Notes
[Notebook NAKEDICAME, DB 53]
[Sunday 22 October 2000 - Saturday 28 October 2000]
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Sunday 22 October 2000
Theology Science : Nature
All depends upon models
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theologyScience . . .
This has been a lot of big words, but does it have any practical application? "Cleanliness is next to godliness" it is said. But they do not tell us the details of this relationship. What we are talking about is something like order and chaos, the twin abstract elements of any domestic situation.
One can gather the RCC's position on domesticity from its officially sanctioned and regulated domestic arrangements, monasteries. A monastery is essentially a hierarchical arrangement of people who have forsworn the 'animal' side of their nature by the three vows of poverty (no personal power over property) chastity (rejection of the power to reproduce) and obedience (relegating the power to make major life decisions to another hierarch in the order). This is a truncation of the personality in the interests of order. From my experience, a male monastery full of
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women and children could not function.
A more modern view is that any structure of smaller elements must respect the nature of the elements if it is to be stable. In other words the control actions required by the organization should not exceed the dynamic ranges of the individuals (actuators) whose action is required to move the system toward its optimal state.
Since Newton's time, and before, we have seen ever more abstract and complex dynamic spaces discovered and explored. Now from a bushwalking point of view, the whole thing about spaces is to find easy paths through them that pass all the interesting spots (beautiful, of course, is a form of interesting; maybe ugly too).
I live in a house shared with my flatmate, half a
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CHAOS - COMPLEXITY
resident child, larger or smaller fractions of her friends, children that have left home, possums, snakes, ticks, mosquitoes, spiders, bats, etc etc plus a multitude of inanimate computers, chairs, books, foodstuffs, clothes etc etc etc. I am trying to create a picture of mixed order and chaos, and the central question for me is how much order should I impose and how much chaos should I allow. For as we all know the second law of thermodynamics . . .
1. A place for everything and everything in its place. YES, for shared resources.
2. Just remember where they are without going to the expense of moving them around.
RCC strategy: this is a bald assertion not much different from the sort of thing we hear from the marketers of cosmetics.
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All begins from the principle: We never see (one can never see) a contradiction at the physical level (if we are seeing correctly). An article of faith.
Theology, but theos = logos, so theology is talk about talk.
Father - action = pure act
Son - Linear momentum = spatial structure
Spirit - Energy = motivating force
Observable = event = operator which is something that changes something into something else. So action, momentum and energy all change things while in some sense remaining the same.
TERMINOLOGY Alice (?) spoke for the mathematician within her when she said that words would mean what she said they meant and nothing more.
All Einstein's work is about the localization and involvement of observers
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in the phenomena observed.
Monday 23 October 2000
Tuesday 24 October 2000
Wednesday 25 October 2000
One may view the history of dynamics as a history of dynamic crises each of which was solved by an enlargement of the dynamic space. The first is Parmenides, bolstered by Zeno, with the solutions proposed by Plato and Aristotle, who partitioned beings into a number of invariant forms which occupied an underlying matter (or as C19 might say, aether), the principle of individuation.
Aquinas
Galileo
Newton
Hamilton
Lagrange
Fourier
Cantor
Hilbert
Einstein
Wiener
Turing
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Let us consider the group of humans and the transformations of this group that concert one into another.
The group ℵ0 and the space ℵ1 of transformations between the elements of ℵ0
Particles are the generators of the group of transformations.
We build from the physics up, not from the top (god) down.
cardinal
ordinal
mapping = meaning
Thursday 26 October 2000
Postulates of special relativity:
1. Laws of physics take the same forms in all inertial frames
(LOCAL <-> GENERAL)
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2. Measured [velocity of light] c is the same in all frames regardless of motion of source.
Parmenides: the search for invariants had begun.
I am thinking about witchcraft and religion. What is the point? - RECURSION
Time is the measure of recursion.
Go over it again and again.
On the one hand Cantor, on the other 1. A great big 1, an exact repeat of last time. Such as are the symmetries which by evolution, become fixed in Nature.
So that was it: The intelligence of
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NATURE == GOD
We worship the intelligence of nature of which our own intelligence is part.
The greatest damage that the RCC does is decouple sex from love, or try to maintain that decoupling.
Natural-spirit: releasing the human dynamic from ancient bonds in order to hasten peace on earth.
Friday 27 October 2000
Saturday 28 October 2000
Can we claim all learned information as religion, to be distinguished from inherited information?
Australia was one of the world's biggest experiments in dysgenics [Robert Hughes, Fatal Shore] Hughes. since according to the finest judges in England it was populated with the most depraved people (p 354).
