vol 7: Notes
2005
Sunday 16 January
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[Notebook: DB 57 Language]
[Sunday 16 January 2005 - Saturday 22 January 2005]
[page 45]
Sunday 16 January 2005
Monday 17 January 2005
[page 68]
Tuesday 18 January 2005
Disease: We are motivated by both carrots and sticks, benefits of acting, costs of not acting. This site is motivated by the religious disease manifest in our world and the dream of the heavenly absence of diseases of all sorts.
We take disease widely, dis-ease (in Greek 'nosos') of any sort, including physical things like malaria, the consequences of AIDS, cyclones, earthquakes, bushfires, floods, tidal waves, wars and all other events which destroy the peaceful enjoyment of life.
Prophets begin by reacting to an evil (error) and by studying it arrive at a vision of an error free
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heaven, the vista opened to us by Shannon's information theory. Claude E Shannon Our fundamental aim is to deal with the error known as war using a general theory that can deal with all errors.
ERROR == CONFUSION - do we have two separate points or one? So we unite Shannon and Cantor to generate a theory of truth and meaning.
In quantum mechanics this is expressed as 'collapse of the wave function' or 'diagonalization of a unitary matrix'. In psychology as 'insight' or 'abstraction', grasping the essence, ie expressing a constant or invisible reality which can be expressed as text.
PHYSICS = {FIXED POINTS IN A PHYSICAL WORLD} = COUNTABLE representation of the UNCOUNTABLE
EVANS SOUND CREATOR TM [a guitar amp]
In Quantum mechanics, does really create sound by transforming electronic states into phonons that move through the air. CREATION and ANNIHILATION are ubiquitous in the universe, hence quantum field theory. Weinberg, Zee
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Wednesday 19 January 2005
Thursday 20 January 2005
Friday 21 January 2005
Saturday 22 January 2000
In the Roman Catholic model, God is completely opaque to us and we are completely transparent to God. By a very early age, I had been indoctrinated to believe not only that I was completely naked to God so that he could see my every act and thought, but also that every sensual pleasure was evil and likely to send me to Hell. When I was old enough to go to confession, my list of sins always included 'impure thoughts and impure actions. The Roman Catholic Church system is a perfect trap - most things you are inclined to do are bad and may be punished, and our God sees it all. God is the perfect secret policeman and the Roman Catholic Church the paradigm for every repressive regime that powerful people have been able to impose on the weak. The Roman Catholic Church preys on the weakest, newborn babies and parents who want to do the best for their children.
Natural religion, since it identifies god and nature (or at least says god contains nature) gives equal transparency to god and me. Everything that is communicated is visible, given that we have the eyes to see. The scientific enterprise is devoted to the construction of new eyes to see more, and new models to explain the relationships between the things we wee.
de Soto page 5: 'In this book I intent to demonstrate that the major stumbling block that keep the rest of the world from benefiting from capitalism is the inability to
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produce capital. Capital is the force that raises the productivity of labour and creates the wealth of nations' de Soto
'In Haiti, the poorest nation of Latin America, the total assets of the poor are more than one hundred and fifty times greater than all the foreign investment received since Haiti's independence from France on 1804' page 5.
page 6: 'Because the rights to these possessions are not adequately documented, these assets cannot readily be turned into capital, cannot be traded outside narrow local circles where people know and trust one another, cannot be used as collateral for a loan and cannot be used as a share against and investment.'
page 7: 'This is the mystery of capital. Solving it requires understanding of why westerners, by representing assets with titles, are able to see and draw out capital from them. One of the greatest challenges to the human mind is to comprehend and gain access to those things we know exist but cannot see,
page 7: 'But only the West has the conversion process required to transform the invisible to the visible.'
This is the process of science making the invisible visible by representing it in a symbol which is effectively bound to the invisible entity. The leading example of this process of manifestation, epiphany or prophecy is quantum theory, but it is ubiquitous: eg the law enforcement process tries to assess the invisible quality of guilt or innocence.
Further reading
Books
| de Soto, Hernando, The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism triumps in the West andf fails everywhere else, Basic Books 2000 'The hour of capitalism's greatest triump is its hour of crisis. The fall of the Berlin Wall ended more than a century of political competition between communism and capitalism. Capitalism stands alone as the only feasible way to rationally organise a modern economy. ... As a result, with varying degrees of enthusiasm, Third World and former communist nations have balanced their budgets, cut subsidies, welcomed foreign investment, and dropped their tariff barriers. Their efforts have been repaid with bitter diappointment. ... In this book I intend to demonstrate that the major stumbling block that keeps the rest of the world from benefiting from capitalism is its inability to produce capital. ... The poor ... do have things, but they lack the process to represent their property and create capital. The have houses but not titles, crops but not deeds, businesses but not statures of incorporation. It is the unavailability of these essential representations that explains why people who have adapted every other Western invention, from paper clips to nuclear reactors, have not been able to produce sufficient capital to make their domestic captialism work. pages 1-7 Amazon back |
| Weinberg, Steven, The Quantum Theory of Fields Volume I: Foundations, Cambridge University Press 1995 Jacket: 'After a brief historical outline, the book begins anew with the principles about which we are most certain, relativity and quantum mechanics, and then the properties of particles that follow from these principles. Quantum field theory then emerges from this as a natural consequence. The classic calculations of quantum electrodynamics are presented in a thoroughly modern way, showing the use of path integrals and dimensional regularization. The account of renormalization theory reflects the changes in our view of quantum field theory since the advent of effective field theories. The book's scope extends beyond quantum elelctrodynamics to elementary partricle physics and nuclear physics. It contains much original material, and is peppered with examples and insights drawn from the author's experience as a leader of elementary particle research. Problems are included at the end of each chapter. ' Amazon back |
| Zee, Anthony, Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell, Princeton University Press 2003 Amazon book description: 'An esteemed researcher and acclaimed popular author takes up the challenge of providing a clear, relatively brief, and fully up-to-date introduction to one of the most vital but notoriously difficult subjects in theoretical physics. A quantum field theory text for the twenty-first century, this book makes the essential tool of modern theoretical physics available to any student who has completed a course on quantum mechanics and is eager to go on. Quantum field theory was invented to deal simultaneously with special relativity and quantum mechanics, the two greatest discoveries of early twentieth-century physics, but it has become increasingly important to many areas of physics. These days, physicists turn to quantum field theory to describe a multitude of phenomena. Stressing critical ideas and insights, Zee uses numerous examples to lead students to a true conceptual understanding of quantum field theory--what it means and what it can do. He covers an unusually diverse range of topics, including various contemporary developments,while guiding readers through thoughtfully designed problems. In contrast to previous texts, Zee incorporates gravity from the outset and discusses the innovative use of quantum field theory in modern condensed matter theory. Without a solid understanding of quantum field theory, no student can claim to have mastered contemporary theoretical physics. Offering a remarkably accessible conceptual introduction, this text will be widely welcomed and used. Amazon back |
Links
| Claude E Shannon A Mathematical Theory of Communication 'The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point. Frequently the messages have meaning; that is they refer to or are correlated according to some system with certain physical or conceptual entities. These semantic aspects of communication are irrelevant to the engineering problem. The significant aspect is that the actual message is one selected from a set of possible messages.' back |
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