vol VII: Notes

1999

Notes

[Sunday 20 June 1999 - Saturday 26 June 1999]

[Notebook BOOK 4/5/94 DB 50]

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Sunday 20 June 1999

Computation: The symbols used for a computation may be any definite symbol, ie name attached to a black box - packing case with ID on the outside, Mapping between contents and name is twofold. One is in the environment, what I expect to find in a box marked 'margarine' and what actually exists in the box marked margarine, which is normally margarine and may be drugs, explosives or anything else that will fit in the box.

If you understand and accept or reject my position, at least I know I have a position, a point now somewhat moot since it is hard to look at myself at the outside. The mirror of most importance to me is writing.

FORMALISM IS a mirror image (REPRESENTATION) of REALITY.

We approach the problem of the theory of everything by looking at the relationship between formalisms.

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So

Generalissimo relativity: correcting for power in human relationships so as to create a level playing field. The inverse of power. This is love.

Politics - we know that all particles interact, and that they use some method to decide the outcome of the interaction. This may or may not involve the creation of new particles (always involves at least virtual particles)

All thought is an exercise in translation, translating the information transmitted by one point into the language of another point.

Monday 21 June 1999

POLITICS

The specific feature of humanity is the ability to organize. There are two constraints on an organization: the task that the organization aims to perform, which is generally complex, a point in configuration space, a necessary transformation of the environment from

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the point of view of individual organisms. The second constraint is the nature of the units from which the organization is composed. The local driving force for the organization is the individual realisation that things can be better if we work together. Since we are not already working together, this position is a conclusion reached from as model of the world.

The force for wholeness/the force for disintegration ENTROPY, VACUUM, GAS, POSITION SENSITIVE NOTATION, SELF CORRELATION

Lonergan is onto the recursive nature of the Universe, and it seems to me that his ideas can be expressed in the mathematical formalism pioneered by Cantor, and extended by Goedel and Turing. In particular the universal Turing machine seems a good starting point to model his schemes of recurrence (one of which is insight itself)

The computer we have on our desks have all the features of the universal Turing machine except that they are infinitesimally small measured by memory size

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and speed. The mathematical machine has a countably infinite memory and its formal operation is instantaneous.

Every recursion is a network of a network.

So how do we convert logic (ie a proof) into a network. This transformation will allow us to enter a new realm of truth GRAPH THEORY.

topology

Lonergan has failed to see how the networking of intellects produces intellects, and that this process gives an approach to an asymptote we call god.

The generation of cosmopolis. The centralized church appears to be an error. Einstein and quantum mechanics have shown us the local theory is the way to go. Points become local by communication. Quantum entanglement is the root of communication in the Universe.

Mind is the atom, and mind = {mind}

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To understand mind is to understand quantum computation.

A set theoretical representation of quantum computation and the expansion.

QM describes the elemental mind of the Universe.

Workplace relations = parallel processing.

Mathematical proof = transformation of a problem into a form where it is immediately obvious, ie to a yes-no decision or a contradiction.

Frontier shows us how to turn sentences into networks of graphs - this is a linguistic or parsing problem. Putting problems on networks solves them.

The glass transition in a computer : the processing overheads of any move become so high that movement ceases. Listen to the overloaded bank computer slow down. [Invisibility theorem]

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The hyperlinking allows you to take a random walk around this site. But there is a 'director's cut' which is listed here. This is the way I would read this site, knowing what I want each file to achieve.

Tuesday 22 June 1999

Wednesday 23 June 1999

Thursday 24 June 1999

Deutsch Deutsch: The Fabric of Reality

We are dealing in culture

Frans B M de Waal, N399:635 17 June 1999. de Waal Imanishi Culture definition: non-genetic transmission of habits.

culture: art/cuisine/science/politics. 'Cultural pneumatology'.

Friday 25 June 1999

Students are clients of the public service in that unis are clients of the bureaucracy.

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delivering services to students who have to some extent paid.

Having pursued the greenie thing from the tripod to the courthouse, am I now ready for the big job, the removal of corruption from mindspace?

CORRUPTION = using resources as less than optimal complexity, ie DESTRUCTION OF CAPITAL

CAPITAL = {EMBODIED FORM}

. . .

Does the academic immune system reject foreign ideas beyond a certain level of foreignness (or when they show significant markers on their outer coats)?

