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vol VII: Notes

2013

Notes

[Sunday 3 February 2013 - Saturday 9 February 2013]

[Notebook: DB 74 CREATION]

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Sunday 3 February 2013

Yasunari Kawabate Master of Go page 7: 'The game of go is simple in its fundamentals ad infinitely complex in its execution of them. It is not what might be called a game of moves, as chess and chequers. Though captured stones may be taken from the board, a stone is never moved to a second position after it has been placed . . . The object is to build up positions that are invulnerable to enemy attack, which surrounding and capturing enemy stones.' Translator's Introduction. Kawabata

We work from the fixed points of quantum mechanics to the fixed points of human literature which include science and mathematics, through a structure we call a transfinite computer network, itself a fixed point which explains its own existence in a non=constructive way.

The dynamic line between the frixed points is comprised of logical function or mappings, so fixed points are logically connected [as in a mathematical proof].

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Although each step is logical, Gödel and Turing's theorems guarantee at moest processes are neither completed nor halted.

Kawabata page 29: A lens is symmetrical with respect to the image focussed.

We can get to the Catholic Church through its abuses of sexuality, property and governance. Sex sells, as does property and power, so this is a rich issue to mine, exposing the Church's political ues of its abuse of sexuality. I was taught that any pleasurable physical contact with a person, including myself, was a sin.

New Yorker: Confession of an anonymous Catholic, blending together both the sexual and the metaphysical / theological - we assume, following the adventures of Aristotle's writings, that these two names describe the same approach to understanding the world and we tautologically name the source of the world 'God'. leaving open the question of whether Hod and the World are one and the same or different. Here we propose that they are the same.

Thought of something last night, but went to sleep before I wrote it down. I am a collector in my own mind,

I must tell my story somewhat fictionalized to demonstrate on a personal level the power and the errors of the Catholic Church,, how its misunderstanding of reality is a cause of evil in the world. Evil posing as Good, as it often does.

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To be seen one must expose oneself.

The world computes by creating and annihilating communications (bonds)

BOND = {MESSAGE} Science 339:189 Lewandowski

Of human bonding.

It is by now manifestly clear the the Roman Catholic Church has a problem with sex.

Monday 4 February 2013

Tuesday 5 February 2013

Wednesday 6 February 2013

Thursday 7 February 2013

Johnson, Sorrows page 28: Hobson ' "imperialists are 'parasites on patriotism' ".'

Roman Catholic Church Mental and spiritual imperialism, ie control by superior force.

Friday 8 February 2013

The missing link: how do we get fermions and bosons into the network picture? The initial singularity has all its energy in one frequency which cannot be measured sincere there is no observer in a singularity. We might call is 0 (zero energy) or ℵ₀ (the energy of the current Universe (absolute value, since kinetic + potential energy probably equals 0)). But the biufurcation that gives us energy requires a nimimum two state (ie fermion) system whereas the initial singularity may be thought of as a boson, many 'particles' occupying one state,

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a contained continuum of potential particles (values, observations, measurements).

Saturday 9 February 2013

Quantum mechanics, function space, expanding to transfinite network. Then cut transfinite network down to size with Landauer's principle, introducing both uncertainty and layering.

Morris West, Clowns an essay on Vatican politics. West

West page 63: 'The Pope is elected as Supreme Pastor and Custodian of the Deposit of Faith [a tissue of fantasy]. Can that office be reconciled with the role of a prophet proclaiming private revelation, even if that revelation is true?'

Office: Fixed point in political dynamics constraining the office holder beyond the constraints represented by human rights. Such constraint can be avoided by resignation or expulsion, as was the case with my attempt to hold the office of regular priest.

West page 66: 'dark night of the soul', the conflict between institutional bullshit and perceived reality. Dark Night of the Soul - Wikipedia

page 88: 'All the new revolutions are religious in character' - back to the 'theological spring'.

page 96: 'Once you invoked private revelation, reason was out the window.' Rubbish. All experience is private revelation, to be studied, shared and used as a window to divinity.

