vol VII: Notes
1999
Notes
[Notebook MA, DB 51] [Sunday 1 August 1999 - Saturday 7 August 1999][page 195]
DerMum: while not thinking I am JC (who was created as a symbol long after his death) I do think I am the bearer of good news.
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As one whose faith is (and was) rooted in scientific method, I simply could not accept that my human nature was flawed by some action of my
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ancestors. In evolutionary terms this is tantamount to inheritance of an acquired characteristic. I now believe that the universe is divine and that our experience of it is equivalent to the beatific vision, As a matter of fact the beatific vision so conceived is not all roses . . .
Metanoia = reboot. . . .
Monday 2 August 1999
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Tuesday 3 August 1999
Copying text / genes: guided by environment.
Dogmatism: an attempt to stop textual evolution by freezing the text and the environment in which the text exists.
The Nag Hammadi Library 3rd ed, James M Robinson (ed), Harper Collins 1990 . Robinson
Roger Haight, Jesus, Symbol of God Orbis, Maryknoll, New York 1999 Haight
Word of God = genotype, text.
Haight page xii: Hellenization / modernization
'genuinely new understanding and behaviour'
'the basis is Christianity is soteriology.
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'faith as imagination'
Evolution of fiction: hard base, imaginative construct.
Haight page 4: Faith oriented to action.
Modern theology is based on a meticulous study of texts to discern both what they meant to their writers and what they could possibly mean now.
Put Xianity into universal language of physics and biology.
My original thesis proposal was met with SCHOLARLY FOG intended to show the extreme difficulty of my task.
higher viewpoint: Goedel.
TEXT IS OUTSIDE SPACE AND TIME [or outside time alone?]
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MY FEELING, what moves me to action. A faith is in some sense a view of the world that says do this and you will be saved.
The dynamics of life are the dynamics of debt. We are all borrowers in life and inevitably repay by distributing out body through the pool of life / biosphere.
This is the encounter with transcendence, something bigger ℵ0 —> ℵ1 = aleph(0) looks at aleph(1).
SoSPIRIT = POTENTIAL
PNEUMATOLOGY CYBERNETICS
I have arrived at my position by rejecting what seems impossible and meaningless: human nature flawed by human action? eternal torment? unique children of Gd?
Haight page 9: 'Because theology is symbolic, its assertions are not direct statements of information about God.' [?]
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Haight page 9: '. . . symbolic religious assertions uncover and mediate to consciouness areas that would otherwise remain closed.'
Wednesday 4 August 1999
The Roman Catholic Church treats the minds of children as though they were terra nullius. Terra nullius - Wikipedia
THE HUMAN ARCHIVE: LAND
The rape of our minds parallels the rape of the land.
The claim to represent god is merely a claim to authenticity, eg the Roman Catholic Church. This hypothesis has to be tested, sf Einstein: 'The Lord is subtle but he is not malicious'.
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COSMOLOGY: From the quantum mechanical point of view the universe is a text processor.
The Universe is reflected in the atom and vice
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versa, ie they are elements of a symmetry.
SYMMETRY = { y | y ∈ P } where P is the substance (essence ) of the symmetry, ie SYMMETRICAL PROPERTY
Symmetry is the root of DIVINITY = PRODUCTIVITY.
My father, whose pointless torture in the jungles of Bougainville was ended by the symbols of Hiroshima and Nagasaki naturally wanted me to be a nuclear physicist but even then I was after bigger game. Medcalf, Bougainville Campaign - Wikipedia
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The parallel between quantum mechanics and human affairs is mathematically exact, not some vague matter of parable, analogy, metaphor or some other ague term. A turning point in quantum mechanics
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DIRAC Dirac
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The aim of this thesis is to express and apply the idea that there is a strict mathematical isomorphism between quantum mechanics and human affairs. We link these two universes through a symmetry which may be described as invariance with respect to complexity, This symmetry is expressed in Cantor's transfinite numbers. Cantor
This fels like the day I have finally said it.
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As a scholar my input is text and my
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output is text, books, articles, tapes, disks etc.
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Thursday 5 August 1999
So back to the thesis. What we want to do is extract the model that the universe is network of particles in communication with one another through various channels.
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Present a model of God that fits the world.
Map some Xian concepts onto this model.
THESIS: The Christian theory of the world is no longer testable in the scientific sense.
To be without a consistent theology is to be like an animal at moult time, exposed and heavily engaged in getting a new structure in place.
Money is the simple arithmetic of trade.
Quantum mechanics is the complex arithmetic of bonding.
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In each case we devise a struCture and then provide statistical analysis that shows how the system spends its time between the various states.
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I am an example of a broken chain of faith, a mutation.
We are to take Jesus' life as a dramatic portrayal of the life we all lead, sometimes succeeding miraculously, sometimes getting crucified, but determined to go on forever.
