Notes DB 92: Physwical_Theology_II_2025
Sunday 9 February 2025 - Saturday 15 February 2025
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Sunday 9 February 2025
A new notebook, celebrating a new phase of my life, my 80th birthday and the imminent publication of Cognitive Cosmology, my new Genesis as I emerge from the dark forest of imperial Catholicism into the light of the divine physical Universe which is no longer the dead matter of an imperial history but the living mind of the divinity first discerned by many indigenous communities. Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet" Social and Emotional Wellbeing: Country, culture and spirituality
Such religious and theological literature as we have seems to divine the world into an all controlling spirit (God, Vishnu) and material avatars of this spirit, all the time assuming that this spirit is omniscient and omnipotent and in complete control of our lives, so that everything that happens as 'meant to be', ie foreordained by the spirit which has absolute providence over every event, as Aquinas claims. Aquinas, Summa, I, 22, 3: Does God have immediate providence over everything?
At the same time the imperial notion that all humans are guilty and subject to government and punishment (Hell) was overlaid on this deterministic view by giving us free will and making us responsible for our actions, the intrinsic Catch 22 of traditional theology.
We have been saved from this horror by two discoveries of
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modern science: first, we see that the universe is expanding and we extrapolate that back to an initial singularity, the God, for instance, of Aquinas which is absolutely simple, without structure. Second, we know that information in physical, represented by discrete symbols so that an absolutely structureless entity can carry no information, it cannot be omniscient, it cannot have deterministic control over everything, so the creation of the Universe must be a matter of random variation and selection by the demand for ontological consistency that we see built into the stable structures of our world. The immediate consequence of this hypothesis is that the universe is divine so we can now set about understanding our lives and our relationships with one another on this basis.
Welcome to the new world of physical theology foreshadowed by John Hopfield in his Nobel lecture tracing his course from solid state physics to material intelligence. At present our understanding of artificial ib based on classical Turing computation in Minkowski space. The hypothesis here is that this missed the point of natural intelligence which is that it resides in quantum mechanics and the wave nature of reality which de Broglie put his finger
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on in the wave nature of the electron. John J. Hopfield (2024_12_08): Nobel Lecture: Physics is a point of view, Louis de Broglie (1929): Nobel Lecture: The Wave Nature of the Electron
Monday 10 February 2025
Theme for the cognitive cosmogenesis essay, power corrupts and the historical epitome of power is the Papacy which has declared itself to have an infallible bond with the omnipotent and omniscient Catholic god. The alternative proposed here is that this god is a fiction and all the powers and roles attributed to this god can be attributed to the universe. In proof of this we offer the standard model of cosmology which sees the universe originating from a structureless initial singularity. This singularity must be both eternal and omnipotent. In the light of modern information theory, a structureless entity cannot be omniscient sdo we assume that the initial axctions of this singiularity are random, constrained only by the ontological impossibility of actual contradiction. This opens the way for a simple evolutionary picture of the self creation of he universe which we may see by analogy as the physical mind of divinity. This approach 152 words removes the power of divinity from the heavens to the earth and opens the way to a new reset of the the interpretative relationship between quantum mechanics and Minkowski spade and relativity,
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I have upset my landlady. Will I have to move again. Yes, but slowly. l4l_index footnotes.
At last getting stuck into lust for life. Here is the plan, written in the part as the temperature slowly falls from 30+ to 20ish
Section I: [front page index] First, short introduction on the dead ends we have reached in physics, theology, politics etc etc. Then project is to turn physics and theology upside down introducing evolution and quantum mechanics and then a quick run through the ten steps from the initial singularity to the Unverse. 1. naked gravitation; 2 random Hilbert space; 3. quantum intelligence; 4 particle forms; 5. energization of independent particles; 6. bosons; 7. fermions; 8 Minkowski space; 9 Einstein spacetime; 10 divinity and the mind of god.
Section II: Ten chapters of 1000 words explaining all this in more detail, emphasizing the relationship of physics and theology and the role of quantum mechanic as the spirit of the universe, explaining how it has been misunderstood using the house of cards story. All this relates vaguely to the prima pars [of the Summa of Aquinas].
