Notes
Sunday 27 November 2022 - Saturday 3 December 2022
[Notebook: DB 88: Salvation]
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Sunday 27 November 2022
The key idea, founded in the Trinity and the principle of symmetry with respect to complexity, is that the three persons are identically god yet really distinct just as we are identically human and yet really free and distinct. In both cases this is achieve by spatial separation and the key to spatial separation is the increasing size of space described by Cantor (see 1987 lectures) So the title of an essay is The Political Consequences of the Christian Trinity. Jeffrey Nicholls (1987): A Theory of Peace
Christian theology is a radical revision of the Hebrew theology documented in the Hebrew Bible. From the historical study of this literary source we see that the Hebrew God Yahweh was dismissed from the scene by the Authors of the Book of Job. Jack Miles (1996): God: A Biography
Unfortunately for Einstein he was stuck on a small piece of mathematical territory, the region of continuous functions. He overlooked the heart of mathematics which is logic and proof and the only element of formalism that is broad enough to embrace all the structure of the Universe as Aristotle was the first to notice in his series of logical studies which we call the Organon, the machine. [This is] an ancient predecessor of the Turing machine which is capable of embracing all effective mathematical proofs. Organon - Wikipedia
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Ukrainian Ballet - abstract representation, music, image, concrete performance. Images and actual bodies mapped onto the music. Dancer is doing s Fourier transforms from music to physics, via brain, working the same way as we choreograph ideas into speech [also a physical bodily activity]. Nadiya Ukraine: The National Ballet of Ukraine, Live at Steinmetz Hall
Mind is built on body, so Cantor takes us first to the construction of bodies and then to minds and then to societies, built on the analogy of multicellular organisms. What we have to do is paint in the line from the [initial singularity to] Trinity to the Universe, from physics to theology.
Begin with Einsein's mistake. A 5000 word run through cognitive Cosmology [for The Atlantic].
Hilbert space and music, speech [periodic functions]. Hilbert space - Wikipedia
We start with a long shot and then guide it home with some physics,
We are talking about formal (psychological) rather than physical space ie orthogonality, as in Hilbert space, which pre-exists physical space.
We need to develop a clear distinction between formal and physical space [, between mathematics and logic and reality, honouring the fact that information is a physical entity].
Monday 28 November 2022
Augustine and Aquinas created a model of the Trinity based on human psychology. We can now extend this model to cosmic psychology by the application of quantum mechanics, producing a model of the divinity which created itself in its own image and drawing a political lesson of human symmetry and freedom. Theology has made no progress since the time of Aquinas and from a modern point of view the only way to alleviate it is to assume that the Universe is divine and has created itself from a quantum initial singularity, creating ourselves along the way. Our creative minds are a pale image of the cognitive mind of the universe that made us. More processing in a grain of sand that all the computers on the internet.
The disastrous state of Christian theology which is destroying the US is based on the religious claim that they have the right to make up any ideas they like and then define their veracity by claiming that they are faith and that this is a form of protected speech, whereas it is total rubbish basically marketed through the feat of death by claiming that we do not really due but there is an afterlife which Christianity reveals to us.
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Christianity as we know it is the enemy of democracy. Its most powerful [political] manifestation, the Roman Catholic Church, markets itself as an infallible autocracy with a direct line to its imaginary god. Two thousands years of war and indoctrination have established its role in the world and it is bad. We just have to look at the Holy War that Putin is waging to destroy Ukraine egged on by the foul Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Kirill, who suffers from the same delusions as the Roman Catholic Church from which his church is descended [via the emperor Constantine].
Evolution is scientific method and it is the only way the Universe can have been created from an initial singularity to its present state, by variation and selection. Christians on the whole dislike both evolution and science.
