Notes
[Notebook Turkey, DB 55]
[Sunday 17 february 2002 - Saturday 23 February 2002]
[page 56]
Sunday 17 february 2002
Monday 18 February 2002
Tuesday 19 February 2002
Wednesday 20 February 2002
Thursday 21 February 2002
Friday 22 February 2002
Saturday 23 February 2002
Writing Synopsis with an eye to being the skeleton of a book. The
muscle on the net is (ultimately) to be provided by references to the
extended exposition of the subject that follows in analysis.
[page 57]
'The Gods' are the self motivated personalities that make the
world go round. The systematizing aspect of human intelligence
reduced the gods to one god, while subsuming all the roles of the
lesser gods into nature. Thus we have one high god and the weather,
for instance, is taken care of according to rules established by the
high god, and no longer has any need of a god of its own.
Flitting from the big picture to the details trying to get them to
fit together. The dream is the big picture. The reality is at best
asymptotic to the dream. The book project works in favour of the big
outline because now we need to pick an expository structure out of
all the trials and errors and keep it stable for 12 months or so
while the book grows around it. The book to be palatable must be a
big picture simply drawn, connected to the infinity of detail in
actual implementation by a reference system [just as physics moves
from abstract geometry and algebra into frames of reference for
calculations and measurements].
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