We plough on in. As I become more certain in my belief, the plan for capitalizing on the truth that I have appropriated becomes clearer and clearer. The force driving the propagation

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of new algorithms in noetic space is the benefits they provide for both source and recipients.

Today we change the name to toward neutral religion.

NEUTRAL definition

The size of the accident is proportional to the sparseness (ineffectiveness) of the surveillance.

Fides quaerens intellectum = data seeking a model.

We believe this: what does it mean? But the divining of meaning requires flexibility of belief.

So now we want neutralReligion.com

Saturday 26 June 1999

. . .

Mathematics is an ideal (or formal) world. We talk about the set N of natural numbers. It is

I am looking for a way to make sense of the world, and one thing becomes clear that sometimes I am looking . . .

The Cantor Universe is the space for the evolution of form.

What I want is a model of the Universe that makes me feel at home in the Universe as I once felt at home in the Church. I am looking for a formalism that

FIDES QUAERENS INTELLECTUM = THEOLOGY Different fides gives us different theology.

What we would like to show is that the externally imposed demand for fidelity among couples may be a force for decreasing, rather than increasing, the level of

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fidelity that is achieved. My faith that I am entirely part of the Universe is a new faith which places demands on me not present in the old faith. There we live in an alien world where we are the chosen children of a supreme being. Discontinuities between ourselves and the world are put down to the fact that the world is a limitation upon us which we will eventually escape if we think and act correctly. I have no such 'loophole' and so naturally must start with a space big enough to encompass my feelings about myself.

I have made this transition in faith. You may hold other beliefs or none. From the point of view of the theoretical exercise it does not matter. You may look without buying.

At the moment our social engines are PR firms which get results by giving individuals exactly what they want with little regard for the wider picture. On the other hand one has religions (often using PR methods) trying] to guide people in a certain direction. Or [are] they? Perhaps they too . . .

The elementary intelligence = LOGIC GATE = FUNCTION

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The elements of a group go through a dance with as many dances as there are elements. Although it might seem open to the participants, embracing all conceivable possibilities, it can be shown from the outside to be closed, because one could imagine manipulating the elements of a group in a way outside their definition.

All mathematics is actually done by finite local machines and represented in finite ordered sets of data.

FONT = lookup table.

Π is computable because it can be represented by a finite algorithm

The proof of possibility is performance.

Some legal research : on the dispensation of vows.

Does Thomas inhabit the days before doublespeak became a way of life. You give us money and we will preach to you what you expect to hear because the system has been entrenched for

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centuries. A vow is a private thing? How can the pope dispense my vows: because they were taken under false pretenses?

To bring rights to all means standing up for your own rights: a well constructed right
a) contributes to the structure of the whole (consistent) and
b) is what everyone wants.

I desire to kill without being killed. Cannot be a universal right.

A model must be a way of calculating the world, and so we need to learn how to make a calculation.

We have some parameters 1..0, 0..1 peace - violence/life - death/ fit - unfit/ correlation length/consistency/phase

Event = change of quantum state occupation. Quantum computation: coherent change of a

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large number of states.

Maximizing the entropy of a system between the extremes of complete coherence (zero entropy) and complete chaos (zero information). A string of bits only makes sense when it is decoded through the appropriate process, otherwise it is noise. So do we have an infinity of fundamental particles, only some of which makes sense? Dark matter.

I do not know the answers. I feel exceedingly slow in that it has taken me thirty years to just develop an attitude and still not be able to make much of it. The think is being constructed for beauty, not for utility. But have confidence the utility will come ; the coupling between bandwidth and gentleness.

But there is the optimum, measured in some way by feedback. The unification of minds in communication is modelled with choice machines. Each bit of information I receive from you makes me bigger, so each machine on the network is potentially as big as the whole network.

The fundamental resource MEMORY = CAPITAL. The Universe is a memory by virtue of Newtons first law everything stays the same unless it is changed. The conservation of energy means that the rate of change of the Universe is constant and <= aleph(0)

d aleph(1)/ dt = aleph(0) (this is not fast enough to even visit the whole of aleph(1) [each new permutation of aleph(0) is an infinitesimal element of aleph(1)

aleph(0) is the rate of pairwise changes ie interaction.

Dark matter very low (gravitational) rate of interaction.

Cannot give rigorous mathematical proof: only conjecture guided by intuition seeking consistency,

change of state = change of realised eigenvalue.

If it is important to keep battling on with an idea then I have done that for about E4 pp = 2E6 words (like these). The notebooks are the mirror (map) in which I track my progress, loping along somewhat randomly toward the perimeter of

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my patch, or at least away from my starting point. The basic step is the change of faith.

