[ Sunday 2 October 1983 - Saturday 8 October 1983 ]
[notebook Creation - The Metaphysics of Peace II = CMP II: DB31]
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Sociobiology Wilson. Wilson
Wilson provides an interesting contrast. Life is based on biochemistry, and the laws of biochemistry are much older than the laws of mammalian behaviour. Yet biochemical transitions are much faster (of the order of nanoseconds) than behavioural transitions. This complex interlocking of bandwidth and stability is one of the most suggestive features of the Universe from the point of view of this hypothesis . . . [that the Universe is best modelled as a communication network]
Collapse of wavefunction: quantum mechanics is very concerned with the size of the space (entropy) from which an event is chosen. This is important for information theory. In QED [quantum electrodynamics], for instance, the things that don't happen have an important bearing on the output of an event and determine its energy etcetera, just as in human affairs etc. eg: Passage of electron through hole in a two holed sheet etc. All things do happen mentally, eg people take account of possibilities and budget for them even when they do not occur they cost money, use energy etc.
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Back to quantum theory, from page 162.
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Park page 17: 'quantisation only occurs in systems restricted in space. Quantisation of spectral lines is very precise. Park
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Physical juxtaposition can create intelligible structures, eg writing, but at the roots of the Universe, are we looking for more? Intelligible juxtaposition requires real relationship which requires communication.
Park page 28: Probabilities of finding a particle are normalised to 1, just as sum of probabilities in an entropy space is equal to 1.
Superposition is a mathematical tool, related to Fourier analysis, that has something to do with periodic functions, which in turn have to do with the ability to find intelligibility in otherwise random looking stuff. Repetition can be in space or time. Neither contains new information. Non-repetition in time or space is an event.
State
event
Superposition is a way to make states into events.
Equations of motion etc dictate what is invariant over states and events, eg collision event changes vectors, but conserves energy.
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Assume for the moment that all events and processes we are wont to call causal or predictable are examples of communication.
Personal growth echoes universal growth and requires insight which is statistically inevitable, given enough time and input. The speed of insight is all that changes. Internal jumps, contextual jumps etc.
Peter the Great. De Jonge
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de Jonge page 31: Peter the Great:
'a complete lack of anything equivalent to a Western sense of honour/' - personal honour requires consciousness? or vice versa? Russians were into 'sharp practice'. Sound bit like the Ik. Ik people - Wikipedia
page 211: Peter the Great
The power of passion and great love is something that cannot be ignored. The life of those who live with their life always on the line, the Kings and Queens, the rock stars, those who influence the world with their courage, their sheer dedication to What they are doing, all out, with death at every turn. This is what we all secretly admire, and a person who lives like this captures our imagination, the politicians who lay so much down for an election, the lovers who will give all for an event. Life likes to hang on the brink, where the risks and rewards are as great as possible. Why be in for a thousand when you can be in for a million?
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Peter had his son killed in order to ensure that the new Russia he had created would survive him.'
This is purely a matter of information, of cultural evolution; and Peter's conviction of his rightness was stronger than any of the feelings of father for son. "ghastly price"
It is because we are part of a greater system that we are subject to new and violent forces and are unable to enjoy the peace and security of the old, preconscious order.
Those people who are trying to get ahead, to get into something, the business people and politicians, represent a certain way of getting somewhere, the willpower dominated approach. Others, like the Einsteins and Darwins, do it by a much more quiet and subtle route, the intellect dominated. The latter seem to be concerned with science, discovering new properties of the Universe, The former are more in the line of artists, bringing new things into being. They are concerned with present and future, not past, ontotime. Society is a pincer movement. Science is still the more powerful pincer, I think.
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Nations negotiate like very primitive people (in our terms). These (i. o. t.) are the sort of people who get to rule.
De Jonge page 222: Russian preconscious: 'as far as fear and blind obedience rather than wisdom of government can carry things the Russians surpass al other nations.'
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To love someone is to assume the right to totally transform and uproot their life. If they love in return, they will go along with it, but if not, they will be dragged along by force of great passion.
page 232: Peter seems to have seen himself, and certainly others saw him, as pitting his colossal energies against the massive sum of his nation;s inert resistance.
Rapid change opens the gulf between good and evil. Peter's beginnings of science mean beginning of culture and consciousness. Consciousness is a property of society and does not appear in completely isolated individuals [?].