Notes
[Notebook TTC, DB 54]
[Sunday 5 August 2001 - Saturday 11 August 2001]
[page 100]
Sunday 5 August 2001
Monday 6 July 2001
Tuesday 7 July 2001
Wednesday 8 July 2001
Thursday 9 July 2001
I want to tell you what I know. I want to hand it on to my children, and it is this: that there are a transfinite number of possible futures originating from any point in
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the noetic (phase) space, and only a countable subset of them lead to war. All the others are either indifferent or lead ultimately to peace. We need to be able to search the transfinite tree that is rooted in every moment and devise an optimal way forward. We do this by considering the transfinite past that exists already around the moment in question.
The Christian God cannot laugh. Ours can, and we do, often.
The Universe is not some tinpot little creation of a god who spent much of his time behaving like a silly old bastard. Obviously this god is a reflection of the people who wrote about him, but times have changed. Miles
Gossip: Le Carré The Tailor of Panama. Le Carré.
We live in an agent ( = operator, efficient cause) space - agents live at the nodes and affect one another over the edges.
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Every time something is done without error, nobody learns anything.
A builder works on the boundary between deterministic and non-deterministic events. One one side are the very predictable properties of materials. On the other the very unpredictable nature of human taste and wealth when it comes to habitat.
