vol VII: Notes
2017
Notes
Sunday 16 April 2017 - Saturday 22 April 2017
[Notebook: DB 80: Cosmic plumbing]
Sunday 16 April 2017
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Monday 17 April 2017
st06_constructing_world section x (3?) space, light velocity, causality.
There is probably general consensus on the idea that we owe our existence to some powerful creative personality but there is a lot of discussion and disagreement sometimes bitter and sometimes murderous on the nature and desires of this personality.
Tuesday 18 April 2017
Wednesday 19 April 2017
Home again again after a 4000 k round trip through Easter Easter road madness. minds are sub-processes in the divine mind, so I can truly say, as various religions say about their prophets that they are sources of divine inspiration. Many would dispute this claim but the weight of an idea can be measured by the number of
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people wh 'agree' with it, and the search for agreement is the complex task undertaken by the advertising / propaganda / motivation industries.
'Talk about feelings does not make you a snowflake'. Peace in the noosphere requires consensus which is to be achieved by much discussion. Orr Deborah Orr
Chapters 1-5 theory (theology), 6-10 practise (religion).
Maintenance: correcting an error in my local system, a blown headlight bulb.
Theology / Religion structure is the sam as 1987-88 lectures, except that after the developments exposed in 1987, 1988 was a bitr. Science is 5%, development 95% [in this case applied theology].
Why do we act irrationally? What is the timeframe over which irrationality is judged? It is the value of irrationality to be found in the creativity that it involves, a departure from computability.
From a practical point of view the second half of the book is the application of the new theology to my own life.
Thursday 20 April
Friday 21 April 2017
Ie mapping my theology to my feelings: saved by sexuality, after
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being condemned by it.
Saturday 22 April 2017
Incomputable = unpredictable = probabilistic.
Probabilistic is closely related to incomputable because the incomputable is unpredictable. Unpredictable is tautologically probabilistic. We cannot com,pute (because of a lack of information) when a gap will come in the trafic or which ball we will choose from the urn.
Life: wrestling for orgasm; struggle and payoff [including the rape of the Earth. In the beginning we did not know. Now we do and must act.].
Looking is al very nice but touching is the real thing, The adults sau look but don't touch because they fear damage to something touched by an irresponsible child. [Natural theology says we are always touching God]
Doing irrational things, ie wasting time, ie not taling the optimum path to the goal. But what if there is no goal? or an inaccessible goal.
To new book: DB81 SCIENTIFIC THEOLOGY