vol VII: Notes
2013
Notes
[Sunday 30 June 2013 - Saturday 6 July 2013]
[Notebook: DB 76 Liberation]
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Sunday 30 June 2013
Commuting operators have the same eigenfunctions (orthogonal bases) [ie same code, so information can be transmitted]
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One slowly learns to feel love for the divine Universe despite the difficulties it presents. Yahweh was not easy to get along with and rather fickle, and our immediate human environments can be just as difficult but the underlying fact that the fickleness is no longer inherent in the divinity but something that can be overcome by goodwill and detailed communication gives us a far stronger ground for hope.
'Publish or perish' is starting to become relevant to me. This work has long been supported by my labouring efforts which must nevitably slow down with age and, like builsings, intellectual products do not become valuable until they are realized in print and seen to be valuable by people with wealth enough to pay in some way for the procude in fair trade. The PR department must be continuously seeking ways to emphasize the value of the product and to make the product more useful and easier to use. What do my reders want? I think many may want the same as me, a pciture of reality that makes me feel relaxed and at home in the world. (Home Many in One: Home).
As the Catholic Church has noted, we feel like exiles in this world striving toward our true home in heaven, goaded on by the idea that the slternative is eternal pain in Hell. This idea has sold very well, but it is a consequence of the idea (very well established in human societies) that pain is punishment rather than error correcting [guidance].
On the whole it is the role of the entertainment industry to increase pleasure and of the science industry to reduce pain by working out how the system works so
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that errors can be pinpointed and corrected. Science may enlist entertsinment to dpread the news of its discoveries and the possibilities they open up which can be realized with political ill, ie the drive to do the work motifated by anticipation of the result.
The Theology Company — The Intelletual Prospectus. To Raise Money on an Idea. Send to all the Professors of Theology in the World. Theological Directory: Crockfords List of schools accredited by the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada - Wikipedia
Dark and rainy, but beautiful by the fire, burning parts of structures I have demolished, a carrion feeder.
The Platonic world of quantum mechanics is in perpetual motion, ie not dissipative. By definition, the Universe has nowhere to dissipate to, nowhere to go except itelf and so we can model is as a group of events each of which leads to another element of the group, ie another event. Physically such group operations are measured by a quantum of action, and their rate is measured by energy: real - real; potential - complex [imaginary]. So the rotation of the radius vector (state vector) in the complex plane oscillates between real and complex. One shares Feynman's fascination with the relationship between complex numbers and recursion.
Conservative recursion - constant frequency and energy, formal
Creative/ destructive recursion - requires error correction to maintain stability [and deletion which costs energy: Landauer Landauer]
Error correction requires perception, eyes open for
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trouble.
US miltary maintain the hygiene of the web (!?)
Reddit: most intelligent joke Reddit
I walk in God.
The obvious symbol for a natural religion to worship in the Sun and its dual, the Earth, ie our local solar system. All human (and other) difficulties arise from the dissipation required to maintain structure and the Sun supplies the input low entropy energy that keeps the Earth (or at least the surface of the Earth) alive.
Our route to popularity maybe through the green concept that we and the world are divine an we should all treat one another accordingly (which is instantiated by the status quo, little Gods fighting, but opens the door to a big God who will settle it down. Green Theology (sounds Islamic).
Freedom of speech allows us to canvass all the possibilities, as does freedom of sexuality and all the other freedoms which deny the existence of inaccessible elements in the relevant group, even though these elements (events) may be considered 'bad' in applications. So talk about female genital mutilation in order to stamp it out but in no circumstances do it. Communities without freedom of speech limit themselves to subsets of human space which may not contain the answer to their problems, thus eventually leading to violence, WHO
O felix: It is becoming clear that the Catholic Church worships a false God, itself. Sexuality is not the only way it abuses
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children. The Church abused my mind by filling it with a lot of unsubstantiated and inconsistent fiction. The Church is built on two fundamental errors [that nature of God and the nature of pain]
Our market is the thinking middle classes, those with a little bit of wealth and leisure to find time to think about their condition. Who may be seen as being moved toward natural religion [by the development is communal civility].
The US military is the backbone of modern fascism. They have taken the role of God, spying on everybody, weeding out the dissidents (the ones thinking outside their box) and creating the climate of far that leads the people and their politicians to send even more on the military.