Theology must lead back to the real.
Collapse of the ψ does not depend on the complexity of the ψ. [Quantum mechanics is complexity invariant]
Thhe doman of my mind s myself and my environment.
Salvation = error correction.
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Friday 6 August 1999
Symmetry
Time - energy
place - momentum
spin - action
complexity - Cantor
It is symmetry with respect to complexity makes knowledge possible ad is deeply related to set theory, bonding, quantum mechanics, spin etc etc.
Haight page 326: Haight sounds like a pre-scientific physicist, going through all the possibilities.
Symmetry with respect to complexity carries us all the way from atom to god.
GRAVITATION : SYMMETRY with respect to COMPLEXITY
How does gravitation respond to numerical differences - it does not see them, only MASS [energy], not MEANING.
Quantum mechanics relates to individuality, bonding, meaning etc etc.
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All points on a null geodesic are intrinsically identical and one, They are differentiated by their meaning, ie their mapping to other points.
As observed, the universe is a system of symbols. TURING.
We are all that mixture of natural and divine that Chalcedon postulated of Jesus Christ. Council of Chalcedon - Wikipedia
I publish as supplementary material more extracts from the notebooks I kept while working on this idea. In time I hope to make this record complete so you can see what was happening.
Cybernetics deals with systems at all levels of complexity.
card(a) ≡ card(b) (PEERS).
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Do I believe that I have achieved anything? I think I will when I see it work.
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It is clear that we are parts of the whole. In the past we have considered ourselves as parts of the universe that did not really belong here. This idea seems to have its origin about the same time as self-consciousness entered literary history. As we have amply demonstrated, our technological powers to much outweigh those of the other animals that we might be excused for overestimating ourselves The theory of evolution shows that we are in the right universe, having evolved here through a chain of events stretching back more than 10 billion years.
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Peers = one who understand what you are talking about.
LONELY = PEERLESS
,p> Replace the sin model of evil with . . . the error model, and so arive at a new meaning for redemption.There is no need for all this artificial loathing and abhorrence, except to try to bring down the social error rate. Each sin is an error to be corrected, and the sooner detected and dealt with the better, both in the public and the priae sphere.
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Computers make it possible for the
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whose human race to cohere, ie to become a BOSON.
Was Jesus political? is to me rather like asking was this grown up dinosaur once an egg? Jesus is some way fertilized a point in human consciousness and christianity grew out of it, This is rather like the formation of a water droplet on a charged particle Jesus catalyzed the formation of a new structure in the human world which we call Christianity, encompassing everything from visions to buildings of stone.
We are all anointed with the oil of existence, of being an independent dimension of god.
The GENES are also ANCIENT TEXTS enormously bigger and denser in meaning than biblical texts and traditions. They are encoded and decoded by life.
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SYMMETRY with respect to COMPLEXITY (SIZE): We are all part of the whoe. We here can mean atoms, planets, galaxies, anythink ecept the universe aka god, the whole which is part of nothing bigger, no whole.[page 213]
Haight suggets to me, however, that my personal christology is not so much an outlier in the distribution as it was when I first parted from the Church. There are islands and strings of probability density penetrating the space around me providing a reference frame against which to outline my personal christology.
The ideas presented here were developed on a more mathematical framework while exploring the proposition 'the universe is divine'. This exploration was necessary because I could not find the hypothesis that god is other than the Universe credible. This is its first tentative translation into christological language.
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Christology has ost its anchor and floated free, a situation fraught with danger in the absence of effective navigation. I propose to salvage it and
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earn salvage rights.
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One cools by expanding against pressure, releasing energy.
Pneumatology: the spirit makes us all divine.
There are no gravitons. Gravitation is the net effect on the whoe of al the interactions of its arts, ie it is the NON-INTERACTION that is broken by every ACTION in detail but not on the average ?
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RELIGION is the TECHNOLOGY [art] of SALVATION.
Haight page 364: 'At least this is true: for one
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passionaetly concerned about the human project, religion rovides no platform through which this passion will be satisfied.
The fact of biological unity should override all theories.
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Matter is the text in which spirit is encoded.
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We can be pretty certain that the quantum rules and gravity guide the creation of the world as we have it, and so, by applying them to our condition, we may gain insight into the future.
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Haight: A thoughtful review of the problems facing Xianity as it reache sits nominal 2000th birthday.
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A work of mathematical theology = liberated theology, expressed mathematically, free from the constraints of history
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GUILT is a POTENTIAL that is felt when one moves away from what is perceived as RIGHT.
Saturday 7 August 1999
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The price of freedom is eternal vigilance:
a) eternal watch for dangers
b) eternal watch for feeding opportunities
c) eternal watch for reproductive opportunities
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