Christianity is a magnificent artistic structure [a milieu] but it is mainly fantasy based on one very significant error. It claims that we have another eternal life after death, either of unbounded bliss, if we do what we are told, or in excruciating agony if we do not. Of course the Christian intelligentsia might try to soften this story but I know it was drilled into me by my [very devout] mother, by priests [, brothers] and nuns. My mother was a doctor and she took great delight in describing the pains that Jesus suffered when he was tortured and murdered by the Roman occupiers of Jerusalem. Now the descendants of the inhabitants of Jerusalem are doing the same thing to the Palestinians whose land they have occupied. Milieu control - Wikipedia
Despite its faults, Christianitycasn be easily converted into a scientific theology because its starting point is identical to the [modern] scientific origin of cosmology.
It is interesting to note that people who have been sexually abused by Christian clergy take about 25 years to become empowered enough to talk about what was done to them. It has taken me more than 70 years to understand the intellectual abuse I suffered, but now I am certain that the Christian Churches, and many others whose business plan is built around the fiction of life after death, have feet of clay and are ready to be washed away by a flood of reality.
First Trinity and then an essay on PNP and evolution. Trinity power of god and emergence of Hilbert space.
'Accidents' are real, revealing the inner nature of the "substance' in which they inhere. Physics is true and information as such (a count of entropy) is physical. In essence creation is the increase of entropy.[page 203]
Tuesday 29 November 2022
page 144: Schopenhauer" Will = potential; Representation = kinetic. We can map any binary representation to any other binary representation as, eg, fermion / boson. Ray Monk (1990): Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius, Fermion - Wikipedia, Boson - Wikipedia
All these logicians and mathematicians take each other very seriously, but are they getting anywhere?
Monk page 151: Wittgenstein is interested in what is unutterable, but it seems that we must accept that anything real in the universe is represented in some way and has therefore been uttered in some way, not necessarily by a human [mouth] but maybe by a human mind.
page 155: 'Now having finished the book—having solved the problems he set out to solve—what struck him most forcibly was the relative unimportance of the task he had achieved. . . . .he believed himself to have found 'on all essential points' the solution to the problems of philosophy. But
. . . if I am not mistaken in this belief, then the second thing in which the value of this work consists is that it shows how little is achieved when these problems are solved.My position, in which I may be mistaken, is that the ideas in cognitive cosmology uniting physics and theology carry the germ of the political salvation of the world, if only I could get a hearing for something like "The Political Implications of the Christian Trinity".
Monk page 156: 'What can be said at all can be said clearly; and whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must remain silent.' In the layered network universe this statement be applied to different layers [some able to speak to an issue, some not].
'There is in deed the inexpressible. This shows itself, it is mystical'. Maybe structureless, omnino simplex.
Wednesday 30 November 2022
Monk page 187; ' "In fact I am in a state of mind which is terrible to me. I have been through it several times before: it is the state of not being able to get over a particular fact. It is a pitiable state, I know, but there is only one remedy that I can see, and that is of course to come to terms with that fact." ' This is made possible with the randomness
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of the future, a key to evolution, which involves death and rebirth, the erasure of impossible facts and the creation of new beginnings. Chance enables both death and creation. Determinism enables survival.
Monk page 191: 'What in the final analysis did it matter if his book remained unpublished? By far the most important think was to 'settle accounts with himself ' [same here, but I want (the world) to profit from my settlement].
This is the power of cognitive cosmology. I identify myself with god that is the universe and I revel in its subtle interplay of peace and violence and see a glimpse of my sequel to Leviathan. So send to America The Political Implications of the Christian Trinity incorporating a shot at Lonergan's failed attempt to prove the existence of a god outside the world. Bernard Lonergan (1992): Insight: A Study of Human Understanding
As well as seeing myself as made in the image of god I also recognise that all gods are bastards, putting themselves at the top of their (local) tree: "I am the Lord thy God" (Exodus: 20:2). This is a central concept of Hobbes's Leviathan, and emphasizes the need for a world of Gods to make room for one another and cooperate because, as divinities, they cannot kill one another. The fundamental evil of the religions built on false gods is that they empower the Putins of this world so slaughter large numbers of people for their own personal benefit.
