Notes
[Sunday 31 May 2009 - Saturday 6 June 2009]
[Notebook: DB 66 Turing Field]
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Sunday 31 May 2009
Judaeo-Christianity III: New Good News JCIII Judaeo-Christianity III
From a search point of view the more Christian terms we put in the site, the more hits we will get from Chrisitian communities.
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Algorithmic complexity is a measure of the amount of memory needed to store an algorithm. Much more memory may be needed to actually execute the algorithm. So the complexification of the Universe requires an increase in memory, ie entropy.
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1. Judaism
2. Christianity
3. jciii
Then we go through Denzinger and produce a trifurcation on every subject in the analytical index.
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Judaism : 1 God
Xianity : 1 God, 3 Persons
jciii : aleph gods, aleph persons, 1 God (something like)
Instead of the new destroying the old, as Xianity has tried to do with Judaism (and Xians to Jews), we see a progression, not in the overt, explicit (dogmatic, legislated) religion, but in the implicit, evolving, living religion.
Monday 1 June
As Xianity renovated Judaism, so we see iii a renovating Christianity. Christianity spread Judaism to a large part of the world, and we hope iii will include all religions in one
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scientific core or kernel which reflects the nature of the world.
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Tuesday 2 June
The Christian God is an inconsistent construct of omniscient simplicity. How can the huge amount of data needed for omniscience be coded into a system with no markers? Incomprehensible and meaningless, but nevertheless a necessary fiction for the existence of the Christian Churches, of which the principal is Roman Catholicism.
Corporate vs elementary personalities. An army may be a group of lovely guys who are friendly and get on well well together but from the point of view of the enemy, the corporate point of view, they are killers. The same with banks, churches and other corporations which may have very different personalities from their constituent persons. So all those lovely nuns who devoted so much time and love to our education may still constitute (corporately) an evil empire.
Greenieism: seeking absolution for a life of consumption. We will only be 100% good when 100% of our energy comes directly from the sun, 100% of our materials are recycled and our global footprint is in proportion to our biomass relative to all other biological life. A tall order, but achievable in a thousand years or so of our multibillion year future (until the sun dies, at least).
Wednesday 3 June
Thursday 4 June
Sproul Primal Myths Intro page 1: 'The most profound human questions are the ones that give rise to creation myths. Who are we? Why are we here? What is the purpose of our lives and deaths? How do we understand our place in the world, in time and in space? These are central questions of value and meaning, and while they are influenced by issues of fact, they are not in themselves factual questions; rather they involve attitudes toward fact and reality. As such, the issues they raise are addressed most directly by myths.' Sproul
Theology is the only academic [discipline with a] history of burning dissenters, and similar examples of theological hatred seem to motivate many terrorists to this day.
Friday 5 June 2009
Religion is the phenomenon studied by theology, and theology in its turn guides religion. A good theology, one that captures the essence of religion would apply to all religions and one possible claim (in a patent) is that the network model achieves that : religion is a protocol in the human layer that binds disparate people onto a community where they all look out for each other and share a common attitude to the problems of life.
Devoting energy to giving other people a hard time seems to indicate a scared, bored and rather empty spirit. The cure is fullness of life, courage, interest, and openness to complexity.
The central problem of mathematics is how do we
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talk about infinite systems in finite strings of symbols. Mathematical encyclopedias are large, but they are finite, even though they talk about infinite and transfinite cardinals.
THEOLOGY - PSYCHOANALYSIS (analysis of the soul)
PHYSICS - SARKOANALYSIS (analysis of the body)
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The mathematical problem is a problem of representation and it is isomorphic to the problematic relationship between physics and theology. Just as a mathematics book or journal represents mathematical systems that hold for an infinite number of individuals, the events in the physical world represent the life of god.
Formally, networks rest on four mathematical theorems due to Georg Cantor, Kurt Gödel, Alan Turing and Claude Shannon.
Cantor: the number of possible novels is vastly greater than the number of letters in the alphabet. A trivially obvious truth, but the foundation of the formal Universe.
FORMALISM ; symbolic manipulations independent of any coupling to reality (although usually suggested by observations of reality)
Should we add a fifth theorem - Brouwer's fixed point?