FAITH = FUNDAMENTAL FICTION = HYPOTHESIS

FITNESS of THEORY = ability to pass reality tests/ ability to eat other theories (thus growing at their expense)

Each form is competing for the available action = energy.

Uncertainty principle means particles can interact even if they do not share precisely the same geodesic, since a real event is 'blurred' in spacetime, although the readout from it is not. A definite particle or {particle} is emitted. When I speak I say something our of the infinity of things that I could say. The information carried by a symbol depends on the entropy of the space from which it is drawn. (how many times have I written this) When these diaries are all in e-form I will be able to search for this.

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Getting practical, what are the functions of the church

a) survival by taking goods for goods
b) authenticating messages from god
c) validating processes authorized by god for the development of his people, sacraments etc.

Read the code of canon law.

Draft a constitution for a church

baptism - recruiting to the database
confirmation - taking control of own life
confession - error correction
eucharist - sustenance from the whole
extreme unction - taking care of business in extremis
ordination - graduation as full service agent of church
marriage - registering contracts and checking for justice.

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Categories of service to be rendered by whole to parts and parts to whole

baptism	'habeas corpus' one enters the model of the mystical body.
confirmation	access to personal database and control of same. CREDO. Access to the constitution = protocols of peace.
confession	maintenance of justice, ie enforcement of constitutional rights and remedies in order to keep the body politic free from error. Education./judgment/mediation. moral theology = guide to action
eucharist	blessings of the whole received through the system in cash and kind, including transport, clean air etc etc. Building the body of the anointed
marriage	registration of personal contracts so that they can be matter for confession and correction if they fail. Children

 

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ordination	election to special position in the body politic, where one receives an income for delivering religious services, including academic function, degrees, certificates, etc etc etc. Certification and standardization
extreme unction	sealing the record, grieving and generally making good the loss of a person from the community.

Anyone can form a church which assumes any number of the functions listed above, just as individuals may derive different religious services from different organisations and individuals.

Specific expertise of religion is the bog picture, that is theory of everything.

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Mathematical models of consequences of truth and lying: the fragmentation of society when error levels become too high.

How do we calculate when the network will break down due to overloading, error or a combination of both?

RELIGION delivers human network services.

One can imagine that the bandwidth of the web will never match the bandwidth of all the kitchens, living rooms, bedrooms, bars, coffee shops etc etc etc where people practice local communication.

So we see the sacraments as network functions.

But the internet links all the kitchens into a common culture as do all the other non-local media.

Theoretical physics; spacetime theology. The standard theological model.

Corporations that deliver religion are traditionally

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called churches.

What feature of a new religion can guarantee that in the long run everyone will want it? palpably increased fitness.

Only you can deal with your inner fitness but religion ensures that the network delivers all that it is designed to deliver.

Entering battle, space of chaos, well armed.

Religion seeks the grace of God. We can take that over intact. The Lord helps those who help themselves, and we help ourselves by organizing - form controls matter and an organisation is a form.

Organization = controlled = variety restricted action which yields (by catalysis) more of a desired outcome than random action can.

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Further reading

Books

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Darwin, Charles, On the Origin of Species: A Facsimile of the First Edition, Harvard University Press 2001 Amazon review: 'It was a very happy idea to publish a facsimile of the first edition of On the Origin of Species; the price of copies of the original edition has reached the thousand dollar bracket, and in contemporary literature all page-references are to the original pagination, which was not followed in previous reprints of the first edition. Now, with this very reasonably priced and beautifully produced book, not only historians of science but also biologists will have the opportunity of following the fascinating thought-trails, still far from fully explored, of that remarkable man Darwin. Few if any persons are so well qualified as Harvard's Ernst Mayr to execute so helpfully and gracefully the delicate task of writing a worthy foreword to such a classic.' --Sir Gavin de Beer (Science )  Amazon   back

Dawkins, Richard, The Selfish Gene , Oxford UP 1976 Amazon: Editorial review: 'Inheriting the mantle of revolutionary biologist from Darwin, Watson, and Crick, Richard Dawkins forced an enormous change in the way we see ourselves and the world with the publication of The Selfish Gene. Suppose, instead of thinking about organisms using genes to reproduce themselves, as we had since Mendel's work was rediscovered, we turn it around and imagine that "our" genes build and maintain us in order to make more genes. That simple reversal seems to answer many puzzlers which had stumped scientists for years, and we haven't thought of evolution in the same way since.' Rob Lightner  Amazon   back

