[ Sunday 25 September 1983 - Saturday 1 October 1983 ]
[notebook: Creation - The Metaphysics of Peace II = CMP II: DB31]
[page 165]
Houriet page 275: 'Whereas spontaneity and freedom in sexual relationships appears to be the premarital rule, once a child is born most couples tend to stay together for life.'
'do unto others . . . ' is a conscious paradigm.
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alternative society a bit pompous.
[page 166]
Principles/hypotheses:
Conservation laws tell you nothing
Entropy increases
Complexity increases
Communication differentiates - games, arguments.
Insight is discontinuous and the basic device against
reductionism
Creation can only come from not-being
Action principle = more complex coding
Unity can only come from diversity.
Summed up in peace, love and brown rice.
Universe is responsible for self; no god.
Alienation, through God.
Origin of consciousness
More efficiently coded = more looks like noise
More chaotic experience = more meaningful.
stability / feedback / self communication
particle lose energy going up a potential gradient - expansion = more
entropy.
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Action should be guided by carefully controlled feeling (not necessarily passion). A corollary of the belief that such madness as nuclear war and conventional economics are dictated not by feeling but by a sort of mad professor business of uncontrolled rationalism. Connected with a mistrust of academia (which in general is devoted to producing the utmost stupidity . . .)
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[page 169]
People, when in some way wanted by society, will work themselves to death.
'Wall Street is a colossal suction pump, rapidly draining the world of capital.' Ahamed
Stability in complex systems because large volumes of information must be processed slowly and hence sudden changes of state not possible. Is this the explanation of momentum and also the impossibility of reaching c? Information processing slows down with proper time. Two different problems here, acceleration and time dilation. Acceleration = change of energy (in a given frame) = greater rate of information processing (in that frame). Once acceleration is finished, particle has kinetic energy. All this, including relativity, is classical.
Waste of capital through the issue of fraudulent securities.
[page 170]
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Society as a model for the individual. A far greater portion of society is conscious, and therefore open to study. Within an individual, most process is subconscious and not open to analysis.
A quantity of action equal to h (Planck's constant) is equal to one bit. Action is energy x time. So a bit of information can be transmitted by a small energy acting for a long time or a big energy acting for a short time. Where big energy is available, more information can be transmitted per second. In this theory all interactions in the Universe are modelled as communication. Heisenberg's uncertainty principle is a natural consequence of limited channel capacity. Uncertainty principle - Wikipedia
[page 171]
GettingBack Together, Houriet.
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Houriet page 9: Proverbs : Where there is no vision the people will perish.
page 11: 'rediscovered awareness of immanent divinity'
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Robert Heinlein: Stranger in a Strange Land. Heinlein
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[page 173]
Gregory Chaitin: Randomness and Mathematical Proof. Random series cannot be compressed.Chaitin
Cybernetics W Ross Ashby. Ashby
Ashby page 132: The organism can only adapt as far as the real world is constrained, and no further.
page 155: Given long enough, any transducer can transmit any amount of variety.
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When you take a time slice through the Universe, what you see the most of is what lasts the longest.