Notes
[Sunday 8 May 2011 - Saturday 14 May 2011]
[Notebook: DB 70 Mathematical Theology]
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Sunday 8 May 2011
Only Turing machines operate deterministically with full knowledge. Since all true knowledge is encoded digitally, we cannot have
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full knowledge of the higher cardinals.
Reading about Feynman's genius [Mehra] is enough to lead to despair at ever being able to understand and build on his work. Which is not a good reason to give up. Feynman's work is an approach to computing the probabilities of various discrete quantum events using the calculus approach [of] differentiating them into infinitesimal steps and then integrating them to get an overall picture. The objection to this procedure is that the quantum theory tells us in effect that no action less than h can be complete or observable so the methodology depends upon unobservable infinitesimals for its success. This works but it does not seem to be the best way. What we would like to see is discrete computational algorithms operating in a computer network that give the same answers as the path integral / Feynman diagram method with no action involved that is less than h. Although quantum elecrodynamics is very precise and predictive, we must observe billions of events to get the necessary precision in our results, and these events individually cover a wide spectrum of outcomes which we can represent by different functions (Turing machines). The measurable outcome is the weighed sum of all these functions which are represented in Feynman's space-time system as Feynman diagrams. The computational approach goes deeper than this, being the network source of space-time. Given that the observed output is discrete, we would like to think that the process that generates this output [is] discrete and operates by actions of measure h like the output. Mehra
Haaretz: Those of us who want peace must resist the tendency toward narrow minded and parochial hostility. Haaretz
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Monday 9 May 2011
Natural religion embraces all religions. The Universe is the divinity that creates all divinities.
A good marketing point: no arbitrary restrictions on sexual behaviour. Just the dictates of human rights and fairness.
A major piece of social engineering: establishing natural religion.
Every religion is consistent with the society within which it flourishes.
The theologians of the world have been criminally negligent in not updating their belief systems to make them consistent with the scientific consensus, if there is one.
Science: We must leave a question open until there is evidence one way or another.
I thought it was post-Feynman depression, but now I think it is the flu, I ache a lot in various places.
But the pain seems to have convinced me of one thing: my days as a labourer are coming to a close. Now I am trying to get a business going as a commentator.
As long as the sun shines, there is no reason to get too depressed. This is my bottom line.
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The process of the world, ie the clicking together of transfinite alphabets to reveal the events we see, that is halted computations, stationary states. Every computable function corresponds to a Turing machine that halts. When? That is the question for quantum theory and corresponding computations.
We are looking at the world from inside the initial singularity rather than outside it. We too are part of the Universe and the Universe is part of the environment that bore us.
The design and production is skimped in order to pay for the hard well necessary to hid the skimped design and execution.
As Adam and Eve discovered, God was an absolute monarch whose word was law and the penalty for disobedience was death, such as we now experience. A neat explanation, but not the right one.
The key concept in natural theology is personality. In the network model, we take a personality to be a source (and corresponding set of information), one end of a two person conversation.
Tuesday 10 May 2011
Wednesday 11 May 2011
Thursday 12 May 2011
Friday 13 May 2011
Feling better about natural religion insofar as it seems foolproof : the Universe is the only God. All lesser Gods, like ourselves, are personalities of the Universe. But now it seems so obvious that it is hardly worth talking about because I seem to have papered over all my doubts, so am feeling safe to preach my idea which is at
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once completely innocuous and deeply radical - making God visible.
Toward natural religion project may become making God visible project, and be marketed in Israel.
I am a bit amazed at the leap in my confidence since my trip to Israel, perhaps because I can see that they are not even thinking about trying a real solution to their religious problems, and natural religion gives a solid foundation upon which to move forward.
Physical theology has the ambition of ultimately profiting itself and the human race a favour by demonstrating the advantages of having a visible rather than an invisible God.
Mehra page 349: 'In later years, Feynman, with Paul Dirac, would maintain that, in solving the problem of infinities in quantum electrodynamics, the fundamental question -- that is the physical explanation of why those infinities arose in the first place -- "had been shoved under the rug". But Feynman was pleased and proud to have developed powerful techniques that would continue to be used widely.'
page 438: 'The effect of the field was included in the detailed interations between the particles.'.
Meet God Now; see God Now.
You are seeing God now.
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We use the transfinite numbers as a foundation to develop a hierarchy of Banach spaces ranging from that appropriate to an initial singularity to that appropriate for a human being and beyond, mirroring the structure of Cantor's Paradise and providing us with ever more complex systems to map to the Universe.
Atheist convention: Meet God.
There is nothing new here but the nomenclature; modern theology is scientific study of the world.
Come to meet God.
Using a process, eg a washing machine, to achieve a purpose. Every contract is the contract for the execution of a process, which may or may not leave a permanent result, eg dam, bridge, treaty, . . .
Learning to see God. Only Gods can see Gods, so we must first admit our divinity.
To drive safely is to act in such a way as to improve the odds of safe arrival.
Religion is the killer application. A religion is the operating system of a human society.
I have worked all this out in the old paradigm, using the old paradigm as centering for the new. Now we should be able to present the new paradigm in its naked beauty.
Learning to see God is dead easy once you get over all the
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rubbish you have probably been taught about God, that He is invisible and only makes Himself known to mystics and prophets.
Agatha Big Four ' "You may smile, Hastings -- but to penetrate a man's personality, to know exactly what he will do under any given circumstances -- that is the beginning of success." ' [sed contra Ian Leslie]
Know God.
