vol VII: Notes
2014
Notes
[Notebook: DB 77 Discretion]
[Sunday 22 June 2014 - Saturday 28 June 2014]
Sunday 22 June 2014
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Monday 23 June 2014
There is no analytic that is computable solution to the three body problem, no matter what the shape of the potential connecting them (?). So any communicating system of three interacting systems is indeterminate to the extent that it is incomputable and vice versa.
The emotional problem I faced in the Church is reflected in the Church between the two halves of its personality which I will call the pastoral and the dogmatic. The Church exercises its pastoral missin within a dogmatic framework that asserts that the Universe is not divine, that females are inferior to males, that enjoying sex for any reason other than procreation is forbidden [, that the Universe and in particular human nature is flawed by original sin] and so on.I assert that many of these dogmatic positions are simply wrong, that is they do not conform to reality. The alternative is simple. We do away with dogmatism by the assumption that the Universe is divine, that the scientific method generates knowledge of the divinity and that all experience is experience of god.
One seeks to achieve 'cut through' by getting into the news (of some peer group or another). Peer group = communication group, permutation group, everybody can communicate with anybody.
The basic problem of theology is the problem of evil, the fact that ultimately we all live under a death sentence which
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becomes clearer as we get older. There are two ways to deal with this situation, to deny it or deal with it. The Catholic Church denies it, attributing to its members immortal souls that exist in a state of bliss or torture for all eternity. The fate of each soul in the afterlife us determined by the behaviour the physical person in which the was was embodied for a human lifetime.
From my point of view denial of death is an unrealistic option. In the world of the religions of books the denial of death is implied in the curse God put on the first humans for disobeying him.
The basic position of the Church is defined by its denial of the validity of recreational sensuality and sexuality, This is a reflection of the ruling class need to control fertility to help maintain an adequate supply of workers ' for dust you are and unto dust you shall return. Genesis 3:19.
A flash. Yes. The brush with cancer induced death. Very light touch but I am pleased that the offending material has been removed. It has led me, however, to face death, aided by my recent visit to my 95 yo parents who are gradually fading from life.
Why is there death in the Universe? Because almost nothing is so perfect that it can go on repeating itself. Errors creep in because it is coupled, however lightly, to the rest of the Universe.
We must face death because it arises from the inevitable accumulation of errors in various links in the bodily functions that underlie our conscious lives.
Pitch to the New Yorker 8000 words (1 hour program) [Why death]
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Driving home somewhat intoxicated deep in the bush, a long way from the law but, if I am to live I must keep careful control of my angular velocity (ie action) if I am to get home without coming to grief.
Timor mortis conturbat me. But I know I must face it and the way to face it is to live with a certain level of passion. I have watched many of my parents' generation fade away, dying from inanition. The alternative, to keep acting, seems much more rewarding. Death is a source of grief to those left living but the dead live on in the minds and records of the living. Timor mortis conturbat me - Wikipedia
The hospita also noted that my blood pressure was on the high side a signal to me to relax a little by communicating with the rest of the world. I have bottled up my emotional relationship with the Catholic Church but now it would contribute to our common understanding of repression and enlightenment in the realms of religion and politics, practical disciplines whose theoretical foundations are studied by theology.
We know for a fact that the Universe has pretty much evolved from particles even simpler than hydrogen to complex systems like planet Earth (which includes us) and that if we understand our cosmic environment properly we should be able to use the creative force of the Universe to [page 165]
improve our own position.
The world is in turmoil because theology and religion have failed. They have failed because they have revealed themselves as sectarian rather than inclusive, so that they have become causes of wars rather than causes of peace,.They are in conflict because they are largely unverifiable fictions held as a matter of faith rather than learned from experience.
Timor mortis conturbat me
New Yorker: Why Death?
In the Church the pastoral duty of care is in conflict with the dogmatic duty of truth, and the result is unnatural pressure on people which leads to unnatural behaviour.
Catholicism is based on stick and carrot, but whenever the carrot fails the stick comes into play to elicit a bit of compliance through pain.
Tuesday 24 June 2014
Time to start thinking about the TV series. Begin with You Tube?
Symmetry with respect to complexity suggests that the best way to design the human world is to look at the order in subsystems of the human system and learn how to apply it to ourselves.
In the layered network model, each layer is the law for the layer above it [so physics is the law for everything]. The fundamental law, implemented by gravitation and banking, is arithmetic of positive integers. How
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does this relate to logic? Consistency = equality.
Inertial frame = Hilbert space?
Wednesday 25 June 2014
Thursday 26 June 2014
None of the ancient religions is very tightly coupled to reality as we know it so their followers are very much in the position of travellers trying to find their way around the world using a number of different and significantly false maps.
Death is a consequence of error. Error is relative to the form [set of algorithms] of a given system , but because systems are coupled however weakly, to the rest of the world (eg U238 [half life 4 billion years]) they eventually communicate in a way outside their proper algorithm and fail or die. Uranium-238 - Wikipedia
Friday 27 June 2014
Saturday 28 June 2014
A clear illutration of meaning and symmetry with respect to complexity os the way we talk about nations in terms of their presidents, prime ministers, etc, as in "The big loser in all this is Putin . . . ', Andrew Higgins Andrew HigginsOne day we will no doubt learn how many people have suffered and died from the sexually transmitted diseases and starvation as a consequence of the Church's proscription of safe sex and contraception. I can see no mandate for this position in the words attributed to Jesus of Nazareth and it is difficult to give much credibility to that devious little turncoat Saul/Paul of Tarsus. (This to July letter, tending more towards sex and economics.)
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A small calculation. Australia, population of 20E6 probably contains 10E3 cases of child molestation by the church, ie 1 in 2000 of the population, If we imagine that there are 1E9 catholics in the world, we might expect 5E5 of them to have been molested, at $E6 each, this will cost the Church $500E9 to repair, probably enough to bankrupt it.
The theology of the Roman Catholic Church is corupt in the most radical possible way, because its model of God is exactly wrong, The Church says God is not the Universe. Reality says God is the Universe.
