Notes
[Notebook: DB 61 Warm]
[Sunday 27 May 2007 - Saturday 2 June 2007]
Sunday 27 May 2007
Monday 28 May 2007
An hypothesis: movement is caused by 'discomfort'. a degree of inconsistency on a scale 0 = inertial bliss to 1 = fatal error. We move to relive the discomfort, and exploiting the scale invariance of networks, postulate that all systems move when they are under stress, if possible. So we imprison people to punish them, restricting movement to increase discomfort. The decision to move is a function of the level of perceived inconsistency (need for reform) and the cost of movement. Presumably the fittest thing to do is to solve one;s problems with the minimum of action.
All this work is an attempt to move myself to be at peace with myself after being for a long time imprisoned in contradictory beliefs about my own nature. Without those contradictions (ie if I was a 'true believer") none of this would have happened.
The following ideas may well turn out to have a life of their own. . . .
Tuesday 29 May 2007
Wednesday 30 May 2007
[page 76]
Thursday 31 May 2007
An interpretation of the standard model.
The important thing about the numbers is not so much their size as their order. Both. [physics deals with size. Theory with order]
In quantum mechanical terms the messages in an error free channel are orthogonal so that the probability of one being confused with another is formally 0.
Peacock page 3: '. . . we say that special relativity requires all true physical relations to be written in terms of 4-vectors. Peacock
Peacock page 5: The rest mass (= internal processing rate, metabolism) of a particle is a relativistic invariant, independent of the gravitational (= network) environment in which [the] particle finds itself.
Computable = compressible which yields a speedup in the computation and s fitness.
KNOWLEDGE = PERCEIVING SYMMETRIES
The power of a symmetry is the number of cases it applies to. [the highest power belongs to the Cantor (set) symmetry, which applies at every observable point]
Gauge = coordinate system. Change of gauge is not observable; reality is independent of any gauge. [but in the realm of meaning, every particular gauge is a new reality, to us and beyond]
[page 77]
It is not hard to interpret quantum mechanics as information. A set of quantum events fulfills the information theoretic definition of a source, tat is an entity with an alphabet of letters emitted with a certain probability normalized to 1 over the whole alphabet.