My old God spied on me all the time, right into my mind and underpants, judging every event with a view to my final judgement: freedom or imprisonment and death. I voluntarily entered a prison to avoid punishment, and learnt there that my God had feet of clay and a mind of straw. My happiest fault was that I was to say this loud enough to get thrown out. Order of Preachers
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Roman Catholic Church also maintains network hygiene by excluding any messages that oppose it It wants monitored control in the internal forum.
Good ideas attract (collect) energy to realize themselves. They are entrepreneurial.
Chesterton's Father Brown (from St Dominics) a man of superior wisdom felt to be characteristic of his Church. Father Brown - Wikipedia
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Knox, Enthusiasm. After half a century of steady work, perhaps a bit of excitment is in store. Knox
Notes = blog
I just have to get enthusiastic enough to do all the work I see ahead of me to get this business started. The notes are a massive core of embodied thoughts that have gradually coalesced around a model of God ad a project to document and verify the validity of this model. Useful both spiritually and practically.
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Looking back I see that my relationship with the Church subdued me considerably, as it is probably meant to do to keep me on the straight and narow as it defined it. A mental imprisonment that I am beginning to feel my way out of like all the other revolting people around the world who would like to take a hand in their own destinies rather than being puppets of a dictatorship. This site attempts to document the way I have developed and applied a new version of God. Liberation theology rooted in physics. Liberation theology - Wikipedia
My car is such a filthy beast but as yet I cannot live without it.
We trust a scaffold and a bank because we believe them to be sound structures. The scaffold is easily inspected and tested for strength because its parts are obvious, but it is not so easy with banks whose mechanism is largely hidden and open to abuse. Global Integrity - Wikipedia
I am resting at equilibrium right now but all worts of events will move me as the day wears on,
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things which if not done will lead cause some loss. My continuity is broken by writing this sentence. My writing is a consequence of thing becoming conscious (fixed?) that can be represented by fixed text.
A new theology
Intro: personal motivation (o felix)
1. Truth and writing: epistemology. Then the usual trail
2. Model — transfinite computer network
3. Physics — the world as an embodied network
4. Cybernetics — the boundaries of control
5. Biology — fitness and survival
6. Psychology — human control
7. Theology — divine control
8. Love — unstructured potential
9. Culture — the social approach to fitness
10 Politics — symmetry breaking
11 Religion — moral guidance
12 Economics — production, trade, consumption
13 Design — fitting form and function
14 Work — doing it
15 Experience — back to truth and communication
At the physical level of resolution my life and the life of an atom are indistinguishable. At the theological level everything is concrete and unique up to a level of resolution determined by the rate of change.
One can be a victim without really knowing it. Battered wife syndrome. WHO on domestic violence.
The theology company: idea: to develop, research, test and promote the theological hypothesis that the Universe is divine.
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Here is this line again. My approach is theological. This is suggested by the fact that mathematics and theology place only one constraint on their models [of their subjects], they must be consistent. Any consistent system is granted mathematical existence [if not interest], and theologians too think God is limited only by consistency.
Western theology is dominated by Christianity which places God outside the Universe, the Creator that brought it into being and continues to know and guide its every move. This scenario carries the implication that this is not the only Universe that God could have created. Modern cosmology sees the Universe beginning as a structureless point within which the structure we currently observe has evolved.
Taking this point of view, many physicists seem to feel that the Universe was created with a very precise [and carefully crafted] set of initial conditions which have guided this evolution. One wonders how the initial conditions are to be encoded in a structureless point. This and many other difficulties , including the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics [suggest we] drop the idea of created constraints ad assume that the Universe has evolved to be the way it is guided by the consistency principle: local contradictions cannot and do not exist.
The nest step is to get a better theoretical grip on this idea and we turn for inspiration to quantum mechanics. And the via negativa.
Everything has a time constant.
Monday 1 July 2013
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Ultimately we have to package all this as music.
Human business is carried out by human minds that interact by all the channels available to us, the most obvious and common for public business being voice, often over the phone (where the national thought police lurk).
