Notes
[Notebook: Transfinite field theory DB 56]
[Sunday 7 March 2004 - Saturday 13 March 2004]
Sunday 7 March 2004
Monday 8 March 2004
Tuesday 9 March 2004
Wednesday 10 March 2004
[page 55]
Thursday 11 March 2004
Islam - we must fit in with god. And the clearest and most
definite manifestation of god is the physical world. If we do not
respect the laws of physics, we are either killing ourselves or
killing somebody else. So physical theology, which
[page 56]
is based on the notions
a) all information = all pleasure and pain, is
physical; and
b) if we get the physics right we can increase pleasure and decrease
pain.
We recognize that reality is boss. But instead of leading to some
sort of fascist determinism, this state of affairs gives us a secure
foundation upon which to build a transfinity of possible worlds,
given the combinatorial nature of the world. The question is, which
of these possibilities should we choose, or should we choose at all?
KNOWLEDGE = MEASUREMENT = MAPPING
So a good place to study knowledge is in metric space. Even
topology is metric insofar as a topology expresses (measures) some
aspect of an object space.
Something = my data on something outside me = objective.
NUMBERS = METRIC = SET THEORY
If you can be immoral without hurting anyone but yourself, go for
it. But is this possible in a human community? Because between us all
there is a connection coefficient )say c, 0 =< c =< 1) which
means that to this extent, the fate of one is the fate of all. Many
others would suffer (to some degree) if I were to hurt myself, just
as my health benefits many.
Force arises only when there is communication. If there is no
contact thee is no contact and no force either.
[page 57]
Physics is the most abstract science and theology the most
complex, where by abstraction (0 =< a =< 1) = 1/complexity. God
is so complex that we can say that 1/god = 0, and god/god = 1.
Let the set of all inaccessible cardinals be called god.
Slogan: Quantum mechanics in its full mathematical glory =
METAPHYSICS.
There is no information without entropy.
All information is physical and all information has cost and
value. The value has two components
1) the meaning of the information, ie does this
knowledge carry much weight.
2) the certainty of the information.
Is this a war effort? All life requires effort. Some in chains in
the Gulags have to exert every ounce of their energy under the whips
of their captors to earn bare sustenance or less. Others can make
themselves millions as the touch of a keyboard. History and luck play
a part in individual lives as well as personal effort. So how hard
should we work?
Taking a long view of history we can see that much of Catholic
dogma arises from political and corporate motivations. Beginning with
Plato, who wised to protect the antiseptic world of philosopher kings
from the messy world of democracy, the popes. bishops, cardinals and
priests have defended a fantasy world of gods, angels and heaven
which has kept them in power and luxury while placating people with
the belief that if they endure a short life
[page 58]
of nastiness, they will reap an eternal reward.
Friday 12 March 2004
Saturday 13 March 2004
|
Related sites
Concordat Watch Revealing Vatican attempts to propagate its religion by international treaty
Copyright:
You may copy this material freely provided only that you quote fairly and provide a link (or reference) to your source.
Further reading
Books
Click on the "Amazon" link below each book entry to see details of a book (and possibly buy it!)
Aquinas, Thomas, Summa Theologica (translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province), Tabor Publishing 1981 'Brother Thomas raised new problems in his teaching, invented a new method, used new systems of proof. To hear him teach a new doctrine, with new arguments, one could not doubt that God, by the irradiation of this new light and by the novelty of this inspiration, gave him the power to teach, by the spoken and written word, new opinions and new knowledge.' (William of Tocco, T's first biographer)
Amazon
back |
| Keynes, John Maynard, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, Macmillan 1936-1964 The classic twentieth century economics text that revealed that there are more ways to get an economy to grow than simply balancing the books.back |
Kolmogorov, A N , and Nathan Morrison (Translator) (With an added bibliography by A T Bharucha-Reid), Foundations of the Theory of Probability, Chelsea 1956 Preface: 'The purpose of this monograph is to give an axiomatic foundation for the theory of probability. ... This task would have been a rather hopeless one before the introduction of Lebesgue's theories of measure and integration. However, after Lebesgue's publication of his investigations, the analogies between measure of a set and mathematical expectation of a random variable became apparent. These analogies allowed of further extensions; thus, for example, various properties of independent random variables were seen to be incomplete analogy with the corresponding properties of orthogonal functions ... '
Amazon
back |
Malthus, Thomas, and Davis Souden (Editor), Works of Thomas Robert Malthus, Pickering & Chatto Ltd 1986 Amazon Product Description
'The Pickering Masters "Works of Thomas Robert Malthus" is the first and only collected edition of the works of this major thinker. Texts have been edited by an expert team to reflect the development of Malthus' thought. The collation of the texts of different editions of his major works show, both in small details and in the substantial development of the argument, the progression of the writer's ideas. Texts of the first and second editions of the "Principles of Political Economy" and of the second and sixth editions of the "Essay on the Principle of Population" have been collated and variant readings printed as footnotes. The first edition of Malthus' most famous book, the "Essay", is essentially a different work from the second and subsequent editions, and is here printed complete.'
