Notes

[Notebook: TURKEY DB 55]

[Sunday 27 July 2003 - Saturday 2 August 2003]

Sunday 27 July 2003

Monday 28 July 2003

Tuesday 29 July 2003

Wednesday 30 July 2003

Linguistics PhD for somebody 'Universal Language'. Looking at the record for the last few thousand years the human notion of the human place in the world seems to have been trending downhill. From the chosen children of God, specially created with an immortal soul, living on a special planet near a special sun, we are now a speck in an infinite Universe with no one to look after ourselves. The purpose of this thesis is to take all this one step forward. We still pride ourselves on having certain special features not shared by other entities. One of these is combinatorial language. This ability allows us to access any point in the infinite space of meaning by stringing together elements from a finite list of words (to be found in the relevant

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dictionary. Here we argue that this feature, far from being unique to humans is an expression of the basic algorithm by which the Universe has constructed itself (and us)

Language is a means of communication, and we begin with the mathematical theory of communication.

A number one virtue phronesis (practical wisdom) Aristotle Nichomachean Ethics. [phronesis: purpose, intention: high-mindedness; pride, presumption. Thoughtfulness, good sense, practical wisdom, prudence. Liddell and Scott.]

The purpose of engineering is to create predictable events. The scientific basis of this is cybernetics, which is founded on statistics, which is founded on measure theory, which is founded on set theory which is founded on counting. So we set out to chart a path from counting to a peaceful world.

We do not need common ideas to be one; only common communication principles and the implementation of justice in all peer sets (ie all sets)

justice - unity - measure theory Every unit in a peer group has equal weight. The equality of weight is in effect the definition of peerage, as in sporting weight classes.

USAGE vs COOPERATION: relationship between peers (cooperation) and not-peers (complex used simple)

POWER = f(COMPLEXITY)

COUNT - ORDER - MAPPING - FUNCTION - PERMUTATION

(So to understand counting, we need to begin with the space of permutations and vice versa.

Get Cantor in German Amazon.de.

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The more gutless (corrupt) the institutions of a society, the more courageous (supererogatory) the people need to be to keep the show on the road, other things (eg the overall level of resources) being equal.

Morris West Lazarus page 167. West

'The concept of Papal power . . . . Pius V had elaborated the proposition with breathtaking presumption . . . : He who reigns in Heaven, to whom is given all power in heaven and on earth, gave the One, Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, out of which there is no salvation, to be governed, in the fullness of authority, to one man only, that is to say, to Peter, the Prince of the Apostles, and to his successor, the Roman Pontiff. This one ruler he established as prince over all nations and kingdoms, to root up, destroy, dissipate, scatter, plant and build . . . '

Thursday 31 July 2003

Friday 1 August 2003

The word is made flesh: MATHEMATICS --> PHYSICS

J'accuse the 'Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith' of propagating bullshit.

West, Lazarus, page 249: 'I am going to abrogate the dark deeds of its history, the tyrannies of the Inquisition, the secrecy and inequity of its procedures. It is and always has been an instrument of repression. I am going to turn it into an instrument of witness against which not only our own doctrine, but our charity as a Christian Assembly, may be judged by all.

page 250: In 1542 Paul III, Allesandro Farnese founded the Sacred Congregation of the Inquisition.

Before the politics must come a reality, a viable (tested) method (founded in transfinite dynamics

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transfinite cybernetics. [a breakthrough like this, though at first only nomenclature, is well worth a few weeks waiting - another step toward an orthogonal basis of technical terms sufficient to describe the object (process) IO am trying to have in mind. The writing helps the thinking as the thinking affects the writing.

WRITING = CLASSICAL
THINKING = QUANTUM

West page 262: 'Are you saying you were not free when you entered the priesthood? That's the root question, isn't it. That's what I am going into the desert to answer.'

Sore fingers from unprotected brickwork.

page 256: 'It is the passion for action that destroys us all' (?)

Rather: thinking time must be proportional to power of action.

page 270: Roger Bacon: 'Princes are like to heavenly bodies which cause good or evil times and which have much veneration but no rest.'

page 279: '. . . the more questions you could leave open, the less danger there was of having your mistakes cast in bronze to endure for centuries.'

PROCESS is open to all PROCESSIBLES (eg (orange) juicer, computer)

Harry F Davis: Fourier Series and Orthogonal Functions. Davis

Davis page 2: 'A distinguishing characteristic of advanced mathematics is that a function is regarded as a single object, just as points, numbers and vectors are regarded as objects. ['unit']

Function in N are points in R.

function in aleph(n) are points in aleph(n+1).

