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[Notebook: Transfinite field theory DB 56]
[Sunday 11 July 2004 - Saturday 17 July 2004]
Sunday 11 July 2004
Monday 12 July 2004
Tuesday 13 July 2004
[page 134]
Wednesday 14 July 2004
Darwin's Fishes: Daniel Pauly Pauly
Pauly: 'One cannot but wonder whether the reason why wrasses work together so nicely with the females on their domestic arrangements is because as protogynous hermaphrodites they can draw on insights from their previous life as females. Nature 430:18 1 July 204.
Thursday 15 July 2004
Friday 16 July 2004
Saturday 17 July 2004
Dawkins: Mount Improbable. Dawkins
Dawkins' distinction between design and 'the blind watchmaker' is basically false, since all design consists of blind steps, selection
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and retrial. In our minds the steps may occur at frequent intervals in the same individual, resulting in the development of a design by trial and error, as we see in the history of technology. In natural selection, each cycle of the design process is a generation, so the process takes much longer and involves many individuals, but it fundamentally the same - try, succeed or fail, repeat. In the first case the design appears quickly; in the second slowly, on one or more individuals. In the network model, these 'scale bound' features are of lesser account that the invariant process of adaptation that goes on at all levels.
Episodes (events) of closeness but not intimacy. We can classify relationships by peer level and bandwidth.
intimate = reproductive peer level = aleph(0) cardinal
closeness = bandwidth of communication = omega(0) ordinal
The conformity of models and reality is to be judged aesthetically as well as logically. What we like to see (I think) is that symmetries (invariants) of the model are reflected in symmetries of reality, and vice versa. At the simplest level, such symmetry is scalar, like the charge of the electron. This charge is common to all electrons (and many other particles) and once we have plugged it into our model it an stay thee unchanged forever., except perhaps from increased precision in measurements and calculation.
So what are the symmetries of the transfinite network, and how do they map onto observations.? This is the question.
a) model has quantum/continuous distinction based not on a metric but on whether or not quantum events are bound into some larger event which makes the quantum events into a continuum in the same way as the sequence of states of a Turing machine are a continuum, ie deterministically bound together, acting as one.
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b) model is big. as the universe is big. In fact both are ordered sets with a minimum but no maximum element, as we would expect for a divine system.
c) it is easy to see the world of experience as a dense, layered communication network with things opening and closing links to one another all the time and in a partially ordered, partially random way. Underlying all this is, in a network as in reality is the 'packet switching' structure of both, and a small set of universal protocols that allows communications of various sorts between the various nodes of the network.
node-edge (point, line) duality. Fourier particle/wave.
d) see lecture ? of The Theory of Peace.
e) model is isomorphic to the mathematical structure of Quantum Field Theory (?)
Russell: History of Western Philosophy. Russell
Socrates (as portrayed by Plato) 'As a man we may believe him admitted to the communion of saints; but as a philosopher he needs a long residence in scientific purgatory.'
Political dynamics: the creation and annihilation of political groupings all sharing a fixed modicum of power, but will different shares according to their size and political skill.
Books
| Dawkins, Richard, Climbing Mount Improbable, W. W. Norton & Company 1997 Amazon editorial review: 'How do species evolve? Richard Dawkins, one of the world's most eminent zoologists, likens the process to scaling a huge, Himalaya-size peak, the Mount Improbable of his title. An alpinist does not leap from sea level to the summit; neither does a species utterly change forms overnight, but instead follows a course of "slow, cumulative, one-step-at-a-time, non-random survival of random variants"--a course that Charles Darwin, Dawkins's great hero, called natural selection. Illustrating his arguments with case studies from the natural world, such as the evolution of the eye and the lung, and the coevolution of certain kinds of figs and wasps, Dawkins provides a vigorous, entertaining defense of key Darwinian ideas.' Amazon back |
| Pauly, Daniel, and Darwin's Fishes: An Encyclopaedia of Ichthyology, Ecology and Evolution, Darwin's Fishes: An Encyclopaedia of Ichthyology, Ecology and Evolution, Cambridge University Press 2004 Amazon Book Description: 'Presenting everything Charles Darwin ever wrote about fishes and many more topics, the entries in this encyclopedia are arranged alphabetically and extracted from Darwin's books, short publications, notebooks and correspondence. Readers can start wherever they like and are then led by a series of cross-references directly or indirectly to Darwin's original writings. The material is interpreted in the context of Darwin's time as well as of contemporary biology.' Amazon back |
| Russell, Bertrand, A History of Western Philosoph, and its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances from Earliest Times to the Present Day, Simon & Schuster 1945 Amazon ditorial reviews: Ray Monk: 'A History of Western Philosophy remains unchallenged as the perfect introduction to its subject. Russell...writes with the kind of verve, freshness and personal engagement that lesser spirits would never have permitted themselves. This boldness, together with the astonishing breadth of his general historical knowledge, allows him to put philosophers into their social and cultural context... The result is exactly the kind of philosophy that most people would like to read, but which only Russell could possibly have written.' Amazon back |
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