Section III: Prima Secundae: Endless section explaining politics in terms of quantum mechanics using the principle of simplicity with respect to complexity, explaining people, animals ect as fermions,
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cultural connection through spirit, music speech, bosons with an emphasis on first nations spirituality then we move on to sexuality, rights, education etc.
Section IV: Secunda Secundae getting down into the woods odf detailed behaviour, law etc etc.
Section V: Tertia Pars" All the time trying to stay close to physical intellect like Hopfield and setting up the proofs to show that well educated democracy is the broadest bandwidth most stable and peaceful path to salvation [the good education functioning like the DNA in the cells of a human body, putting everybody on the same age in the management of the world]. This is to talk about entropy and stability from solid state theory, no need for crucifixions to please angry gods, no Satan, just bad design and irrational behaviour arising from inability to find a rational path, so go beserk, like the primordial Hilbert space, and let communication and superposition find the way.
Tuesday 11 February 2025
SA Housing, SACAT, Rentright. Cardinal crimson #c4 1e 3a [not very bright, add to all values?]Wednesday 12 February 2025
Today's mystery - time? We may think of the first observable appearance of Hilbert space in the observable world as photons and their accompanying null geodesic which is still effectively outside space and time.
Yesterday evening phone notes in the park:
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As I go along I remodel things to fit together and hopefully the whole thing will be coherent. Working through lust for life will polish the picture some more.
Quantum mechanics is the spirit filling the ancient division between spirit and matter - Hilbert space vs Minkowski space. We have to insert the traditional role of theology and materialism and make quantum mechanics the abstract basis of the world, following Plato.
Universe divine implies physics and theology are the same subject, both spanning the matter / spirit divide. Physics provides the data, theology the interpretation. The physical boundary between matter and spirit is mediated by bosons and fermions which are joint creations of gravitation, in effect Hawking and Ellis's time reversed black hole creating structures and energizing / realizing them (like Aristotle' hylomorphism) by the bifurcation of zero energy naked gravitation into kinetic and potential energy. A good story with no maths, as proposed by Feynman whose great strength seems to have been physical intuition gained like Hopfield by tinkering and me by fixing cars and building. I am very pleasd with my intellectual development following Aristotle and Aquinas. Time to have another go
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at the abstract of AJP.
"Physics at its best, is a point of view fr understanding the totality of [humanity] and [their] universe." John J. Hopfield (2024_12_08): Nobel Lecture: Physics is a point of view
How does Hilbert space relate to time? By random changes, rather as the probability of different outcomes of a die or a roulette wheel change as "time" progresses [is changes cause the time, not time causing the changes], a symmetry which can be reersed ti link change to ti, numerus motus secundum prius et posterius. How does quantum mechanics fix time? [As an order of superposition?] By fixing stationary points that become observable by acquiring energy, like the 'quantum jump' of electrons moving from one eigenvector to another by the emission or absorption of a photon. How do photons create electrons, electric charge, mass and spin? How do photon mediate the proof of E = mc2? [We find a lot of electron in Dirac equation, but what bout electric charge?]. Dirac equation - Wikipedia
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What's the next question? Gravitation is our most personal and intimate connection to divinity touching every cell in our bodies, every moment of our lives, even if we are in free fall on a geodesic it is controlling us. If we deviate from the geodesic, like standing on the ground, we feel it. We distinguish massive geodesics [fermions] from massless geodesics. How does
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gravitation create mass and time, [not present in naked gravitation, present in Minkowski space we say via the quantum formulation and gravitation energization of particles. Answer: rate of action = energy = mass]
Phonons are bosons Phonon - Wikipedia
We have to realize that Hilbert space is good for the superpositions of observable periodic functions (and may apply to unobservable periodic functions, those superposed by non-hermitian operators). We imagine that carefully constructed superposition can create as many stationary points as there are frequencies in the base states of the superposition. Whose theorem is this, unitary symmetry [at the basis for Dirac's transformation theory. Paul Dirac (1983): The Principles of Quantum Mechanics (4th ed)
A good thing for Hawking and Ellis is my 'time reversed black hole', ie the creation of real particles from naked gravitation. We may look upon l4l as an instruction book for reading cognitive cosmology.
