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[Sunday 10 April 2005 - Saturday 16 April 2005]

Sunday 10 April 2005

[page 109]

Monday 11 April 2005

Getting something done requires the correct balance between know-how (knowledge) and motivation (emotion). One theory (Thomas, Socrates? etc) says motivation follows knowledge, ie will follows intellect, what is perceived as good is then desired. But what about the other way round: when we perceive something as good and then set about knowing it. Will and intellect are not effect and cause, but peers, working together to produce effective action and increased fitness, ie increased probability of projection into the next generation. We can see logic gates as the simplest and most deterministic such projectors, eliminating (annihilating) some states and creating others.

An empirical foundation of intellect and will is the quest for food, the necessary input for all forms of life = all dissipative structures.

The fact that ego-oriented power trippers can impress their ideas on a naive population and profit thereby is just another feature of the world we inhabit. The religions of the world lie within nature, not outside it. There are parts of god as we find it, but far from the whole of god. Christians are

[page 110]

so egotistical and parochial that they thing all of this was made by god to give them a good time and that some misdemeanour by an ancient fruit lover deranged the whole universe adding the drama of incarnation, redemption and apocalypse to the original fantasy of personal creation.

Powder Burn page 76: 'barbaric subculture' a( get even, b)never go to the cops. Hiaasen and Montalbano

Human dynamic range: '... was he simply the product of a society so well ordered that fear had become as anachronistic as small-pox?'

Other things being equal, the scared (motivated) ones rise to the top and their fears (particularly of other people) lead them to use their power to control (suppress) the energy of others (variety reduction) as a means to enhance their control and so to guarantee their position of safety at the top of the heap. This depends on constitutional arrangements, but the law of non-decreasing entropy eventually guarantees that they will lose their apparent security and live just as dangerously as everyone else. Such a thermodynamic argument suggests that if one person is to live in peace all must live in peace.

Do molecules constrain atoms? They modify their outer orbitals but they can in no way 'kill' an atom as human societies do to human individuals. The big tradeoff is between

[page 111]

safety. Ruling classes try to achieve safe freedom for themselves by oppression; falsely. Information theory/network theory tells us that thee is an optimum point in the balance between state security and individual freedom.

The peace theorem

pen name Noah

Tuesday 12 April 2005

McGrath: A Scientific Theology. A scam. Not scientific theology, but dyed in the wool Evangelicism attempting to use science as an 'ancilla theologiae' a handmaiden or servant, rather than the master. Here we still prefer blind faith in ancient texts to the realities of experience. McGrath

[page 112]

We ask why is the universe quantized? And answer that it is essential for error free communication that we be able to distinguish between inherently distinct (ie quantized) symbols.

aTheology.net will (maybe) follow the design of the Summa Theologiae quite closely, treating the same questions in the same order, using the transfinite network rather than standard metaphysics as the back bone model. We begin by showing how the two models differ in their construction of god.

Model : Intro ; the key

The key idea in this model is the power of order. This power was first codified by Georg Cantor.

ECONOMICS = the management of a HOUSEHOLD
POLITICS = the management of a CITY.

(OIKOS, POLIS)

METANOMICS = the management of any entity, ie the study of the features common to any entity. Einstein helped to answer the question 'is the atom an entity?' The answer, we know, is year. There exist subspaces in the universe that have a certain independence and certain properties, in other words they move as a whole in the universal environment.

The universal network builder can (among other things) build houses, households and cities. The creative force comes in two classes, dissipative and conservative.

[page 113]

We learn to understand it by studying the relationship between this duality. Our tool is the transfinite network which defines the causal structure of the universe through communication and the concurrent implementation of the principle of requisite variety. REAL vs COMPLEX numbers.

Our formal theology is developed in the chapter MODEL;. In the theology chapter we make a mapping between classical theology and the transfinite network.

PHYSICS: applying the transfinite network in physics can be done by mapping quantum mechanics to the transfinite network and then applying the result to quantum field theory.

A conservative network with motion must be destructive. In some way destruction = creation. We may envisage other regimes where destruction is greater than or less than creation.

The epistemological revolution which swept through science beginning with the rediscovery of Aristotle passed theology by. If anything it became more reactionary as the reformation replaced many of the lively doctrinal explorations by the Likes of Thomas Aquinas with an evangelical fundamentalism that has come to dominate the Christian areas of the world in this century. The Church, like Confucianism in China, was too strong to change. Even those who tampered with ideas almost completely irrelevant to the core of Christian belief, like Galileo, were harassed. More confrontational heretics faced torture and death, perhaps by burning.

[page 114]

The evangelical position vis-a-vis science is well articulated in McGrath's scientific theology. Any reader seeking to see scientific method applied to theology will be disappointed with this book, which merely concerns itself with science's ability to bolster the evangelical position (which is held to be absolutely true,. thus distinguishing it from science, which is open to continual revision). The core Christian institution, the Roman Catholic Church, claims that certain of its doctrinal propositions are infallibly true, whatever that may mean.

This positions a result of 'text-worship' whose first recorded high-priest is Parmenides of Elea (fl. c. 480 bc)

Here we distinguish scientific theology from textual theology by the fact that it is open to revision., that is a dynamic rather than a static entity. Scientific theology moves to wrap itself more and more closely around the intricacies of the universal space we inhabit.

The deconstructionist hypothesis, at its broadest, is that we can give any meaning we like to a text. it just depends on how we decode it. Now we may suppose each of the academic disciplines to be an operator which decodes texts. The natural science decode the texts of the book of nature, which present their instruments with series of states which evoke a certain response (reading) from the instrument.

So the Bible maybe observed with a battery

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of different implements to give stylistic, theological, religious, literary, political and all sorts of other interpretations of the record contained between its covers,

A fundamental question (for priest, hippie and yuppie in me) is how hard should I work. Or more particularly, how hard should I work now? In practical terms, this question answers itself. I work as hard as I work. But 'should' raises a deeper question. Of all possible strategies to increase my togetherness (integration with self and world) is the current one optimal, ie does it produce the most togetherness for the least effort so leaving a lot of headroom (space of increasable effort) and consequent security,

In the wilderness we are adapted to do everything necessary to survive. Civilization renders some of the more extreme tactics of survival involving starvation, killing and other undesirable features less probable, so that very few of us have to be warriors or farmers anymore.

The Cantor universe looked fantastic and dangerous to many mathematicians,m but was soon put to use in quantum mechanics, as Hilbert and von Neumann revealed. The Cantor universe has been renamed function space. Hilbert, von Neumann

Model: transfinite network to quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics is the universal communication protocol. Having seen the protocol, we can go on to apply it in physics, biology and so on up to theology. This nested series of theoretical frameworks then becomes the foundation for practical technology and policy, all beginning with quantum field theory.

Wednesday 13 April 2005

Thursday 14 April 2005

Friday 15 April 2005

Saturday 16 April 2005

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