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Quantum mechanics runs in Hilbert space. Hilbert space is said to be a function space, defined by the following axioms. . . . Hilbert space

The first output of transfinite dynamics might be a generalization of Boltzmann's law which parametrizes the difficulty of getting from A to B in terms of energy differences.

We can see our gradual acquisition of the ability to metabolize fossil fuel as an event impossible to happen by any one Boltzmann leap, because the probabilities are transfinitely small nevertheless being encompassed in less than a century by a countable number of little steps in drilling, piping, refining, utilization and exploration technology.

The inevitable progress of democracy is an entropy question (and fluctuation)

Humans must first become aware of the advantages of free society before they wish to embrace it, since it has its difficulties which we hope to understand better through the network model of society.

In terms of my voluntary motion, feeling is everything, The Roman Catholic Church maintains the fiction that we can control our feelings to the extent that we become alien to our own kind and do unnatural things in the name of an organization that constrains us away from nature.

ECONOMIST ESSAY: Unnatural constraint.

People will do what they have to to survive, and killing other people is well within the evolutionary specification. If we want to stop the killing, we have to change the specification of human action. This change is the process we call civilization.

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One does not have to 'know' what one is doing to live? True or false, depending on how we take 'know'. In the sense of conscious, communicable knowledge, it is true. We are motivated like all other forms of life by forces beyond our ken which we understand to have played a part in our evolution to our current state. On the other hand we can say that all purposeful action (like eating) must have a definite structure or form which makes it efficacious, as eating is a prerequisite for life.

Religion must cross this divide: humanity has evolved, it was not created in the traditional sense by a personal omnipotent, omniscient creator. On the other hand we may see the Universe as creator of itself, part of the self being us.

Sampson, Money Lenders p 17: 'However complex and mathematical the business has become, it still depends upon the assessment of trust by individuals with very human feelings.' Sampson

'It may be the most personal business of all, for it always depends upon the original concept of credit, meaning trust.

page 18: [Bank's] long suffering style assumes that their true value will never be appreciated.

BANKING: constructing an aggregate.

page 21: 'If you owe the bank enough money you own it.'

Football etc: It takes a very carefully designed structure to preserve the integrity of the competition.

The task is to attract capital by demonstrating the potential value of the property.

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The fundamental soundness of a bank, religion or any other spiritual good, is a superposition of careful measurement, correct arithmetic and trust. If the measurement or calculation become corrupted, the trust soon vanishes.

Let us say that religion is at root a spiritual bank. The error correcting and capital multiplying effects of a bank arise from its ability to reduce energy fluctuations by momentum.

page 93: Giannini: 'To serve the needs of others, the only legitimate business in the world today.'

Saturday 2 August 2003

Related sites

Concordat Watch

Revealing Vatican attempts to propagate its religion by international treaty

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Further reading

Books

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Davis, Harry F, Fourier Series and Orthogonal Functions, Dover 1963 Jacket: This incisive text deftly combines both theory and practical examples to introduce and explore Fourier series and orthogonal functions and applications of the Fourier method to the solutiuon of boundary-value problems. Directed to advanced undergraduate and graduate studients in mathematics as well as in physics and engineering, the book requires no prior knowledge of partial differential equations or advanced vector anbalysis. Students familiar with partial derivatives, multiple integrals, vecotrs and elementary differential equations will find the text both accessible and challenging.'  Amazon   back

Liddell, and Scott, A Lexicon: Abridged from Liddell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon, Clarendon Press 1963 Advertisement: 'The Abridgement of Liddell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon is intended chiefly for use in Schools. It has been reduced to its present compass by the omission I. Of passages cited as authorities .. II. Of discussions upon the Derivation of words; III. Of words used only by authors not read in Schools ... '  Amazon   back

Liddell, Henry George, and Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, Oxford University Press 1995 Amazon Book Description: 'Liddell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon is the most comprehensive and up-to-date ancient Greek dictionary in the world. It is used by every student of ancient Greek in the English-speaking world, and is an essential library and scholarly purchase there and in W. Europe and Japan. The main dictionary covers every surviving ancient Greek author and text discovered up to 1940, from the Pre-Classical Greek of the 11C - 8C BC (for example Homer and Hesiod), through Classical Greek (7C - 5C BC) to the Hellenistic Period, including the Greek Old and New Testaments. Entries list irregular inflections, and together with the definition, each sense includes citations from Greek authors illustrating usage. The Lexicon is Greek into English only, as are other ancient Greek dictionaries. This is the market expectation among both students and scholars. In 1968 the Lexicon was updated with a Supplement, which was available as a separate volume (until 1992) or bound together with the dictionary. Representing the culmination of 13 years' work, the new Revised Supplement is a complete replacement for the 1968 Supplement. Nearly twice the size of the 1968 edition, with over 20,000 entries, it adds to the dictionary words and forms from papyri and inscriptions discovered between 1940 and the 1990s as well as a host of other revisions, updatings, and corrections to the main dictionary. Linear B forms are shown within entries for the first time, and the Revised Supplement gives the dictionary a date-range from 1200 BC to 600 AD. It is fully cross-referenced to the main text but additions have been designed to be easily used without constant reference to the main text.'  Amazon   back

