vol VII: Notes

2014

Notes

[Notebook: DB 78: Catholicism 2.0]

[Sunday 21 December 2014 - Saturday 27 December 2014]

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Sunday 21 December 2014

Faith = hypothesis (held as an operational fiction, a basis to go forward). Whart we wnat as our fundamental article of faith is the root fiction of the Universe. It is divine and so restrained only by local consistency. 'Local' is the space-time in which the relevant actors act, which may, through its historical antecedents, embrace the Universe right back to the beginning. The existence of a beginning makes sense of the whole system. it is the evolutionary child of an unconstrained parent

Reading 192/8/14 on Einstein and gravitation, Still a mystery to me how to undertand the first fixed point in God, the initial singularity.

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Misner, Thorne and Wheeler page 302: 'Coordinate free language' is an inconsistent statement insofar as every language is a coordinate system we use to represent our experiences to our peers. Misner

Universalism, Symmetry, Iliouz. Eva iliouz

Monday 22 December 2014

Reading over my diary from 30 years ago is enlightening and embarrassing: mainly from what now seem to be silly speculations, which may have helped to expand the envelope. The network is not yet present, but I have 'pregeometry', computation and communication theory in mind.

Potential = negative energy. Kinetic (mass) = positive energy. When kinetic meets potential we have an action. Action (primordial) splits into dual positive / negative energy which add algebraically to zero at a stationary point in the Universe as required by the notion energy = motion, zero energy - stillness.

Find myself putting bits back into the transcript that I left out ten years ago when I began transcribing notebooks from 1982-83. Perhaps a better understanding of what has turned out to be relevant which was not so then.

Misner, Thorne and Wheeler page 1208: 'Some principle uniquely right and uniquely simple must, when one knows it, be also so compelling that it is clear the universe is built, and must be built, in such and

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such a way, and that it could not possibly be otherwise.'

This principle is 'the Universe is divine' which means that it is constrained only by self-consistency and no outside influence. This means that the fixed points of the Universe are isomorphic to mathematics, a contradiction free symbolic (fixed, formal) structure.

Misner page 1208: 'Is not the source of dismay the apparent loss of guidance that one experiences on giving up geometrodynamics — and not only geometrodynamics but geometry itself.' Since there is no information in a continuum, the use of continuous mathematics reduces the resolution of the theory of gravitation to match the resolution [of reality]. The same lack of resolution i continuous mathematics corresponds to the lak of resolution of reality we call the uncertainty principle.

Logical continuity - action at a distance.

Tuesday 23 December 2014

Bourne again / born again = rebooted (usually (hopefully)) without the error that made a reboot necessary. The current [Australian] government gives a very clear view of the contrast between humanity and monarchy. The characteristic of monarchy is command and control. The people either do what the monarch tells them or the army, the police and the secret police control the dissidents. This model of nationhood (or empire) overlooks the fact that we are inherently social animals and naturally determine our behaviour by our interactions with our peers, not at the command of an authority. The democratic approach to government seeks mechanism to both educate the population about the circumstances they face and obtaining a consensus

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on the best thing to do by informed debate, A principal defect with our monarchically tinged government is its denial of reality. Everyone can see that the 1024 budget is unfair but the treasurer insists hat it is fair. A bit like the Papacy that likes to tell us that the good go to heaven and the bad go to hell. No evidence.

Religion and the structuring of a nation: the history of Christianity and Islam in the formation of national entities, ie sovereign sets of people (occupying defined territories?).

Gentle rain as a backdrop to my religious reboot. universe_divine (Zygon) progresses.

Wednesday 24 December 2014

From divine universe to political mantra - freedom = maximum entropy, but entropy does not come free, but requires capital investment in structures that guarantee the equality of individuals.

We may think of each layer of the network as a source, a capital investment made by the layer above it to ensure its own survival . The national layer must therefore maximize the freedom of individuals to increase its own entropy and stability.

The divine right of kings has given way to the divine right of wealth [but no kingship without the wealth necessary to raise an army].

Go lightly on your substrate.

Thursday 25 December 2014

Friday 26 December 2014

Have been down in the rick and mud establishing foundations for a long time, bit now seem to have a solid floor or root.

Choreography = algorithm requires memory to store the moves, as in Turing machine. Algorithm words / music . Lookup vs computation. [Minimum lookup always required Chaitin Chaitin]

Just want to write it again: permutation = imagination.

Saturday 27 December 2014

We may equate the government of a country to the central nervous system of a animal. The conservatives opting for small government are helping to take us back to the age of small brained creatures.

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Further reading

Books

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Chaitin, Gregory J, Algorithmic Information Theory, Cambridge UP 1987 Foreword: 'The crucial fact here is that there exist symbolic objects (i.e., texts) which are "algorithmically inexplicable", i.e., cannot be specified by any text shorter than themselves. Since texts of this sort have the properties associated with random sequences of classical probability theory, the theory of describability developed . . . in the present work yields a very interesting new view of the notion of randomness.' J T Schwartz  Amazon   back

Feynman, Richard P, and Robert B Leighton et al, The Feynman Lectures on Physics (volume 1) : Mainly Mechanics, Radiation and Heat, Addison Wesley 1963 Foreword: 'This book is based on a course of lectures in introductory physics given by Prof. R P Feynman at the California Institute of Technology during the academic year 1961-62. ... The lectures constitute a major part of a fundamental revision of the introductory course, carried out over a four year period. ... The need for a basic revision arose both from the rapid development of physics in recent decades and from the fact that entering freshmen have shown a stewady incrase in mathematical ability as a result of improvements in high school mathematical course content.'  Amazon   back

