vol VII: Notes

2017

Notes

Sunday 19 March 2017 - Saturday 26 March 2017

[Notebook: DB 80: Cosmic plumbing]

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Sunday 19 March 2017

The fundamental problem of civilization: how to change warlords into democrats [and also change those who feel entitled to ignore human equality and tell others what do].

The Catholic Church promises paradise in the future, and hints at a [paradise in the past through its Jewish origins. Many

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people seem to believe in the paradise in the past and suspect that people were much wiser then and knew much more than we do. In general they were able to do miracles and magic and make their lives easy, surrounded, most likely, by enemies. So much of

The denialists /neo-liberals / etc are trying to divert us onto a suicide mission known as business as usual. Extinction is the price of failure to adapt.

We can [change] warlords into democrats by reducing the need for warlordism, which is not particularly profitable for society, even if a few individuals do well.

A human being is a processor in an administration. The effect of each person depends upon their role in the administration, from the president to the cleaners and childminders.

Monday 20 March 2017

Chicago Manual of Style

Tuesday 21 March 2017

Regulation sets out to maintain orthogonality on complex systems ['separation of powers'].

Wednesday 22 March 2017

Looking back I see that I hid my theological inclinations, which

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were considered somewhat shameful in the educated world. One may see some parallel with the long time it has taken the molested ones to speak out. One might argue that mental molestation is a crime of the same magnitude as sexual molestation. As a further parallel we might imagine that in some periods children were routinely treated as sexual objects, as they are now considered as objects of indoctrination. Now that I have overcome my indoctrination [partly by seeking refuge in a quiet country village for forty years] and become familiar with the divine universe, my attempts to explain my idea to people are received with disbelief because they are so well indoctrinated with the traditional story of God that they find what I am talking about inconceivable. This is a measure of the distance I have moved from the weltanschauung of my youth to my present picture of the world. Michael Salter: Why does it take victims of child sexual abuse so long to speak up?, World view - Wikipedia

Einstein seven years to develop the general theory: the time required to reject the dea that coordinate must have immediate metrical meaning. Fifty year to develop a new theology: Richard J Cook

What do I want to do now?

The dynamic process of the generation of the Word of God is the source of the fixed points (ie revelation) of God which we observe. The changing world is an image of the communication between parent and child which we call the Holy Spirit.

Thursday 23 March

Very obviously I have bitten off more than I can chew and get no

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real consolation from wondering why Einstein took so long. On the other hand no turning back, must push on with what I see as my life's work even if I do no more than scratch the surface. Pantheists have been around for a long time but I have yet to hear of one who has developed a bridge between the classical God and the complex world of experience, so I will keep at [it]. The fallback position, of course, it to help my children and grandchildren on in life, the normal occupation of old people. Have shown an early, perhaps misguided tendency toward supererogation, and my project to change the theological world is clearly a further example of supererogation, a fancy term for overdoing it. Hopefully by putting all this in the internet it will get out into the noosphere in some small way, and then we can rely on from little things big things grow (if such is their destiny). Paul Kelly

'The Universe is divine' is my first article of faith and we then set out to understand it, using mathematical fixed point theory to help us understand the path from mysticism to practical engineering.

Friday 24 March 2017

A day of chores. This is in effect the laboratory work of the scientific theology [project] insofar as I see myseld manipulating building materials, car parts, dishes, people and every other thing I interact with through the day, including myself, according to natural or equivalently divine law, and being judged by my ability to follow the law. So I took a few throws to get a weight on a rope across a bit of bush to pull an electrical cable over, and so on with every job, a few failures and

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retries to get the job done. In a repetitive factory situation, the choreography can be perfected so that there are fewer retries.

A considerable proportion of human work goes into caring for others Diminick. Sandra Diminic, Harvey Whiteford and Peter Brooks: How much would it cost the government to pay everyone who takes care of family mental illness?

Social legislative algorithms for operations such as universal healthcare. Obamacare vs Trumpcare.