Thursday 13 February 2025
How to I react to the global turmoil created by the US turn to far right isolationism? [it may be a good thing to keep their stupidity at home?] Just keep plugging the creative power and intelligence of quantum mechanics in Hilbert space by expanding the scope of naked gravitation in the creation of elementary particles by using the principle of symmetry with respect to complexity
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to extend the particle doctrine to all free agents in the universe acting under the benign hand of gravitation to human beings, stars and galaxies. Does this idea make any sense? The key to the symmetry with resect to complexity is the symmetry of unitarity which controls communication between entities of all sizes. We can argue that the network communication structure of the universe, that depends on quantum communication and the role of hermitian operators as all scales of complexity tells is everything we need to know about human relationships and in particular emphasizes the role of compassion identified by Buddha.
This is my 'Einstein approach' if I could pull it off to win the culture war between imperialism (ie field theory) and the independence of particles in one-to-one relationsjips. A dream that needs to be realized, the subject of the tertia pars redemption and salvation, the last step in the process of cognitive cosmogenesis outlined in Cognitive Cosmogenesis. The basic plot is that the Universe is intelligent and divine and if we want peace and happiness of Earth we had better get with the plot. They say that blurbs should not spoil the plot, but my idea is that the blurb should counter the imperial church by showing the true root to salvation, educated intelligence involving the right mind to govern all interactions of particles from the hermitian operators in photons to the compassionate hearts of people.
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The acts of human behaviour seem to show that we are mostly endowed with cooperation and compassion because it plays such a central role in our process of reproduction and education, but it is also open to exploitation by bad actors who subvert our tendency to be cooperative and compassionate by a transactional approach to relationships. which take advantage of "naive" individuals who can be ripped off by confidence tricksters exercising the 'art of the deal' so central to the personality of the current lying president of the US who seems to be able to get almost anybody to fall for his lies and hopefully benefit him. So we find the isolationist far right tendency toward transactional behaviour spreading among the good people of the US.
Still trying to score the perfect blurb.
Stop 14 Belair Road, West Side: One of the problems we have faced since time immemorial is powerful people who claim infallible connection to fictitious divinities who give them the right and power to slaughter large numbers of unbelievers (opposition). We see a current example in Vladimir Putin who is waging a Holy War sanctioned by Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Kirill of Moscow of against the people of Ukraine. Ksenia Luchenko (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace): Why the Russian Orthodox Church Supports the War in Ukraine
A permanent
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solution to this class of problem is to establish that the universe plays all the roles traditionally attributed to divinity. It is now widely accepted in scientific circles that the world reached its current state through a long process of evolution which accounts for the current state of human personality. It seems clear that the fundamental trait that ensures our survival is to cooperate and that this state is supported by communication and more generally love. Traits supported by scientific investigation and strongly opposed to wholesale slaughter and destruction based on fictitious beliefs.
The purpose of this book is to establish that the universe that created itself is intelligent and its intelligence is rooted in its physical nature which is open for all to see. . . . Here comes bus no 300 anticlockwise.
The prelude above is already 200 words and I am only halfway throuh establishing the case for the book. We need some very concise Dylanesque poetry to do the job. Keep trying. Write it to Cath in concise language which she will understand. 150 powerful words.
