vol VII: Notes
1999
Notes
[Notebook BOOK 4/5/94 DB 50]
Sunday 14 March - Saturday 20 March 1999]
Sunday 14 March 1999
[page 200]
Monday 15 March 1999
The essence of scientific method is that security arises from checking every possibility either through a probability theory or inspecting the models or inspecting the real thing eg wheelnuts.
The religious conflict between God and mammon is echoed at every peer level in the fight between energy and complexity, ie serial and parallel.
The first thing we need for a model. A space is a labelled set of points, the pieces (or elements) that are used to construct and operate the model. We start with the natural numbers (including zero) 0, 1, 2, 3 ...n, n+1, ...
We can look at these numbers in two ways as cardinal numbers or ordinal numbers. These two viewpoints are defined by set theory. A set is a collection of objects with a name. Think of it as a container with identifying information encoded on its outer surface.
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We begin with the empty set, the container ready to be packed. Although empty, the empty set is an object, a unity. So put an empty set inside an empty set and you have a set with one object in it. The cardinal number of a set it simply the number of objects in it, 0, 1, 2 ... n, n+1, ...
When we make a set of two. We can do it in two ways.
. . .
We have to model the interaction between serial and parallel.
It all comes down to proving program correctness.
[page 202]
RELIGION = SOFTWARE DESIGN
'lines of logic' = sets of inclusion.
The conclusion is contained in all the overlapping propositions, as we bore down to a particular file using a structure of sets and subsets.
Model is Transfinite Network. This file will briefly explain the T. The next file N. Subsequent files will explore this structure. Fitting it to the real world begins with physics.
Network.
Processing - encode and decode. The network processor. How does the brain encode and decode speech?
Tuesday 16 March 1999
Cybernetics moved into the human corporate, political and social sphere becomes the science of governance . . .
[page 203]
Religion = encounter with god, that is with the human mind network, the human mindspace, ie the human noosphere.
so aleph(n+1) is the god of aleph(n).
The very fact that we can distinguish +Xian theology from Muslim, Hindu etc etc attests to the primitive state of theology. It is as if (in the days of the old USSR) we had normal biology and Lysenkoist biology - we live in one world, so the science of the world must be one.
Wednesday 17 March 1999
Our faith must have credibility, security, quality. This means that its doctrines should be verified by thorough and careful research to discover errors and loopholes. My picture is best illustrated by that immortal scene in the Holy Grail when the brave knights investing a castle construct a Trojan rabbit, but while watching the defenders fall for their trick and haul the rabbit in, they realize that they have overlooked
[page 204]
a detail. They are not in the rabbit.
There are mistakes, oversights and blunders in human affairs. The basic source is the sheer complexity of living systems and the products of life. Of this we have little control. But we can control our methods of avoiding pitfalls. As we do this we are rewarded with a wonderful by product - knowledge of the world.
Method is corrupted by politics* . Reports are suppressed, due process is circumvented, in a word, the system is corrupted, and errors, perhaps fatal, begin to become more probable.
FAITH & BUILDING = Quality control.
a)model of failure modes = model of normal functioning.
They are people, just like you and me.
*When people try to gain by keeping others in the dark. So most people do not like to dwell on the failures, but people performing public
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tasks must expect an appropriate degree of public scrutiny, and we are all doing public tasks. This requires a culture of openness, rather than secrecy, where all workers throw open their workshops so that all may see where the quality comes from, knowing that they will be protected from being ripped off by the right to exploit their own intellectual property.
The fear is that [others] will steal everybody's intellectual property. There is no way to stop this except by morality.
The inertia of a model
a) scientific model (pure data)
b) institutional model (real and expensive hardware)
a) software Roman Catholic
b) hardware
Hardware connects software to the engine of the world. Once an electric potential has set those crystals singing, a universal computer can deal with any coherent software.
[page 206]
Evidence based religion/medicine
Individual = degree of freedom = source of action
Thursday 18 March 1999
Friday 19 March 1999
The theoretical part of the site must offer a line of optimization to the practical part of the site.
THEOLOGY is about recognizing and receiving GOD'S GRACE.
Reading Aldous Huxley inclines to despair of ever being able to find adequate expression for my feeling - press on with the transfinite network. By filling out the framework I have constructed I will see how the details fit in and how the story is to be articulated.
It all comes down to maximizing bandwidth by a) increasing physical power (consumption) b) by improving coding (investment)
[page 207]
Saturday 20 March 1999
The aim really is to make the statement so luminous and precise
The driving force behind religion is our self awareness, called consciousness.
Theory: light and frequently changing.
page design ...
[page 208]
Constructing a work of fiction - "start with thematic kernel and expand it". David Lodge: The Art of Fiction p 108. Lodge
