Notes
[Notebook: Language DB 57]
[Sunday 7 November 2004 - Saturday 13 November 2004]
Sunday 7 November 2004
Monday 8 November 2004
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Tuesday 9 November 2004
Summa Theologiae I, 50, 1: 'I reply that it is necessary to postulate certain incorporeal creatures. What God principally intended in created things is the good that consists in assimilation to God. The perfect assimilation of an effect to a cause is noticed when the effect imitates the cause in that very feature through which the cause produces its effect, as heat makes heat." Aquinas 261
The cause-effect relationship is a communication link. Communication correlates the recipient of a message with the sender. In full duplex communication, both terminals play both roles (simultaneously? or) sequentially. For meaningful communication, the roles must be sequential, ie I listen to you before O reply, and if the conversation is to get anywhere, my reply should be relevant to what you have said, provided that is relevant to what I last said, etc. In a
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'meaningful' conversation, each message builds on the last in a convergent series that ends in the communicants taking well defined positions with respect to one another. POSITION == STATE. Coordinates in a reference frame.
The entropy of a set is a function of its cardinal number.
Sharing : communication (other things being equal) (ie partial derivative) the more one shares the more powerful one becomes.
Symmetry with respect to complexity means that there are common solutions to problems at all levels of complexity. This immediately suggests that the best strategy is to narrow a problem down to the binary case and study this carefully to get clues to how things work in the transfinite domain, cantor's.
Stock market: picking turning points in a time series of prices.
I lead a heavenly existence, drawn and pushed forward by a stream of glimpses of divinity.
Economist 6 November 2004 page 14: '. . . the left emphasizing individual rights in social and civil matters, but not in economic life, and the right saying the converse.'
Wednesday 10 November 2004
Thursday 11 November 2004
Method is the 'differential equation' that governs the acquisition of true knowledge. It shows us how to construct an infinite series that converges on the truth.
Eigenvalues are invariants, things that are effectively unchanged by the action of the operator - stationary points.
FORCE == COMMUNICATION
Newton's 3 laws tell us the basic features of the interactions pyres between bodies. The law of universal gravitation particularizes these laws to forces with a particular set of properties (inverse square, proportional to mass = cardinal) Since N's time we have discovered three new forces which still obey the three laws. Newton
Natural theology and natural religion need no institutional specification of doctrine as we find in the Christian Churches because doctrine is already determined the the nature of the world and all we have to do is to look with insight to see what we need to (and need not) do.