What are we adding to the current rather incoherent debate? A coherent picture, based on reality, not an impossible God in the sky. The inconsistency at the root of theology and religion means that . . . these disciplines [are] flying blind, invoking mystery and hand waving.
You trust me when I didn't really even trust myself, which may mean that you trust yourself less than I trust myself (parametrized by the probability of being found 'right' on some issue).
QUESTION = SYMMETRY
ANSWER = BROKEN SYMMETRY
Tuesday 2 July 2013
Waiting for the muse. How to engage the world. From little things big things grow. Where to plant the seed. Very obviously in the scientific community. There would appear to be no way (in the short term) that the Christian churches will adopt scientific theology since it destroys their theoretical raison d'etre. The scientists, on the other hand, are officially open to any coherent picture that appears to represent the observed world.
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Soueif Guardian Egypt Ahdaf Soueif
It is not quick or easy changing a corrupt and decaying system into a transparent and growing system. At the root of all ies the contradictions of theology.
We can trace all the world's troubles to a single contradiction, the denial that the Universe is divine. This opens the way for arbitrary assumptions of power by individuals and organizations by divine right, whereas the real divine right power resides equally in all of us. Corruption is inevitably associted with ad hoc dealmaking to exploit the power of establishment.
Comment is Free: Guardian: Is it time for science to embrace theology? The stablished religions are product of human imagination that vaguely resemble reality, but they are no foundation for the construction of a modern state.
Somewhere or other mot state constitutions, written or unwritten, declare a faith in God. But what God? We have two contenders, the Christian God and the Universal God, CG and ug respectively. 'Universal' = applying to the Universe and every system within it, hence the lower case.
Science must embrace theology and correct the errors that we find in it, ie the causes of its non-compliance with reality.
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The new theology is network theology, so that it can draw on the computer network industry for ideas and workers.
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What we are doing in effect is replacing continuous dynamics with digital dynamics and using logic (embodied in computers) to mode the dynamics between the observable fixed points through the agency of transparent or invisible fixed points (all those memory states that bring this page to you).
Wednesday 3 July 2013
A problematic consequence of our evolutionary history: may of our desires have no upper bounds because in our past they have been limited by the resources available from the environment, especially in hard times. So now that civilization has opened up new possibilities, we find many people and organizations that cannot get enough wealth or power and accumulate much more than they need for their own peaceful existence often to the detriment of others who are exploited by the elite. We have here a dangerous positive feedback, power and wealth can lead to more power and wealth etc until the environment collapses (eg there is no food or the slaves revolt). How do we deal with this: make the flow of money and power visible so that it can be studied and controlled. An element of this control is taxation, social security and democracy where some of the wealth and power is recycled to the non-elite.
The big political question how do we live together cannot be solved by politics alone, History suggests that successful politics has a theological foundation. In God we trust.
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Where does marxism go wrong, if it does. As a child I was taught that it was atheistic and materialist. Later it seemed that its chief problem is that it become associated with totalitarian governments that would stop at nothing to force people into their Procrustean mould. A bit like the Church really, except that the Church gets someone else to do the violence, the 'secular arm'. But what of the theory? I don't know enough about it. Marxism - Wikipedia
Thursday 4 July 2013
Each ayer of the universal network opens up a spectrum of possibilities for the layer above it to use ie it is a source than can be manipulated by the higher layer to emit a message which is a sequence of operations drawn from the lower layer. In other words, a message, seen from a dynamic point of view, is an algorithm, ie the definition of a function or Turing machine. So the alphabets of atoms are used by molecules to define the processes that constitute the molecule and so on up and down the chain (logical continuum) to me and the initial singularity.
She is divine.As Cantor's space shows, layering increases complexity, and it serves as a logical model of the ever more complex structures that emerge in turbulent flow,like the waterfall forever running down the river. Every sentence has a spectrum of interpretations which cluster less or more tightly as we move from music ad poetry toward one to one scientific correspondence.
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We are coming to the end stage of the jigsaw where the fits are coming faster as they were in the early days when we did the edges before going on to the complexity of the interior.
Cornwell Cruel and Unusual: How does one construct a plot, gradually bringing out connections until the intersection of observables closes on one perpetrator? Work back from the end, branching into may subplots and finally contracting back to the initial act, often murder. Agatha etc etc. Cornwell
page 170: 'I felt caught in a web of bizarre connections, clueless as to the point in common they all shared.' Crime novelists reflect on the nature and motivations of crime, ie social errors.
