Notes
Sunday 25 September 2022 - Saturday 1 October 2022
[Notebook: DB 88: Salvation]
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Sunday 25 September 2022
Now, given the establishment of a divine universe (in my mind) I turn to religion as the technological derivative of theology and a principled discussion of the prospects of establishing heaven on Earth, a difficult but necessary task. First page, Paradise, starting from Eden, via Aristotle, Aquinas and Milton to the modern conflict between absolutism and democracy to be based on evolution and cybernetics. Grace, we see here, is a consequence of P / NP where we find certain systems (like an engine or myself) which have the power to dynamically maintain themselves by having a closed loop structure analogous to the structure that has evolved for the Universe. Once again, the principles of symmetry with respect to complexity and the symmetries of particles, atoms, cells and people.
I am beginning to feel that my years of wandering around trying to find a cognitively harmonious harbour have come to an end and I now have a foundation to get serious about the most important elements of life, to live harmoniously with one another and the Earth, in other words to find a secure and consistent place in God.
Paradise Lost Books XII. John Leonard: Paradise Lost is a poem about civil war. John Milton (The John Milton Reading Room): Paradise Lost: Introduction "Haile wedded Love": Milton's Redefinition of Marriage
Not being a genius, I have to write a religion and politics of principle based on the creation of God outlined in cognitive cosmology. Entities as dumb as atoms have created quite durable entities like me.
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A basic principle here might be that war is out of date.
Thomas H Luxton (Milton, Paradise Regain'd, Introduction) ' The Son in Paradise Regained prevails over Satan's temptations by a kind of heroism we are tempted to see as doing nothing—nothing but standing and repudiating, even rendering ridiculous, Satan's attempts to provoke him into one or another form of classical or biblical or romance heroic action. John Milton (The John Milton Reading Room) Paradise Regain'dLuxton (Milton, Paradise Lost, 'What if the Sun'): 'As a rationalist, Milton must have admired the new sciences but, as a classicist and Christian theologian, he had not yet placed scientific knowledge ahead of poetry or biblical knowledge.' Paradise Lost: Introduction "Haile wedded Love": Milton's Redefinition of Marriage
Roman Catholic Church: The Mother of dictatorships.
Classical literature concocted a world of relationship and allusion which served as the literary and artistic universe for its practitioners in the same way that classical and popular music, art, film and drama do today, paralleled by the vast content of scientific literature which couples every aspect of the real world to every other. In the theological and religious sphere it is necessary to create a new universe of discourse to replace the mythology captured so excellently (and falsely) by Paradise Lost.
Monday 26 September 2022
On my geodesic, doing what I have chosen to do, provide lift to work, buy petrol, come home.
cs02_paradise. What we need is enough bandwidth to solve problems at all levels [when the budget for diplomacy is equal to the budget for war].
The Church, speaking in the name of its God, claims that every person is an absolutely powerless sinner in the face of its mandate and we do not even merit the grace of forgiveness. This is a gratuitous gift to God's chosen ones. We are required, in Chinese terminology, to lie flat, to be absolutely passive before the divine imperial power, on pain of death. One can see why people like Putin and Trump like Christianity, the greatest scam that ever walked.
It is a big leap from the perfect and complete god of Aquinas to the evolving and incomplete god of Nicholls of which we are part, and a step toward never ending completion. So the whole system of human development, the elimination of war and the creation of peace and happiness is just a local branch of the overall evolution of the world. Creation saves is in effect just an immediate local extensions of the stream of insight flowing through cognitive cosmology.
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Aquinas and his predecessors created the world of angels by considering them in relation to corporeal thing and removing what they considered to be inappropriate to an incorporeal being. This is a bit like creating a universe without the corporeal degree of freedom and in cognitive cosmology I stumbled upon the idea of comparing angels to Hilbert space which may yet turn out to be a good idea.
