vol VII: Notes
2013
Notes
[Sunday 12 May 2013 - Saturday 18 May 2013]
[Notebook: DB 75 Reconstruction]
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Sunday 12 May 2013
Insofar as one is inside an interaction (considering the Universe as one large Feynman diagram) virtual particles are real. They are 'unreal'' to outsiders, but nevertheless are part of the theory that accounts for the measured phenomena (ie binned and counted events) and so we admit their existence, just as the processes of my mind are 'virtual' but effective from the point of view of someone in conversation with me.
The reluctant fundamentalist, I am an enthusiastic fundamentalist, seeking to minimize the evil that people do motivated by false ideas about the world, inherited from long ago. The world evolves, driven by the pure activity of God, constrained in predictability and knowledge by the bounds on completeness, computability and communication of logically consistent systems.
The political side of the operation is to advise the Pope, the Holy Office and the Academy of Sciences that they are all worshipping a false God and need a radical methodological reform if they are to redeem themselves in the face of the gross moral failure represented by the high level cover-up of widespread child sexual, emotional and intellectual abuse practised by their clergy.
We're not just demolishing old methods, but replacing them with modern scientific method which has been shown to work and is present in the universal testing process we
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call selection.
We all use eachother, children the parents and vice versa, and so on, and we can expect the system to be stable if people perceive their use as fair trade.
Brave New World. My fiction vs their fiction, to be judged scientifically artistically, politically, economically and if it passes them all it will survive and probably grow. The trick is to weave a seamless web, a closed layer of the network whose elements are nevertheless given meaning and manipulated by algorithms represented [resident] in a higher layer.
Monday 13 May 2013
Huxley, Penguin page 174: ' "Happiness is never grand". ' Huxley
Morrow, Maharajahs page 18: 'The British attitude to the Empire was that they has 'am inalienable right to rule'. Morrow
Tuesday 14 May 2013
At the quantum level the Universe is in perpetual motion and unobserved systems are reversible, conserving both energy and entropy. This motion is described by the energy equation dψ/dt = Hψ. The linear algebraic quantum mechanical model of unobserved quantum systems appears, from its predictions, to work perfectly, but there is a fly in the ointment: the collapse of the wave function ψ from a multi- or infinite [dimensional] vector to a single [observed] state.
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Superposition: Collapse from general (abstract) to particular, Plato vs reality.
We conceive mathematics as the stationary point in the multidimensional space of humam mathematical discourse.
Facebook / the internet: one big party, people revealing themselves and observing one another. Each revelation and observation being a single event defined by the two participants [and the information exchanged?].
Morrow page 168: 'India brought out the best and the worst on the Raj. They were dedicated but saw themselves as superior saviours of an engaging people with a religion which made them fatalistic and biddable. India's middle class Raj pitied those who has the misfortune not to be born British.
Now the misfortune is to be moved by ancient belief to ignore reality and rational action, as in the case of birth control. Religious opposition to birth control dates from the days when common life was so nasty, brutish and short that the women had to be kept as maximum breeding rate to replace the losses and hopefully expand into environments vacated by neighbours ('promised lands'). Paul VI: Humanae Vitae
The curial attitude of setting themselves infallibly above reality is the fundamental evil resulting from the fundamental error in the identification of God.
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Morrow page 169: 'No matter how sympathetic the Viceroy was to a particular prince, in the end he always had to bow to the India Office. There intellectually agile civil servants and India hands dissected his reports. The Princes who saw the Viceroy as their strength and stay, were sometimes puzzled by his lack of real power.
We write to the Pope: the political control of theology must be removed. An analysis of the child sexual abuse scandal: 'Woe to them by whom scandal cometh.' Matthew 18:7 Douay-Rheims
The time when I have to make a living by writing is approaching and this necessity requires that I write thing that people are prepared to publish and pray for. This in tern requires that I apply my rather abstract ideas to contemporary problems, particularly the barriers to global ecumenism, ie a global theology. So theological and religious conflict is the error I wish to correct by introducing scientific theology. I have been feeling relaxed lately that the product is reaching a marketable state, rather like the first automobiles. So much of the carriagework remained the same. What was ne was the new source of propulsion, a motor geared to wheels.
