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vol VII: Notes

2015

Notes

Sunday 6 December 2015 - Saturday 12 December 2015

[Notebook: DB 79: Galileo Wins]

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Sunday 6 December 2015

Tax unearned income: a step toward coupling money and individual effort

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Academic Torrents: U of Massashusetts
Internet Archive Academictorrents.com, Internet Archive

Perhaps the major challenge of life is interfacing psychology and physics: what we need, want and wish for versus what we can have. This problem us both practical and metaphysical, that is theological. A theory of everything must necessarily embrace both mind and body, via the transfinite computer network.

Networks are layered and recursive, so each layer has a genealogy which embraces all the layers upon which it depends for its environment, that is the subroutines which it can call, which can in turn call subroutines right down the line to atomic logical operations.

Getting worked up toward non-linear (explosive, orgasmic [or annihilation]) event. This is tautologically coupled to every event becasue an event is by definition a discrete observable, a distinguished mark. Event involves observable change, an annihilation of one state and creation of another, a basic implementation of NOT. NOT = MARK, a quantum of action.

Monday 7 December 2015

Lonergan and the psychological approach. Lonergan: Insight

Part / chapter x: Metaphysics.

Fictional bonding: a story that founds our togetherness and ground for cooperation, rooted in families and descent.

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Said this before: 'Quid est hoc quod est esse?" A: Communicare

A big deal. How many quanta of action does it take to decide between mint jelly and chutney on a sandwich? Many things must be taken into account in reaching a decision.

Everything proceeds by quanta of action, energy.time.

So all knowledge is carnal (physically embodied) knowledge.

Tuesday 8 December 2015

We bind ourselves to fixed points by customs, laws and contracts which seem necessary for the stable operation of society.

Wednesday 9 December 2015

In its long history, the Roman Catholic Church has had ISIS like moments, most specifically the Inquisition, a quasi judicial procedure for restraining and killing dissenters.

The point of submission / radicalization : would we prefer to die submitting or die fighting? Starve to death or capture the neighbours' food?

Thursday 10 December 2015

At the metaphysical root of science is the fact pointed out by Landauer that information is a physical entity. Here science differs radically from the dominant crop of theologies that guide

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much of human behaviour. The downside of this theological position we see in activities like the Holy Inquisition, ISIS, and by far the most dangerous wealthy Christian conservatives around the world. The founding feature of all these theologies is that information is spiritual, and the value of the information is to be measured by the claimed credibility of its sources, mostly ancient documents composed by poets and dreamers keen to escape the struggles of reality. So, for instance, we are promised eternal afterlives of unbounded pleasure or pain, depending on how closely we toe various lines drawn by theological and religious authorities. We are suffering greatly from the effects of theological delusion, and the only way to save ourselves is to bring theology into the scientific fold. The transition is simple. We merely accept that the universe is divine and all experience is experience of God, and apply scientific method to this divine revelation. This is what scientists are already doing all the time: evidence based theology. Rolf Landauer

Friday 11 December 2015

Taylor Lenore Taylor

Playing with myself and the world around me is my basic mental game. I am good at imagining and building simple physical structures like verandahs, and would like to think that that skill maybe helpful in rebuilding theology and restumping the Catholic Church.

The need to speak is slowly growing in me. I think and I hope that the website is seeping into our social bonding fictions.

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I love Pope. David Pope

Waleed Aly: 'I understand — and am even sympathetic to — the now hopeless desire for some sort of cultural consensus that can bind society.' Science gives us this desideratum; by cooperation we mutuallly improve. Waleed Aly

Einsein: from special to general: global structure is both made possible and constrained by local structure.

Religion is a political tool. a set of fictions designed to promote social unity since cooperative enterprises have a better chance of survival than those fragmented by conflict.

Our biggest challenge is to understand our own behaviour, and our evolutionary history coupled with our political history gives us many insights into ourselves. Two things stand out: a) we are quite gullible and b) we will sacrifice our lives if we are convinced that it is the right thing to do. Science, ie investigation in general, is the answer to our gullibility, and once we investigate things more closely far fewer people will be persuaded to die simply for public relations.

So what next: Book: Scientific theology; article Computer network.

