vol 7: Notes
2005
8 May
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[Notebook: DB 57 Language]
[Sunday 17 July 2005 - Saturday 23 July 2005]
[page 176]
Sunday 17 July 2005
Hard work (ie intellectual?) looks like noise because it is densely coded (and hence hard to decode). On the other hand, music and dance (and play in genera) are 'sparsely' coded with lots of repetition and a
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rather restricted discrete alphabet . Such is the complexity of the natural world that it appears continuous, and our attempts to manipulate it depend upon finding invariants that we can handle.
MATERIALS HANDLING / MATTER - INFORMATION PROCESSING / MEANING
Two opposing principles: 1) maximize abstract handling = minimize material handling - electrons rather than supertankers. 2) always act to maximize variety.
mass production vs hand crafting
many at low variety vs few at high variety
many cheap vs few expensive
But if everyone is to have one (eg water supply) we need to move to the many cheap end of the spectrum.
To say something mathematically is to say it with complete formal precision. To do this we need sufficient complexity in the mathematical symbolism to capture all the details of the form being described. We use the real numbers to give names to all the points on the real line and then say something like y = x*2 + 1, thus mapping every point x to a point y whose value is x*2 + 1. This method of defining functions depends on the existence of a measure which attributes equal size to each numbered point and can use a (symmetry)
[page 178]
arithmetic operation to find the name of the corresponding point.
Those who make war are deformed: Lord of the Rings Orcs; and those who made and used them. Tolkien
Sauron - poisonous magic
Analogies of good and evil.
Analogies tell the same story using different base states.
We can release ourselves from the need to kill by economic growth, but this may have its limits, and then we must control our birthrate.
Monday 18 July 2005
Information processing is a branch of materials handling. Many materials, like food, are moved for their own sake, from a source to a sink. In information processing, he material tokens are moved not for their own sake, but to represent movements in some other system, as the organs of speech arrange the air to represent states of the speaker's mind.
Tuesday 19 July 2005
Wednesday 20 July 2005
There are two extreme ways to deal with a new set of circumstances. The first is the activist, terrorist, conservative way which is to try to destroy it or ignore it. The other is the sensitive scientific
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approach of trying to understand it.
Thursday 21 July 2005
Our mental modelling may eventually reach a point where the model is sufficiently sound to be acted upon. We have looked and nor it is time to leap (or not leap). The degree of certainty that we reach depends upon the 'importance' of the action (measured in terms of fitness)) and the time constraint under which the decision to made. Longer reflection may give rise to fitter action.
Friday 22 July 2005
Saturday 23 July 2005
A religion is the black hole around which a culture is organized.
PUPPET <--> AGENT
Books
| Tolkien, J R R, The Lord of the Rings, Houghton Mifflin 2005 Amazon Book Description: 'In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell by chance into the hands of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins. From Sauron's fastness in the Dark Tower of Mordor, his power spread far and wide. Sauron gathered all the Great Rings to him, but always he searched for the One Ring that would complete his dominion. When Bilbo reached his eleventy-first birthday he disappeared, bequeathing to his young cousin Frodo the Ruling Ring and a perilous quest: to journey across Middle-earth, deep into the shadow of the Dark Lord, and destroy the Ring by casting it into the Cracks of Doom. The Lord of the Rings tells of the great quest undertaken by Frodo and the Fellowship of the Ring: Gandalf the Wizard; the hobbits Merry, Pippin, and Sam; Gimli the Dwarf; Legolas the Elf; Boromir of Gondor; and a tall, mysterious stranger called Strider. This new edition includes the fiftieth-anniversary fully corrected text setting and, for the first time, an extensive new index.' Amazon back |
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