Deutsch, David, The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes - and its Implications, Allen Lane Penguin Press 1997 Jacket: 'Quantum physics, evolution, computation and knowledge - these four strands of scientific theory and philosophy have, until now, remained incomplete explanations of the way the universe works. ... Oxford scholar DD shows how they are so closely intertwined that we cannot properly understand any one of them without reference to the other three. ...'  Amazon   back

Homer, and E V Rieu (translator), D C H Rieu (editor), Peter Jones (Introduction), The Odyssey, Penguin Classics 2010 Product Description 'The epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after the Trojan War forms one of the earliest and greatest works of Western literature. Confronted by natural and supernatural threats - shipwrecks, battles, monsters and the implacable enmity of the sea-god Poseidon - Odysseus must use his wit and native cunning if he is to reach his homeland safely and overcome the obstacles that, even there, await him. About the Author HOMER is thought to have lived c.750-700 BC in Ionia and is believed to be the author of the earliest works of Western Literature: The Odyssey and The Iliad. E. V. RIEU was a celebrated translator from Latin and Greek, and editor of Penguin Classics from 1944-64. His son, D. C. H. RIEU, has revised his work. PETER JONES is former lecturer in Classics at Newcastle. He co-founded the 'Friends of Classics' society and is the editor of their journal and a columnist for The Spectator.'  Amazon   back

Homer, and E V Rieu (translator), D C H Rieu (editor), Peter Jones (Introduction), The Odyssey, Penguin Classics Hardcover; Special Sale ed edition (March 10, 2010) Language: English ISBN-10: 0141192445 ISBN-13: 978-0141192444 2010 Product Description 'The epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after the Trojan War forms one of the earliest and greatest works of Western literature. Confronted by natural and supernatural threats - shipwrecks, battles, monsters and the implacable enmity of the sea-god Poseidon - Odysseus must use his wit and native cunning if he is to reach his homeland safely and overcome the obstacles that, even there, await him. About the Author HOMER is thought to have lived c.750-700 BC in Ionia and is believed to be the author of the earliest works of Western Literature: The Odyssey and The Iliad. E. V. RIEU was a celebrated translator from Latin and Greek, and editor of Penguin Classics from 1944-64. His son, D. C. H. RIEU, has revised his work. PETER JONES is former lecturer in Classics at Newcastle. He co-founded the 'Friends of Classics' society and is the editor of their journal and a columnist for The Spectator.'  Amazon   back

Hume, David, and J C A Gaskin, Principal Writings on Religion Including Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion and the Natural History of Religion , Oxford University Press 2009 David Hume is one of the most provocative philosophers to have written in English. His Dialogues ask if a belief in God can be inferred from what is known of the universe, or whether such a belief is even consistent with such knowledge. The Natural History of Religion investigates the origins of belief, and follows its development from polytheism to dogmatic monotheism. Together, these works constitute the most formidable attack upon religious belief ever mounted by a philosopher. This new edition includes Section XI of The Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding and a letter by Hume in which he discusses Dialogues.  Amazon   back

Humphreys, Christmas, Buddhism, 1991   Amazon   back

Longley, Clifford, and Edited by Suzy Powling. Foreword by Lord Rees-Mogg, The Times Book of Clifford Longley, HarperCollinsReligious 1991 Jacket: 'Clifford Longley is perhaps the best known religious journalist working in Britain today [1991] and surely one of the most accomplished in the post-war period. ... This anthology, the first ever of Longley's work, contains a wide selection of columns published since 1988. Together they make up a colourful and engrossing account of a period when Church affairs have been marked by high controversy, and have regularly hit front pages.'  Amazon   back

Misner, Charles W, and Kip S Thorne, John Archibald Wheeler, Gravitation, Freeman 1973 Jacket: 'Einstein's description of gravitation as curvature of spacetime led directly to that greatest of all predictions of his theory, that the universe itself is dynamic. Physics still has far to go to come to terms with this amazing fact and what it means for man and his relation to the universe. John Archibald Wheeler. . . . this is a book on Einstein's theory of gravity. . . . '  Amazon   back