Morrow page 260: ' " The warmest feeling in the world," says this man who appears to have everything, "is to be really wanted. " '
One can imagine that the trials of the Catholoic Church has twenty or more year to run as people become emboldened [and empowered] to come forward and accuse the people that assaulted the, But the Church's error, and its correction, are obvious. It suffers from Luciferan pride bolstered by the delusion that it is infallible. A common failing of control freaks and bullies.
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Morrow page 250: Occupation: Ruler.
I trust myself insofar as I observe myself to be consistent with reality, so when I say yes I can fix that I succeed most of the time and can usually see the reason for my failure in the rest.
FAITH and TRUST are future oriented.
Every revolution is the opening of a closed shop, like the Maharajahs. This is likely to casue some pain to the closed shoppers (in my case the Curia) but the after state is greater entropy that the before and so will eventually be discovered by a creative system.
In the letter to the Curia we can emphasize how little is changed under the new hypothesis. Jesus is God, so are we all; the Bible is revelation, so is all human experience; God remains the source of creation, but the stable structures of creation are inside God, not outside; heaven is on Earth, death is permanent and the world is not just for us.
The whole Catholic thing is based on the notion that God is other than the world and that we and the world are all defective sinners, so we need a Saviour and we the Catholic Church are it. Unfortunately the foundation of this claim is wrong, and so the Roman Catholic Church, for all its political and social success, is scientifically a castle in the air, unreliable and liable to grave error, as we see.
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I am waiting for the last new idea to spring to mind before I go to work tomorrow rto boilerplate all the old cuts into 'unreasonable effectiveness revisited.
Wednesday 15 May 2013
To get a hearing, sweeten the pill. Although the Church's error is radical, it is only one bit. They are exactly wrong, as close as you can get to the truth without being there. A similar case to heliocentric vs geocentric views of the solar system. This change has the effect of widening the evidence base of theology from a minuscule set of writings and traditions to the whole Universe of experience. This has the effect of greatly reducing the weight of the Bible so that it is no longer an impediment to the proper valuation of all the rest of the data available to us. In particular, we can drop the inference that the Bible is the only word of God that we have and instead, see it as a point in the context of the vast history of divine revelation that we read in our own nature and the nature of the divine Universe that bore us, because we are all (in the literal software sense) children of God. Yours sincerely (and I mean it) . . .
To move the Church we need a force and there seem to be two possible source: a mass of public opinion or an irresistible argument that can be understood by the Curia. So a new theology should be directed at them.
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In the confrontation between faith and science, the Church won and Galileo lost. He was forces to recant and spend the rest of his life under house arrest. Galileo lost, but his idea won. Science has thrived and transformed the world while theology, once the Queen of Sciences (Regina Scientiarum) is now a backwater no longer considered a science even by the Pontifical Academy of sciences. Galileo affair - Wikipedia
On the whole the elite seem far more bound by social convention than the non-elite [because people are watching them?].
Christie Edgeware Chapter xxv '[The Duke] may have had a foretaste of the fact that for a man in his position to marry a Jane Wilkinson might lead some awkward contretemps. Christie
Expand the letter to the Curia into A New Theology ad explain to them that this is a forth coming book (how long we do not know), but the letter to the Curia will become part of the promotion.
Mein Kampf. [German 'My struggle] We all have one, at varying levels of intensity. Fate [God] has provided me with a very simple and straightforward war against a very well defined [and no longer merderous] enemy. War, like dilomacy and communication in general, is a way of getting others round to our point of view.
Mitchell Pictures page xiv: 'The argument of this book is that pictures, including world pictures, have always been with us, and there is no getting beyond pictures, much less world pictures, to a more authentic relationship with Being,
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with the Real, with the World.' In my model pictures are messages, that is stationary points (or sets of points) in the dynamics. Snapshots.
PICTURE = ORDERED SET OF EVENTS, null picture, singleton (one quantum of action) = MESSAGE, fixed point in some dynamic.
Thursday 16 May 2013
In the old days God was our judge. Now we are judged by the Universe, separating events not into sheep and goats, but into those that work and those that do not work. The Church has been judged to be riddled with moral and criminal failures through its comer up of its crimes. These failures are abstractly error and result ultimately from the Church's fundamental error in basing itself on a false conception of God. This error must be corrected of the Church is to survive and bring grace to the world.
The reign of old (and in many cases dead) men (and a few old women) is riddled with errors which must be corrected. We can make a catalogue of these errors under the heading poverty, chastity and obedience.