Little errors are always happening to me. Filling the jug to make tea I wet my sleeve which I then had to dry before I could write this otherwise it would have wet the paper and made it impossible to write on. Even the writing is a random process, because I do not know what is coming nest until it comes, but I look on this not so much as an error as an act of creation (although both are identical events until we see their meaning in a higher layer (viewpoint) maintaining the integrity of the paper and progressing the natural theology project.
page 176: ' "Nothing's the same as growing up the daughter of a fundamentalist minister, . . ." '
Is the US paranoid schizophrenic? They see enemies under every rock (many created by themselves) and their society is split between fundamentalists living in a world of evil and meliorists looking forward to a better (more peaceful) world to come.
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How does the second law of thermodynamics apply to a network, equilibrium vs non-equilibrium. Equilibrium - symmetry, non-equilibrium, broken symmetry. Must read Prigogine. Nicolis & Prigogine
Cornwell page 291 Paris Trout. Dexter
One wonders about oneself all the time and I wonder why I am not going ahead with 'unreasonable efficacy', even though I feel that I have got all the bits. My transparent subconscious, however, appears to think differently and is not yet ready to publish. Of course this might just be excuses and I should push myself harder but my experience suggests that one must also be patient and wait for the muse instead of just rushing out an inferior product. So, I am yet young, and always feel that I am moving along, so the situation is peaceful construction.
Friday 5 July 2013
When Aristotle wrote that a little error in the beginning can lead to a big error in the end he was thinking of ballistic systems like archery rather than guided systems like ourselves. who can see and correct for errors as we go along. At the deterministic level, one can say that the Universe is ballistic (once you start a Turing machine it follows a predefined course), but at more complex levels it must be guided since there is no way that the initial conditions can completely constrain the outcome: 'the words cannot determine the sentence' — Gödel, requisite variety. It seems unlikely that the initial conditions of the Universe has determined its present state and so we opt for an
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an intelligent and guided world, ie one that operates by variation and selection.
A particle is an eigenfunction of an operator which is Lorentz invariant, ie indifferent to time and space, ie orthogonal to spacetime, which means effectively outside spacetime. Quantum mechanics is non-local (Bell Bell: Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics)
Why would one spend one's wholelife thinking about a simple proposition like 'the Universe is divine'. It is because it denial, 'the Universe is not divine'is so deeply embedded in our nurture and is the accepted foundation for many of our beliefs. Arguments for this position (proofs for the otherness of God) are given weight by long tradition, which involves endless repetition: 'I believe in God the father almighty . . . '. Porting our whole culture to the new model of God is a very big task.
Entanglement is a form of viscosity, ie correlation, constraint on motion arising from communication between the particles of a fluid [which induces a small monetum transfer between molecularly distant parts of the fluid].
Biolofically we are correlatd by ancestry to varying degrees. At the root of the human tree is the fact that we are all one interbreeding (and so potentially interloving) species. At the leaves of the tree each of us occupies a unique concrete niche for our lifetime, evebtually dying off, but spawning new leaves to come extent similar to ourseves both genetically and mentally.
Beyond biology in the direction of the initial singularity is chemistry and physics, each a layer of the universal
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network even closer to the ultimate root, the initial singularity formally indistinguishable from the Christian God. For us creation is the emergence of fixed points in the dynamic living God. these points are correlated by the dynamics of which they are part. In continuous physics we use calculus to represent the dynamic process, and we see the fixed points as eigenfunctions of the continuous transformations which we use to 'explain' these correlations, since two points connected by a continuum 9which carries no information) are undifferentiated and therefore an identical points, their physical and logical distance apart is 0. Logical continua have a measure, something like the product of memory and processing time measured in completed operations.
So let ℵ = 2 and off we go into physics.
The divine dynamics is the substance or core of the world that generates the structure we see evolving in the Universe.
We can represent music emanating from a point source by a sufficiently dense string of numerical values, a string of samples. So? It does not need space and it is described by quantum mechanics with various tunings (spectra) like the equally tempered scale. A physicist observing a piano piece as though it were an atom would come u with a set of frequencies and line weights in which all the meaningful structure of the sequence of notes actually played has been 'abstracted away'. [a cardinal rather than an ordinal picture]
First time I have listend to music for months, except when I am driving.
