Notes
[Notebook Turkey, DB 55]
[Sunday 25 November 2001 - Saturday 1 December 2001]
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Sunday 25 November 2001
Monday 26 November 2001
Tuesday 27 November 2001
Duals and transforms are not independent but different ways of saying the same thing - different encodings. To be distinguished from dimensions or degrees of freedom, which may be varied independently. A transformation of a space preserves its dimensionality, so we may transform a complex number from the form (x, iy) to A exp (i theta), both with two degrees of freedom (ie x and y or A = amplitude and theta = phase).
In simplest terms what we are doing on this site is repeating in as many different ways as possible our mantra that (other things being equal) bandwidth = peace.
Its my life and I will contort myself as I want to, to be judged only by the effect on others.
Wednesday 28 November 2001
Thursday 29 November 2001
The rather paradoxical result (for me) of all this
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is that the body is much more abstract (ie low entropy) than the spirit, which is represented as a point in a much larger space than the body. Is this space much bigger? Is it more meaningful? Or is it that a symmetry here - every point in the Universe is just as meaningful as every other because the meaning of a given point is determined by its relationship to all the other points in it space. But we determine regions of greater meaning in abstract spaces, ie points of accumulation, closed cycles of communication and code (ie language) etc. One's peer group is one's language group, and we can establish some sort of metric in the space of language, discerning the tree of descent. This is done in linguistics (the representation of language) and in semantics, (the meaning of language).
Consider the quantification of morality.
Jaako Hintikka (in Reese) page 225 "Credited with the paradox of deontic logic, that 'if it is impossible to do a given thing, it is wrong to do it'. Hintikka gains the conclusion from the premisses that 'what cannot be done without something wrong being done is itself wrong', and 'to-do-something-impossible-but-not-something-wrong' is impossible and thus cannot be done either with or without something wrong being done." Reese.
Is this true when we ask 'how wrong'. In the conserved world of physics every creation is matched by some destruction to make room for the new construction (a consequence of the divine pleroma) and the destruction phase may be considered a wrong. In the non-conserved spiritual world we guess (hope) new spiritual goods can be developed without destroying the history that led to them, but rather seeing it as the roots of the present not so much full of error as adapting differently to different circumstances, particularly the last five hundred years of science and industry, their concomitants.
CYBERNETICS <-. SEMANTICS
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The 'creative control problem' arises when the space to be searched for a suitable response to the perturbation is so large that there is no possibility of exhaustive search and some more compact heuristic process is required to navigate through 'meaning space' to a desirable point. Thus human creative response to the difficulties of life. The human system will be optimized when the processing task of human navigation is distributed throughout the population.
Complex numbers cannot be measured, so some would reject the idea that time could be imaginary because it can be measured by a simple count. When we look more closely, however, the count is a count of a wave, which is a complex object which is only completely characterized by specifying two numbers at each point which we will call phase and amplitude, or real and imaginary. Two non-commuting measurements are required to define each point in a wave, and two are needed for each point in time, conventionally called before and after. Before and after are related by an operator represented by complex number(s). So if we think of the passage of time as the work of operators, we may think of it as complex.
The principle of complete symmetry. Peace/freedom. To anyone who believes in symmetry, the ordination of women is an open and shut case.
We will be close to the Church of England "a Church where intellectual conviction is regarded as the only sort that counts". Longley, 299.
Longley p 300: "Just as the C of E has moved on from the Thirty Nine Articles and the Book of Common Prayer, relegating them to a place of honour in the museum of doctrinal history, so have the other Churches."
The Theology Company global sales (pitch): we will put scientific substance into your religion.
Socialization = downloading religion = total mental content [particularly language]. How much we get from each source (URL) depends on how long we spend with it and how much sense it makes to us, (intellectual, emotional, physical, ie total)
Because the Universe is divine, the Papal claim to power is empty and the best the office can hope for is influence.
We can all agree religiously on the mathematical theory of communication, which gives us models of error and meaning, the core of religion, sin and the meaning of life.
Billy Graham PREACHER; TTC CONSULTANT/ADVISOR
"This is the man who supped with presidents in the White House and world leaders everywhere, and who has been for almost a generation the unofficial grand chaplain to a succession of American administrations and far closer to them in friendship and influence than any Archbishop of Canterbury ever achieved in Downing Street." Longley p 309.
"The British churches use him largely for his pulling power and the critical decisions about his campaigns are made by committees of local churchmen., who plan both the preparation and the follow-up. Although the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association itself takes a back seat, Graham, with disarming humility, has no quarrel with the arrangement."
Christian PR and entertainment consultant.
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POWER vs INFLUENCE
If the punters pay for your services you have power (?) otherwise influence! Professional vs amateur.
Friday 30 November 2001
Saturday 1 December 2001
We have taken the position that religion is a body of data (ie a vector or point in a suitably sized space) orthogonal to the vector representing our hardware, the molecular structure and function that processes our life. Orthogonality means independence, so a person may be imbued with any one of a large variety of religions while retaining the one body. So we may imagine the body (hardware) as a fixed point at the centre of the hypersphere of religion. Each human individual (in this abstract notation) is represented by a point in the religion space centered upon the human body space. We can use this same paradigm (which is a sort of picture of Gödel's theorem) for all particles in the Universe (animals, atoms, galaxies, entities) and this is a fundamental feature of symmetry with respect to complexity. No matter how simple a transfinite number, Cantor's theorem obliges it to generate its successor. The successor function (and so time) is a consequence of logical confinement, ie the via negativa.
