Notes
[Notebook Turkey, DB 55]
[Sunday 23 March 2003 - Saturday 29 March 2003]
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Sunday 23 March 2003
Monday 24 March 2003
Sophie's World. Gaarder. . . .
page 253 "Isn't it extra bitter to realise that life is only a dream on the day before your fourteenth birthday?
The Roman Catholic Church has written itself into its own fairytale. . . .
262 Rousseau: "We should return to nature". "natural religion"
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263: Deism: God revealed only through nature
Human rights: "Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen" adopted by the French National Assembly in 1789, basis for the 1814 Norwegian Constitution. 1787 Condorcet on the rights of woman.
264 Olympe de Gouges 1791 - declaration of the rights of women - beheaded 1793. . . .
The visible structure of the world is made apparent by digital (discrete) communication. The constraints of communication are the only constraints on the world.
270 Kant (1724-1804) "there are certain conditions governing the mind's operation which influence the way we perceive the world". COMMUNICATIVE A PRIORIs
SPACE & TIME PARALLEL & SERIAL FERMION & BOSON.
Kant: "Space and time are first and foremost modes of perception, not attributes of the physical world.
271: mind conforms to things; things conform to mind. Network. Ding an sich; Ding fur mir? . . .
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273: we are a tiny part of a totality.
274: Word problems - Russell's paradox. Language is a coordinate system, a [shared] basis for communication - Hilbert space.
275: Where reason fails, vacuum is filled by FAITH = EXPERIENCE (and it is still a communicable body of knowledge)
"So he does the same as Descartes. First he is very critical of everything we can understand. And then he smuggles in God by the back door."
276: "If the human brain was simple enough for us to understand, we would be so stupid that we couldn't understand it.
277: Absolute moral law? Categorical imperative - always applies.
"Act only on that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law." [thorough application would remove all local detail in the Universe?]
"Act in such a way that you will always treat humanity, whether in your own person or the person of another, never simply as a means, but always at the same time as an end."
278: "if it is to be a moral action you must have conquered yourself" (?) DUTY ETHICS (very German)
"We act freely when we obey a law?" break a symmetry.
EVERY ACTION BREAKS A SYMMETRY (SUPERPOSITION)
Here we see the conservation of entropy - there is as much information in the action as in the symmetry (space of possibility) . . .
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382: Kant On Perpetual Peace "league of nations"
287: "romanticism was Europe's last common approach to life" . . .
290 Goethe 1774: "The Sorrows of Young Werther".
Renaissance of 'cosmic consciousness', world soul, world spirit.
291 Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775 - 1854) "The natural and spiritual are actually expressions of the same thing"
"Nature is visible spirit; spirit is invisible nature" [my underline]
"Schelling also saw a development in nature from earth and rock to the human mind.
292: Johann Gottfried von Herder (1774-1803) Romantics united around the term 'organism'. [these days we prefer 'system'] . . .
299: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770 -1831)
For Hegel the world spirit = the sum of human utterances because only man (?) has spirit.
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302: "Hegel says the world spirit is expanding toward ever increasing knowledge of itself." - dialectic.
303: thesis, antithesis, synthesis . . .
305: Hegel "The difference between man and woman is like that between animals and plants . . . " They proposed a thesis. And the more strongly they expressed themselves about woman's inferiority, the stronger became the negation."
306: being, nothing, becoming . . . dynamic logic.
307 'Reason, or the "world spirit" came to light first and foremost in the interplay of people.
308: World spirit becomes conscious in three stages: subjective - individual; (pure life, T = 1)objective - society; absolute - art, religion, philosophy (pure formalism T = infinity)
309 Søren Aarby Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)
313 Interplay between individualism and unity - here lies the generalised geodesic - the bigger you are relative to other sources of field (language) in your vicinity, the more you go your own way (sun vs planets),
314 K wrote a thesis aged 27 "on the Concept of Irony"
315 Socratic Irony: "existentialist thinker draws his entire existence into his philosophical reflection."
Kierkegaard: truth for me vs objective truth.
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'significant choices; highlight our existence - every act is a significant choice. Executing (n is a natural number) constrains the future at the point of execution. n is a name, natural number is a name space.
316 Kierkegaard - Darwin
"You don't think about the law of cause and effect when you are in the middle of your first kiss."
317: Kierkegaard: "If I am capable of grasping God objectively I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe. [If you want to have such a God.] If I wish to preserve myself in faith I must constantly be intent upon holding fast the objective uncertainty, so as to remain out upon the deep, over seventy thousand fathoms of water, still preserving my faith." [Seems like unnecessary thrillseeking - why not have a faith that is fully consistent with the experience of life?]
Quantum of action is the unit of action as a currency,. The physical dollar.
K feared impotence: a loss of religious passion!
credo qui absurdum
decried conformity: angry young clergyman / victim of father . . .