Saturday 12 December 2015

God is the answer to al our problems. Christianity capitalized on the Hebrew notion of the messiah, the prince of peace by making the messiah Jesus of Nazareth, both God and Man, so coupling humanity itself to divinity to provide a human answer to all our problems. Messiah - Wikipedia

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David Marr: Religion is a potent political weapon, strengthened by the power is claims over the education of children. David Marr

Jeremy Corbyn: 'Every war ends with a political process. Why don't we start with the political process now, rather than have this war in the worst place?' Rowena Mason, Kevin Rawlinson and John Harris

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Graves, Robert, Claudius the God and his Wife Messalina, Vintage:Vintage international 1989 'Picking up where the extraordinarily interesting I, Claudius ends, Claudius the God tells the tale of Claudius' 13-year reign as Emperor of Rome. Naturally, it ends when Claudius is murdered--believe me, it's not giving anything away to say this; the surprise is when someone doesn't get poisoned. While Claudius spends most of his time before becoming emperor tending to his books and his writings and trying to stay out of the general line of corruption and killings, his life on the throne puts him into the center of the political maelstrom.'
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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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Albert B. Hakim, Hell, Population Zero: Daring to Hope that All Will Be Saved, 'The Catechism of the Catholic Church, published in 1994, contains what may be the most recent official word on the existence and meaning of hell: The teaching of the Church affirms the existence of hell and its eternity. Immediately after death the souls of those who die in the state of mortal sin descend into hell, where they suffer the punishments of hell, “eternal fire.” The chief punishment of hell is eternal separation from God, in whom alone man can possess the life and happiness for which he was created and for which he longs.' (1035) back

Australian Associated Press, police chief commissioner 'concealed priest's sex abuse cries', inquiry hears, 'A former Victorian police chief commissioner was the architect of a conspiracy to conceal sex abuse crimes by a Catholic priest, another former police chief has told the royal commission. Mick Miller, the chief commissioner between 1977 and 1987, said his immediate predecessor, Reg Jackson, tried to stop former officer Denis Ryan investigating abuse by Mildura priest Monsignor John Day. “It is my opinion that chief commissioner Reg Jackson was the architect of the Victoria police’s response to Denis Ryan’s investigations into Monsignor Day,” Miller told the child abuse royal commission on Tuesday.' back

Ben Oquist, How does coal fit in with this innoation agenda?, 'Even if Paris fails and renewables have to compete against fossil fuels without ongoing policy support, they will be worth trillions in the medium term. Trillions with a T, not Billions with a B. Bloomberg New Energy Finance's highly credible 'Energy Outlook 2015' says the global post-subsidy renewables market will be worth about US$8 trillion to 2040. A government that continues to unquestionably support coal is inherently anti-renewable energy, and also innovation. Backing coal sends a terrible signal to innovators and investors in renewable energy, telling them that this is one area where the ideas boom is not welcome. back

David Marr, God's warriors locked in barbaric futile battle against marriage equality, 'When Crosby Textor asked Australians in 2014 if they supported or opposed allowing same-sex couples to marry, they found support high across the faiths as well as Australia: Total support: 72%. Catholics: 67%. Christians generally: 59%. Anglican and Uniting: 57%. The bishops aren’t speaking for their flocks. And while the Australian Christian Lobby blasts marriage reform with startling ferocity, pollsters make it clear these preachers speaks for few of us.' back

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Demographic transition - Wikipedia, Demographic transition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'The Demographic transition model (DTM) is a model used to represent the process of explaining the transformation of countries from high birth rates and high death rates to low birth rates and low death rates as part of the economic development of a country from a pre-industrial to an industrialised economy. It is based on an interpretation begun in 1929 by the American demographer Warren Thompson [1] of prior observed changes, or transitions, in birth and death rates in industrialized societies over the past two hundred years.' back

Denial - Wikipedia, Denial - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'Denial is a defense mechanism postulated by Sigmund Freud, in which a person is faced with a fact that is too uncomfortable to accept and rejects it instead, insisting that it is not true despite what may be overwhelming evidence.' back

Gorana Grgic, Trump talks as if the Wesr is at war with Islam - so d extremists, 'Less than a day after US president Barack Obama made a speech to call for unity and push against divisive rhetoric in the wake of San Bernardino terrorist attack, Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump did precisely the opposite. His call to ban all Muslims entering the US has been interpreted as everything from "unhelpful" and "unhinged" to basically the verbal equivalent of "Abu Ghraib on steroids".' back

