Notes
[Notebook: Language DB 57 ]
[Sunday 3 October 2004 - Saturday 9 October 2004]
Sunday 3 October 2004
Monday 4 October 2004
Tuesday 5 October 2004
[page 11]
Wednesday 6 October 2004
[page 12]
Wake up in the morning worried, sore throat, so much to do etc, a
continuum of worries, each blending into the next. So lie in bed,
distinguish and order them, establish their topological structure to
see which are contained in which etc. Beginning from an unbounded set
of worries, One can then extinguish them in an efficient way,
beginning with the most potent. This is the advantage of having a
job, because it gives a fixed priority to one's thoughts and actions
because it imposes an order on the rest of them.
Discomfort (non-satisfaction) : the full satisfaction of a need
attains its boundaries, ie is a closed and onto mapping to all the
features of the state causing discomfort.
The gravy click, CONFIRM, at which point some value changes hands,
ie money is taken from my card and a book is dispatched to me. The
market establishes the 'gauge' measure between two carriers of value,
eg money and books.
Thursday 7 October 2004
Much of this stuff sounds pretty banal when I type it out for the
net, but it all needs to be put down and looked at. It is a sort of
shotgun sequencing of the physical state of my brain. Parallel to the
shotgun process is the rather slower and more tedious process of
assembling the fragments into a coherent whole. the
Development section of this
site.
[page 13]
Organization:
The personal site: naturaltheology.net
The profit oriented religion site physicaltheology.com
The not-for-profit scientific theology site atheology.org.
Accounts model the business world. We begin by converting all the
physical flows through the enterprise into cash flows. This task,
valuation, is something of a black art and sometimes abused. The,
given all the money numbers, they can be related by arithmetic
operations. What is added to or subtracted from what, what multiplied
and what divided is determined by the structure of the accounting
model used in the enterprise. In this manner does it become conscious
, in an abstract, way, of its fitness in the business environment.
Given this information, it can use the abstract model to explore ways
to increase its fitness, so growing and maybe reproducing the
business. The network of control systems in all complex entities is
generally isomorphic to this. Here we have the power of meaning. An
easily manipulated abstract model, once it has generated sufficient
trust [becomes an effective took for trying scenarios that would be
very expensive to implement in reality].
Friday 8 October 2004
Saturday 9 October 2004
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Farman-Farmaian, Sattareh, Daughter of Persia: A Woman's Journey from Her Father's Harem through the Islamic Revolution, Corgi Books 1993 From Publishers Weekly
'As founder in 1958 of the Tehranok/per book School of Social Work, Sattareh naively believed, "If one only avoided politics, one could achieve something constructive." After two decades of humanitarian efforts in Iranian family planning, day care, vocational programs and aid to the poor and prisoners' families, she was arrested in 1979 by Khomeini's machine-gun-toting teenage minions. Branded an "imperialist," she narrowly escaped execution and now lives in the U.S. The 15th of 36 children, Sattareh revered and feared her "all-powerful" father, a prince and governor. This dramatic if restrained autobiography, written with freelancer Munker, describes her patriarchal upbringing and her education at UCLA. She belatedly realized that "keeping our mouths shut let the Shah do what he wanted." Her memoir is actually most effective as a political document. She powerfully condemns the Eisenhower-backed coup that toppled democratic premier Mossadegh and installed ruthless dicatator Reza Shah Pahlavi, whose fascist secret police were trained and financed by the CIA. The Shah's corrupt, unjust regime, she graphically demonstrates, fueled explosive resentment that found an outlet in Khomeini's fanaticism.'
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc
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Feynman, Richard P , and Albert P Hibbs, Quantum Mechanics and Path Integrals, McGraw Hill 1965 Preface: 'The fundamental physical and mathematical concepts which underlie the path integral approach were first developed by R P Feynman in the course of his graduate studies at Princeton, ... . These early inquiries were involved with the problem of the infinte self-energy of the electron. In working on that problem, a "least action" principle was discovered [which] could deal succesfully with the infinity arising in the application of classical electrodynamics.' As described in this book. Feynam, inspired by Dirac, went on the develop this insight into a fruitful source of solutions to many quantum mechanical problems.
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Nielsen, Michael A, and Isaac L Chuang, Quantum Computation and Quantum Information, Cambridge University Press 2000 Review: A rigorous, comprehensive text on quantum information is timely. The study of quantum information and computation represents a particularly direct route to understanding quantum mechanics. Unlike the traditional route to quantum mechanics via Schrödinger 's equation and the hydrogen atom, the study of quantum information requires no calculus, merely a knowledge of complex numbers and matrix multiplication. In addition, quantum information processing gives direct access to the traditionally advanced topics of measurement of quantum systems and decoherence.' Seth Lloyd, Department of Quantum Mechanical Engineering, MIT, Nature 6876: vol 416 page 19, 7 March 2002.
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Seymour-Smith, Martin, Robert Graves: His Life and Work, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 1995 Introduction: 'Robert graves is unique in English letters: in his paradoxical versatility -- as brilliantly successful popular historical novelist, eccentric but erudite mythographer, translator, pungent and outspoken critic, and as arrogant poet oblivious to pubic opinion -- and in his lifelong refusal to conform. It is of course as a poet that he will be chiefly remembered, and by general readers as well as by critics, who are certain to accord him major status (a phrase he hates). But he will be remembered too as a man, as a personality and perhaps as a kind of prophet of 'the Return of the Goddess'.'
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Shuster, W Morgan, The Strangling of Persia, Higgins Press 1912, 2008 Review: "Outside Iran, hardly anyone recalls W. Morgan Shuster, or the 1907 Anglo-Russian agreement. Yet what happened then helps explain how Russia was shut out of the Persian Gulf and why Iranians behave as they do today. Before that pact, Iranians looked upon Russia as a traditional enemy and Britain as a well-meaning friend. Britain had aimed to keep all rivals, especially Russia, away from approaches to India, notably the Persian Gulf. The gulf was virtually a British lake, charted, mapped and cleared of pirated by the British Navy... Hardly had he arrived when Shuster became embroiled in a dispute with Russia over customs policy. He asked for, and was given, plenary powers, by Iran's national assembly. Czarist armies were soon marching on Tehran, demanding Shuster's removal. An embarrassed Britain, citing the 1907 pact, came to Russia's support. Shuster departed but then wrote a forceful book, The Strangling of Persia." -- The New York Times
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The Banach fixed point theorem gives a general criterion guaranteeing that, if it is satisfied, the procedure of iterating a function yields a fixed point.
By contrast, the Brouwer fixed point theorem is a non-constructive result: it says that any continuous function from the closed unit ball in n-dimensional Euclidean space to itself must have a fixed point, but it doesn't describe how to find the fixed point (See also Sperner's lemma).' back |
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