Monk, Ray, Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius, Vintage ex Jonathan Cape 1990 1990 Review: 'With a subject who demands passionate partisanship, whose words are so powerful but whose actions speak louder, it must have been hard to write this definitive, perceptive and lucid biography. Out goes Norman Malcolm's saintly Wittgenstein, Bartley's tortured, impossibly promiscuous Wittgenstein, and Brian McGuinness's bloodless, almost bodiless Wittgenstein. This Wittgenstein is the real human being: wholly balanced and happily eccentric ... ' The Times  Amazon   back

Porter, Roy, and Simon Schiama (foreword), Flesh in the Age of Reason, W W Norton and Company 2003 Jacket: 'How did we come to a modern understanding of our bodies and souls? What were the breakthroughs that allowed human beings to see themselves in a new light? Starting with the grim Britain of the Civil War era, with its punishing sense of the body as a corrupt vessel for the soul Roy Porter charts how, through figures as diverse as Locke, Swift, Johnson and Gibbon, ideas about medicine, politics, and religion fundamentally changed notions of self. He shows how the Enlightenment ... provided a lens through which we can best see the profound shift from the theocentric otherworldly Dark Ages to the modern, earthly, body-centered world we live intoday.'  Amazon   back

Sampson, Anthony, The Money Lenders, Peter Smith Publisher Inc 1988   Amazon   back

Schopenhauer, Arthur, The World as Will and Representation (Volume 1) (translated by E F J Payne), Dover 1969 Jacket: 'Arthur Schopenhauer's Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung is one of the most important philosophical works of the 19th century, the basic statement of one important stream of post-Kantian thought. It is without question Schopenhauer's greatest work, and, conceived and published before the philosopher was 30, and expanded 25 years later, it is the summation of a lifetime of thought.   Amazon   back

West, Morris, Lazarus, St Martins Press 1990 Amazon Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly: 'The Vatican trilogy that began with The Shoes of the Fisherman (1963) and The Clowns of God (1981) reaches a dramatic conclusion in West's bold limning of a modern pontiff presiding in a time of terrorism and violence. Leo XIV, a pope physically at risk as well as spiritually troubled, is unlike his warmly remembered predecessor, John XXIII. Reactionary and forbidding, out of touch with the faithful, Leo undergoes bypass surgery that puts him at the mercy of "Brother Death" and in the care of a Jewish Italian surgeon with Zionist connections. Amid political intrigue and counterespionage, both pope and physician become prime targets of Islamic terrorists. Convalescing, Leo experiences a "change of heart," considering abdication in favor of a simpler life. West's authoritative knowledge of labyrinthine Roman society provides a credible background for the gripping climax. ... ' Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.  Amazon   back

Papers

Georgi, Howard, "Flavour SU(3) Symmetries in Particle Physics", Physics Today, 41, 4, April 1988, page 29. 'My conclusion from all this is that the suppression of the effects arising from the flavour-changing neutral current of the weak interaction - and this suppression has been observed experimentally - is telling us something about the symmetry structure in the next layer of the structure of matter. I would bet that the concept of approximate flavour symmetry will be a basic organizing principle as we try to understand the physics at distances between 10-16 and 10-17 cm.'. back

York, Herbert F, "Making Weapons, Talking Peace", Physics Today, 41, 4, April 1988, page 40-52. 'A nuclear physicist and advisor to four Presidents, the author reflects on the development of nuclear weapons, the creation of a new lab to rival Los Alamos and the negotiation of the elusive comprehensive test ban treaty.' Tis article is adapted from Making Weapons, Talking peace: A Physicist's Odyssey from Hiroshima to Geneva. back

Links

Dominican Order - Wikipedia Dominican Order - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 'The Order of Preachers (Latin: Ordo Praedicatorum), after the 15th century more commonly known as the Dominican Order or Dominicans, is a Catholic religious order founded by Saint Dominic and approved by Pope Honorius III (1216-27) on 22 December 1216 in France. Membership in the Order includes friars,[1] congregations of active sisters, and lay persons affiliated with the order (formerly known as tertiaries, now Lay or Secular Dominicans).' back