Nichols, Peter, The Pope's Divisions: The Roman Catholic Church Today, Henry Holt & Co ISBN-13: 978-0030475764 1984 Jacket: 'About eighteen percent of the world's population is Roman Catholic, and there is no bigger or more influential religious body that the Catholic Church. . . . Rome correspondent of The Times of London for more than twenty years, sympathetic to the Church although not himself a Catholic, Peter Nichols is closely familiar with the Curia and its functionaries and an absorbed observer of recent Popes and Papal elections. ... '  Amazon   back

Revised English Bible, Revised English Bible, Oxford University Press, USA 2003 From Library Journal 'From its inception the New English Bible was intended to be revised. This revision, which has taken into account praise and criticism of the New English Bible and advances in biblical scholarship, is the fruit of 15 years' labor. The style has remained dignified but not stuffy, vigorous but not coarse. Many Briticisms and awkward phrases have been reworked ("loose livers" in I Cor. 5:9 is now "those who are sexually immoral"), though some remain ("a rod in pickle" in Prov. 19:29). The removal of "thee" and "thou" from address to God and the cautious, discriminating use of inclusive language reflect current usage. Transposition of words, verses, and whole passages in the name of clarity--carried over from the New English Bible --will cause continued concern and will decrease somewhat this work's value as a study Bible. All things considered, however, this is an excellent translation that will easily find a place in public and private reading. Highly recommended. - Craig W. Beard, Harding Univ. Lib., Searcy, Ark. Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.'  Amazon   back

Weinberg, Steven, The Quantum Theory of Fields Volume I: Foundations, Cambridge University Press 1995 Jacket: 'After a brief historical outline, the book begins anew with the principles about which we are most certain, relativity and quantum mechanics, and then the properties of particles that follow from these principles. Quantum field theory then emerges from this as a natural consequence. The classic calculations of quantum electrodynamics are presented in a thoroughly modern way, showing the use of path integrals and dimensional regularization. The account of renormalization theory reflects the changes in our view of quantum field theory since the advent of effective field theories. The book's scope extends beyond quantum elelctrodynamics to elementary partricle physics and nuclear physics. It contains much original material, and is peppered with examples and insights drawn from the author's experience as a leader of elementary particle research. Problems are included at the end of each chapter. '  Amazon   back

Papers

Chaitin, Gregory J, "Randomness and Mathematical Proof", Scientific American, 232, 5, May 1975, page 47-52. 'Although randomness can be precisely defined and can even be measured, a given number cannot be proved random. This enigma establishes a limit in what is possible in mathematics'. back

De Dreu, Carsten K W, et al, "The Neuropeptide Oxytocin regulates Parochial Altruism in Intergroup Conflict Among Humans", Science, 328, 5984, 11 June 2010, page 1408 - 1411. 'Humans regulate intergroup conflict through parochial altruism; they self-sacrifice to contribute to in-group welfare and to aggress against competing out-groups. Parochial altruism has distinct survival functions, and the brain may have evolved to sustain and promote in-group cohesion and effectiveness and to ward off threatening out-groups. Here, we have linked oxytocin, a neuropeptide produced in the hypothalamus, to the regulation of intergroup conflict. In three experiments using double-blind placebo-controlled designs, male participants self-administered oxytocin or placebo and made decisions with financial consequences to themselves, their in-group, and a competing out-group. Results showed that oxytocin drives a "tend and defend" response in that it promoted in-group trust and cooperation, and defensive, but not offensive, aggression toward competing out-groups.'. back

de Waal, Frans B M, "Cultural primatology comes of age", Nature, 399, 6737, 17 June 1999, page 635-636. 'The chimpanzee keeps inching closer to humanity. After decades of patiently gathering information, the heads of seven field-sites pool their knowledge to reveal the astonishing variation in tool technology and social customs in chimpanzees across Africa.'. back

Kitcher, Philip, "The Climate Change Debates", Science, 328, 5983, 4 June 2010, page 1230-1234. 'In one of the earliest and most eloquent pleas for open discussion and debate, John Milton wrote: And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter. (1) Two centuries after Milton, in the same year in which Charles Darwin published the Origin, John Stuart Mill's essay On Liberty (2) added further arguments for the free exchange of ideas, suggesting that such exchange is vital for intellectual and social health. Although both Milton and Mill stand behind our current acquiescence in the value of extensive free discussion, both of them knew that they were opposing ancient suspicions about the viability of democracy. The political theorists and philosophers of the Greco-Roman world viewed ordinary folk as vulnerable to deception and exploitation. Allowed to determine the direction of the state, the folk would be easily seduced into believing falsehoods aligned with the interests of charismatic leaders, so that the popular voice would enthusiastically clamor for disastrous policies. Better, then, to entrust the ship of state to wise navigators, whose wisdom embraced both depth of understanding and moral integrity.'. back