Jesus was a victim of his Father: a very dyslexic Trinity.
3 stages of life: aesthetic, ethical, religious.
'I am a smarty pants because I have changed stages, unlike you masses' - did he know them? . . .
319: "Even a dutiful person will eventually get tired of always being dedicated and meticulous. Lots of people experience a fatigue reaction late in life. Some relapse into the reflective life of their aesthetic stage.
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Some leap to the religious stage "jump into the abyss"
(stupid unless you can truly trust the faith)
318: "terrible leap into the open arms of the living God [religion of desperation].
320 Karl Marx (1818 - 1883) . . .
326: Era of great philosophical systems ended with Hegel [and then came scientific systems]
Marx: Till now "philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it" [and E8 - E9 died] - but is Marx right? Plato was also a politician.
"to a great extent it is the material factors in life that determine how we think [until we become rich enough spiritually]
327: Hegel: Spirit drives matter; Marx: matter drives spirit. Einstein both, ie simple (part) drives complex (whole) and vice versa. . . .
329 labour: "When a man works he interacts with [the rest of] nature and transforms it. By this process nature also interacts with man and transforms his consciousness."
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330: capitalism --> alienation. [not a necessary connection, and so one to change so that we can have the benefits of capitalism and involvement].
331: 1848 Communist Manifesto [conscious corrective feedback]
332: Marx "In the end the proletariat rises and takes over the means of production" again simplistic; never happened' capital and wages reach an equilibrium.
333 "dictatorship of the proletariat" --> classless society [entropy reduction only possible by violence]
335 Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882)
337: Naturalistic "A naturalistic scientist will exclusively rely on natural phenomena - not on either rationalistic suppositions or any form of divine revelation." [given that nature is not divine] . . .
343: Platonic species do not vary (there is only one of them). Similarly Catholic theology does not vary so it cannot evolve. . . .
357 Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
358: Freud extrapolated the Newtonian ideas of force and potential to human mental life, as Marx had done to human socioeconomic life. . . .
359: Freud revealed the effects of repression (= sublimation) Victorianism.
archeology of the soul.
266: Artists became interested in people's unconscious mental life. . . .
John-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980) "existentialism is humanism"
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379 Existence takes priority over essence [another groundless ordering]
according to Sartre, man has no innate 'nature'/ Man must create himself. He must create his own nature or essence because it is not fixed in advance [so I want to be a profitable prophet]
Sartre: when people realise they are alive and will one day die - and there is no meaning to cling to - they experience angst.
alien in a world without meaning - "Man's feeling of alienation in the world creates a sense of despair, boredom, nausea and absurdity."
"man is condemned to be free" - condemned to make choices.
380: "to exist is to create your own life"
381: Simone de Bouvoir rejected preordained roles for men and women. . . .
423 LIFE --> TEXT; TEXT --> LIFE = ALEPH(0) --> ALEPH(1)
Max Jammer: Concepts of Force. Jammer.
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FORCE - moving and structuring (destructuring) agent = PERMUTATOR
page 1: Force is a fundamental and primordial notion in physical theory and 'taken for granted' . . .
7: force taken originally in analogy to human willpower, spiritual influence and muscular effort. or maybe we started with momentum, the charge of the buffalo, the 'force' of the missile. . . .
15 FORCE = CAUSE
Fluid = every particle can interact with every other; semi-fluid = fluids separated by non-fluid barriers.
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19: Egyptian divinity of 'force' Spiegel berg "This abstract concept of 'force', with its attribute 'divine' as stated explicitly in the inscription was conceived as a personal deity."
Bonnet: 'I has to be interpreted as forces, conceived as personal beings, emanating from a deity."
20: Anu (stasis) and Enlil (action)
Indeed [Anu's] will is the unwritten living constitution of the Mesopotamian world state. But whenever force enters the picture, when the cosmic state is enforcing its will against opposition, then Enlil take the centre of the stage. (Jacobsen)
Force - voice. Core of force is structure, compare momentum in quantum mechanics.
21: "Judaism transformed the concept of force into ethical power"
shaddai = pantokrator = omnipotens.
22 god <__> maximum force (there is no maximum, only a minimum)
Zeus is subject to Moira.
24: Force in Greek science
"[Early cosmologists] regarding the substance of the world as organic and immortal, they felt no difficulty about the cause of motion and did not raise the question of its possible origin."
26 Anaxagoras: FORCE = MIND (literature).
29: "For Plato reality is endowed with motion because nature has an immortal soul [undying software = text = DNA]
30: Plato the definition of being is simply power. Power to act. . . .
40: If it has a life of its won, it does not need a force to move it; or we would say the motive forces are generated internally (by muscles and motors in general).
42: "Posidonius . . . who posits force as the primary and most fundamental notion in his natural philosophy, conceives force as an expression of linking [communication, bonding]. and simultaneous with the two objects related thereby. . . . " The Universe becomes one single whole by the interaction of a system of forces.