The old authors of Christianity were treating subject far beyond everyday experience, yet getting somewhere by following logic and principles rather as physicists are doing today, dealing with theoretical entities with peculiar properties such as the Higgs field. Turing's invention of the computer gave us a means to represent any logically consistent peculiarity which is a computable algorithm, a restricted subset of all the things that Cantor could represent by a multiply ordered transfinite set. So here we are in deep water just like the old guys working out the future of humanity as an extension of the process by which the universe brought itself to be. We have inherited its creative power for our own use and people like Putin and Zuckerberg who make their living by destroying things.
A thought experiment: how would I explain the contemporary world and our knowledge of it to Aquinas?
Tuesday 27 September 2022
The Iliad is a theological explanation of human fate, a distant predecessor to Paradise Lost and the Roman Catholic / Christian story. We might say that the whole of literature is an exploration of the mysterious forces that move us. My physical approach to theology holds (?) that gravitation is the simplest and most obvious of the potentials that bind the world together, the negative side of the positive energy that creates all the detail of the universe [via quantum mechanics].
So creation saves begins with cs01_abstract above and cs02_mysterious_forces
We give concrete reality to imaginative content by constructing it in spoken or written language. This is also how the world works. It is the voice of God (currently cs02, to become cs03 to be followed by cs04_faith?)
So back to II, I: free fall ≡ beatitude, bliss, blessings. So geodesics including general geodesic give us a connection with Aquinas. See page 157. Heaven on Earth is to be moving inertially on a generalized geodesic. With the help of the principle of invariance with respect to[page 161]
complexity, we can get to the definition of freedom and heaven on earth.This is the vision of god implicit in gravitation. Now I have a foundation for creation saves, to work toward it on 25 pages using the theological interpretation of inertial motion in human space [ie freedom from violence].
All particles in free fall are in heaven, in God [and the formation of structures restricts individual freedom ie the moon is in inertial motion, but the atoms in the moon are constrained].
In a nutshell. we start with a Hilbert space with dimension ℵ0. We apply unitary operations to this space. A rotation [in a function space (?)] is in effect a permutation. There are ℵ1 permutations of ℵ0 elements each of which is equivaelnt to a network of Turing machines, so we can apply Cantor's theorem to get ℵ1, ℵ2 etc permutations, say ℵ0 groups which amount to stable processes, ie surivable species, so going along with this we eventually come to a species equivalent to a universe at a certain point in evolution, say now, whose next rotation gives us a space from which the next moment of the universe is selected and so on, giving us a sequence equivalent to the history of the Universe, each [element] of which is a state space in the universal history [ie a history of everything]. Sabine Hossenfelder: No one in physics dares say so, but the race to invent new particles is pointless
Wednesday 28 September 2022
DoI really believe in my story? A least it seems better than the Christian version. What about my idea about [the divine nature of] gravitation? At least it give me an entrée into the Summa II, I and an idea about the vision of god and beatitude.
Thursday 29 September 2022
I sit and theorise endlessly, but does it do any good? I am following my Einstein model, seeking to make a theoretical advance so spectacular that it will capture the mind of the world, but is this possible without action, propagation, preaching? So far all I have done is soend $2000 in ads on Commonweal and National Catholic Reporter. Now I am turning to creation saves maybe I can more more into the moral space occupied by say Bob Dylan and promote human values and a consistent critique of the absolutist /warmonger monarchist / autocrat / dictatorial attitude of the Roman Catholic church embodied in Canon 333 § 3. The answer, as in the creation of God, lies in human symmetry, attacked by the Church. The next three sites in this series are based on the fact, drawn from Aquinas's discussion of just war [that] the Church attacks humanity on many fronts, and must be repelled, not by arms, but by words and evidence as in a court of justice. Summa Theologiae, II, II, q 40. Code of Canon Law, §333
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Friday 30 September 2022
1. Aquinas defines god as pure act and as the theology of the Trinity demonstrates, God is the source of actions which are the divine equivalent of itself.
