vol VII: Notes
2014
Notes
[Notebook: DB 77 Discretion]
[Sunday 18 May 2014 - Saturday 24 May 2014]
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Sunday 18 May 2014
The Carnot cycle stands at the root of modern industrial engineering, as Shannon's theorems stand at the root of modern communications. Both these entities also lie at the root of the evolution of life, and are the foundation of
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Before the advent of science most people possibly thought that life is a matter of fate than there is very little you can do about it.
Grounded = tightly coupled to the God standard, total consistency.
The Abbott-Hockey government are dynamic pragmatists insofar as they are happy to ignore past promises and positions, but while being open to the data is good, the processing algorithm may be completely wrong because the government is unaware of the fixed points in political dynamics. Which are??
Making God mysterious and taking control of communication with God are merely political ploys aimed at bolstering the power of Churches. But while churches are in the religion business they do not own religion any more than traders in the milk business own milk. It exists independently of them.
Monday 19 May 2014
Tuesday 20 May 2014
Khinchin page 49: 'The fact that the statistical predictions of quantum mechanics are independent of supplementary conditions [ie depend only on the measured state, U] is one of the most important general principles of the theory and gives the predictions a real statistical meaning'. Khinchin
Operator maps Hilbert space onto itself. [since there is only one Hilbert space for each cardinal number of dimensions]
Our basic data is how we feel. We are all phenomena to ourselves, and we attempt to understand and repsond to ourselves
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Variety reduction through oppression does not seem to have really worked on me and I am committed to breaking the variety reducing power od my principal repressor, the Roman Catholic Church, but I think I must admit that if it had not repressed me I may not have made the discoveries I think I have made.
God is everything, maximum entropy.
Wednesday 21 May 2014
Annabelle Lukin: Ruquaiya Hasan: 'The brain . . . "is a naturally designed interpeter; so long as it is not dozing, not drunk, not deranged, not dead, is must make a 'reading' ". ' Annabelle Lukin
Aristotle: rhetoric: '. . . the capacity to see in relation to a particular subject, the available means of persuasion.'
Thursday 22 May 2014
What next? May letter to Francis: Satan, evil, error, control, Papacy as a 'source' of error.
Khinchin page 56: ' The determination of all possible values of a physical quantity by constructing the spectrum of its corresponding operator is commonly called the "quantization" of the quantity.
Friday 23 May 2014
From my point of view the human world can be a very depressing place, largely because of 'man's inhumanity to man'. More specifically because the haves have a strong tendency to use their power to take from the have nots, as we see in the
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recent Australian government budget. I try to do something about this by providing cheap or free plumbing and building services to the poorer members of my community. This policy serves to keep me relatively poor also, but I have a lifetime of experience at living cheaply and suffer no disability from it. In many ways I continue on the path of study and voluntary poverty that began when I entered the Dominicans. The principal problem now is trying to break into the world of theology which from my point of view is a series of cities built in the air and designed to give power to an oppressive elite who depend on defending these very cities, Basically, it seems, to do this I have to join the academic stream, something I cannot afford to do at present. The alternative which I pursue relentlessly is to write my way to influence, but my successes are few and far between. I am regularly rewarded with new insights and feel that I will eventually meet with success, but the desire for instant gratification remains.
Fatima Measham Eureka Street: '. . . successful opposition seems to rely heavily on people getting terribly het up about something.' Fatima Measham
Saturday 24 May 2014
Can we say all measurements come down to measurements of frequency/energy, ie statistics, and relative statistics at that, so absolue values of frequency have no meaning. We always measure the ratio x/y, births/deaths, etc.
The ruling classes,like the Church, have a tendency to emphasize the spiritual value of poverty in an effort to keep the oppressed masses calm and suppress any demands for a better share of the cake.
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Coates: The Catholic Church is built on slavery, albeit voluntary, people like myself encouraged to work for nothing by false doctrines [but not perhaps false advertising, since they believed it]. Ta-Nehisi Coates
Most of the 'ancient' modern institutions are built on radical falsehoods. Coates: '. . . white supremacy is not merely the work of hot headed demagogues, or a matter of false consciousness, but a force so fundamental to America that it is difficult to imagine the country without it.
John Conyers HR 40 John Conyers, Jr.
The answer to error is motion, a change of course to bring the system back on track. The Church is a source of error and pain because it denies the correction of error, claiming to be infallible.
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Further reading
Books
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Butler, E M, The Myth of the Magus, Cambridge University Press 1993 Amazon product description: 'The Magus, a legendary magician of superhuman powers, is an archetype central to myth and religion across many cultures. Identifying its anthropological origins in ancient rituals performed by a shaman or wizard to ensure the prosperity of his tribe, E. M. Butler goes on to trace its subsequent development in pre-Christian religious and mystic philosophers, in medieval sorcerers and alchemists, and finally in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century occult revival. From Zoroaster to Solomon, Merlin to Faust, Cagliostro to Rasputin, legends of the Magus are explored and where possible compared with the historical record in this fascinating account, first published in 1948, of one of the major figures in religious and occult mythology.'
