Notes
[Notebook Turkey, DB 55]
[Sunday 27 October 2002 - Saturday 2 November 2002]
[page 122]
Sunday 27 October 2002
The fear of the capitalist seems to be with me? Will all this effort pay off? The answer seems to be yes, and so we start on another edition of natural theology, purifying the corporate section from personal data and placing personal data in a separate section, to be used for the model fitting as required. Personal data serves as a repository for all data relevant to the site, both my personal narrative, literature and art in all forms, social, economic, political religious survey information, history etc etc. In a way this seems to be following the Marxist line of developing a theory of history, but here we do not follow Hegel but a network model. So we have abstract theory of network and concrete applications to my own and other people's lives.
Monday 28 October 2002
So the personal file contains the very banal and diffuse contents of these notebooks. We can also bolster it with references to recent (and ancient) novelizations of human experience across the spectrum from genocide via war and normal life to love. As our resources increase, we can work toward something like Eureka St, a literary / theological / religious /political e-zine which will serve as data and criticism for the physical theology section.
Rebuilding the website into its 'corporate' form marks a transition of my approach to theology from something like a reaction or a vendetta against the Roman Catholic Church (rcc) to a degree of independence. [brought about by the feeling that a viable alternative is emerging among all these words]. We still retain the RCC as a starting point but now as a competitor in the religion business rather than parent, and we contrast our product with theirs continually contrasting classical theology with physical [natural] theology.
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History suggests that the personal is important to the person, but not so much to the public, who deal with and remember a person only insofar as s/he is of service to them - eg Newton's theology and personality do not loom as large in our minds as his contribution to physics. Physical theology may be remembered mainly as a contribution to physics and all my personal struggles to find and propagate this contribution will be irrelevant to consumers of my product.
Is the quantum world an abstract mirror of the classical world, ie DUAL? [or the quantum world a concrete mirror of the abstract (low complexity) physical world?]
Keneally Three Cheers for the Paraclete: "My hope is to wait for my institution to reestablish some contact with the . . . living truth again, that's all". Keneally 222.
"We've nothing to set up against their dogmas" Keneally 223
"I've a whale of a suspicion that a man must find his way within his own civilization". Keneally 223.
Novel = {action, interpretation}
Concrete representation of abstract ideas. SCIENCE = NOVEL-1 = TEXT-1.
Does quantum mechanics describe the text that generates the classical world?
I am an open ended person, finishing little. Jack of all trades is master of none. Study of the whole is the study of nothing, since nothing is common to all the elements of the whole but wholeness.
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Corporation is all forgiving.
"or was he [Maitland] now such a pariah in the archdiocese that his money could not be accepted by an organization, which, to be frank, would accept nearly anybody's money?" Keneally.
MIND vs BODY
MIND, not RELIGION is the dual of genetic information, and it develops as the genetic information develops, being edited to a particular configuration in each cell.
Each practical art is the source of a product designed to meet a need. All that we demand of a product is that it has a structure which matches the structure of the need so that both product and need are annihilated into a feeling of satisfaction.
hidden variables / exposed variables; private / public.
I cannot go into business with my personal theology which is concretely realized in me. An abstract version of myself, however, which individuals can apply to themselves (ie a message, product) is a legitimate item of commerce, just as a sex worker sells not herself but rather an abstract version of a woman.
GOD is a model of objectivity, of the NETWORK seen from OUTSIDE. The reality is that we are inside it.
Method: God as the stabilizer in the sea of life. All knowing, all causing.
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The purpose of this exercise in self publication is to create a searchable archive of all the inspirations big and small that went into the foundation of this enterprise.
Tuesday 29 October 2002
Networks can be built on the principle of subsidiarity = layering
Wednesday 30 October 2002
Thursday 31 October 2002
Only writing can ease the tension [of wanting to make the world a 'better' place?] which is no doubt why I do it. Revising the website again with The Theology Company in mind is helping me to distance myself from statements made in anger/tension and to try to look at the world sub specie totalitatis [from the point of view of the whole]. We can say that all communication takes place in 4-space which gives a set of easily imagined addresses to every observable event, that is every communication between me and the system.