2. We assume that the process can proceed to infinity, creating a Hilbert space whose cardinal is the cardinal of the natural numbers ℵ0
3. A superposition of these states may be transformed into a discrete Turing machine, that is a computable function.
4. A rotation in multidimensional space, performed by a unitary operator, is equivalent to a permutations.
5. Repeated applications of such an operator can, by analogy with Cantor's permutation of the natural numbers, create a set of ℵ1 distinct Turing machines.
6. The fourier tranforms of such a set of turng machines will create a set of ℵ1 distinct networks of turing machines. We may think of these networks as a random set, some of which will form closed orbits (groups) which will be stable elements in a growing universe. The rest, in an evolutionary way, will have ephemeral existence and will be selected out.
7. We may think of this as a transifinite verion of P / NP, where the P has cardinal ℵ0 and the NP ℵ1, of which the ℵ0 are checkable and therefore selected for survival.
cs02_mysterious - forces that move the world - God from above, quantum theory from below. We are opting for quantum theory and here we give a very brief summary of cognitive cosmology up to the formation of spacetime and gravitation.
Gravitation has no intrincic information. All this comes from [quantum theory] but gravitation can carry pure energy, it it is in effect naked unquantized action in the form of potential that mirrors [quantized] kinetic energy [and serves to determine the large scale structure of the four dimensional universe]
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An attack of the empty head. What is the probability of a writeable idea? Maybe one per week. On starting creation saves the key idea is the transition from Aquinas - actus purus to quantum mechanics / gravitation as the image of the creator [which is consistent with the network / communication idea that god is love].
Still trying to work out the sequel to cognitive cosmology (theology) to be expressed as creation saves (technology, religion). At the human level what we are looking for (as Aquinas sets out in II, I) is an appropriate expression of the meaning of human life. The Catholic Church says we are here to merit heaven, which is said to be the vision of the essence of God, which, given that [their] God is absolutely simple, is effectively nothing. In [my] current picture every experience is part of the vision of god, and our overall task is to improve our overall experience of this vision by our activity, which basically revolves around making a living and deriving the maximum pleasure from that living. Is that what I am doing, seeking cognitive harmony by expressing my relationship with the divine world and my fellows as harmoniously and pleasantly as possible while hopefully contributing to the overall welfare of the total system?
Am I the right person to be doing this, or even trying it? Maybe, maybe not, but I am the only one I know of and I feel that it need to be done. We unite body and soul, separated by the gnostic evil in Catholicism, bu uniting physics and theology.
It is necessary to say it clearly: the Catholic Church is a massive fraud which has been gathering strength and credibility [2000 years]. We may say that it began well with the life of Jesus of Nazareth, about whose life we know very little. It seems clear that he upset the ruling class in ancient Jerusalem. The leaders of the local community denounced him to the occupying Romans and they, with the sort of disrespect for the lived of poor people by the powerful, condemned him to routine torture and execution in order to maintain the peace in the occupation. Something we see happening to hundreds of people around the world every day. [We note that the Jewish State of Israel now occupies the land of the indigenous Palestinians and imprisons and kills large numbers of them every year while denying them normal human rights - the occupied are now the occupiers.] Then a clever pastiche of the New and Old testaments, hero work, a spreading movement, growing power and capture by the Emperor Constantine. The Nicene Creed, the foundation of false belief, to the present day. All this is preliminary to Aquinas's delusion of heaven. And then we turn to the alternative. See The Church Which Stole God. Jeffrey Nicholls (2008): Essay 9: The Church that Stole God
Saturday 1 October 2022
creationsaves.com/cs02_mysterious.html
1. Our evolutionary heritage
2. The slavery of women
3. The Roman Catholic business plan
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4. Our Hebrew heritage
5. Warlords, harems, eunuchs and rape
6. Human rights
7. A theological revolution: evolution revisited