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Christie, Agatha, The Moving Finger: A Miss Marple Mystery, Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
• ISBN-13: 978-1579126940 2007 Amazon product description: 'The placid village of Lymstock seems the perfect place for Jerry Burton to recuperate from his accident under the care of his sister, Joanna. But soon a series of vicious poison-pen letters destroys the village's quiet charm, eventually causing one recipient to commit suicide. The vicar, the doctor, the servants—all are on the verge of accusing one another when help arrives from an unexpected quarter. The vicar's houseguest happens to be none other than Jane Marple.
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Emch, Gerard G, Mathematical and Conceptual Foundations of 20th-Century Physics, North Holland/Elsevier Science Publishers 1984 Preface: 'Aside from the primary aim of this book, which is to resent a unified mathematical account of the conceptual foundations of 20th-century Physics . . . it is hoped that . . . various parts of the book will be excerpted, and incorporated in separate courses pertaining to the Pure Mathematics curriculum, to provide illustrative examples, further motivations and testimony to the unity of the Mathematical Sciences.'
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Hawking, Steven W, and G F R Ellis, The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time , Cambridge UP 1975 Preface: Einstein's General Theory of Relativity ... leads to two remarkable predictions about the universe: first that the final fate of massive stars is to collapse behind an event horizon to form a 'black hole' which will contain a singularity; and secondly that there is a singularity in our past which constitutes, in some sense, a beginning to our universe. Our discussion is principally aimed at developing these two results.'
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Heisenberg, Werner , Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory (translated by Carl Eckart and Frank C Hoyt), Dover 1949 Jacket: 'In this classic, based on lectures delivered at the University of Chicago, Heisenberg presents a complete physical picture of quantum theory. He covers not only his own contributions, but also those of Bohr, Dirac, Bose, de Broglie, Fermi, Einstein, Pauli, Schroedinger, Sommerfeld, Rupp, Wilson, Germer and others in a text written for the physical scientist who is not a specialist in quantum theory or in modern mathematics.'
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Jaynes, Julian, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, Mariner Books 2000 Jacket: 'At the heart of this book is the revolutionary idea that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but is a learned process brought into being out of an earlier hallucinatory mentality by cataclysm and catastrophe only 3000 years ago and still developing.'
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Khinchin, A Y, The Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Statistics, Dover 1998 'In the area of quantum statistics, I show that a rigorous mathematical basis of the computational formulas of statistical physics ... may be obtained from an elementary application of the well-developed limit theorems of the theory of probability'
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Lonergan, Bernard J F, Insight : A Study of Human Understanding (Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan : Volume 3), University of Toronto Press 1992 '... Bernard Lonergan's masterwork. Its aim is nothing less than insight into insight itself, an understanding of understanding'
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Misner, Charles W, and Kip S Thorne, John Archibald Wheeler, Gravitation, Freeman 1973 Jacket: 'Einstein's description of gravitation as curvature of spacetime led directly to that greatest of all predictions of his theory, that the universe itself is dynamic. Physics still has far to go to come to terms with this amazing fact and what it means for man and his relation to the universe. John Archibald Wheeler. . . . this is a book on Einstein's theory of gravity. . . . '
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Suyin, Han, The Crippled Tree, Academy Chicago Publishers, Limited 1985 Amazon book description: 'In The Crippled Tree Han Suyin evokes, through the life of her two families (eastern and western), a panorama of the history of China from 1885 to 1928. It contains eye-witness accounts, from family papers, of the Sino-French War, of the revolution of 1911 and of the emergence of Chiang Kai-shek. This book is more compelling than history and more profound than biography: it describes how events mould the lives of individuals, and how their private emotions are twisted by the gigantic conflicts of a changing world. The theme of the book is the story of the Chinese family of Han Suyin, a family deeply feudal, rooted in a far inland province of China adjacent to Tibet; yet, because of the western invasion of China, brought face to face with compelling change. . . . '
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Papers
| Edenhofer, Ottmar, et al, "Climate policies will stimulate technology development", Nature, 453, 7192, 8 May 2008, page 155. 'It is most unlikely, however, that technology will be frozen. Over the past 30 years the decrease in energy intensity has been 1.1% a year -- well above the 0.6% a year assumed in 75% of the scenarios assessed by the IPCC.'. back |
| Shannon, Claude E, "Communication in the Presence of Noise", Proceedings of the IEEE, 86, 2, February 1998, page 447-457. Reprint of Shannon, Claude E. "Communication in the Presence of Noise." Proceedings of the IEEE, 37 (January 1949) : 10-21. 'A method is developed for representing any communication system geometrically. Messages and the corresponding signals are points in two function spaces, and the modulation process is a mapping of one space into the other. Using this representation, a number of results in communication theory are deduced concerning expansion and compression of bandwidth and the threshold effect. Formulas are found for the maximum rate of transmission of binary digits over a system when the signal is perturbed by various types of noise. Some of the properties of "ideal" systems which transmit this maximum rate are discussed. The equivalent number of binary digits per second of certain information sources is calculated.' . back |
Links
| Annabelle Lukin, In government, a mantra is not enough to control the nation, 'The annual federal budget speech is the one required speech of the Australian political calendar. And it goes all the way back to Federation. It’s Australia’s equivalent of the State of the Union address.