The radical error in physics is the use of continuous mathematics. It is a convenient fiction in areas such as probability theory but it fails to honour the digitized nature of reality [God Created the Integers Stephen Hawking (2007)].
Thursday 1 December 2022
Monk page 244: Carnap on W: 'But the impression he made on us was as if insight came to him as through a divine inspiration, so that we could not help feeling that any sober rational comment or analysis of it would be a profanation.' Ie W is a scammer.
. . . W. . . 'tolerated no critical examination by others, once the insight had been gained by an act of inspiration.' Scammer = prophet.
page 245: Ramsay: 'Until his untimely death in 1930 at the age of twenty-six, it was Ramsay's overriding and abiding aim to repair the theoretical holes in Russell's Principles and thus to re-establish the dominance of the logicist school of thought and to nip in the bud the more radical alternative proposed by the increasingly influential intuitionist school led by the Dutch mathematician L. E. J Brouwer.'
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'Tautologous or contradictory'. Like the Trinity, resolved by 'space' establishing the orthogonality of identical fermions etc.Monk page 247: W: ' "The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas," . . . "that is what makes him a philosopher".' And what makes the universe universal?
page 250: W: ' "Intuitionism is all bosh—entirely".'
'Brouwer's lecture may not have persuaded W that his Tractatus was mistaken, but it may have convinced him that it was not, after all, the final word on the subject. There might, indeed, be more to be said.'page 278: W, ' "What is good is also divine. Queer as it sounds, this sums up my ethics".'
page 281: W: ' "I am a beast and I am still not happy about it".' Am indoctrinated Jewish / Christian sinner:
' "everything depends upon the spirit", which is what?
page 283: 'The Scientific View of the World: The Vienna Circle' Logik, Sprache, Philosophie - can science embrace the spirit. Can rationality deal with uncertainty? Statistical Proof, Shannon. Thomas Uebel: Vienna Circle, Claude Shannon (1949): Communication in the Presence of Noise
page 285: What is is what works. The creeds of science, technology and evolution
Gödel's incompleteness theorems - Wikipedia
page 295: Gödel's incompleteness theorem also contributes to the uncertainty that makes evolution possible quantified using entropy as the measure by Chaitin's information theoretic interpretation of the principle of requisite variety do we have three approaches to the absence of determinism and the possibility of creation: Gödel' / cybernetics, incomputability / Cantor and P vs NP. Gödel's incompleteness theorems - Wikipedia, Gregory J. Chaitin (1982): Gödel's Theorem and Information, P versus NP problem - Wikipedia
page 298: W: ' "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." ' [which would be helped enormously by recognizing, as science does, the unity of the world].
Philosophy is the study of the trivial initial singularity, ie god.
W has the same problem as the physicists trying to understand the world in its modern complexity rather than going back to the beginning and studying its genesis.
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The enormous complexity of my body is made both possible and comprehensible by the layered network construction which works its way up from elementary particles to massive visible components and finally the synthesis of all this, me, who is an elementary particle in ever more complex social networks.
page 317: 'So long as he lived, W never ceased to struggle aganst his own pride, and to express doubts about his philosophical achievement and his own moral decency. After 1931, however, he dropped the language of anti-semitism as a means for expressing those doubts.'
page 329; Hardy on mathematical truth. G. H. Hardy - Wikipedia, G. H. Hardy: An Annotated Mathematician's Apology
Friday 2 December 2022
Wittgenstein's reaction to the Vienna Circle and to science in general completely overlooks the fact that the "material" universe is divine and all human arts and sciences are products of universal evolution and almost trivial compared to the tree of life that has grown within the [divine] initial singularity.
Saturday 3 December 2022
1987 Redux; the basic form of creation is creation of space. The basic measure of space is entropy. The first step in the creation of space is the Trinity, 2 sources and a channel. The basic structure of a network is a set of sources that can communicate with one another the 4 forces. The key to the creation of space is symmetry, and symmetry creates the indifference (probability space) that enables creation. All this is more or less built into cognitive cosmology.