GOD IS COMPLETE? ONE? --> both relate to consistency,
Complete means we cannot go outside it, but it can still grow. . . .
Trinity is an aspect of transfinity. Even thoughts are actions. . . .
Tuesday 25 March 2003
Wednesday 26 March 2003
"ironic that the web, originally intended as an unjammable military communication tool, is rapidly becoming our greatest protector against the lies of war."
Thursday 27 March 2003
Friday 28 March 2003
Jammer: . . .
48: Philo To act is the property of God, and this we may not assign to any created thing; the property of the created is to suffer. (De Cherubim, 24, 77) Philo.
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50: Monotheism Judah ben Samuel Halevi: "Prior to Judaism, he maintains, every process of motion in nature was conceived as enacted by a separate divinity; the plural form of God's name, he claims, is reminiscent of that time, until, with the advent of Judaism all forces were held to have their origin and fount in the Only One.'
THE TRANSFINITY
Angels are the particles which transmit God's force.
51: "It would lead us too far astray to discuss Aquinas' identification of motion with the intellectual desire of the good-in-itself, a series of syllogistic conclusions by which he attempts to correlate kinematic or dynamic concepts with ethical notions."
"How is celestial body united to intelligence" Why postulate a split in the first place? Bit like the idea that waves guide particles, instead of being inherent in them.
53: Duhem "If one wishes to draw a line of separation between ancient and modern science, it must [?] be drawn at the instant when Jan Buridan conceived his theory of momentum, when he gave up the idea that stars are kept in motion by certain divine intelligences and when he proclaimed that both celestial and earthly motions are subject to the same mathematical laws." . . . Duhem.
TEXT <--> LIFE. We can make a logically sound computer (proof, text, log) from any distinguishable physical objects, no matter how big or small. The internal processes of the parts are irrelevant to the computer.
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The only power you have got going for you is violence. . . .
Every explanation is a text, ie not an entity. . . .
Just as a body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion so a quantum systems maintains its frequency of action unless its energy is changed.
71: Nicholas of Cusa: Motion is a state, ie something inhering inhering in the moving object put there by the mover.
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'the spirit of motion, evoked by the child, exists invisibly in the top. . . .
81: Kepler - quantitative conception of force.
100: Galileo understands force by comparing it to force, so we have no further understanding of the nature of force,m but we do have arithmetic expressions for the relationship of one force to another (and geometric expressions).
In general we can only represent formal static textual things in writing [history] : not the dynamic essence of things, but their relationships, all of which boil down to counting in a quantum world. So in physics all names like action, force, mass, momentum are counts of a certain relationship (measurement).
Eye counts photons into bins of angle, colour and intensity.
101: "It is clear that the impelling force acting on a body in descent is equal to the resistance or least forces needed to hod it at rest. In order to measure this force and resistance I propose to use the weight of another body" Galileo, Dialogues concerning Two New Sciences. Galileo.
Natural theology in the end proposes a set of things to measure and a set of relationships between them plus various calculated parameters to be adjusted on the basis of the theological model to bring peace.
eg bonding, not-bonding, love, not-love, decrease in energy, decrease in stress-energy.
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"His great restraint, which for Burt is evidence of Galileo's revolutionary greatness."
102: "You are out, Simplicius: you say that everyone knows it is called gravity and I do not question you about the name but about the essence (essenza) of the thing." Galileo Dialogue on the Great World Systems. Galileo.
ESSENCE - HOW IT WORKS eg the essence of the internal combustion engine is that it exploits the laws of physics to extract zero entropy energy out of the transfer of energy at constant entropy from a hot body to a cold one. The theoretical basis of this process which is reversible and so conserves entropy.
The revolution that lies at the heart of natural theology is to see the world as a functioning system (how it works) in which we are functioning parts and can see how to move to come into harmony with that system.
The transfinite network is a creative dynamic system. . . .
At this moment, writing what seems to me to be good stuff into the website my life is perfect. This perfection is measured by the fact that I think that I am acting in the most productive (least action) way to help both myself and my world. Even though we always have some war in our midst, we hold that long term and careful planning is the way out. What I see is necessary is the development of a theological package that can be operated by any careful and thinking bureaucrat so as to evoke the most peaceful outcome from any situation which might occur during his work of being part of the central nervous system of a troubled nation like America.
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Saturday 29 March 2003
I think I write this every few years but now I think I have reached the apogee of my life's orbit and can begin the path to perigee, ultimately beneath the surface of the earth,
I feel global dangers like the third world war, ie the fifty years war whose integrated destruction [may] have exceeded all other wars. This war has dominated my life and kept me in a state of panicky need to do something about it. Early on, I concluded that diversity of religion was a source of war, since religious groups are always (if successful) growing and exerting pressure on their neighbours. The answer then is global unity in religion. We may preserve local details, but the global need is to manage and unify our diversity into a whole. With my scientific background I felt the need for a mathematical model to found this view, and I am happy with the transfinite network. it is big enough to model any reasonable god, including one that goes on creating itself forever.
