.

The biggest change in theology is the framing of the problem of evil. Coming alive again after the eye horror!

Two big changes:

1. God is not some mysterious other

2. Satan is not the cause of evil

3. Everything has free will [and a personality defined by Hilbert space "inside"]

4. Evolution is the source of creativity.

Thursday 25 April 2024

Bring page numbers and chapter numbers into sync.

Friday 26 April 2024

Constant energy = constant total frequency. What does normalization in quantum mechanics mean in terms of frequency [energy is conserved]. The basis states of a Hilbert space are a set of frequencies, ie a set of energies ranging in effect from 0 to infinity, but does quantum mechanics have anything to do with energy [these energies represented by E = hf are kinematic (formal, platonic, mathematical), not dynamic, which solves the cosmological constant problem]. Like computation [quantum mechanics]it is purely concerned with logic and does not care how fast things happen, from the most energetic gamma rays to the half life of U238.

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James Cresser: J. D. Cresser 209 https;//physics.mq.edu.au/~j cresser/ J D Cresser (2009): General Mathematical Description of a Quantum System

1. Physical state defined by ket, |...>

2. Set of all state vectors is Hilbert space, every physical state of a system is represented by a vector in the state space of the system.

3. |ψ> is the same vector as c|ψ> where c is a non zero complex number.

4. Complete set of any state can be represented by |ψ> = Σ_i c_i |ψ_i >

Bra vectors exist in dual Hilbert Space H* - it has all the characteristics of an operator in that it acts on |ψ > to give a complex number, ie it is a linear functional.

Saturday 27 April 2024

Chapter 14: The quantum creation of Minkowski space.

14.1: The way ahead.

First, some preliminaries, explaining what we can see from our position in Minkowski spade. [so we run aground here and seek a new order for the book to get proper continuity in the exposition].

Site page 9 = Book chapter 11: Creation of Hilbert space.

Site page 13 = Book Chapter 12: Independence of Hilbert and Minkowski space

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Site page 10 = Book chapter 13: quantum_emerge - stationary points

Site page 16 = Book chapter 14: zero-energy_universe -bifurcation

Site page 17 = Book chapter 15: gravitation and particles

Site page 12 = Book chapter 16: Hilbert - Minkowski - boson / fermion

Site page 15 = Book chapter 17: Invisible

Site page 11 = Book chapter 18: Communication

Site page 14 = Book chapter 19: Measurement

Can we improve on this without rewriting any pages of cognitive cosmology? It is a bit confused, but it is the way of discovery (Lonergan) and the book is the way of exposition.

von Neumann QM Intro re Dirac: 'adheres to the fiction that every self-adjoint operator can be put in diagonal form'.

'Quantum mechanics as an analysis of infinitely many variables. Requires a procedure differing from the very beginning, the Hilbert theory of operators' [but we reject the notions of continuum and infinity by keeping to a countably infinite Hilbert space defined by Turing computable numbers!].

von Neumann page 57: Linear operators, ie linear mappings of R_∞ onto itself.

page 65: Eigenvalue problem. Easy in countable R_n, 50ish pages to sort out R_∞ John von Neumann (2014): Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics

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J D Cresser (2009), General Mathematical Description of a Quantum System, ' This idea that the state of a quantum system is to be considered a vector belonging to a complex vector space, which we have developed here in the case of a spin half system, and which has its roots in the sum over paths point of view, is the basis of all of modern quantum mechanics and is used to describe any quantum mechanical system. Below is a summary of the main points as they are used for a general quantum system whose state spaces are of arbitrary dimension (including state spaces of infinite dimension). The emphasishere is on the mathematical features of the theory.' back

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