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What is the difference between mathematics and physics? Physics is limited by the constraints of embodiment, whereas mathematics is Platonically free and 'outside' dynamics like the angels. Aquinas 264
Local = same clock, fixed phase — spooky action as a distance
spatial = phases changed by finite travel times — normal action at a distance.
Following this line, we might see gravitation as the first and simplest layer of correlation in the Universe arising because all the particles in the Universe are children of the initial singularity. How does this fit with the idea that gravitation is an entropic force? Erik P Verlinde
The deepest function of religion is to make murder acceptable, s long as the people to be murdered are n some sense infidels,, beneath consideration, not human in the way we are. We can see an evolutionary foundation for this view, in that in hard times it may be better to go on the warpath and die pillaging the neighbours than sitting tight and starving in place. So it could be allright to kill to save us (and vice versa) , an initially violent and unstable system which may be repaired by making sure everyone has enough by increasing production, share more equally and developing ways to live with a small footprint, eg birth control.
Saturday 6 July 2013
We are working on liberation, that is a significant
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increase in the entropy of societies which have been imprisoned by poverty arising from s variety of causes. Politically the most obvious of these is control of the body politic by a small elite who, because of their ow entropy. can only keep control by reducing the entropy of their subjects with violence, like Maxwell's demon, chopping off the heads of the tall poppies to keep the average low. More is required to fight poverty, however, that liberation Although we have been inclined to think of entropy as a bad thing that comes into existence spontaneously, it seems to be a fact that the principal means of increasing entropy is order, witness the way we can represent very big numbers with ordered strings of relatively (logarithmically) few digits. To work properly to defeat poverty, a society must be organized, and the two things that seem most conducive to generating effective organization are education and creativity, that is understanding the world and creating new ways of using it to overcome poverty. Acemoglu & Robinson
Material poverty
Spiritual poverty.
Both are required, but can to some degree replace one another, so great material wealth may ameliorate spiritual poverty and vice versa. For the good of the planet and the advancement of society, however, we should emphasize the spiritual, preferring to pack more information into less matter At present biological systems are still very much ahead of our material technology in their information density.
An economy is a flow of goods and money moving in
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opposite directions. I give you an item of value; you give me money, etc. The cashflows are an abstract representation of the flow of goods.Invention; investment.
Fair trade maximizes entropy? How? Both parties benefit, so in a sense they are 'equiprobable', maximizing entropy. What does this mean in practice? We are now in the region of applied theology, that is broadly religion or cultures. There is probably very little new in this except to provide a model which may yield some clarity, at least to me. We are a parallel processors, working together in a network of cooperation and competition for the common good, but it is not easy to know how to do this, but the power lies with cooperation rather than selfishness: love (ie cooperate, co-create with) your neighbour.
Most of my friends and acquaintances seem to think that theology and religion are at best fantasy and at worst dangerous restraints on human development, and I have to agree with them on many details which nevertheless do not invalidate the notion that theology and religion are a valuable part of human culture and should not be thrown away but reformed. So it has eventuated that I talk to almost nobody except myself about my theological work. Now, however, as I am beginning to see the way to scientific theology and evidence based religion, I am beginning to free myself from shamefully pursuing an unpopular course and to feel that I can talk about it freely without shame and take on any opposition that might appear with carefully developed theory.
Testing. Where could I have gone wrong. There are so many ways to go wrong that it takes a lifetime of experience to avoid them.
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Much of my indoctrination seems to have revolved around ignoring emotion as the enemy of reason, a common scholastic position based on the notion that reason should be supreme and that original sin has made this supremacy moot so that reason is pitted in a struggle against emotion. Probably not so. Instead reason as a representation of the fixed points in the dynamic emotion. The spread of this hypothesis and its development have taken and will take a lot of emotion. The strongest relates to war, the body politic decreeing that some will be appointed to kill and die for communal security.
Poor America, surrounded with enemies, many created by itself. Johnson
± Growth: positive feedback. 0 growth = stability
Stability: negative feedback, oppose all change.
