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[Notebook: Transfinite field theory DB 56]
[Sunday 15 August 2004 - Saturday 21 August 2004]
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Sunday 15 August 2004
Economist essay
Present day economics and politics suffer from the lack of an overall consistent model of themselves and the environment in which they operate (which, as we shall see, amount to the same thing). Before we can give a tentative answer to the question proposed, we must agree on (or at least suspend disbelief in) a candidate for such a model.
We begin with the hardest and most hugely verified of the hard sciences, quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics provides a mathematical model of the deepest and most secret workings of the universe. People will tell you that quantum mechanics deals with small things, and this is true, but it is truer to say that is a bridge from the quantum to the continuous world, and that the actual scale of the bridge is irrelevant.
Pillage vs production.
Behind every great fortune lies a great crime vs
Behind every great fortune lies a great service.
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To be effective in society, justice must be computable. The formally important feature of quantum mechanics is not the actual size of the quantum of action, but the relationship it postulates between the quantum and continuous elements of our universe.
One's income (and expenses) are inclined to correlate with the environment (social, physical) in which one moves.
In every dimension there is an optimum between expense and saving; work and leisure; force and cunning, etc etc. As Aristotle and Thomas would have it, virtus stat in medio. The medium is between two orthogonal extremes like black and white or yes and no. While the digital world must be yes or no, the continuous world is a spectrum, a continuum from yes to know. This seems to be a contradiction. How do we imagine it?
Explosion, revolution, insight etc: a sudden release of energy, ie higher frequency motion; a sudden increase in Hamiltonian.
Collect data and models until one can make 'no regrets' decisions. A process is an ordered sequence of 'sine qua non's (unless xn happens the process will die. If the embryo has no food it will not mature, etc.
A cryptic person: you're pretty lively but you spend a lot of time laying low.
We say time is of the essence but what is really of the essence at any moment is the right next move to keep the process on its trajectory to the desired goal. Desire is created by models. The blind watchmaker, by making
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models of potential watches and selecting between them is no longer blind.
CONSCIOUSNESS = {HISTORY, PREDICTION}
The fundamental step in navigation is to be conscious of where you are, a consciousness that requires some sort of coordinate system. Since each lace is a distinct point in the global memory, general covariance says that us does not matter how we name the points as long as we name the relationship between them in a way that mirrors reality.
Monday 16 August 2004
Tuesday 17 August 2004
Wednesday 18 August 2004
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Friday 20 August 2004
Saturday 21 August 2004
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