vol VII: Notes
2019
Notes
Sunday 3 March 2019 - Saturday 9 March 2019
[Notebook: DB 83: Physical Theology]
[page 140]
Sunday 3 March 2019
By making humanity divine, we unite intelligence and emotion, good and evil, confidence and fear, prayer and action and all the other dualities of human existence into a coherent whole where they all throw light upon one another.
Monk page 156: 'Central to the [Tractatus] in all its aspects is the distinction between showing and saying . . .' which is realy just a matter of bandwidth linked to network layers showing being more concrete with broken symmetries, telling being abstract, working at lower bandwidth and deeper symmetry. The ultimate tell: 'God exists'. Monk: Wittgenstein: The Duty of Geniuspage 160: W: ' "I have written a book called Logisch-Philosophisch Abhandlung containing all my work of the last six years . . . " '
The transfinite computer network is my theory of everything and the backbone of my theology, the theory of everything. In my thesis I would like to examine the first few layers of this network, beginning with the assumption that ℵ0 = 2 [an example of "machine infinity"] and working my way up about 4 or so layers until I come to general relativity and the large scale structure of the universe.
Monk page 163: 'is the case' is an event with ephemeral existence, perhaps in the range of 10-30 to 1030 sec.
[page 14]
Monk page 163: Ogden's translation, Major Works
Sacherverhate = true atomic propositions
Tatsachen = facts, events
Wittgenstein: Major Works: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Blue and Brown books for Philosophical Investigations, On Certainty
page 164: W to Russell ' "it is VERY hard not to be understood by a single soul." '
W: ' "The main point in the theory of what can be expressed (gesagt) by prop — ie by language (and what comes to the same thing, what can be thought) and what can not be expressed by props but only shown (gezeigt) which, I believe is the cardinal problem in philosophy.
Of course, if it can be shown it can be thought and therefore it can be said. Like all rhe best philosophers, he is a mass of contradictions because he is trying to explain everything in short sentences rather than giving himself the transfinite network to play in.
page 165: Russell thought the distinction between showing and telling ' "a curious kind of logical mysticism".'
Maybe I can embed my thesis in the Cantor, Russell, Wittgenstein, Whitehead, Gödel Turing, [Shannon] matrix.
page 166: [Tractatus] 6.031 ' "The theory of classes . . . is completely superfluous in mathematics.." '
page 185 Wittgenstein suffered severely from the Christian notion that we are all sinners: 'Wittgenstein's letters to Russell, and especially to
[page 142]
Engelman during this period show him to be desperately, suicidally depressed. The severity of self accusation contained in them is extreme even for Wittgenstein, who was always harsh on himself. He attributes his miserableness to his own "baseness and rottenness", and talks of being afraid that "the devil will come and take me one day" '. The devil being the Christian way of avoiding personal responsibility for their actions and states of mind.
Monk page 190: W religious individualism: ' "I am my world, so if I am unhappy about the world, the only way which I can do anything decisive about it is to change myself. The world of the happy man is different from the world of the unhappy man." '
Evolution is anti rationalist insofar as there is no logically determined reasonable path to new ideas. All purely logical chains of reasoning like Turing machines, simply define paths from an assumed tautology (an hypothesis) to a consequent tautology, QED. Evolution, rational design and creativity in general depend on random variation to introduce novelty and creation [and this applies to the whole universe itself as well us to us].
page 278; W: ' "What is good is also divine. Queer as it sounds, this sums up my ethics." 'page 298: 'Philosophy cannot be transformed into a science because it has nothing to find out. Its puzzles are the consequence of a misuse, a misunderstanding, of grammar and require not solution but dissolution.'
[page 143]
Monk page 298; ' "What we find out in philosophy is trivial, it does not teach us new facts, only science does that. But the proper synopsis of these trivialities is enormously difficult, and has immense importance. Philosophy is in fact the synopsis of trivialities.
page 299: Spengler Decline of the West 1918, 1926. Spengler
Maybe I could have learnt a lot more from my mother, but she had so many children as well as being a doctor that there grew quite a distance between us which remained unti she died, a fervent believer in the afterlife, which I have rejected.
Logical continuity - logical geodesics.
Monk page 338: W: ' "Philosophers constantly see the method of science before their eyes, and are constantly tempted to ask and answer questions in the way that science does. This tendency is the real source of metaphysics, and leads the philosopher into complete darkness." '
page 344: Brown Book: 1934-5 '. . . an attempt by W to formulate the results of his own work for its own sake.'
page 418: ' "I shall ty again and again . . . to show that what is called mathematical discovery had much better be called mathematical invention. There was, on this view, nothing for the mathematicians to discover. A ppoof in mathematics does not establish the truth of a conclusion, it fixes, rather, the meaning of certain signs.
Interactions with Turing who believes we can
page 144]
do experiments in mathematics as in physics.
Monk page 420: The Liar paradox is the source of energy.
