Notes
[Notebook: TURKEY DB 55]
[Sunday 11 May 2003 - Saturday 17 May 2003]
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Sunday 11 May 2003
Mother's day. The practical core of peacemaking is to avoid overloading individuals. This requires a means of detecting and relieving individuals approaching overload. The detection maybe done by the individual and communicated to others who will [help]'
The detection and reduction of stress is the function
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of social welfare. We recommend the practice of preemptive welfare as the most efficient for unifying the world. But does the world want to be unified? Let us all be free to log on or not.
Social nuancing of the free market is permissible, just like the biological nuancing of biology. At all times, we are changing probabilities by changing structures and rates. Back to Boltzmann's law.
At the physical end of the building trade we have the actual construction of buildings with their physical costs to the world and their physical benefits to the occupants. At the other extreme, we have the metaphysics of property and the rule of law, security, exchange of value and all the things which form the environment in which it is possible to own and construct a dwelling, make a living, and subscribe to all the services that occupants need for work and recreation.
Monday 12 May 2003
We may see a field as a elective pressure, either apodictic = 1 of of lesser influence (< 1)
Frames of reference are public or private, relatively. Generally covariant frames are fully public. Completely bound frames (eg Roman Catholic Church theology) are fully private (to the RCC, but public to its members)
We study physics by studying the transformations between frames of reference that make physical frame public by establishing communication links between them. All private frames communicate gravitationally so that all can be publicly known and acted on, giving us general covariance and the large scale structure of spacetime.
To imagine transformation, we imagine two copies of the Cantor Universe and a set of Turing machines acting between them, transforming one point in one to the same or another point in the other. The number of different Turing machines that halt is ℵ0, the actual number of halting machines, defined by their
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environment is unlimited, ie same machine operating between different addresses.
A confident idea will promote itself. Communicate = copy with or without erasure. At the physical level we have erasure [creation of one state = annihilation of another, no cloning], at higher levels we may have duplication.
The ease of human life is a function of two variables, the environment n general, and how well we look after each other in particular. The gold standard of nurture of loving and intelligent parenthood. In different species parental support ranges from almost nil where parents mix eggs and sperm in the environment and move on to continue their life unheeding. At the other extreme, the young of many species demand all the disposable energy of one or both parents for an extended period.
One can devise multiplexing algorithms (based on theory and observation) which integrate the total of the various levels of care that need to be delivered by society where nobody misses out unless they opt out. This gives us some measure of the peer to peer human resources needed to meet human needs. This, hopefully, is less that the amount of care available in the society, so that this surplus human energy can go into production of the material necessities of life, ie what we might call, relative to spiritual, the physical level.
CARE: SPIRITUAL CARE; MATERIAL CARE.
One effect of a more realistic religion would be to emphasize again that we are all divine and priestly as well as human, so that spiritual care cannot
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monopolized by the few who market a particular brand of spiritual care based on a certain model of spirituality, a model that on the whole divides creation into the spiritual few and the material masses. This is a broken symmetry which must be fixed, so that we are all brought up to treat everyone as holy, and in no way alien. A tall order, but relatively easy of we meet as human individuals and not as representatives of any corporate entity. Here we have the foundation of openness in individual communication that will undermine the secrecies and distortions of government.
To obtain this symmetry, however, we have to break the nexus between individuals and wealth so that wealth is shared in a way that reduces the need to resort to unfair economic practices to make a living. So every born person is to be able to share directly in the wealth of all (and vice versa) to a degree which might ultimately be able to find itself in a global sharing network once called the Bank of Earth. (Essay on the Divinity of Money: Money May 1992)
Can a Turing Machine map the Cantor Universe onto itself? At the elemental level, yes, but at higher levels by relationship only. But that does not capture the full power of the thing, because really related actions can form actions more powerful than a Turing machine, which is a set of concurrent and communicating Turing machines. This is what we think the transfinite network is, but there is a lot to be learned about the interface between the physical and the logical elements of the Universe. These terms are related by an analogous dichotomy, the distinction between matter and spirit.
