Notes
[Notebook Turkey, DB 55]
[Sunday 10 November 2002 - Saturday 16 November 2002]
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Sunday 10 November 2002
Monday 11 November 2002
Tuesday 12 November 2002
Wednesday 13 November 2002
Thursday 14 November 2002
Friday 15 November 2002
New: The site is undergoing a major revision to reflect its new corporate management. For summaries of the practical consequences off our position, see the two new essays on freedom and security and physical theology.
We apply constraints to our enormous model looking for symmetries. Here in the modelling section, we are concerned with mathematical symmetries. Later in applications of the model, we shall see how it works in physics, biology, cybernetics, psychology and theology.
Saturday 16 November 2002
John L Casti: Five Golden Rules: Great theories of twentieth century mathematics and why they matter. Casti.
page 5: religion: Game of life - maximize the minimum vs minimize the maximum.
Maximize the minimum payoff,
Minimize the maximum evil.
Male competition for females and female competition for males (expressed as jealousy) can inhibit communication between males and females that are not pairing, since communication to an opposite outside the pair threatens one or more existing partners, who will act to inhibit it.
greatest good for greatest number.
Current world system seems to maximize the maxima and minimize the minima. Since the powerful use bombs and starvation to increase the pain of the weak at arms length. Religion should change the
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rules of the game to establish a minimax. Will global social security achieve this?
Ie does De Maupertuis [principle of least action] say in effect that the world tends to pure rather than to mixed strategy.
page 9: two person zero sum game can be solved completely.
Racism: mathematics is all about spaces of labellings = transformations. Humans are all one equivalence class of labelling, ie a symmetry.
page 73: Sperner's lemma to Brouwer's fixed point theorem.
