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Notes

[Notebook: Transfinite Field Theory DB 56]

[Sunday 7 September 2003 - Saturday 13 September 2003]

Sunday 7 September 2003

Monday 8 September 2003

Tuesday 9 September 2003

Wednesday 10 September 2003

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Thursday 11 September 2003

Iliad 239 (13:630 approx)

'Father Zeus, they say your wisdom is beyond all others, men and gods, and yet you are the source of all this, the way you favour these men of violence, these Trojans whose fighting fury has no limit, who cannot save themselves with the clash of levelling war. Men reach their fill of all things, even of sleep and love and sweet music and delightful dance, things in which a man would rather slake his pleasure than war: but the Trojans cannot have their fill of battle.' Homer

Pain comes from immobility. If one can move to reduce the pain, one may lead a painless life. So much suffering is caused by the Catholic doctrine that it is the one, holy, universal and apostolic church right on all counts, and all all these (both those who agree and disagree) are born to suffer and, if they bear it well, to go to heaven.

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Procrustean.

Iliad page 257: 'Well, if from now on ox-eyed queen Hera, you take your seat among the immortals with your thoughts the same as mine, then Poseidon, however contrary his wish, would quickly bend his purpose to follow your mind and my mind.'

Power is the ability to gain conformity in the minds of others? We seek not individual power but the power of god = reality, to which, as a foundation for survival, our minds should approximate.

Error, we see, reduces bandwidth and so blocks the creation of meaning. The creative pressure builds up and takes on a potential for evil, ie destruction of viable hardware (to be contrasted with natural death?) Agatha C, The Moving Finger etc etc etc. Christie

The big payoffs (and disasters) come when we travel distances, where we measure length by a metric in either physical or noetic space. We can construct theology in a Banach space if we could understand the meaning of the meaning of complete normed function space. We can thus take another step along the way by interpreting the transfinite network as a function space, vector space, Banach space, Hilbert space . . . 4-space. Thus the structure of mathematics represents the structure of mathematics, and so the process of recursive creation proceeds. Kreyszig. Kreyszig

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