Landauer, Rolf, "Information is a physical entity", Physica A, 263, 1, 1 February 1999, page 63-7. 'This paper, associated with a broader conference talk on the fundamental physical limits of information handling, emphasizes the aspects still least appreciated. Information is not an abstract entity but exists only through a physical representation, thus tying it to all the restrictions and possibilities of our real physical universe. The mathematician's vision of an unlimited sequence of totally reliable operations is unlikely to be implementable in this real universe. Speculative remarks about the possible impact of that, on the ultimate nature of the laws of physics are included.'. back

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Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Israel-Vatican Diplomatic Relations, 'Full and formal diplomatic relations between Israel and the Holy See were established in 1993. They were preceded, however, by almost a century of contacts and diplomatic activity, not to mention almost two millennia of Catholic-Jewish encounters that at times were far from harmonious.' back

James Fieser, Hume: Writings on Religion [The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy], 'David Hume ranks among the most influential philosophers in the field of the philosophy of religion. He criticized the standard proofs for God‘s existence, traditional notions of God’s nature and divine governance, the connection between morality and religion, and the rationality of belief in miracles. He also advanced theories on the origin of popular religious beliefs, grounding such notions in human psychology rather than in rational argument or divine revelation. The larger aim of his critique was to disentangle philosophy from religion and thus allow philosophy to pursue its ends without either rational over-extension or psychological corruption.' back

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Asteroid Exploration HAYABUSA (MUSES-C) / Missions, 'At 15:22 on May 19. 2004 (JST), HAYABUSA approached most closely to the earth at an altitude of 3,700 km over the Eastern Pacific Ocean and performed the powered swing-by by accelerating itself with ion engines. At that time, three cameras (one telecamera and two wide-angle cameras) and one near-infrared spectrometer, which were designed to be used for navigation and scientific observations, photographed the Moon and Earth, while simultaneously performing calibration and performance evaluation of the instruments. In September 2005, the explorer arrived at the asteroid Itokawa about 300 million km away from the earth. In November 2005, it successfully landed on Itokawa. In April 2007, HAYABUSA started full cruising operation to return to earth.. back

John Milton, Areopagitica A speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England, 'And now the time in special is, by privilege to write and speak what may help to the further discussing of matters in agitation. The temple of Janus with his two controversial faces might now not unsignificantly be set open. And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter? Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing.' back

John Milton - Wikipedia, John Milton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet, author, polemicist, Puritan and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England. He is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost.' back

John Paul II, Familiaris Consortio, 'May Christ the Lord, the Universal King, the King of Families, be present in every Christian home as He was at Cana, bestowing light, joy, serenity and strength. On the solemn day dedicated to His Kingship I beg of Him that every family may generously make its own contribution to the coming of His Kingdom in the world-"a kingdom of truth and life, a kingdom of holiness and grace, a kingdom of justice, love, and peace," 183 towards which history is journeying. I entrust each family to Him, to Mary, and to Joseph. To their hands and their hearts I offer this Exhortation: may it be they who present it to you, venerable Brothers and beloved sons and daughters, and may it be they who open your hearts to the light that the Gospel sheds on every family. I assure you all of my constant prayers and I cordially impart the apostolic blessing to each and every one of you, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Given in Rome, at St. Peter's, on the twenty-second day of November, the Solemnity of our Lord Jesus Christ, Universal King, in the year 1981, the fourth of the Pontificate. JOHN PAUL II' back

Khalil Gibran - Wikipedia, Khalil Gibran - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'Khalil Gibran (born Gubran Khalil Gubran bin Mikhā'īl bin Sa'ad; Arabic جبران خليل جبران بن ميکائيل بن سعد, January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931) also known as Kahlil Gibran[ was a Lebanese American artist, poet, and writer. Born in the town of Bsharri in modern-day Lebanon (then part of the Ottoman Mount Lebanon mutasarrifate), as a young man he emigrated with his family to the United States where he studied art and began his literary career. He is chiefly known for his 1923 book The Prophet, a series of philosophical essays written in English prose. An early example of Inspirational fiction, the book sold well despite a cool critical reception, and became extremely popular in the 1960s counterculture. Gibran is considered to be the third most widely read poet in history, behind Shakespeare and Lao-Tzu. back