The interplay between the physical and the logical is given meaning by the hypothesis that all information is encoded physically, and its corollary, all physical systems encode information. This is tantamount (intuition urges) to the statement that physics is mathematics incarnate (because it is the transfinite network incarnate that is physics.) This is confused, but we will get there. The
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idea of the correct classical limit can sometimes guide us. Here we are saying that we (and our planet etc) are part of the life of god, whereas the classicists saw us and everything around us as a puppet animated by God and so representing God in a second hand and diminished manner. We say that this is god happening now, no puppet. From an observable point of view indistinguishable (because god is infinitely clever and effective) but presenting a clean throat to Occam's razor and reflecting badly on what exactly God thinks it is doing by creating a toyland in which many creatures have a hard time.
The hard part about seeing physical and logical as identical is the long tradition of considering them as utterly distinct, one as dead mass and the other as animating spirit. Here we see in the the Universe logic (ie consistency in symbolic systems) taken to its transfinite limit of unbounded precision and size, containing nevertheless uncertainty and creativity, introduced into deterministic machines by communication, ie the ability to interrupt and modify each other.
POWER = INTERRUPT + FORCE (= DATA, ESSENCE)
I have power if I can change the mind of another entity, that is, correlate it with myself by delivering an effective message (as a virus does in a cell)
Every message is a virus, ie a code element or string which needs a cellular system to execute it. A system, on the other hand, comprises both code and executor, sop that it can act autonomously.
This is heaven; this is hell; this is everything.
(This is a tautology because by everything we mean this (including all our fantasies about what this might be)).
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By standards of evolutionary biological history, the human species and its environment is undergoing an extremely rapid transient. There is an urgent need to understand the dynamics of this transient if we are to have any hope of surfing it to a safe landing. So we offer transfinite dynamics.
A dynamics: the art of prediction and where available to us modification. One might say that the excessive growth of our impact on the planet has arisen through our recognition and appropriation of the dynamics of the Universe in which we find ourselves. Slowly, we recognized that knowledge is power. This knowledge and this power is embodied in the scientific element of our social structure.
Knowledge is not enough. One must also be able to make things happen to reap the benefits of knowledge in our physical, biological and social lives. Physically, our whole society depends upon the vast supplies of energy we learnt to capture, starting with the burning of biomass and then fossilized biomass, coal, oil and gas.
Biologically, we have, with the help of fossil fuel, developed a highly productive agriculture. In many cases our agricultural systems taken from farm to mouth, consume more energy in fossil fuel that they deliver to the mouths of consumers.
Socially, we have developed methods of mass communication, documentation and enforcement that characterise modern government.
Tuesday 13 May 2003
Wednesday 14 May 2003
Thursday 15 May 2003
Cinfinity --> transfinity
We have to capture the fact that structure exists in the Universe over a vast range of scales from subatomic to cosmic. At each scale, processes are peers, using comparable quantities of
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action to go about their evolution. As Maupertuis notices, action in the physical world is m.v.s = E.t
We measure the scale of an event by the action involved, from the smallest observed event, measuring one quantum of action to the event we call the Universe, whose action, we postulate, is the first transfinite cardinal, ℵ0, the cardinal of the set of natural numbers. (I seem to write this again and again, but each time with a bit more clarity and conviction). First I must convince myself. This seems to be a quality of prophets, that, even if deluded, they are convinced.
Friday 16 May 2003
Saturday 17 May 2003
The last five hundred year have seen our world expand immensely or, which is the same thing, have seen ourselves grow smaller and more powerless. Nowhere has this change been more extreme than in the domain of religion. Once we were the loved and protected children of a fatherly god. We has to pay a price, of course. Conforming to the rules made up by those creative generations who had evolved the gigantic physical and spiritual structure, the Roman Catholic Church. Although it claims absolute truth, the RCC is a human fiction. It does not fit the modern world very well but in its time it delivered such superior survival that it remains, directly and indirectly, one of the most powerful organizations on the planet providing the foundations of a belief system which controls most of the world's negotiable wealth.
Human fictions (constructs) may be intended either to mimic nature, in which case they are subject to testing, and we have science, or they are simply pure inventions of the human mind with more of less solid foundations in the scientific understanding of nature.