Basically the space we fight over is mental and cultural space, that is opinion. Violence and war only emerge when the peaceful communication of opinions runs out of road and the most likely venues for this failure are politics and religion, the space where we coordinate collective action. The key to this space, like all human spaces is the union of human symmetry and human identity first demonstrated in the Christian Trinity.
Focus on foundations. Formulating a new Nicene Creed. Also based on the Trinity of sources (fermions) and communication links (bosons). We can superpose sounds but not people. The political implications of the Christian Trinity.
Guardian: 'Once you demonize people you can get away with a lot of things.: Coleen Taylor. Luke Henriques-Gomes: ‘You are being misled’: the Centrelink worker who tried to stop robodebt as it started
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Catholic Church calling us all sinners is hate speech. Its demonization of women and children in hate action.
Ray Monk page 443; W: ' "I have suffered much but I am apparently incapable of learning from my life. I suffer still, as I did many years ago. I have not become any stronger or wiser".' Unrequited love fuelled by religious misconceptions. Demonization by a church.
'Fouracre remembers his virtuoso whistling. He recalls W's ability to whistle whole movements of symphonies, his showpiece being Brahms Saint Anthony Variations
Monk page 448: Hertz on force: ' "When these painful contradictions are removed a question as to the the nature of force will not have been answered but our minds , no longer vexed, will cease to ask illegitimate questions".'
Let us say force is a communication and information is physical, it moves things, as what I read about W moves my opinion of him, which is a real physical embodiment of information in my mind.
Information density in a proton. Say 3 quarks and 8 gluons, 11 states, 4 bits in one cubic femtometre, ie 10^-45 m^3, say E46 nits per cubic metre, E19 bit per cubic nanometre, ie E7 terabits per cubic nanometre.
Monk page 452: W: Bishop Butler: 'Everything is what it is and not another thing'.
page 453: W was sympathetic to the view of the sexual act which saw it as an object of religious reverence.
page 454: W re Egyptian temple bas relief: ' "Why in the world would they not have treated with awe and reverence that act by which the human race is perpetuated? Not every religion has to have St Augustine's attitude to sex".'
Clearly pornography as a manifestation of evil is a product of Christian demonization.
page 486: ' " The darkness of this time," therefore is directly attributable to the worship of the false idol of science against which his own work had been devoted since the early 30s. Thus his "dream" of the coming collapse of science and industry was in anticipation of an age in which his type of thinking would be more generally accepted and understood.'
The unity of science arises from its close adhesion to reality, which in one because the universe is one. His continual chopping and changing
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and an inability to complete anything unified and complete seems to be a direct consequence of the rather solipsistic inability to trim his thoughts to the facts of reality that are staring him in the face. Reminds me or Orwell's 'In Front of Your Nose. George Orwell (1946_03_22): In Front of Your Nose
Monk page 500: W is coming close to quantum theory in his discussion pf recursive psychological observation, rejecting Einstein's idea of general covariance, that observation does not influence events. In fact observation is the communication of two sources and at both the quantum and the human level, every meeting influences both participants.
Monk page 526: W: ' "Nearly all my writings are conversations with myself. Things that I say to myself tete-a-tete".'
page 546; 'i ' is an operator.
page 579; Smithies had brought with him Father Conrad but no one could decide whether Conrad should say the usual office for the dying and give conditional absolution until Drury recalled W's remark that he hoped his Catholic friends would pray for hm. This decided the matter and they went up to his room and knelt down while Conrad recited the proper prayers. Shortly after this Dr Bevan pronounced him dead.
The next morning he was given a Catholic burial
page 580: 'Shortly before his death he wrote:
"God may say to me: 'I am judging you out of your own mouth. Your own actions have made you shudder with disgust when you have seen other people do them".'
' The reconciliation with God that W sought was not that of being accepted into the arms of the Catholic Church, it was a state of ethical seriousness and integrity which would survive the scrutiny of even the most stern of judges, his own conscience, "the God who in my bosom dwells".'