Friday 1 November 2002
Once again a very sexy insight has vanished into obscurity and I sit here trying to remember why I picked up this book in the first place. I was thinking that The Theology Company should be proud of its products (whatever they are) and market them on the foundation of this pride. But then what? Yes. On the whole we have to deal with insecure people. Their insecurity is either (?) real or illusory. Those who are really insecure (ie 'at risk' p = ?) must be made secure; those who merely think they are insecure must be reassured (as far as possible) by explaining the realities to them and showing that reality is less dangerous than they think.
COPY - identical entity at a different address. Addressing is ordered, so bits are more or less significant as we move along the string.
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The CARDINAL/LOGARITHMIC [DISORDERED/ORDERED] TRANSITION - phase change.
Saturday 2 November 2002
C S Lewis "Surprised by joy". What is the authentic parameter for judging religion? It has to be a mixture of practicality and feeling. A stable society has a complete set of practicalities and freedoms. [completeness = you can do everything you should be able to do] Lewis.
"In the Trinity Term I gave in, admitted that God was God . . . perhaps the most abject and reluctant convert in all England.
Lewis page 7: "written partly in answer to requests that I would tell how I passed from Atheism to Christianity . . . " [a form of theism]
page 9: on emotion
'absence of beauty' : beauty is the product of the via negativa, everything is possible except what is internally contradictory (and therefore annihilates itself) [after the contradiction has become apparent by processing, so time required to fail]
page 11 'there is a shocking ignorance of natural form' ? How does one judge this on a flat probability space.
For many people the earliest aesthetic experiences are sexual.
page 13 'the terror of certain dreams'
'You may add that in life and the ant hill we see fully realized the two things that some of us dread the most for our own species - the dominance of the female and the dominance of the collective.'
page 20: "I will underline the quality common to the three experiences: it is that of an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction. I call it Joy . . . '
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Scientific communities are driven by contradictions. At present there is much excitement in the physics community because despite the enormous practical success of the general theory of relativity and the standard model of physics [the two are not yet in harmony with one another]. Relativity theory itself seems self consistent but the difficulties of introducing relativity into particle theory leads to Veltman's lament:
'This plague, having to abandon Lorentz invariance in order to define the formalism, seems common to all approaches to quantum mechanics. [but what if quantum mechanics takes place outside spacetime, and only appears in spacetime for its network communications?] Veltman, page 17.
What if general relativity and quantum field theory between them do not determine the world, but rather a POTENTIAL = {POTENTIAL} within which the world evolves from its current state to its next state of motion, while preserving a few fundamentals like energy and momentum. Ie Gödel / TURING penetrates to the root.
So on he [Veltman] goes with the Universe in a box normalization [digitization].
Veltman page 18 'Probability density is not Lorentz invariant, only the total probability must be Lorentz invariant = 1. (ie a summation occurs which is inaccessible in 4-space.
We see Lorentz space and Hilbert Space as projections of one another, but there is a cardinality problem. [Hilbert space must be projected from infinite to four dimensions - just as we would expect a node to project itself along a link to another node]
Veltman page 20; 'In general if we do a Poincare transformation then a state in Hilbert space will transform to another state. [but because of the low cardinality of the Poincare space, the projection in Hilbert space is incompletely determined, hence the apparent probabilistic structure of quantum mechanics?]
Here seems to be the rub.
page 21: 'To every Lorentz transformation . . . corresponds [a set of?] transformation in Hilbert space.
Here we have the fundamental problem of physics. The
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parallel driving problem in theology is the conflict between the hypothesis that the world is perfect and the experience that life can be nasty, brutish and short.
Something is not right => something has to be done, on pain of increasing p(failure)