Amazon
back |
Stephenson, Carl, and Frederick G Marcham, Sources of English Constitutional History: Volume II: A Selection of Documents from the Interregnum to the Present, Addison-Wesley Educational 1990 Jacket: '. . . All major parliamentary acts and proceedings are included, allowing the reader to trace the development of the British political stance from the constitutional experiment of the Interregnum to the present. Important new documents and a new bibliography are included in this edition.'
Amazon
back |
| Stiglitz, Joseph E, Freefall: America, Free Markets and the Sinking of the World Economy, W. W. Norton & Company 2010 Amazon Product Description
' . . . The Great Recession, as it has come to be called, has impacted more people worldwide than any crisis since the Great Depression.
Few are more qualified to comment during this turbulent time than Joseph E. Stiglitz. Winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics, Stiglitz is “an insanely great economist, in ways you can’t really appreciate unless you’re deep into the field” (Paul Krugman, New York Times). In Freefall, Stiglitz traces the origins of the Great Recession, eschewing easy answers and demolishing the contention that America needs more billion-dollar bailouts and free passes to those “too big to fail,” while also outlining the alternatives and revealing that even now there are choices ahead that can make a difference. The system is broken, and we can only fix it by examining the underlying theories that have led us into this new “bubble capitalism.” '
Amazon
back |
Papers
| Hulme, Mike, et al, "Relative impacts of human-induced climate change and natural climate variability", Nture, 397, 6721, 25 February 1999, page 688-691. 'Assessments of the regional impacts of human-induced climate change on a wide range of social and environmental systems are fundamental for determining the appropriate policy responses to climate change. Yet regional-scale impact assessments are fraught with difficulties, such as the uncertainties of regional climate-change prediction, the specification of appropriate environmental-response models, and the interpretation of impact results in the context of future socio-economic and technological change6. The effects of such confounding factors on estimates of climate-change impacts have only been poorly explored. Here we use results from recent global climate simulations and two environmental response models to consider systematically the effects of natural climate variability (30-year timescales) and future climate-change uncertainties on river runoff and agricultural potential in Europe. We find that, for some regions, the impacts of human-induced climate change by 2050 will be undetectable relative to those due to natural multi-decadal climate variability. If misleading assessments of—and inappropriate adaptation strategies to—climate-change impacts are to be avoided, future studies should consider the impacts of natural multi-decadal climate variability alongside those of human-induced climate change.'. back |
| Nowak, Martin A, Joshua B Plotkin and Vincent A A Jansen, "The evolution of syntactic communication", Nature, 404, 6777, 30 March 2000, page 495-498. Letters to Nature: 'Animal communication is typically non-syntactic, which means that signals refer to whole situations. Human language is syntactic, and signals consist of discrete components that have their own meaning. Syntax is requisite for taking advantage of combinatorics, that is 'making infinite use of finite means'. ... Here we present a model for the population dynamics of language evolution, define the basic reproductive ratio of words and calculate the maximum size of a lexicon.'. back |
Links
| Boltzmann constant - Wikipedia Boltzmann constant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 'The Boltzmann constant (k or kB) is the physical constant relating energy at the particle level with temperature observed at the bulk level.'Values of k[ Units
1.380 6504(24) × 10−23 J K−1
8.617 343(15) × 10−5 eV K−1
1.380 6504(24) × 10−16 erg K−1 back |
| Lebesgue integration - Wikipedia Lebesgue integration - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 'In mathematics, Lebesgue integration refers to both the general theory of integration of a function with respect to a general measure, and to the specific case of integration of a function defined on a sub-domain of the real line or a higher dimensional Euclidean space with respect to the Lebesgue measure. This article focuses on the more general concept.' back |
| Paganism - Wikipedia Paganism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 'Paganism (from Latin paganus, meaning "country dweller", "rustic") is a blanket term used to refer to various polytheistic, non Abrahamic religious traditions. Its exact definition may vary: It is primarily used in a historical context, referring to Greco-Roman polytheism as well as the polytheistic traditions of Europe before Christianization. In a wider sense, extended to contemporary religions, it includes most of the Eastern religions, and the indigenous traditions of the Americas, Central Asia and Africa, as well as non-Abrahamic folk religion in general. More narrow definitions will not include any of the world religions and restrict the term to local or rural currents not organized as civil religions. Characteristic of pagan traditions is the absence of proselytism and the presence of a living mythology which explains religious practice. back |
| Planck's constant - Wikipedia Planck's constant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 'The Planck constant (denoted h) is a physical constant that is used to describe the sizes of quanta. It plays a central part in the theory of quantum mechanics, and is named after Max Planck, one of the founders of quantum theory.. back |
Teresa Cerojano Phillipine health chief, chiurch fight over condoms The Associated Press
Monday, March 8, 2010; 3:21 AM
'MANILA, Philippines -- On Valentine's Day, Philippine government health workers hit the streets of Manila to hand out roses and condoms to passers-by.
The message was clear in a country with a relatively small but rapidly growing HIV-positive population: Avoid unprotected sex.
It didn't get far. Within days, leaders of the powerful Roman Catholic Church began urging the faithful to reject condoms, reigniting a long-running battle over contraception in the overwhelmingly Catholic nation ." back |
|
