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... to restore theology to the mainstream of science
[Notebook NAKEDICAME, DB 53]
[Sunday 24 December 2000 - Saturday 30 December 2000]
[page 120]
Sunday 24 december 2000
Monday 25 December 2000
Tuesday 26 December 2000
Species = peer group
Animals include species.
We have peers within peers
Wednesday 27 December 2000
Theorem = symmetry = invariance, eg Pythagoras
An -ism is a constraint on human mindspace, eg Catholicism.
WRITING = FLATTENING, reducing a structure in n-space to a string or line in 1-space.
Every line is a superposition of a transfinity of lines, the natural line.
Lonergan has looked at the space of the human mind from within, and reaffirmed
[page 121]
the general conclusions of all who have done so. Lonergan From the inside insight is a mysterious process that happens to us. We attribute it to a divine light. But how does this work? Modern physiology, built on molecular biology, built in turn on chemistry, physics and mathematics shows us how our bodies (and the bodies of all other living things we have found on earth) work. What about the mind? Lonergan joins a long tradition of insisting that this is a mystery, but science is not so constrained, and seeks to both build mathematical models of the mind and see these models realized in living systems be they prions or the whole planet earth,
Physiology is a process that occurs in a space. Each physical realization of a process can be envisaged in terms of a space of atoms interacting through photons and electrons, the elements of the process described by QED. Feynman
The mathematical representation of physiological
[page 122]
space relies on ordered sets and computers to turn one ordered set into another.
Luther: sola scriptura, sola gratia, sola fide : how do we translate these?
Hunger will overcome laziness. Hyperactivity may be associated with insecurity.
Lonergan introduced me to the conscious study of mindspace at a sensitive period when I was in a contemplativish order which places a lot of weight on meditation, which is an introspective activity (or non-activity)
Given a dictionary of n words, which are interchangeably nouns of verbs, we can make n3 sentences, many meaningless
owl owl owl
Owl eats mouse
[page 123]
Action projected onto space gives us momentum. distance. Projected onto time gives us energy.time.
momentum MLT-1
energy ML2T-2 = MLT-1 x
LT-1 = mv2.
GROUP = ACTION (discrete/continuous)
INHERITANCE (capital) + CREATIVITY (action, building up the Co) --> FITNESS.
Let us get the action principle into ethics - natural-spirit.
Thursday 28 December 2000
Friday 29 December 2000
Saturday 30 December 2000
Books
| Feynman, Richard P et al, The Feynman Lectures on Physics (volume 3) : Quantum Mechanics, Addison Wesley 1970 Foreword: 'This set of lectures tries to elucidate from the beginning those features of quantum mechanics which are the most basic and the most general. ... In each instance the ideas are introduced together with a detailed discussion of some specific examples - to try to make the physical ideas as real as possible.' Matthew Sands Amazon back |
| Lonergan, Bernard J F, Insight : A Study of Human Understanding (Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan : Volume 3), University of Toronto Press 1992 '... Bernard Lonergan's masterwork. Its aim is nothing less than insight into insight itself, an understanding of understanding' Amazon back |
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