'Important if true' David Langness

Saturday 25 March 2017

One can imagine that pre-human animals, on the whole, do only what is necessary for their day to day survival. Such foresight as they exercise has been 'evolved in' and may to some degree have been learnt from their parents. Hominids, however, have demonstrated a talent for foresight and planning which possibly coincided with the invention of horticulture, agriculture and animal husbandry, rapid increases in population and the nucleation of built villages and cities. This process might be understood as ratchetting bootstapping, each new capital investment creating the circumstances that encourage the next. These inventions become fixed in culture and are (still) subject to evolution by variation and selection. The fundamental criterion for selection is profitability [income > expenditure], but there is growing realization that we cannot afford to sacrifice the capital embedded in global environmental services (like forests) for short term gain. All pretty obvious, but worth endless repetition. History of agriculture - Wikipedia

Still confused and bogged in various 'technicalities', my motivation is strong as ever but as I get older I realize that time spend developing and documenting the product is well spent: it must be born viable, not just a repetition of ancient pantheistic beliefs. Hence my efforts to develop a mathematical backbone.

Algorithm - symmetry: 'software' does not change as inputs change so that outputs are controlled by both input and algorithm. Each new input breaks the symmetry of the embodied algorithm.

Event ≡ symmetry breaking, break in the continuum, modulation, a symbol.

McMaster: Vietnam and the consequences of planning cloaked in secrecy (a la Trump). The theological algorithms are all open source, transparent, no mysteries and miracles. McMaster: Dereliction of Duty

McMaster page 197: 'George Ball "events" were now "in the saddle".

Time is limited. This is the selecting constraint in evolution. My time is limited and I and trying to construct a model of creation which embodies this constraint rather than the classical assumption of formalism and eternity.

Aquinas and the Scholastics' deductive science is baseless formalism derived from a series of philosophical assumptions that fly in the face of common experience. Trump has shown us how far a false prophet can go on outright lies, and we should beware of such delusions. Donald Trump - Wikipedia

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The divine universe is a romantic quest probably accompanied by a certain amount of blindness to the detail. The details, however, must be dealt with to maintain consistency and the energy to do this work comes from the romantic dream which is an example of the bifurcation of action into kinetic and potential energy. Good dope.

Pride and Prejudice in the Roman Catholic Church. McMaster page 203.

Say it again: my local world is a subset of the universal network and it is from here that I extrapolate to the divine totality by following the symmetry with respect to complexity, 'up' and 'down'.

The whole idea is to inject a significant idea into the noosphere which will have the effect of a virus multiplying midst the theological sources of business as usual and which hopefully, will eventually reach the critical point where the theology is accepted as a science and goes mainstream.

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Further reading

Books

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Khinchin, Aleksandr Yakovlevich, Mathematical Foundations of Information Theory (translated by P A Silvermann and M D Friedman), Dover 1957 Jacket: 'The first comprehensive introduction to information theory, this book places the work begun by Shannon and continued by McMillan, Feinstein and Khinchin on a rigorous mathematical basis. For the first time, mathematicians, statisticians, physicists, cyberneticists and communications engineers are offered a lucid, comprehensive introduction to this rapidly growing field.'  Amazon   back

Lo, Hoi-Kwong, and Tim Spiller, Sandra Popescu, Introduction to Quantum Computation and Information, World Scientific 1998 Jacket: 'This book provides a pedagogical introduction to the subjects of quantum information and computation. Topics include non-locality of quantum mechanics, quantum computation, quantum cryptography, quantum error correction, fault tolerant quantum computation, as well as some experimental aspects of quantum computation and quantum cryptography. A knowledge of basic quantum mechanics is assumed.'  Amazon   back

McMaster, Herbert Raymond, Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam, Harper Perennial 1998 'Dereliction Of Duty is a stunning new analysis of how and why the United States became involved in an all-out and disastrous war in Southeast Asia. Fully and convincingly researched, based on recently released transcripts and personal accounts of crucial meetings, confrontations and decisions, it is the only book that fully re-creates what happened and why. It also pinpoints the policies and decisions that got the United States into the morass and reveals who made these decisions and the motives behind them, disproving the published theories of other historians and excuses of the participants.'  Amazon   back

Veltman, Martinus, Diagrammatica: The Path to the Feynman Rules, Cambridge University Press 1994 Jacket: 'This book provides an easily accessible introduction to quantum field theory via Feynman rules and calculations in particle physics. The aim is to make clear what the physical foundations of present-day field theory are, to clarify the physical content of Feynman rules, and to outline their domain of applicability. ... The book includes valuable appendices that review some essential mathematics, including complex spaces, matrices, the CBH equation, traces and dimensional regularization. ...'  Amazon   back

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