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West page 105: 'Act of faith' act of stupidity? A divine world suggests that we act on evidence, not fantasy. But, on the other hand, if many humans believe the same thing, is that not evidence? And, in a social setting, it may be more dangerous to differ from the multitude than to ignore reality.

page 113: 'The whole system is designed to surround you with the aura of absolute authority, and resolutely obstruct your use of it.'

page 119: 'You wee the Pope. You say you had a vision. In the vision you were called by God to proclaim the imminence of the Parousia. Now face this fact. You did not proclaim it. You bent to a power group.' Parousia - Wikipedia

page 121: Goethe: " 'more light' " = sharper resolution, brought about by ordering the symbols of lower resolution. One bit resolves two possibilities, two bits four and so on.

page 152: 'The best candidate for cults is the person at the end of his rope.'

page 176: Xianity mystery religion.

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Sacks, Oliver, Seeing Voices: A Journey into the world of the Deaf, University of California Press 1989 Jacket: '... begins with a history of deaf people in the United States, the often outrageous ways in which they have been treated in the past, and their continuing struggle for acceptance in the hearing world. And it examines the amazing and beautiful visual language of the deaf - Sign - which has only in the past decade been recognised fully as a language - linguistically complete, rich and as expressive as any spoken language. ...'
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Sacks, Oliver, Migraine: Understanding a Common Disorder, University of California Press 1985 Amazon book description: 'The many manifestations of migraine can vary dramatically from one patient to another, even within the same patient at different times. Among the most compelling and perplexing of these symptoms are the strange visual hallucinations and distortions of space, time, and body image which migraineurs sometimes experience. Portrayals of these uncanny states have found their way into many works of art, from the heavenly visions of Hildegard von Bingen to Alice in Wonderland. Dr. Oliver Sacks argues that migraine cannot be understood simply as an illness, but must be viewed as a complex condition with a unique role to play in each individual's life.'
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Sacks, Oliver, An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales, Vintage 1996 Jacket: 'Sacks is a sympathetic clinician who uses his patients' problems as a launch pad for wider speculations about the nature of the mind ... Sacks' descriptions of cases are both medical and literary. He writes with a moving directness and simplicity, his obvious sympathy acquitting him of any charge that he might be exploiting the misfortunes of others ... The final effect is wonder at the infinite variety of the human mind and experience.' The Times
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Sacks, Oliver, and Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, , Knopf978-1400040810 2007 Jacket: 'Oliver Sacks' compassionate, compelling tales of people struggling to adapt to different neurological conditions have fundamentally changed the way we think about our own brains. and the human experience. In Musicophilia he examines the powers of music through the individual experiences of patients, musicians and everyday people - from a man who is struck by lightning and suddenly inspired to become a pianist at the age of forty-two, to an entire group of children with Williams syndrome who are hypermusical from birth.'
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Veltman, Martinus, Diagrammatica: The Path to the Feynman Rules, Cambridge University Press 1994 Jacket: 'This book provides an easily accessible introduction to quantum field theory via Feynman rules and calculations in particle physics. The aim is to make clear what the physical foundations of present-day field theory are, to clarify the physical content of Feynman rules, and to outline their domain of applicability. ... The book includes valuable appendices that review some essential mathematics, including complex spaces, matrices, the CBH equation, traces and dimensional regularization. ...'
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Waugh, Evelyn, The Life of the Right Reverend Ronald Knox Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford and Protonotary Apostolic to His Holiness Pope Pius XII, Chapman & Hall 1959 Preface: 'This book, I surmise, will prove to be the forerunner of many weightier studies of [Ronald Knox]. Its primary puspose is to tell the story of his exterior life, not to give a conspectus of his thought; still less to measure his spiritual achievements. His published works provide abundant material for research and criticism by specialists in many subjects. Here I have attempted to give the essential biolgraphical facts that they will need.'
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West, Morris, The Clowns of God, Toby Press 2003 Book Description Publication Date: September 2003 'What would happen, if the members of the Roman Curia discovered that the Pope was about to publicly state that he had received a private revelation that the world was about to end? Pope Gregory XVII claims to have received a private revelation of the end of the world - an apocalypse coming not in some distant future but at any moment. Is he a madman, as his cardinals suspect, a mystic, or a fanatic grasping for an unholy power?'
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Papers

Chaitin, Gregory J, "Randomness and Mathematical Proof", Scientific American, 232, 5, May 1975, page 47-52. 'Although randomness can be precisely defined and can even be measured, a given number cannot be proved random. This enigma establishes a limit in what is possible in mathematics'. back

