Notes
[Notebook: DB 61 Warm]
[Sunday 17 June 2007 - Saturday 23 June 2007]
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Sunday 17 June 2007
Jesus was a Jewish reformer. Fredriksen, Haight, Thiering I must admit that I am a Catholic reformer. I want to refound and rationalize the Catholic organization.
Organization have to reform themselves in the light of changing circumstance. So we see coal and oil companies
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redefining themselves as energy companies, so opening their portfolios to a more diverse range of energy related profit centres.
Reform: put the traditional ingredients into a new relationship to one another,
One needs funding to grow. One can be selective or omnivorous in the consumption of funding. The best change of survival comes from not being choosy. So investigate Hillsong and similar institutions in the US. Hillsong US funding seems best, since it is the epicentre of fundamentalist contradictions.
The Theology Company as a consultancy.
Consultancy: applying tested methods to answering client's questions, ie solving their problems: how can I make this? Why did our bridge fall down?
Research: marketing the passage from uncertainty to certainty.
Consultancy: marketing certainties. So The Theology Company must b a theological research organization, looking for funding for a research project, ie an answer to an important question. Each theology must start by interpreting and answering the question does god exist?
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Development/Intro
The purpose of this part is to develop a systematic exposition of the ideas driving this site. We begin . . . with the method of exposing and testing these ideas. The ideas themselves are expressed in an informal mathematical model. We begin to expand and test the model by applying it to physics and biology. Finally e express the model in abstract cybernetic terms that apply to any system acting under one or more constraints. This cybernetic model is then turned to questions of mind and spirit is a prelude to a theology, a model of the whole which includes entities which can model the whole.
Armed with a theology, we now turn to applying it, first to the phrase 'god is love'. Love makes the world go round, but it needs to be guided by some knowledge of how god (= the world) works. The alphabet of love is culture, everything from opera to flowers, perfume and washing nappies, not to mention earning a living, cooking and cleaning and everything else necessary to keep lovers alive, preferably in comfort.
Religion, we suppose, is the unifying core of culture that provides creation stories, morality stories and other messages intended to guide culture in the ways of righteousness, which includes justice and respect for the environment in which it exists, at the price of self-extinction or at least shooting ourselves in the foot. Look what people have to put up with to live in a city.
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Religion guides politics, which in turn influences economics. The implementation of economic ideas requires design and work, all this ultimately bringing us the beatitude we desire.
This dream run [is] of course beset with hurdles that mean that even the most blessed life has its difficult times, the most difficult being periods of injury or death.
To achieve motion (change) a certain impact (as in driving a nail) [is necessary] to take a system past its elastic limits into a new shape (plastic deformation). This is the cybernetic explanation of the quantum of action. In the classical, continuous, friction less world, there is no minimum to the impact (or action) of an act.
This is the rational origin of suicide bombing, a very physical attempt to make an impact that will move the system away from a state causing pain to the suicide bombers and their connections. In terms of casualties per unit of political motion, it may be more efficient than conventional war but (we might ask) do we want the world to move in the directions particular bombers might favour? Or is it the effectively blind faith in their goal that armies instill into soldiers so that they will willingly enter situations where the probabilities of death, injury, pain and deprivation are very high. True religion emphasizes the peacemaking power and metanoia. [= change of mind]
War is the natural consequence of the interplay of human fitness and environmental carrying capacity.
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I am no suicide bomber, but I do find much of our current global situation disturbing, as also the rather dishonest and poorly planned and often corrupt processes that governments adopt in order to appear to deal with the sources of the trouble. The fighting is over lebensraum, economic, political and religious. To prevent conflict, we must increase human living space while at the same time respecting the living spaces of all the other inhabitants of our finite planet.
As soon as we begin to make combinatorial structures computing power becomes a limiting resource.
ModelIntro: All problems can be refined down to an 'unresolved duality'. The answer to the race problem, where different races consider themselves superior to others, is the implementation of 'human symmetry'. At least at the abstract social level, we are all identically human. The implementation of this symmetry is justice.
One of the root problems in science is the dichotomy between discrete and continuous quantities. It rears its ugly head in cosmology, where all attempts to unify discrete quantum mechanics and continuous gravitation have failed. The measure of the discrepancy is the ratio of the energy of the vacuum calculated in the standard model to the energy of the vacuum calculated by cosmologists using general relativity and astronomical observation. This ratio is about 120 orders of magnitude, 10120.
The derivation of the continuum from the 'discretum' is the subject of mathematical analysis, which grew from the problems
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of the calculus applied by Newton to his study of the heavens. Phillips
The work culminated with Georg Cantor whose meditations on the problem of continuity led him to the whole new world of set theory and transfinite numbers. From the Cantorian perspective, the whole mathematical world is discrete but parts of it look continuous when we look at them with low resolution. So water is atomic, but looks like a smooth fluid.
'Rise time' of democracy circa 100 years (ie until it becomes 'ingrained', 'fixed'. Until then there are always a few who may succeed to get power by unconstitutional methods.
A constitution is not a matter of pure chance but must be subject to many constraints like justice, otherwise it is an unjust (unfair) constitution.
Monday 18 June 2007
Tuesday 19 June 2007
Wednesday 20 June 2007
Thursday 21 June 2007
Friday 22 June 2007
Basically I am sick of repressive old fools like the Pope that think they have some special mandate to tell us what to do. This mandate is founded on a corporate interpretation of a set of texts chosen by the institution itself to give itself [credibility]. Such a castle in the air is not to be trusted.
Saturday 23 June 2007
Barnes, Capitalism 3.0 Barnes
To look with lust and disgust. Nature Jones
Symmetric Universe - symmetries make knowledge possible.
A feature of gutlessness (a viable strategy in some circumstances) is attempts to disempower the opposition, so as not to have to engage in a 'fair fight'. The broad task of religion is to structure society in such a way that corruption (ie erroneous feedback) does not pay. In other words, a social structure (or operating system) which encourages justice by acting against injustice.
