Sunday 1 July 2018 - Saturday 7 July 2018
[Notebook: DB 82: Life and Death]
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Lonergan - Metaphysics - the integral heuristic structure of proportionate being. ['Now let us say that explicit metaphysics is the conception, affirmation and implementation of the integral heuristic structure of proportionate being' (page 416).] A sort of panpsychic ansatz. The beauty of panpsychism is that it opens the to the persistent philosophical analogy between human personal experience and the nature of the world, since everything experiences the same phenomenon of being trapped in a closed system and longing to escape. This is the potential
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that drives the search for freedom and it is scale invariant so the search for the Arab Spring and the backlash from the prison guards of the status quo like Bashar al Assad and Donald Trump is but one example of the scale invariant force that imprisoned Einstein in his long search for the field equations of general relativity. Lonergan: Insight: A Study of Human Understanding, Albert Einstein: Origins of the General Relativity Theory
Lonergan, faithful to the religion in which he was imprisoned, argued that the world was unintelligible so that there was no way out except the post mortem option offered by the Catholic Church, Islam and all the other religion that propose the vision of a perfect world after death.
The forces of reaction mean that we are always in a struggle, but like the 'wizard war' there is a opening to an easier win if we understand the possibilities of our divine world. We basically have to learn that power comes from below, not from above and that the source of that power is possibility, the sort of vision opened up by Ocasio-Cortez and many other politicians and visionaries. Where most of them fall down by overlooking practical details of their dream, We know that the implementation of any technology requires an enormous amount of attention to detail that is not so obvious in the original dream, like Edison's incandescent lamp and all the iterations of lighting technology that have followed. Jones: Wizard War: British Scientific Intelligence 1939-1945
Why would God (or the initial singularity) want to explode? We have a story to go from act to energy via the not operator but we are a bit stymied by the fact that quantum mechanics
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appears to act at constant entropy. Tis is true of the wave equation but what happens when we introduce measurement? Then we have a situation a bit like the procession of the Word, where god interacts with a copy of itself and we see this happening in a tensor product of god with itself. Time to learn some more quantum mechanics from Nielsen and Chuang. Nielsen & Chuang: Quantum Computation and Quantum InformationWe want to keep the energy at zero by creating it as a bifurcation into potential and kinetic, so we ave to make actus purus into T - V = 0. From a quantum point of view there is no absolute energy scale, only differences, the relativity of energy.
Will, desire, potential. What does the universe want, a mechanism to complexify, which is space,memory, structure, potential. Stretch things apart in space and so generate enough energy to make a new particle. We need space and field to have potential. Creation of space creates potential. Where does electric force come in? We have used not, what about and?
Does expansion create energy or does energy create expansion? They play hard at football, but how does one play hard at thinking?
We are not so much interested in energy but in the actual logical behaviour, but if e are going to get anywhere, we need increase in complexity and the route here is copying / communication / measurement. We can increase energy and entropy at the same time at constant energy per state, a bit like creating high energy with a cyclotron.
We need uncertainty, Gödel and Turing here. So we can work
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from general principle rather than mechanical detail. But measurement is the mechanism, going to tensor product. The uncertainty comes from the non-correlation of the two operators measuring. Here it is. Zurek [this is the network idea, that the clocks of different computers in the network are not synchronised, so they may interrupt one another at random, thus introducing uncertainty, even thought the core processes are deterministic.] Wojciech Hubert Zurek: Quantum origin of quantum jumps: breaking of unitary symmetry induced by information transfer and the transition from quantum to classical
Interaction leads to uncertainty, my plans can be deterministic but as soon as someone else is involved doubt enters.
Slings and arrows of outrageous fortune = interaction
So let us begin the big bang with the assumption that the entropy force splits the initial quantum of action (ie god) into two, potential and kinetic energy, making way for a classical type of harmonic oscillator (no need for quantization because no specific message content) which provides the foundation for quantum mechanics and general relativity to work together to set off the universe. This layer of the universe, the second, the Son, is then ubiquitous throughout the universe and because here the Lagrangian is zero, we say that all possible processes are activated only when the Lagrangian is zero and so the action is stationary also at zero. Another plausible little story to mull over while I drive out to see Dad.
Are words better than arithmetic for describing the world? Einstein's work is a triumph of applied arithmetic, creating a formal accounting structure which makes the arithmetic come out[page 175]
right when we compare the observed inventory of the world with out computed inventory, the books balance, the test of double entry bookkeeping, inputs, outputs and storage. Double-entry bookkeeping system - Wikipedia