Einstein, Albert, B. Podolsky, and N. Rosen,, "Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete?", Phys. Rev., 47, , 1935, page 777-780. Abstract: 'In a complete theory there is an element corresponding to each element of reality. A sufficient condition for the reality of a physical quantity is the possibility of predicting it with certainty, without disturbing the system. In quantum mechanics in the case of two physical quantities described by non-commuting operators, the knowledge of one precludes the knowledge of the other. Then either (1) the description of reality given by the wave function is not complete or (2) these two quantities cannot have simultaneous reality. Consideration of the problem of making predictions concerning a system on the basis of measurements made on another system that has previously interacted with it leads to the result that if (1) is false then (2) is also false. One thus is led to conclude that the description of reality as given by a wave function is not complete.'. back

Herzfeld, Charles, "How the change agent has changed", Nature, 451, 7177, 24 January 2008, page 403-404. 'As the US military research arm turns fifty -- and other branches of government seek to adopt its famously nimble approach -- a former director reflects on what worked and what didn't.' Herzfeld. back

Lewandowski, Bartosz, et al, "Sequence-Specific Peptide Synthesis by an Artificial Small-Molecule Machine", Science, 339, 6116, , page 189. 'The ribosome builds proteins by joining together amino acids in an order determined by messenger RNA. Here, we report on the design, synthesis, and operation of an artificial small-molecule machine that travels along a molecular strand, picking up amino acids that block its path, to synthesize a peptide in a sequence-specific manner. The chemical structure is based on a rotaxane, a molecular ring threaded onto a molecular axle. The ring carries a thiolate group that iteratively removes amino acids in order from the strand and transfers them to a peptide-elongation site through native chemical ligation. The synthesis is demonstrated with ~1018 molecular machines acting in parallel; this process generates milligram quantities of a peptide with a single sequence confirmed by tandem mass spectrometry.'. back

Nature editorial, , "A little less Disneyland: DARPA should focus on its founding values", Nature, 451, 7177, 24 January 2008, page 374. 'Today some of DARPA's activities remain firmly rooted in its cold-war research past . . . But, as was on show in a California Disneyland hotel last year, the agency's director, Anthony Tether, has also tried jazzing things up a bit, by sponsoring competitions such as the $2-million 'grand challenge' robot car race. . . . Such approaches may be useful in helping the government think outside the box, but DARPA must be careful not to stray too far down that path. . . . The agency's next director must take the agency back to basics, or risk losing the edge that comes from the inspired patronage of risky research. Above all, DARPA needs to concentrate more on projects that could lead to long-term payoffs in the fight against terrorism, in ways we cannot yet imagine.' Editorial. back

Weinberger, Sharon, "Still in the lead?", Nature, 451, 7177, 24 January 2008, page 390-393. 'Half a century after its creation, the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is considered a paragon of government innovation. But some question whether it is still relevant.'. back

Links

Dark Night of the Soul - Wikipedia Dark Night of the Soul - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia '"Dark Night of the Soul" (Spanish: La noche oscura del alma) is the title of a poem written by 16th-century Spanish poet and Roman Catholic mystic Saint John of the Cross, and of a treatise he wrote later, commenting on the poem.' back

Gram-Schmidt process - Wikipedia Gram-Schmidt process - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 'In mathematics, particularly linear algebra and numerical analysis, the Gram–Schmidt process is a method for orthogonalizing a set of vectors in an inner product space, most commonly the Euclidean space Rⁿ. The Gram–Schmidt process takes a finite, linearly independent set S = \{v1, …, vn\} and generates an orthogonal set S' = \{u1, …, un\} that spans the same subspace as S. The method is named for Jørgen Pedersen Gram and Erhard Schmidt but it appeared earlier in the work of Laplace and Cauchy. ' back

Parousia - Wikipedia Parousia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 'Parousia (Greek: Παρουσία) is an ancient Greek word meaning presence, arrival, or official visit.' back

S Matrix - Wikipedia S Matrix - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 'In physics, the Scattering matrix (S-matrix) relates the initial state and the final state for an interaction of particles. It is used in quantum mechanics, scattering theory and quantum field theory.' back

Self-adjoint operator Self-adjoint operator 'In mathematics, on a finite-dimensional inner product space, a self-adjoint operator is one that is its own adjoint, or, equivalently, one whose matrix is Hermitian, where a Hermitian matrix is one which is equal to its own conjugate transpose. By the finite-dimensional spectral theorem such operators have an orthonormal basis in which the operator can be represented as a diagonal matrix with entries in the real numbers. In this article, we consider generalizations of this concept to operators on Hilbert spaces of arbitrary dimension' back