Notes
[Notebook TTC, DB 54]
[Sunday 16 September 2001 - Saturday 22 September 2001]
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Sunday 16 September 2001
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Individual freedom: we are brought into conflict with one another by our corporate matrix.
Monday 17 September 2001
TTC Public Company: discipline of shareholders, unlike RCC and Papacy, which is a power unto itself and so without foundation.
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The spacetime distinction between here and now and the initial singularity is zero, although we cannot be sure which photons we observe have actually existed since the beginning. However, we know that the three degree K radiation
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takes us back to within 0.5 My of the beginning.
It saddens me to see how a once great organization like the RCC has faded into embattled fundamentalism and is slowly being destroyed by a management whose only claim to fame is a continued ability to hoodwink simple people. The distinction between the Pope and the Ayatollahs is fading for me - perhaps it never existed.
My business opportunity is to offer an alternative, and there is really nothing to do but do it, however amateurishly, knowing that the iterative approach (energy) will eventually bring us as close as we like to perfection.
Hilbert Oscillator. Money, Value I am experiencing the pleasure of gradually increasing the illumination and seeing all the while that many of my shots in the dark have hit their targets. The central point of communication is oscillation in complexity which the HO, however, vaguely, was conceived to be. It in effect annihilates
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a complex structure into a simpler one and creates a more complex structure from a simple one, and so describes the core process of a communicating Universe.
NULL CURVES: The existence of null curves (surfaces . . . ) is a consequence of delay in communication. Delayed (ie eternal) communication is formalism. Just as a photon brings the big bang into my immediate presence (although I need specialized sensors to observe it).
Unitary transformation (HO) = act of knowledge or act of creation.
Capra has pointed out the parallels between Eastern wisdom and the emerging culture of physics, particularly quantum mechanics. A similar job can be done between the 'perennial philosophy' and quantum mechanics. The fundamental unifying insight is that what Lonergan (my benchmark
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for the 'perennial' position) call insight, the quantum mechanics call a unitary transformation. The purpose of this article is to expand this statement. Quantum Insight.
Phase = angle = pure number (abstracted from two lines)
Space: We begin our exposition by describing the space in which QM lives, called Hilbert Space. Newton worked in the three dimensional space described by Euclid, and in his Principia used Euclidian Geometry to explain his ideas. Heath, Newton.
The mathematical exploration of Newton's ideas led to the notion of 'phase space'. Instead of mapping the motions of bodies in three dimensions of space, a new space was introduced for each particle which had three dimensions of position and three dimensions of momentum.
Quantum Mechanics: Phase is a measure of consistency.
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Tuesday 18 September 2001
Wednesday 19 September 2001
Thursday 20 September 2001
The RCC believes it owns GodTM. In a sense it does and attaches to this trademark an institutionally determined definition of the entity pointed to by the name God. This entity, because of the institutional constraints placed upon it, is at best a subset of the much greater entity that we call god, the whole. The Christian God is invisible, that is it has at best mental existence. It is clear that our minds are part of the Universe, [and our mental contents gain meaning from their relation to the Universe].
peace may be argued in terms of distance (and a gauge theory)
Now it is bullshit that anybody should give their lives for an idea. If I am going to give my life, it will be for other, known, people. The power of abstraction, that is idealism, over reality must be recognized and we must therefore work toward a realistic idealism, that is a mathematical model of reality.
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WASHINGTON POST:
One hopes that Mr Bush, in his search for 'infinite justice', bears in mind that all war is terrorism, despite all the rubbish about the nobility of war that we have read in the last three thousand years.
The whole point of war is to terrorize and weaken your opponent by any means whatever with the aim of bringing it to terms, perhaps by total annihilation. We have a clash of fundamentalists here, and the only way out of it is to realized that the world is much bigger than the fundamentals suggest, and that if so much as one innocent person is harmed, with or without trial, Mr Bush has lost the war against terrorism by becoming a terrorist himself.
Whose only answer to any problem is to bomb somebody into the stone age.
A little bit of insight into the equation INTENTION = MEANING.
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There are three central concepts in the mathematical modelling of physical process. First is mapping, second grouping, third counting.
INTENTION = CONSCIOUSNESS
(I knew what I was doing)
Did you know what you were doing: yes guilty (or praiseworthy); no, not guilty (and not, per se, praiseworthy?)
Evolution of consciousness is the evolution of intention. There is no doubt that people (and animals) have insights that they are not conscious of. They learn how to do things, and on our current understanding of cybernetics, that means that they have built some sort of working model within themselves of the process they have learned. Whether the ability
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to do this is innate or learned is a secondary question from the undoubtable (ie we cannot abandon formal causality) existence of a map.
IDEA = CONCEPT = VERBUM = MAP
We do not ask whether that map is represented by 'matter' or 'spirit' or a superposition of both.
SPACE = SET + MAPPING.
Our archetypal space is the ordinary 3D space that we inhabit. This space is described with exquisite economy in the works of Euclid, and was the space chosen by Newton to describe the mechanics of the heavens.
Just build, and don't get emotional about it. it will take many years (perhaps 10) to build it up into a distinct and credible theory, and so there is no panic, just steady work. So avoid publicity, watch and build, but save the announcement until it is ready. Let it
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grow naturally by submission to search engines.
WASHINGTON POST
The motivation for this letter is that I am a wimp. Despite my country's obvious shortcomings (for which, on the democratic paradigm I should take one ten millionth of the blame) I am proudly Australian and understand what it means to be proudly American or proudly Afghani.
I am a wimp. I wanted to be a doctor but could not stand the sight of blood, and then became involved in what I now see as a quite fundamentalist religious organization, the Roman Catholic Order of Preachers. You might remember that this Order played a major role in the Taliban-like activities we call the Inquisition, which was part of the general tendency (in those days) to crusade against heresy.
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Looked at objectively, that is in terms of tonnage of human body parts sprayed around the landscape, the US is the Mother of Terrorists, even though the collective mind of the entity called the US might not think so.
Many thousands of tonnes of bombs on Cambodia was just a minor secret event in the life of this behemoth. How many loving, living, moving people were annihilated? Somebody knows, and if justice is to be done, these facts must be made public out of the mouths of these knowers.
Revenge is sweet but useless.
I have been trying all my life to escape from the fundamentalism that was bred into me, and I have published the results of my efforts at www.naturaltheology.net.
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This is a superb opportunity for someone in the religion industry, but it is going to be a long tense period and it is well to vet everything carefully before going to air.
A letter to nature: Commentary
SUBVERT FUNDAMENTALISM
TRY MATHEMATICAL THEOLOGY.