The scope of the budget speech is no less than explaining, justifying and selling a government’s decisions about how it will spend the taxes we pay, forecast to be about A$360 billion in the coming financial year.' back |
| Bartleby.com, I sing the Body Electric, Whitman, Walt, 1900. Leaves of Grass, 'I SING the Body electric;
The armies of those I love engirth me, and I engirth them;
They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them,
And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the Soul. back |
| Cathnews, Vatican updates sins for modern world, 'Polluting the environment, drug pushing and genetic manipulation have been added to the list of mortal sins.
Reuters reports head of the Apostolic Penitentiary - the Vatican body which oversees confessions and plenary indulgence - Bishop Archbishop Gianfranco Girotti (pictured) told L'Osservatore Romano said the greatest "danger zone" fro the soul in modern times was bioethics.' back |
| Coupling constant - Wikipedia, Coupling constant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'In physics, a coupling constant, usually denoted g, is a number that determines the strength of an interaction. Usually the Lagrangian or the Hamiltonian of a system can be separated into a kinetic part and an interaction part. The coupling constant determines the strength of the interaction part with respect to the kinetic part, or between two sectors of the interaction part. For example, the electric charge of a particle is a coupling constant.' back |
| Fatima Measham, Bill Shorten's WorkChoices moment, 'Then came WorkChoices. It came into effect in March 2006, exempting companies with under 101 employees from unfair dismissal laws, removing the 'no disadvantage test' for workplace agreements and restricting industrial action. Kevin Rudd became leader of the Labor Party later that year. Notwithstanding his merit as a candidate, including that his candidacy came at the tail-end of Howard's fourth term as Prime Minister, there is no doubt that the unions-led campaign against WorkChoices was pivotal to handing government to Labor.'
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| John Conyers, Jr., Reparations - Issues - U.S. Congessman John Conyers Jr., 'In January of 1989, I first introduced the bill H.R. 40, Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act. I have re-introduced HR 40 every Congress since 1989, and will continue to do so until it's passed into law.
One of the biggest challenges in discussing the issue of reparations in a political context is deciding how to have a national discussion without allowing the issue to polarize our party or our nation. The approach that I have advocated for over a decade has been for the federal government to undertake an official study of the impact of slavery on the social, political and economic life of our nation.' back |
| Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem - Wikipedia, Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'The Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem, named after Harry Nyquist and Claude Shannon, is a fundamental result in the field of information theory, in particular telecommunications and signal processing. Sampling is the process of converting a signal (for example, a function of continuous time or space) into a numeric sequence (a function of discrete time or space). Shannon's version of the theorem states:
If a function x(t) contains no frequencies higher than B hertz, it is completely determined by giving its ordinates at a series of points spaced 1/(2B) seconds apart.' back |
| Orgasm - Wikipedia, Orgasm - Wikipedia, the fre encyclopedia, 'An orgasm (sexual climax) is the conclusion of the plateau phase of the sexual response cycle, and may be experienced by both males and females. Orgasm is characterized by intense physical pleasure, controlled by the involuntary, or autonomic, nervous system.[1] It is accompanied by quick cycles of muscle contraction in the lower pelvic muscles, which surround the primary sexual organs and the anus. Orgasms are often associated with other involuntary actions, including muscular spasms in other areas of the body, a general euphoric sensation, and frequently, vocalizations,' back |
| Parmenides - Wikipedia, Parmenides - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'Parmenides of Elea (early 5th century BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher born in Elea, a Greek city on the southern coast of Italy. He was the founder of the Eleatic school of philosophy, his only known work is a poem which has survived only in fragmentary form. In it, Parmenides describes two views of reality. In the Way of Truth, he explained how reality is one; change is impossible; and existence is timeless, uniform, and unchanging. In the Way of Opinion, he explained the world of appearances, which is false and deceitful. These thoughts strongly influenced Plato, and through him, the whole of western philosophy.' back |
| Propagator - Wikipedia, Propagator - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'In quantum mechanics and quantum field theory, the propagator gives the probability amplitude for a particle to travel from one place to another in a given time, or to travel with a certain energy and momentum. Propagators are used to represent the contribution of virtual particles on the internal lines of Feynman diagrams. They also can be viewed as the inverse of the wave operator appropriate to the particle, and are therefore often called Green's functions.' back |
| Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Case for Reparations, 'Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.' back |
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