ERROR = BUG: an inconsistency in the software that does not become manifest until it is executed and perhaps then only in certain instances giving certain inputs to the erroneous processes which either crash, yield incorrect results, or go into an impregnable loop.
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We need to get a bit of Silicon Valley hubris and investment in our Plateau. We can borrow from one another to create a capital goof which may yield a profit. The ups and down of Lynas have taught me a lot about the vicissitudes of bringing even a good and essential set of products to the market, the 'rare earths'. Lynas Corporation
Reform theology or die trying. Probably true insofar as will keep on with this project until halted by natural deterioration, but not in the sense that I will kill myself with effort. I have reached a serenity of faith in which I am convinced that my embryonic idea is viable and every day make some moves toward its gestation and birth.
Natural theology feed on traditional theology by developing remedies for its defects, removing bugs and adding useful features, like the implementation of more powerful human survival technology by educating us and uniting us all in a true understanding of our divine environment.
The Church's failures clearly arise because the Church is worshipping a false God. That false God is itself, embodied in the infallible persona of the Pope. The pope arrogates to himself an impressive list of powers (see canons [330-367 Supreme Church Authority] the most divine of which is to judge everybody with no appeal [can 333—§ 3.], Caesar, Tsar, Stalinj, Mao and the Pope are all birds of a feather. The Pope may claim to work only in the spiritual realm, but it is an axiom of cybernetics that the spiritual (high variety) may rule to material (low variety). The spiritual errors of the Church
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have real physical effects, like the blighted lives of those who have been abused by the Church (which includes almost everyone , one way or another). We do not discount the good dome by the Church, but we must deal with its errors.
The morality of taxation, ATO, AuTO.
Plain sailing is pleasant, which is why the status quo is so appealing to those doing well in the current status.
Status - state - state vector - picture - representation. Why are state vectors complex?, because they are dynamic, with a superposition of two states, real and imaginary, concrete and abstract, kinetic and potential.
Banking: handle lots of money and skim some off.
The first hint of the failure of governance in the Church was the financial scandals, Banco Ambrosio and co. Institute for the Works of Religion - Wikipedia
One's democratic power is measured by the number of one's follower, which is also a measure of one's potential income from ad impressions.
I have got so much stuff to type out and put on the web that I can keep workig long after the creative phase of my life slows down.
Maybe we can more or less rely on unscientific elites like the Church to lead us astray since they are blinded to reality by their very eliteness, surrounded by servants and sycophants.
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A minor success is the world of power tools. The brushes from the blown up planer fitted the slightly dying drill and now it works perfectly.
The idea behind physical theology is that it is the actual physical interaction of physically embodied symbols that represented the spiritual realities of the Universe. So the spiritual damage to a rape victim lies both in the violent impact on their body, but also on the consequent rearrangement of the molecules that represent the victim's mental and emotional state. Take care of the physical and the spiritual (complex) will take care of itself, but only of the complex dictates the care of the physical in its own interest, as the law rules over the right of the paterfamilias to kill members of his family [as some of our immigrant brethren are wont to do].
From a marketing point of view we must package all this as a good and desirable thing, something to be traded for by paying for an education in the new technology, like the Responsible Service of Alcohol (and all other dangerous substances). NSW Trade and Investment
Quantum mechanics makes sense of we understand it as a methodology for computing traffic on various links of a computer network. We therefore imagine the Universe as a tree of events rooted in the initial singularity and parametrized locally by tome, that is the local ordering of events into before and after. We interpret a measurement as a quantum event, the transmission of a message between two
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Participating states. The Zee. The output of quantum mechanics is determined by the eigenvalue equation, which emphasises the coupling between the nature of an event (the eigenfunction) and the frequency of that event, calculated from the associated eigenfunction by the Born rule. At each node in the Universal tree (the temporal sequence of events in the network that joins the 'leaves' of the tree) we have a bin (or urn) full of events which are selected according to a certain set of corresponding probabilities. The aim of technology at all levels is to manipulate the nature and probability of events in the Universe, ie manipulating eigenfunctions to get (ideally) 100% probability of the desired event, ie the next firing of a cylinder in an internal combustion engine.
Publishing these thoughts and there derivatives is really my only marketing, relying on the connectivity of the web enhanced by the operation of search engines to bring my ideas to the attention of people who may benefit from them.