Grenville, Kate, The Lieutenant, Canongate Books 2009 Amazon Product Description 'As a boy, Daniel Rooke was always an outsider. At school, he learned to hide his clever thoughts from his cruel peers; at home, his parents were bemused by their bookish son. Daniel could only hope - against all the evidence - that he would one day find his place in life. By 1788, Daniel has become Lieutenant Rooke, astronomer with the First Fleet as it lands on the unknown shores of New South Wales. As the newcomers struggle to establish a settlement for themselves and their cargo of convicts, and attempts are made to communicate with those who already inhabit this land, Rooke sets up his observatory to chart the stars. But the place where they have landed will prove far more revelatory than the night sky. Out on his isolated point, Rooke comes to know the local Aboriginal people, and forges a remarkable connection with one child, which will change his life in ways he never imagine.'  Amazon   back

Jungk, Robert , Brighter than a Thousand Suns: A personal history of the atomic scientists (translated by James Cleugh) , Harcourt Brace 1970 Amazon customer review: By  Amazon customer review: 'Robert Jungk went to a lot of trouble to interview as many people as possible who'd worked on the A-bomb, and produced this well written history of the Manhatten Project. It's a bit dated, but if I had to recommend three books on this subject, this would be one of them (the others would be Richard Rhode's THE MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB and Lillian Hoddeson's CRITICAL ASSEMBLY). There's interesting information in here I haven't read anywhere else, and I've read over a dozen books on the Manhatten Project.' Stephen M. St Onge  Amazon   back

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. . . . '  Amazon   back

Pears, Iain, An Instance of the Fingerpost, Random House 1997 Jacket: 'Anyone who reads this will want to tell their friends about it ... This novel combines the simple pleasures of Agatha Christie with the intellectual subtlety of Umberto Eco ... don't let it pass by unread.' Sunday Times  Amazon   back

Polkinghorne, John, Quantum Physics and Theology: An Unexpected Kinship, Yale University Press 2008 Amazon Product Description 'Despite the differences of their subject matter, science and theology have a cousinly relationship, John Polkinghorne contends in his latest thought-provoking book.  From his unique perspective as both theoretical physicist and Anglican priest, Polkinghorne considers aspects of quantum physics and theology and demonstrates that the two truth-seeking enterprises are engaged in analogous rational techniques of inquiry. His exploration of the deep connections between science and theology shows with new clarity a common kinship in the search for truth.   The author identifies and explores key similarities in quantum physics and Christology. Among the many parallels he identifies are patterns of historical development in quantum physics and in Christology; wrestling with perplexities such as quantum interpretation and the problem of evil; and the drive for an overarching view in the Grand Unified Theories of physics and in Trinitarian theology. Both theology and science are propelled by a desire to understand the world through experienced reality, and Polkinghorne explains that their viewpoints are by no means mutually exclusive.'  Amazon   back

Papers

Sarewitz, Daniel, Richard Nelson, "Three rules for technological fixes", Nature, 456, 7224, 18/25 December 2008, page 871 - 872. 'Not all problems yield to technology. Deciding which will and which won't should be central to setting innovation policy, . . . '. back

Vedral, Vlatko, "Quantifying entanglement in macroscopic systems", Nature, 453, 7198, 19 June 2008, page 1004 - 1007. 'Traditionally, entangement was considered to be a quirk of microscopic objects that defied a common-sense explanation. Now, however, entanglement is recognized to be ubiquitous and robust. With the realization that entanglement can occur in macroscopic systems -- and with the development of experiments aimed at exploiting this fact -- new tools are required to define and quantify entanglement beyond the original microscopic framework. '. back

Links

Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Instruction Dignitas Personae on Certain Bioethical Questions, 'The present Instruction is addressed to the Catholic faithful and to all who seek the truth.  It has three parts: the first recalls some anthropological, theological and ethical elements of fundamental importance; the second addresses new problems regarding procreation; the third examines new procedures involving the manipulation of embryos and the human genetic patrimony.' back

Eva iliouz, Where was the left when the settlers hijacked Zionism?, 'For a long time, the movement was viewed by a large part of the Israeli public as a minor problem – a benign growth, as it were, that would be surgically removed at the time of a withdrawal from the territories. But Gush Emunim morphed into a looser but far more powerful body known as “the settler movement,” whose power structure is reflected in a governing council and through a vast network of religious elementary and high schools, yeshivahs, media and political parties.' back

Variety (cybernetics) - Wikipedia, Variety (cybernetics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'The term Variety was introduced by W. Ross Ashby to denote the count of the total number of states of a system. The condition for dynamic stability under perturbation (or input) was described by his Law of Requisite Variety. Ashby says: Thus, if the order of occurrence is ignored, the set {c, b, c, a, c, c, a, b, c, b, b, a} which contains twelve elements, contains only three distinct elements- a, b, c. Such a set will be said to have a variety of three elements. He adds The observer and his powers of discrimination may have to be specified if the variety is to be well defined. Variety can be stated as an integer, as above, or as the logarithm to the base 2 of the number i.e. in bits.' back