vol 7: Notes
2004
18 April
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[Notebook: Transfinite field theory DB 56]
[Sunday 18 April 2004 - Saturday 24 April 2004]
Sunday 18 April 2004
Monday 19 April 2004
[page 68]
Tuesday 20 April 2004
Making a space for domesticity, ie the micromanagement of the most complex issues in human historical experience, ie security, growth and reproduction.
Enclosed women, nuclear family, extended family, band, tribe etc etc.
When thee are lots of them you can fire at random and get one with a viable probability (given the prevailing cost structure). As they thin out, a targeted approach gradually gains ascendancy over the random. Random assembly of standardized parts (eg atoms) will give us a useful product every now and then. The law of large numbers tells us that any event p > 0 will eventually happen.
[page 69]
We model the spectrum of being using the natural numbers which are the archetypal ordered set of symbols. They may be used to model any ordered set of events.
We gain further insight into events by the construction of arithmetic on the natural numbers. A vast range of phenomena from money to sheep and stars obey the laws of arithmetic. Here we begin to see the 'unreasonably efficacy.' Wigner.
Wednesday 21 April 2004
C P Snow, The Masters, Snow.
Page 64: 'It is lamentable' said Chrystal, that the college can't settle its business without getting into a state.'
The state arises from inconsistency which in some way generates the energy to come to a revolution even at some cost (ie war and genocide in human affairs, not to mention domestic violence).
Thursday 22 April 2004
Friday 23 April 2004
What am I doing here? One text, which can be uttered by any person in an environment at any time. The answer is an account of the person's interaction with their environment.
Roosevelt: The only thing an Emperor has to fear is the loss of fear itself. Robert Haupt, p 205. Haupt.
Saturday 24 April 2004
1. The distance between two nodes of a network is inversely proportional to the proportion of time they are connected.
2. The distance between two nodes is inversely proportional to the rate of data (entropy) flow between them? (in a reversible network entropy is preserved)
Peer class = reversible network.
3. The distance between nodes is inversely proportional to the amount of 'meaning' transmitted between them? This is a function of the complexity of nodes.
Jamming is limited in scale free systems. Toroczkai and Bassler.
scale free = follow a power law degree distribution.
Pressure of time coarsens spectrum of modulation of human action, so some go from celibacy to rape in one step. Everywhere we wish to establish a spectrum and a moral principle of maximum time minimum violence.
Further reading
Books
| Haupt, Robert, Last Boat to Astrakhan: A Russian Memoir 1990-1996, back |
| Snow, C P, The Masters, Pan Macmillan Amazon back |
Papers
| Toroczkai, Z and K F Bassler, "Jamming is limited in scale free systems", Nature, 428, 6984, 15 April 2004, page 716. 'A large number of complex networks is scale free - that is they follow a power law degree distribution. Here we propose that the emergence of scale-free networks is tied to the efficiency of transport and flow processing across these structures, In particular we show that for large networks on which flows are influenced or generated by gradients of a scalar distributed on the nodes, scale free structures will ensure efficient processing, whereas structures that are not scale free, such as random graphs, will become congested.'. back |
Links
| Eugene Wigner The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences 'The first point is that the enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and that there is no rational explanation for it. Second, it is just this uncanny usefulness of mathematical concepts that raises the question of the uniqueness of our physical theories.' back |
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