' All the conventional schools of thought on the foundations of mathematics — logicism, intuitionism and formalism — argue that if a system has a hidden contradiction in it then it has to be rejected on the grounds of being inconsistent. Indeed, the whole point of providing mathematics with a solid logical foundation was that Calculus as traditionally understood is manifestly inconsistent.
page 438: 'Wittgenstein's philosophical preoccupations throughout most of the second World War centred on the philosophy of mathematics.'
page 439: '. . . the work of Weierstrass, Dedekind and Cantor, far from being the great achievement of our age [secundum Russell] was, in relation to the rest of mathematics "a cancerous growth seeming to have grown out of the normal body aimlessly and senselessly". '
page 464: W: "An honest religious thinker is a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he is walking on nothing but air, His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it is really possible to walk on it. "
' "I am not a religious man but I cannot help seeing every problem from a religious point of view." ;
[page 145]Monk page 466: '. . . switching from the philosophy of mathematics to the philosophy of psychology and back again using the problems in one as analogies to illustrate points in the other was something that Wittgenstein had done in his lectures, notebooks and conversations since the early 1930s. . . . What is significant about the shift in 1944 is that it was permanent: Wittgenstein never again returned to the attempt to arrange his remarks on mathematics in a publishable form and spent the rest of his life arranging, rearranging and revising his thoughts in the philosophy of psychology.'
Thesis this week's working title: 'A panpsychist manifesto.'
Philosophical investigations
page 526; ' "Nearly all my writings are private conversation with myself, things I would say to myself tete a tete.
page 532: W: 'What is it like for people not to have the same sense of humour? They do not react properly to one another. It is as though there was a custom among certain people for one person to throw another a ball which he is supposed to catch and throw back, but some people, instead of throwing it back, put it in their pocket." '
page 533: 'aspect seeing' ' "What is incomprehensible, is that nothing and yet everything has changed." ' ' Insight = seeing the point' [Lonergan] Lonergan: Insight: A Study of Human Understanding
'Wittgenstein's remarks about philosophy — that it "leaves everything as it is" — is often quoted. But it is less often realized, that, in seeking to change nothing but the way we look at things, Wittgenstein was attempting to change everything.
[page 146]
Monk page 537: 'thinking' and 'seeing 'understanding' - the seeing of connections.
Monday 4 March
Tuesday 4 March 2019
Blake, Comment: 'Don't sully your soul to defend other people's lies.' Aaron Blake: John Bolton tried to explain away Trump's Otto Warmbier comment - and it went poorly
Wednesday 6 March 2019
Do I really think the material I am publishing on my websites will make the world a better place? Yes, even though it is a work in progress and rather speculative, I think it is much better than the existing crop of theologies which are bringing us down with sectarian declarations of sinfulness and gross deprecation of the divine world to which we owe our existence.
We learn from the universe the importance of orthogonality which is the root of uncorrupted communication.
Is orthogonality the basic structural feature of the universe, a geometrical implementation of not.
page 147
Relative motion breaks the orthogonality of observed space due to the finite velocity of light [ie there is finite delay in observation, it takes time to see things].
My big need is to understand the emergence of space-time in the ancient model of god who occupied neither space nor time [ie enjoyed instantaneous action at a distance]. How do we make a pure spirit into a body, how does pure act (as god / initial singularity) become space / time momentum / energy. The problem seems a lot like inventing the wheel, very simple, but invisible until it is seen.
Acts are motions, guided / motivated by potential. The guiding feature of the potential is its gradient.
In the beginning potential and action are indistinguishable, one is simply not the other, the two aspects of the cycle we call energy, represented by a digital circle group, ie up / down, p /~p and so on. Circle group - Wikipedia
Then potential and action bifurcate to gain distinct personalities, so that the sum of their energy is zero, forming the basis for a zero energy universe. Space has negative energy, not time, not frequency [and is required for the emergence of two distinct entities that exist simultaneously on a spacelike slice].
Potential becomes orthogonal to action, limited by the velocity of light: Locally space is orthogonal to time, the home of potential [and potential takes processing time to act].
Like Aristotle and Aquinas, we see motion as internal to god, a perfection of the agent. Aquinas Summa Theologiae I,18, 3: Is life properly attributed to God?
Once potential and act become orthogonal, they can exist
[page 148]
simultaneously on a spacelike "surface".
This looks somewhat lovely at last but would anyone believe it? Next step is to bring in the network and three dimensional space. We might see this in terms of Cantor's theorem and the "struggle for orthogonality".
How can a wild world / wild god construct itself.
Momentum = potential = spatial structure. De Broglie. Louis de Broglie: Radiation: Waves and Quanta
Action has the dimensions of energy time, so h = E/f, f = 1/t, so h = E.t. ΔE.Δt = h.
h measures the atomic event, which can be large energy for very short time etc, has dimensions of angular momentum. This must be one of the clues [connecting action to phase, clock, computational steps].Thursday 7 March 2019
Where does electric charge come from, photons, electrons, the velocity of light, spacetime and all that. Ie the roots of quantum electrodynamics.
Friday 8 March 2019
Science: trying to communicate the nature of the world in human language.
[page 149]
The principal evil in the world is false information of the type that Satan is said to peddle, although what he told 'Eve' is effectively true: true knowledge makes us divine, that is part of the divinity.
The truth seeking power of networks is demonstrated by evolution by natural selection, look at the trouble facing Facebook, which is getting deselected because is has become a platform for falsehood.
Inertial symmetry = conservation of momentum, it is normal. there is nothing to see here, it is a symmetry. Even though there is nothing to see, something is happening. So electrons are moving in atoms, but we see nothing until the electron changes its . . . angular momentum and then a photon is emitted or absorbed and there is something to see. This is the break of symmetry, ie the energy of the electron changes [ie events are breaks of symmetry].
Principal feature of mind is imagination and self creation, the evidence of which we see by watching our children from egg to adult. Mind is a creator, as the traditional universe was created out of the mind of the traditional God. Creation means increasing complexity by insight, creating mappings of increasing complexity with fixed points of increasing complexity.
