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vol VII: Notes

2017

Notes

Sunday 9 July 2017 - Saturday 15 July 2017

[Notebook: DB 81: Scientific theology]

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Sunday 9 July 2017

Monday 10 July 2017

Can we devise some calculations that demonstrate the peacemaking power of scientific theology?

What now?

Tuesday 11 July 2017

Most of our troubles come from one another. This may be because we evolved in small families / tribes, instantiations of human symmetry, ie symmetries broken by circumstances, and now we need to appreciate the full symmetry expressed in the UNDHR. So we connect peace and symmetry and chapter 9 theory of peace summarizes the developments of the project since those lectures were written emphasizing symmetry. with respect to identical particles, and complexity. United Nations: Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Insight is the cure for depression. Have been trying to focus on the central message of the book and now I have it, symmetry and its contrary, broken symmetry.

Wednesday 12 July 2017

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The layers of the transfinite network are orthogonal but there is a correlation of measure zero between them established by the fact that each layers is the alphabet of events for the layer above it and is selected (curated) by the layer above it which has an interest in maintaining its substrate. We can discuss all this in terms of a bifurcation, say p to not-p.

The Trump government: a set of people plunged into contradiction with one another by a very fickle monarch.

Maintaining ones alphabet is maintaining one's communication networks so my business is a network of customers, suppliers and all the little bits and pieces I need to get things done hinges, screws, gas, solder . . .

productivity of tools
cost of error
doing a job properly [vs temptation to skimp]

Thursday 13 July 2017

Friday 14 July 2017

The world is in turmoil and in my view the root of the trouble lies in false theology and the consequent errors in religion. The problem with theology is that it is largely pure fiction because most of the Gods we have invented since theology began are invisible. They represent the invisible forces that make the world go. Because they are invisible, anybody can say anything they like about them and nobody can find any evidence to contradict them, by definition.

These fictions do have some logical backbone, however. As well as the poets and prophets, many logically, mathematically and scientifically inclined people have thought about what it means to be God. We boil this down to four people, Parmenides,

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Plato, Aristotle and Aquinas. Parmenides realized that somewhere beneath the kaleidoscopic events of the world there must be a still all embracing centre. This symbol of stability is the foundation of true and durable knowledge. Parmenides - Wikipedia, Plato - Wikipedia, Aristotle - Wikipedia, Thomas Aquinas - Wikipedia

Plato took up Parmenides idea and imagined a heaven of perfect forms ranging from the form of the Good down to the forms of the smallest details of the world. While the forms are perfect the world is a poor shadow of the real reality.

Aristotle was the first to come down to earth. He was as much interested in the change he observed n the world as the stability. He devised the story of matter and form to explain change. The forms are fxed, a la Plato, but they are embodied in matter, and matter can change its forms, from sword to ploughshare and so on.

He took the theory of matter and form into the heavens by equating matter to potential, that is the ability to become something and form to actuality, what makes matter into actual things. He laid down an axiom that no potential could actualize itself but must be actualized by something already actual. This led him to postulate the first unmoved mover that became Aquinas' model for the Christian God.

God, like the unmoved mover, is pure actuality. Every possibility is actualized in God. From this Aquinas derived the standard properties of the classical god, simplicity, eternity, omniscience, omnipotence and so on.

Aristotle imagined the unmoved mover as the epitome of beauty and happiness, and that it drives the Universe by attracting all things to move toward it. It is part of the cosmos. Aquinas, on the other hand, no doubt moved by dogma, placed God outside the

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Universe. This is the fundamental error of Western theology. As I see it God is visible and identical to the Universe studied by science. If theologians were to see this, theology could become a real science embracing all the other sciences.

The evidence stands before our eyes. The visible Universe pays all the roles attributed to the Christian God.

Since there is but one God, and scientific method is designed to converge on the truth, we can expect this hypothesis to lead to a unification of theology which will serve as the basis for truly ecumenical religion.

This hypothesis also changes the status of the world we inhabit. It is no longer a beautiful creation damaged by the Fall, but it is divine and needs to be treated as such. Science, by staying close to reality, reveals the will of God. One thing God is trying to tell is at the moment is that if we do not look after our planet we are dead. A case of suicide.

Bio: Dominican Order in my early 20s. Asked to leave for unorthodoxy. Have spent the last forty years exploring the magnificent scam that is the Roman Catholic Church. A mate of the Chinese Communist Party. McGregor: The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers

Ignatius: David Ignatius: The question about Islam that has vexed the world for a decade

Saturday 15 July 2017

Why does monarchy work? Because violence and corruption work and they are sanctioned by natural election: they get more genes into the gene pool until selection becomes governed by

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a social structure that enforces human equality = symmetry. Violence is then made more expensive relative to compliance with the symmetry.

The transfinite computer network can do anything God can do, ie it can model the fixed points in the divine dynamics up to the boundary of uncertainty.

Ultimately peace comes from suitable definitions of the powers of corporations vis-a-vis people, ie corporations of all sorts are bound sets of people [that] must respect human rights. This maximizes entropy and stability.

The possibilities of the human network can be explored by the transfinite network, particularly the effect of selection by the limitation of computing. The velocity of light places bounds on communication which do much to structure the Universe.

Orthogonality = non-communication.

If a corporation pushes people around enough they will fight back but there is a gap between thought and action in that by fighting they may lose what benefits they do gain from the corporation, like a job. Controlling the food chain is the basic way to control consumers. United States Congress: Declaration of Independence

At its most abstract, peace requires people to be equiprobable so the chances of life are not skewed by wealth, colour, location or any other attribute of a human individual except humanity and all that it entails.

As lying becomes their stock in trade, many ancient and respected oganizations are destroying themselves.

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What do I do? Read and write : reading is input, writing is output in all its forms from writing this world to building a house.

We can fit the transfinite network into a Hilbert space, the Hilbert oscillator, annihilator and creator.

A Hilbert space may be a nested space of Hilbert paces, all mutually orthogonal and containing mutually orthogonal subspaces which may represent more or less complex systems in the Universe; the Hilbert space of the Universe can be modelled by the transfinite network and vice versa (maybe) the link being through Cantor and function space

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Thomas Aquinas - Wikipedia, Thomas Aquinas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'Thomas Aquinas, OP (1225 – 7 March 1274), also Thomas of Aquin or Aquino, was an Italian Dominican friar and priest and an immensely influential philosopher and theologian in the tradition of scholasticism, within which he is also known as the "Doctor Angelicus" and "Doctor Communis". "Aquinas" is from the county of Aquino, an area in which his family held land until 1137. He was born in Roccasecca, Italy. He was the foremost classical proponent of natural theology, and the father of Thomism. His influence on Western thought is considerable, and much of modern philosophy was conceived in development or opposition of his ideas, particularly in the areas of ethics, natural law, metaphysics, and political theory. Unlike many currents in the Church of the time. Thomas embraced several ideas put forward by Aristotle — whom he referred to as "the Philosopher" — and attempted to synthesize Aristotelian philosophy with the principles of Christianity.' back

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United States Congress, Declaration of Independence, 'Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.' back