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page 355 "That many of the [Australian born] did not have convict parents, that many of those who did were not raised by stereotyped villains and whores; that crime may not have run in the blood - none of this affected English opinion very much. Sin must beget sin, and the "thief colony" was doomed to spin forever, at the outer rim of the world, in ever worsening moral darkness.
Rev Sydney Smith (Edinburgh Review)
'There can be but one opinion. New South Wales is a sink of wickedness, in which the great majority of convicts of both sexes become infinitely more depraved than at the period of their arrival. . . . It is impossible that vice should not become more intense in such a society.
NATURE is the alphabet of NURTURE
Words cannot express what I know, only the immense open spaces discovered by Cantor in which it is possible to construct a symbol approaching the divine whole.
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Our patron saint here is Galileo, who was first to make explicit the program of using the vast spaces of mathematics to describe the world. The Catholics have fought this all along, to Lonergan, whose vision that mathematics is the almost featureless analytic functions fails to see that the real world is not analytic at all, but complex and the mother of complexity.
Theology is the study of the space of human mind, the space in which religion constructs humanity (or inhumanity, as was the aim of our Christian Brethren who in the past constructed the likes of Mocker Harbour)
You will consider that the constant, active, unremitting employment of every individual in very hard labour is the grand and main design of your settlement. They must dread the very idea of being sent there. . . . You must find work and labour, even if it consists in opening cavities and filling them up again. . . . Prisoners upon trial declared that they would rather suffer death than be sent back to Mocker Harbour. It is a feeling I am most anxious to be kept alive. (William Sorrel (1775-1848) Standing Orders for Mocker Harbour, Hughes 1996 p 372)
We were born in heaven / Hell is of our own manufacture.
REIGN of TERROR vs RAIN of LOVE.
The fearful oppression of others is a measure of the fear in the oppressor's own heart.
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Hell has long been a staple of Christianity, and many have been the rulers who have devoted resources to creating Hells.
ie RELIGION is the TECHNOLOGY of the MIND
HELL <-> CONTROL (Arthur) (Hughes, 400)
nakedIcame: money is a boson.
HELL NATURAL-SPIRIT
Society requires roles and to maintain democratic fluidity, we cannot identify person and roles - from a point of view of human dignity, all roles must be considered equal.
Natural-spirit: overcome the degradation of arbitrary conflict.
War is a biological necessity for independently expanding nations in a fixed volume of resource.
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USE GROUP FOR {HUMAN}, {ANYTHING}
A small person confronted with a big problem must grow to meet the problem.
The philosophic inclination (evidenced, for instance, in Plato, Aquinas and Lonergan) to construct a Universe based on introspection is a valid application of the local principle, since all interactions are local to themselves.
METHOD 1: Literary Criticism - states of mind
2: Scientific Criticism - states of reality
But, as Einstein discovered, we can only get to the global by discovering the transformations between various locations which enable us to transform our points of view into distant frames.
So how do we transform between the elements of the human group? Recognize duality - an element of the group is both a thing (symbol or particle) and a transformer which interacts with elements of the group to produce other elements.
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The constitutive axiom = every set found in nature may be represented by a group, (and so the representation of a group)
Hardening the soul to action
Does the pain of the gaoler feed on the pain of the prisoner and vice versa, since they are bound together in hell?
Norfolk Island
We must all take on the powers that oppress us if we are to overcome that oppression. The choice to act is a balance between the effort and the reward. And here comes the effect of religion that although not suffering myself directly, I suffer aesthetically at the pain of others and am moved to alleviate it, in the hope also of making myself feel better for my efforts, hence my quest is self motivated by a search for internal consistency = low energy, rest in peace.
The pains of Botany Bay represent the
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pains of England in transition under the forces of history. Truly we find heroes and villains, but most events can be explained by the inevitable grinding of spiritual and material forces, the gradual struggle for consistency between the large and the small.
WILL of GOD = WILL of RULERS
The probability of any system S is a function of its energy and cunning. This is a reflection of the basic duality of energy and momentum, united in the concept of action, which is a minimized function of energy and momentum.
p = mv = MLT-1 : p = action/distance
E = mv2 = ML2T-2 : E = action/time
h = Et = ML2T-1 : h = action
Momentum = structural detail; energy = time detail; action = space-time detail.
The difficulty of writing is the ordering of snapshots at random from a high dimensional space into a (logically) continuous one dimensional narrative such as this. This is a book of snapshots collected as far as possible as they occur and before they fade, as ingredients (data, alphabet) for the final cut.
Each genre or idiom of art has a group of physical elements that the artist uses to make a work. Is it good? The criteria of goodness are as numerous as the critics. To see is to select and interpret features of the work.
Every organism sees its environment in the way most valuable to itself. The salient features it sees are relevant features, things with meaning for its own life.
