vol VII: Notes
1999
Notes
[Notebook DB 52A Mathesis]
[Sunday 24 October 1999 - Saturday 30 October 1999]
Sunday 24 October 1999
Church has lasted 2Kyr whether as a result of superior doctrine or superior politics is hard to tell. For most of its history one would feel that doctrine has been secondary to discipline, insofar as the disciplinarians have been in a position to suppress deviant doctrine either by murder of by declaring that the doctrine and its adherents are 'extra ecclesiam'.
FAITH and ORDER - Pneuma / sensus fidelium / sensus fidei.
The problem is to maintain the organization while renewing both the faith and the order ie a revolution. To maintain the church is to maintain
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the people in the church.
The Roman Catholic Church sees itself as a) one true church; b) global mission, <.p>
To achieve this is must conform itself to reality.
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Xian faith ⊂ scientific faith
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Who are the people of God (God)
[I was] caught in the 'Prague Spring' that accompanied Vatical II and condemned by those anti-modernest these that represented the height of reaction before the Church through the arms of John 23 opened itself to the world .
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Christian ecumenism: righting old wrongs
Global ecumenism: moving into new territory
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Dialogue between the word and all religions.
SPIRIT - FREEDOM: Wind bows where it wills [subject to dynamic constraints]
Define the BROADEST POSSIBLE CHURCH! [secular = real]
Truth: Vatican II Second Vatican Council: Declaration on Religious Freedom
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The Roman Catholic Church lives in a weird world of its own creation.
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An important distinction from the point of view of survival is to be made between consumption and capitalization.
All I can say after 5 years on earth is the the Xian story is the biggest load of crap ever foaled.
All the ancient religions are blatant grabs for power by an entrenched bureaucracy.
THE SELFISH GENE Dawkins
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THE PHENOTYPE FIGHTS BACK
Deposit of faith = genotype of the Church.
Ancient genes : modern genes
Monday 25 October 1999
Now at last we can see what FAITH is. I long ago made the transitin from Catholic to Scientific. FIRST the FAITH [data]; then the UNDERSTANDING.
Faith = to die for, ie not-faith also equals death.
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RELIGIOUS FREEDOM = CHANGE OF FAITH [scientific freedom = new paradigm]
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From the point of view of the world, the Roman Catholic Church is not the but a religion, Insofar as it wants to be part of the word, it must accept the ways of the world, and one of these ways is that pers are equal. PEER is a term defined in ordered sets. Equality = euivalence = cardinal number.
EQUAL = NOT ORDERED
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The Church is in the grip of a CANTOR EXPANSION = period of inflation
ie NEW LEVEL OF PERMUTATION
What can we learn from the polity of electrons? The dance of life is a dance of electrons and photons
THE WORD = BODY
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We come to dignitatis humanae and here I think the Church tries to have its cake and eat it, by at once admitting the equality of all people, and therefore thee churches that they construct for themselves, and at the same time trying to make out it is the one true church. Its move to the outside is not consistent with its interior stance, but once having entered into dialogue with the world around it it will inevitably have to become consistent with it. The Roman Catholic Church would like to think that everyone can be brought around to its terms because it really does think it is the one true church, But hat if it is not? Dialogue as between equals can only begin when the church undertakes to admit that it is wrong, not just at some superficial administrative level, but to its core.
p. When we listen to Pius IX frothing at the mouth and compare it to the more placid tones f latter years, things seem to be on the mend, but it is just the lull in the storm of reform that must sweep the churches if they are going to
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lead us to heave.
This is truth; that external states match internal states, Not-truth is the opposite, mismatch between interior and exterior, Such a mismatch always exists due to communication lags.
FITNESS = COOPERATION
So evolution is competition for the most cooperative.
Tuesday 26 October 1999
NORMATIVE CULTURE / SCHOOLING
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The Cantor Universe is staring us in the face : we live in a quantum universe governed by continuous function ψ.
Differential equations represent transitin between transfinite levels. [digital/symbolic representations of continua]
Thomism comes out as a model of the transfinite network, a coordinate patch, is a deterministic patch in an indeterministic system. . . .
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Five universal wished: happiness, love, health, prosperity, peace.
The problem is that ancient thinkers made god distinct from the universe, and do effectively devalued the universe.
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WAR is a DENIAL of REALITY
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FAITH = IMPRINTING (Konrad Lorentz) Konrad Lorenz - Wikipedia
The knight must always say the dragon before he can partner the princess. The princess is (naturally) using her attractiveness to rid her people of a dangerous evil.
DEATH: end of life / door to new life.
The seed must die . . . WRONG
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WORK = action effective for survival, ie reducing the risk of failure and death. Have to smoke a joint and make myself sick to write this stuff - WHY?governor and droop - we need the ERROR Droop speed control - Wikiedia
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The rule of life is very simlpe : SURVIVE, and the method is to cooperate with all things
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that promote survival and avoid all things that deprecate (?) derogate (?) block (?) it.
Religions do enhance survival. The population of the world has quadrupled this century love and eachother reducing death rates ad enhancing birth rates.
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does god exist? Artificially induced dualism brought on by the dim view they took of the world and so the need ti invent a word of fantasy to take their minds off the roughness of life around them.
Boethius: De Consolatione Philosophiae Boethius
This thesis represents a rapidly changing attitude to the word - postmodern personality.
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Such a personality does not hide from the problems of the world, but rather attacks them in a principled way.
Principles; Evidence based; Maximum bandwidth; Just; Sustainable = self regulating.
We must not be dragged from the real by the ideal.
As log as the Roman Catholic Church remained a cosed shop it could live out is fantasies in peace, but when it finally opened its doors to the word it embarked on a period of change which has a log way to go yet It ist remake itself to effectively fulfill its natural function in the light of new knowledge: Feminism, Birth control, Environment.
Most of the evis in the word are a consequence of clashes as the boundaries of religions . . .
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Religion is a REAL THING so it is time for us to ditch the od fairy talkes and base our [page 57]
behaviour on the scientifically perceived reality.
The recursive nature of evolution means that the past is embedded in the present, and so we are able to study and become aware of the ast and see how it contributed to the present state of affairs. So for instance we share fundamental metabolic systems with every organism in the planet.
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COURT PROCESS - STEERED BY OBJECTION
Wednesday 27 October 1999
Thursday 28 October 1999
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Friday 29 October 1999
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Bliss is the sweet spot. The point of balance at which most of the momentum of the bat goes into the ball with o reaction upon the hitter's hands. We woud like to prove that every real action has its sweet spot, at which the resources are used with maximum benefit and minimum cost.
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The spirit of truth is the spirit of consistency. Consistency is broader than truth. So ψ has infinite eigenvalues only one of which is realized.
CONSISTENCY ⊃ TRUTH, ie consistency is the space of truth.
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Each photon is defined both by its moment of birth and what it has gone through to get here (RELATIVITY). 3K radiation has spent billions of years timelessly climbing out of the potential well of gravitational potential. Cosmic microwave background radiation - Wikipedia
From an engineering or physical point of view the sweet spot may look far from
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mathematically perfect because the universe contains chaos as well as predictability. Animals like ourselves who have evolved in the milieu have learnt to take practical perfection for perfection, not knowing what engineers know.
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BANDWIDTH = NIMBLENESS OF STEERING
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Emotional lobotomy, cutting body off from soul.
Only some explanatory models are real.
Simple / complex = dynamic / static.