Mathematics is just another artistic output, a representation of something in somebody's mind honed by communicating through mathematical symbols with other mathematicians.
Quantization makes error free communication possible, but it also limits the rate of communication. The proponents of quantum computation propose unquantized information (before 'the collapse of the wave function') and hope that the continuum can transmit an infinite amount of information, so giving a quantum computer ascendancy over 'classical' computers. However, continuous communication is error prone, so their scheme is probabilistic rather than deterministic, and we are back to the Shannon limit on
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communication (since an erroneous communication is a not-communication (a note on quantum communication) [an error uses resources, but does no good].
A set of ℵ1 points with measure zero can only be a subset of a set whose cardinal is ℵ2.
A set of ℵ1 points with measure zero can on ly be a subset of a set whose cardinal is ℵ2Science must begin with myths and the criticism of myths. Popper Philosophy of Science 1957. [?] Stephen Thornton, Popper
Yandell Honours page 16 '. . . analysis, the part of mathematics most closely associated with physics; [Hilbert] would increasingly involve himself with physics.' Yandell
Yandell page 17: ' "This conviction of the solvability of every mathematical problem is a powerful incentive to the worker. We hear within us the perpetual call. There is a problem. Seek its solution. You can find it by pure reason, for in mathematics there is no ignorabimus." ' Did Plato think this? Aquinas? The beatific vision. This is it now and there is a lot we don't know. We can know things insofar as they are fixed, ie computable from other more primitive fixed points, the first of which is the quantum of action.
The transfinite network exists inside the energy operator as its state vector revolved in a transfinite dimensional Hilbert space. Insofar as this system is layers, more complex state vectors (ie data structures) are fabricated out of less complex. Nyquist theorem says we can represent a dynamic continuum by sampling at twice the maximum frequency. How did that last sentence get in? The conserved flow of probability is the incompressible fluid of the metric. Distance is a function
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of probability and vice versa. Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem - WikipediaThe set of eigenfunctions corresponds to the set of computers, and can be constructed in the same way that computers are constructed, beginning with elementary logical operations embodied in physical hardware.
Because they acted in almost complete independence, one can imagine that there is very little change of completely harmonizing the religious traditions descending from thousands of prophets. They can only be expected to correlate with one another insofar as they correlate with the human conditions of life experienced by these prophets. We take this further. By tying theology to the unity of the Universe by scientific method, we unify theology just as the other sciences have been unified by honest attempts to understand the consistent Universe in which we find ourselves.It is ludicrous that the human world is divided into warring caps on the strength of interpretations of works written long ago under very different conditions.
The Universe reveals that the Church is wrong. Yes and no. No, insofar as the Church exists and is therefore fit and so right in a certain context. Yes, insofar as in the context of the Universe, the Church;s view of history is too parochial for words an its belief in its own infallibility pathetic.
Yandell page 3: Lebesgue: '. . . any countable subset of the reals must have measure (a generalization of length) zero.'
page 51: 'In 1933 . . . Kolmogorov stated: "We cannot agree that mathematical objects are simply a product of
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constructive mental action. For us objects are abstractions of actually exiting forms of reality which are independent of thought." ' Ie fixed points in universal dynamics.
Friday 17 May 2013
Yandell page 65 re Lowenhein-Skolem theorem: Skolem: ' "The most important result above is that all set theoretical notons are relative [the real size of what is being talked about can't be specified in the axioms]" . '
Ie symmetry with respect to complexity: This may be the key to Unreasonable Effectiveness.
'There is a countable model for any countable system of axioms' [Requisite variety] Variety (cybernetics) - Wikipedia
Christianity is a religion of denial: denial of obvious relaities like the equality of women, and self-denial. Denial of the perfection of the Universe, and ourselves, justified by the mechnaism of original sin.
page 83: ' . . . [Cantor] believed that [the transfinitum] was perfectly realized in the mind of God.' Ie represents the fixed points in God.
page 89: Turing 'If we were to allow an infinity of symbols, there would be symbols differing to an arbitrarily small extent.' [we can however construct an infinity of symbols using decimal numbers which differ in at least one place]
Saturday 18 May 2013
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Any dynamic process has a set of fixed points whose logical continuity is guaranteed by the dynamic continuity, so in numerical methods like calculus we can cut a continuous curve into lots of little pieces which can be related to one another by an arithmetic (logical) calculation.
We wish to sell the new theology to all the Churches.
