Notes
[Notebook: DB 58 Bringing god home]
[Sunday 12 March 2006 - Saturday 18 March 2006]
Sunday 12 March 2006
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Monday 13 March 2006
Life is apparently perfect in all details (apart
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from breaking off a spark plug in my car engine) but I am very unhappy with myself. Why? Invisible (to me) unconscious forces at work shaping the emotional tone before they finally bubble to the top in an observable (formalizable) form. Wait and see subsequent entries here. For the time being I just maintain my life by doing what has to be done, starting with the dishes left over from the weekend party.
This is a root of human power, to keep going when things do not feel encouraging, using scientific and technological method.
Trading in the market like fishing = {knowledge, luck}
Tuesday 14 March 2006
The principle of invariance with respect to complexity hold son all layers of the transfinite network (which is forever spawning new processes). What changes from level to level is the meaning. If we pick a bit at random in the memories of the world's computers it might just be the least significant bit of a vague estimate of how many atoms of water thee are on the planet, or it might be the go/no go bit for an all out nuclear attack on some real or imagined enemy.
Can't get the car going. Seems time to abandon these childish tasks and get on with the natural religion project, which will presumably yield higher productivity in the long run.
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To buy (become involved with) or not to buy; to sell (liquidate a relationship) or not to sell. These are the trader's questions. And we are all traders with our environment because we cannot exist, that is correct our deficiencies, otherwise. I need you, one way or another
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in a more or less pressing way. The basic need I feel given my ideas of human symmetry, is that those who suffer be relieved of their suffering by religious, political, economic [etc means].
Each new theory (decoding) opens up new perspectives on the world. Both theory and environment evolve together.
A New History of the Cold war Gaddis
The Cold War was an example of odium theologicum, ie total non-commensurability of systems.
My car is off the road (hence the dirty fingerprints on this page), but I still feel the need to travel, which is possible though the Internet. Does this save fuel - we need a calculation of the energy needed to drive the whole Internet and divide this by the number of user hours to get a unit cost to compare to the unit cost per passenger of an hour of each other form of transport. We assume here equal satisfaction, ie people equally feel that they are getting somewhere.
Wednesday 15 March 2006
Thursday 16 March 2006
Friday 17 March 2006
Saturday 18 March 2006
Cold was was a war of ideas, command vs free enterprise, global control vs local control, etc. Gaddis page 83.
Love physical equivalent bonding, melting together, etc,
The quantum look is not exclusive, but superpositional, each element in the formal superposition having a certain probability of realization, given a certain 'preparation' ie 'initial conditions'.
The world embraces all possible 'initial conditions' = conditions = Cantor Universe,
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Periodic: any function shorter than the whole process must be periodic because it does not have enough variety to be aperiodic.
COMPLEX = PERIODIC
I have had (in my own mind) a confrontational attitude to the Roman Catholic Church for a long time (it has not noticed!) To take over, however, we must become diplomatic. We need to appeal to all those people in the old religions who are leading a double life, outwardly conforming while inwardly doubting and looking for something new.
The general run of communist parties shared the same fault as the Roman Catholic Church -- a delusion of historical infallibility. Gaddis page 186.
Text exerts force: in fact we might find text equivalent to potential, the geometric structure (like the nucleus of an atom) which shape the pace around itself and so the dynamics of entities [near it].
The natural world is a superposition of democracy, capitalism and socialism, each of which contributes [equally?] to survival.
Evolution is substrate neutral, ie invariant with respect to complexity. All we need is replication, [constancy and] variation and selection. Dennett page 341
On our definition, the esprit de corps of a group of assassins is also a religion.
Why do we do it? Because it brings pleasure, abates pain and insecurity, or best of all all at once. We feel pleasure when we move with a potential (toward beatitude), pain when we move against it, climbing hills. [?]
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We might say that the time constant of religion is in the range of 2-4 generations or longer, depending on the change per generation which depends in turn on the force, selective pressure or gradient of the potential.
I am hoping you can find some reviewers who can see some substance amid the confusion and misunderstanding and perhaps guide me to clearer expression,
The twentieth century witnessed vast transformations in human affairs and we postulate that these transitions (which are ongoing) are all consequences of the advantage that distributed processing has over centralized processing. In political terms, this maps to the difference between 'command' and 'free' societies.
We measure agents by the quality of their planning.
Every operation can be broken down to a list of what has to be done, ie an ALGORITHM.
A vector is a list of what has to be done and is normalized to one process. This is our interpretation of unitarity.
A complex number has two degree of freedom and each operation in the inner product involves two of these.
Extra processing power in a Turing machine allows it to check itself in a way that has exponential power so that the overheads are not too great: checksums. This allows error free computation in the deterministic domain, in other words there is a certain deterministic (error throughput) upper limit. This is the processor capacity. Since a processor is simply a set of channels, or a channel
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a set of processes transforming a symbol.
Now we are thinking of vectors as strings of symbols with rules for interaction which are encoded as operators.
Two complex numbers enter a gate.
Let us establish the convention hat theologians are even rougher in their treatment of mathematical niceties than physicists., the reason in both cases being that we assume that reality is mathematically perfect and that therefore as long as our arguments lead to results consistent with reality, we can assume that our mathematical blunders come very close to cancelling out.
In this vein, how do we relate the Hamming distance to distances in Hilbert space? We can say that elements of a wet with cardinal 2 have a hamming distance of 1 when their elements, are pi out of phase (and so add up to 0!) (sin x + sin(x+-pi)) = 0.
Inner product and complex numbers are arithmetic versions of the geometrical notion of angle and the measure of distance between (normalized) vectors is the angle between them/
So we can express Hamming distance as an angle.
The role of growth of Hilbert spaces by tensor production is the same exponential as the rate of growth of ordered sets of numbers, exponential.