So the model is in hand, and the website is coming along. As it slowly gels, I can see its structure more clearly and can go on with the process of adding pages and adjusting the existing structure to fit. When the personal site reaches a kind of completion (say 2 years) we can then give the theoretical side another makeover white transferring it to the Company site. By that time I hope everything will be clear enough to write quite a concise and powerful book.
All that is necessary now is to earn enough to live, and to patiently assemble the parts of the theology as we try to discern the essence of God, that is how god works, which is like knowing how we work and how the world works. All this is a by-product of the scale invariance of networks of agents.
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AGENT = ACTOR = PERSON = ENTITY (you name it)
One also hopes that we are coming to the end of the lonely part of the job because it is taking a shape that can be shared and may have emerged sufficiently form the mist to provoke debate and interest. . . .
The tension in time of difficulty is to see how to act for the best to maximise productivity, ie progress toward fulfilment of a need per unit effort. The game has been to earn adequate income while maximising my input to a theory of peace, and to meet my social responsibilities. All of these activities are under stress because an answer is needed to prevent further loss. One can see in a way that to bring peace we need to evangelise the US in the same way as the early Christian evangelised Rome. The Pax Romana in a way created the conditions for its own intellectual sublimation in Christianity, but Christianity itself has now assumed the conservative role and we need a new breakthrough in our view of heaven. A new conceptualisation of our goal might lead to new ideas about the world necessary to get there. So our religion needs to create a social matrix for our forces of acquisition and production.,
The thermodynamic processes driven by Earth's position between the sun and empty space places the first constraints on life on Earth. . . .
momentum = text density = spatial frequency?
MEASUREMENT = HALTING.
The system halts and utters a result (measurement) which can be written down and preserved for comparison with other measurements.
Jammer
page 117: Newton's general considerations about force are methodologically related to his study of gravitation because the problem of a dynamical explanation of planetary motions to account for Kepler's three laws was the question of the hour.
page 119: Newton: "I offer this work as the mathematical principles of philosophy for the whole burden of philosophy seems to consist in this - from the phenomena of motions [eg children playing, worlds colliding etc] to investigate the forces of nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate [deduce?] the other phenomena' Motte's translation page xvii
Inertia only shows itself when we try to change the state of motion of a body .
F = ma
Fs = work
Ft = impulse = mat = mv
page 124: "Force for Newton was a concept given a priori, intuitively and ultimately in analogy to human muscular force".
page 125: Einstein: "Newton himself was better aware of the weaknesses inherent in his intellectual edifice that the generations of learned scientists which followed him. This
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fact has always aroused my deep admiration. Crown, NY, 1954 page 257.
The most important feature of force is its algebraic and vector properties.
page 132: Superposition of forces and the parallelogram rule.
page 141: "To sum up, the concept of gravitational force is an ultimately irreducible notion in Newton's conceptual scheme of physical science."
page 148: Commentaries on Newton: "Force and gravitation were thus conceived as manifestations par excellence of divine omnipresence and omnipotence."
FORCE CORRELATES (CAUSE CORRELATES) FORCE PERMUTES
evolution - speciation - quantisation - error correction - distance
Every moment is a new layer and we model the moment by the construction of a new layer.
Why 3D? Why time? Why quantum?
All these things to be understood by logical confinement and the statistical properties of the transfinite network. But can the transfinite network do it. The ESSENCE of the transfinite network is how it works, how, in particular, it creates itself. The interplay between dynamos and adynamos (singular adynamon). - Same mechanism as the evolution of life. So we assume that things that are 'put somewhere' ie into a given state, ie at a given point in the transfinite network, stay there until they are moved. All motion is controlled by the permutation gauge because the Universe is full, one thing cannot move without moving something else. MOTION = CHANGE OF MAPPING.
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Every machine (entity) in a network carries some sort of map of the whole (protocol)
Model: often the transfinite but we settle down to the study of real computer networks and using the principle of finitism expand their properties to the transfinite domain and apply transfinite arithmetic to them.
-transfinite groups
-transfinite quantum mechanics
-mind is so fleeting. The other thing has gone but it will come back
to me.
TEXT --> ACT
ACT --> TEXT
Sophie's world is an essay on the coupling between drama and text, as is Gödel, Escher, Back: an Eternal Golden Braid. Hofstadter.
Heisenberg: Uncertainty is the distance between discrete points in the quantum code space - discrete points are states - either discrete (in the atom) or continuous (outside = free). [degrees of freedom = degrees of continuity = peacefulness] . Heisenberg.