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John Ross, UNSW quantum comuting breakthrough names as one of the year's top 10 physics feats, 'Physics World, the magazine of the UK’s Institute of Physics, has named the advance — in which the team managed to wire up the basic components of an industrially friendly quantum computer — among its “Top Ten Breakthroughs of 2015”.' back

Lenore Taylor, Austalia signs up for clear carbon trading rules, hinting at policy change, 'IMF managing director Christine Lagarde said “the right carbon price” had to be at the centre of reducing emissions and “given the slump in energy prices, there has never been a better time to transition to smart, credible and effective carbon pricing”. “Policy makers need to price it right, tax it smart and do it now,” she said, back

Messiah - Wikipedia, Messiah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'A messiah (literally, "anointed one") is a saviour or liberator of a group of people, most commonly in the Abrahamic religions. In the Hebrew Bible, a messiah . . . is a king or High Priest traditionally anointed with holy anointing oil. However, messiahs were not exclusively Jewish, as the Hebrew Bible refers to Cyrus the Great, king of Persia, as a messiah[3] for his decree to rebuild the Jerusalem Temple. The concept of messianism originated in Judaism. back

Michael Peppard, Orthodox Rabbis: Christianity "neither accident nor error", 'Positive statements about Christianity by rabbis from past centuries form a large part of the new statement, in keeping with the Orthodox style of repeating the teachings of sages. And it is rounded out with a culminating call to partnership in ethics, "a common covenantal mission to perfect the world." Jews and Christians share "the ethical monotheism of Abraham; the relationship with the One Creator of Heaven and Earth, Who loves and cares for all of us; Jewish Sacred Scriptures; a belief in a binding tradition; and the values of life, family, compassionate righteousness, justice, inalienable freedom, universal love and ultimate world peace." ' back

Original sin - Wikipedia, Original sin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'Original sin, sometimes called ancestral sin, is, according to a doctrine proposed in Christian theology, humanity's state of sin resulting from the Fall of Man. This condition has been characterized in many ways, ranging from something as insignificant as a slight deficiency, or a tendency toward sin yet without collective guilt, referred to as a "sin nature," to something as drastic as total depravity or automatic guilt by all humans through collective guilt. Those who uphold this doctrine look to the teaching of Paul the Apostle in Romans 5:12-21 and 1 Corinthians 15:22 for its scriptural base, and see it as perhaps implied in an Old Testament passage Psalm 51:5.' back

Paul III - Council of Trent, Decree Concerning Original Sin, '1. If anyone does not confess that the first man, Adam, when he transgressed the commandment of God in paradise, immediately lost the holiness and justice in which he had been constituted, and through the offense of that prevarication incurred the wrath and indignation of God, and thus death with which God had previously threatened him, and, together with death, captivity under his power who thenceforth had the empire of death, that is to say, the devil, and that the entire Adam through that offense of prevarication was changed in body and soul for the worse, let him be anathema.' back

Rolf Landauer, Information is a Physical Entity, 'Abstract: This paper, associated with a broader conference talk on the fundamental physical limits of information handling, emphasizes the aspects still least appreciated. Information is not an abstract entity but exists only through a physical representation, thus tying it to all the restrictions and possibilities of our real physical universe. The mathematician's vision of an unlimited sequence of totally reliable operations is unlikely to be implementable in this real universe. Speculative remarks about the possible impact of that, on the ultimate nature of the laws of physics are included.' back

Rowena Mason, Kevin Rawlinson and John Harris, Jeremy Corbyn praises Stop the War coalition as a vital democratic force, 'Corbyn defended those who, like him, had opposed military intervention. He told the assembled supporters: “Does that mean those people are, somehow or other, closet supporters of Isil? Absolutely not, absolutely not. What it means is that there are an awful lot of people that want to see a different way of doing things and recognise that every war ends with a political process. Why don’t we start with the political process now, rather than have the war in the first place?”' back

Waleed Aly, Attacks by Tony Abbott, Donald Trump: Arch conservatives offer nothing but guff. , 'And of how we should hardly be surprised that Islam's Reformation has turned so bloody and so ugly given that Christianity's Reformation claimed somewhere between 5 million and 15 million lives in the French Wars of Religion and the Thirty Years' War alone.' back