Koinonia - Wikipedia, Koinonia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'Koinonia is the anglicisation of a Greek word (κοινωνία) that means communion by intimate participation. The word is used frequently in the New Testament of the Bible to describe the relationship within the early Christian church as well as the act of breaking bread in the manner which Christ prescribed during the Passover meal [John 6:48-69, Matthew 26:26-28, 1 Corinthians 10:16, 1 Corinthians 11:24]. As a result the word is used within the Christian Church to participate, as Paul says, in the Communion of - in this manner it identifies the idealised state of fellowship and community that should exist - Communion.' back

National Secular Society, Challenging Religious privilege | National Secular Society, 'The National Secular Society is the leading campaigning organisation defending the rights of non-believers from the demands of religious power-seekers. The NSS works both in the UK and in Europe to combat the influence of religion on governments. We want to ensure that Human Rights always come before religious rights, and we fight the massive exemptions religious bodies demand - and are sometimes granted - from discrimination laws that everyone else is subject to. Every privilege has its victims.' back

Pelagius - Wikipedia, Pelagius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'Pelagius (ca. AD 354 – ca. AD 420/440) was an ascetic who denied the doctrine of original sin as developed by Augustine of Hippo, and was declared a heretic by the Council of Carthage. His interpretation of a doctrine of free will became known as Pelagianism. He was well educated, fluent in both Greek and Latin, and learned in theology.' back

Quark - Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark, the free encyclopedia, 'Quarks . . . are a type of elementary particle and major constituents of matter. They combine to form composite particles called hadrons, the most well-known of which are protons and neutrons. They are the only particles in the Standard Model to experience the strong force, and thereby the only particles to experience all four fundamental forces, which are also known as fundamental interactions.' back

scapbookpages.com, The controversy over Catholic crosses at Auschwitz-Birkenau, 'The War of the Crosses was the culmination of years of tension between the Poles and the Jews. The Jews are still resentful that some of the Poles collaborated with the Nazis during World War II, and even worse, after the war in 1946, there were pogroms in which more Jews were killed by Polish civilians. The Jews say that the Nazis killed the Jews because they were acting under orders, but the Poles killed the Jews because they wanted to. As late as 1968, there was violence against the Jews in Poland, and even today Jewish memorials and Synagogues in Warsaw must be constantly guarded against vandalism and arson.' back

The Baptist Times, Baptist Times - Home, 'TheBaptist Times is Britain's only Baptist newspaper, and extends its readership all round the world. It has been produced weekly since 1855.' back

The Jewish Chronicle, The Jewish Chronicle= Jewish news, Israel news and social networking, back

The Methodist Recorder, The Methodist Recorder Online, 'The World's leading Methodist Newspaper.' back

The Tablet, The Tablet - The International Catholic Weekly, 'The Tablet is a British Catholic weekly journal that has been published continually since 1840. It reports on religion current affairs, politics, social issues, literature and the arts with a special emphasis on Roman Catholicism while remaining ecumenical. It is committed to the teaching of the Second Vatican Council.' back

Unites States of America, United States Constitution, 'Amendment I. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.' back

William Edward Morris, David Hume (Standord Encyclopedia of Philosophy), 'First published Mon Feb 26, 2001; substantive revision Fri May 15, 2009 The most important philosopher ever to write in English, David Hume (1711-1776) — the last of the great triumvirate of “British empiricists” — was also well-known in his own time as an historian and essayist. A master stylist in any genre, Hume's major philosophical works — A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-1740), the Enquiries concerning Human Understanding (1748) and concerning the Principles of Morals (1751), as well as the posthumously published Dialogues concerning Natural Religion (1779) — remain widely and deeply influential. Although many of Hume's contemporaries denounced his writings as works of scepticism and atheism, his influence is evident in the moral philosophy and economic writings of his close friend Adam Smith. Hume also awakened Immanuel Kant from his “dogmatic slumbers” and “caused the scales to fall” from Jeremy Bentham's eyes. Charles Darwin counted Hume as a central influence, as did “Darwin's bulldog,” Thomas Henry Huxley. The diverse directions in which these writers took what they gleaned from reading Hume reflect not only the richness of their sources but also the wide range of his empiricism. Today, philosophers recognize Hume as a precursor of contemporary cognitive science, as well as one of the most thoroughgoing exponents of philosophical naturalism.' back