vol VII: Notes

2014

Notes

[Notebook: DB 78: Catholicism 2.0]

[Sunday 7 September 2014 - Saturday 13 September 2014]

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Sunday 7 September 2014

We are being governed by an elite which is scared of the people they govern. The reason why they are scared is because both the elite and the masses know that the elite are ripping the masses off. Government through fear is not optimal, there must also be government through attraction, and the attractive idea is that we a have an equal say in our collective welfare and share that welfare as it becomes available.

We use Cantor's transfinite number to build a ladder joining each entropy or complexity level of each transfinite layer: we map the transfinite numbers onto a computer network and see the symmetry in the way our network systems transparently make the transformations that enable our messages to be communicated.

The Universe as we observe it is the buffer coupling all the asynchronous processes in the world.

We have trouble running a transfinite nwetwork with Turing machines which only span a set of ℵ_o transformations, not a transfinite set. But meaning givs a way out of things by enabling us to cover the local transfinite world with a computable set of sets and so be able to manipulate it at that level of resolution [eg macroscopic objects].

Map fixed points of the universal dynamics onto the transfinite numbers.

Back in my monastic days things went along rather as they do today, adding bits and pieces to my

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theology while wondering if people will ever listen. It is all very simple in a way, just have to think it around until it all becomes clear in my mind.

Quantum mechanics is already effectively projected onto a computer network when we realize that a quantum event can be represented by a computer, or a set of computers, the eigenfunctions of the operators operating. Who is the operator and what is operated on are equivalent, reversible, acts of communication changing the states of two systems.

Monday draft effective_maths.

The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the sciences is a property of the Universe and well worth investigating. It seems to be our way that we see everything from our own perspective rather than from the perspective of the Universe, that is what is actually happening. But no matter what we set out to do we begin with the indisputable fact that we can know our environment and manipulate it, so knowledge and reality are tightly bound. True knowledge accurately reflets reality, not the whole of reality but an element of it.

We have to break the downward spiral of fear which seems to be a favourite tool of the ruling class: love us because we are saving you from a very real evil.

Monday 8 September 2014

effective_maths posted. The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics Revisisted

Tuesday 9 September 2014

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Wednesday 10 September 2014

Thoughts are the fixed points of feelings. Fielding, Bridget Jones's Diary Fielding

Hawking's M-Theory will fit into the transfinite network as long as it can be executed by turing machines (a network of). Hawking & Mlodinow

Thursday 11 September 2014

My story is just as good as theirs, and deals with all the data, not just a few old books.

Digital to the core. Where to submit. American (etc) Computer Society (Australian eg)

Beginning to crack out of the metaphysical egg fertilized by Lonergan. Lonergan: Insight

Friday 12 September 2014

Saturday 13 September 2014

Hawking page 125: Space expands but not the things in it (we say) which s how we know that it is expanding. Hawking & Mlodinow

page 129: 'speed of light does not limit expansion of space itself' (?)

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Further reading

Books

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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.  Amazon   back

Fielding, Helen, Bridget Jones's Diary: A Novel, Picador 2001 'Bridget Jones's Diary was first published in 1996 and applauded by critics from Salman Rushdie to Jilly Cooper. A number one best-seller, Helen Fielding's book has sold over fifteen million copies worldwide and has been turned into an Academy Award-nominated film starring Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth and Hugh Grant.  Amazon   back

Hawking, Stephen, and Leonard Mlodinow, The Grand Design, Bantam Books 2010 Jacket: 'The most fundamental questions about the origins of the universe and life itself, once the province of philosophy, now occupy the territory where scientists, philosophers and theologians meet -- if only to disagree. In their new book, Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow present the most recent scientific thinking about the mysteries of the universe, in non technical language marked by both brilliance and simplicity.'  Amazon   back

Homer, and Alexander Pope (translator) Steve Schrankman (editor), The Iliad of Homer, Penguin USA 1996 Amazon Book Description: 'THE English version of The Iliad is Alexander Pope's. As Dr. Johnson said of Pope's rendition of the Odessey, it is, "certainly the noblest version of poetry which the world has ever seen." This is the great Iliad of Homer, as cast into Engish by Alexander Pope, one of the giants of English poetry.'  Amazon   back

Kreyszig, Erwin, Introductory Functional Analysis with Applications, John Wiley and Sons 1989 Amazon: 'Kreyszig's "Introductory Functional Analysis with Applications", provides a great introduction to topics in real and functional analysis. This book is part of the Wiley Classics Library and is extremely well written, with plenty of examples to illustrate important concepts. It can provide you with a solid base in these subjects, before one takes on the likes of Rudin and Royden. I had purchased a copy of this book, when I was taking a graduate course on real analysis and can only strongly recommend it to anyone else.' Krishnan S. Kartik   Amazon   back

Le Carre, John, The Constant Gardener: A Novel, Scribner 2005 Amazon review: 'Editorial Reviews Amazon.com Review British diplomat Justin Quayle, complacent raiser of freesias and doting husband of the stunning, much younger Tessa, has tended his own garden in Nairobi too long. Tessa is Justin's opposite, a fiery reformer, "that rarest thing, a lawyer who believes in justice," whose campaigns have earned her a nickname: "the Princess Diana of the African poor." But now Tessa has turned up naked, raped, and dead on a mysterious visit to remote Lake Turkana in Kenya. Her traveling companion (and lover?), the handsome Congolese-Belgian doctor Arnold Bluhm, has vanished. So has Quayle's complacency. Tessa had been compiling data against a multinational drug company that uses helpless Africans as guinea pigs to test a tuberculosis remedy with unfortunately fatal side effects. Her report was destroyed by her husband's superiors; was she? It's all somehow connected to the sinister British firm House of ThreeBees, whose ad boasts that it's "buzzy for the health of Africa!" John le Carré symbolically associates ThreeBees with an ominous buzz in the Nairobi morgue: "Over [the corpses], in a swaying, muddy mist, hung the flies, snoring on a single note." The home office tries to take Quayle in out of the cold. He cleverly eludes their clammy embrace, turns spy, and takes off on a global chase to avenge Tessa and solve her murder. Le Carré has lost none of his gift for setting vivid scenes in far-flung places expertly described: London, Germany, Saskatchewan, Kenya. His sprinting thriller prose remains in great shape. And thanks to his 16 years in the British Foreign Office, his merciless send-up of its cutthroat intrigues and petty self-delusions is unbelievably good--or rather, believably so. This is global do-gooder satire on a literary par with Doris Lessing's The Summer Before the Dark. But you want to know if The Constant Gardener is as good as Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Very nearly. Africa's nightmare is more complex than the cold war chess match, and the world pharmaceutical circus is tougher to dramatize than the old spy-versus-spy-versus-spymaster game. Still, le Carré can write a smart, melancholy page-turner, and his moral outrage (the real subject of his books) burns as brightly as ever.' --Tim Appelo   Amazon   back

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'  Amazon   back

Needham, Joseph, Science and Civilisation in China (Volume 2) History of Scientific Thought, Cambridge UP 1956   Amazon   back

Smith, Adam, The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes, Modern Library 1994 'First published 1776. The eighteenth century classic that laid the foundation for modern political economy. Here Smith descibes the work of the 'invisible hand' which guides a group of people freely acting in accord with their human nature to form an orderly and coherent social structure. The bible of laissez faire (let it be) capitalism.'  Amazon   back