Monotheism is the most dangerous doctrine ever invented - Jonathan Sacks:
Sacks argued that religion remains “the most powerful creator of groups, stronger than ideology, race, nationalism.” When monotheism is tied to dualism — the belief that history is a cosmic conflict between the children of light and the children of darkness — it becomes “the most dangerous doctrine ever invented,” allowing people to “commit evil with a clean conscience". Michael Gerson (2015_05_11): The violent narrative of religious rivalry
I do not doubt that theology and religion are the most efficient creators of dissension and violence in the world, and the saddest thing of
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all is that they are all based on fantasy and mythology, beautifully illustrated by the disastrous intervention of the Gods of the Iliad, in human affairs. [also Mahabhratra and the Bible. Jeffrey Nicholls (2020), Tim Costello (2022-03_06): Vladimir Putin: a miracle defender of Christianity or the most evil man?, Peter T. C. Chang (2021_06_21): The religion behind a divided America and its conflict with China, Theodicy - Wikipedia
Start again, tell it like it is:
The core idea in this book is that we could solve all our problems by ditching all our weird religious beliefs and strange gods and facing the fact that the universe itself is divine. It creates itself, and if we could interpret our knowledge of physics properly we would arrive at a credible scientific theology. All our problems have long since been solved during the evolution of the universe and we just have to learn the tricks that did it. The idea is that the world has natural intelligence far in excess of any artificial intelligence that we have yet to discover. Among its most complex and amazing creations we find all forms of life from bacteria through forests to our own bodies. Each of us is a cooperative community of some 50 trillion independent cells. Our cells all work together on a common plan to nurture and protect one another. They build, own and operate each one of us. If we can understand how this happens, organizing world peace for a mere ten billion independent people will be a pushover. At the foundation of it all is quantum mechanics, the outstanding social and political structure that guides the whole system.
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Friday 14 February 2025
Latest blurb despatched to AM and will be abstract to l4l. Now delete abstract and use it as preface instead, heading Front.
I often feel that my life was somehow wasted as a consequence of joining the Dominicans, finding myself on the wrong track and being unable to establish a suitable social role ever since. In effect writing cognitive cosmogenesis is an effort to join the real world again and contribute something as a 'public intellectual' implementing a significant change in theology but I have so far shied away from the limelight and this is partly because I have failed, in general, to attract 'followers' for my cause. My stated reason for this is my attempt to express a significantly powerful idea in suitably relevant circles to attract attention. This, on the back of my book, is the purpose of my submission of an essay to the Australasian Philosophical Journal, but there is no certainty that it will be accepted. Push on, nevertheless, and continue to enjoy the fruits of my own insight even though noone seems to be listening. I am hopiong to make an impression in the last 20 years of my life, but perhaps I will just finish up dying quietly [like just about everybody else].
The task that has been set for me is a long one, radically changing the minds of some three billion people. I wish ti reflect this in the introduction
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to lust for life which think will be developed and promotd as my personal brand, capturing some of the sexiness of pornography without repelling too many prudes.
Last line of blurb no 4: "At the foundation of all this is quantum mechanics, the outstanding political and social structure that guides the whole system". al4l06_preface.
Saturday 15 February 2025
Wake this morning thinking of dangerous jobs I have done, mostly high roofs over concrete floors wth inadequate resources creeping around on the purlins dragging the iron up and laying is out, happy to put the first screw in. Now in the city I see lots of scissor lifts, safety harnesses and most people working comfortably within their envelope of safety. My book, also written with inadequate resources exploring ideas far from the mainstream has a similar frisson of danger which must be dealt with with great care to ensure safety and certainty. The sad story of Einstein's rejection of quantum mechanics is always in my mind, how he had a brilliant beginning and came to a dead end because he failed to understand the role of uncertainty in
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evolution. Looking back I see my career as a sad beginning pointing to a happy ending. I entered a deterministic Church, an imperial entity proud of its infallible heritage but built in fact on feet of clay which I detected and was rejected but fortunately not murdered which remains the fate of blasphemers in modern autocratic theocracies. Now I am thinking back through my book and wondering uf it is safe to propagate and keep coming back to the sentence above "At the foundation of all this is quantum mechanics, the outstanding political and social structure that guides the whole system" ands trying to build it into a new framework, which I call lust for life, the irresistible evolutionary power of an utterly ignorant omnipotence which has created our magnificent Universe and i wonder how that applies to the Trump administration in the US.
Here we have a solipsist who is acting like a black hole trying to destroy the political structure of a fairly democratic nature which has been up over 200 years of revolutionary war, imperial expansion and the industrial power which thwarted Hitler in the 1930s. Is his destruction the beginning if a new phase of development or has the GOP turned into a bunch of scared weird little people who think their only hope us theocratic autocracy. An essay. Was Einstein a victim of theocratic autocracy.
