vol 7: Notes
2005
8 May
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[Notebook: DB 57 Language]
[Sunday 28 August 2005 - Saturday 3 September 2005]
Sunday 28 August 2005
[page 194]
Monday 29 August 2005
left vs RIGHT <--> ENERGY vs ENTROPY
Back to 'free energy'
Banks increase energy by accumulation, enables by the 'Bose' nature of money.
Increased entropy at constant energy means that the energy must be more finely divided between the symbols representing the entropy. Christopher Mosely
[Notebook: DB 58 Bringing god home]
[page 2]
A long (though mild) winter of hard thinking continues to convince me that natural religion is an answer to many prayers.
Tuesday 30 August 2005
Developing a little sideline in pure and applied religion.
The military is a dimension of the power of a human organism, that is a network whose nodes are human beings. Its existence depends on acceptance of the fact that some will die to protect and enhance the interests of others. 1776 McCullough McCullough
'behave like Englishmen' page 72.
The worst fright of my life was that I would be made a soldier. This experience may have been instrumental in my choice of life in the clergy, who were exempt from the conscription process.
McCullough p 112: Thomas Paine: 'Everything that is right or reasonable pleads for separation.' FERMION
The aim is to express the principle of least (extremal) action in human moral terms, that is as an algorithm which tends (asymptotically) to peace. The question is is this true? Can the required expression be written.
Rather like the 'Declaration of Independence" here we have a 'Declaration of Human Dependence', the things we have to recognize and conform to if we are to survive (ie do not fall excessive distances, ie avoid impacts over a certain stress/energy).
Wednesday 31 August 2005
Thursday 1 September 2005
Friday 2 September 2005
SKILL + SELF ESTEEM (ie integration into a network of shared skills).
[page 3]
Saturday 3 September 2005
We model all action as communication.
Further reading
Books
| McCullough, David, 1776, Simon & Schuster 2005 Amazon Editorial Review: 'Esteemed historian David McCullough covers the military side of the momentous year of 1776 with characteristic insight and a gripping narrative, adding new scholarship and a fresh perspective to the beginning of the American Revolution. It was a turbulent and confusing time. As British and American politicians struggled to reach a compromise, events on the ground escalated until war was inevitable. McCullough writes vividly about the dismal conditions that troops on both sides had to endure, including an unusually harsh winter, and the role that luck and the whims of the weather played in helping the colonial forces hold off the world's greatest army. He also effectively explores the importance of motivation and troop morale--a tie was as good as a win to the Americans, while anything short of overwhelming victory was disheartening to the British, who expected a swift end to the war. The redcoat retreat from Boston, for example, was particularly humiliating for the British, while the minor American victory at Trenton was magnified despite its limited strategic importance. Some of the strongest passages in 1776 are the revealing and well-rounded portraits of the Georges on both sides of the Atlantic. King George III, so often portrayed as a bumbling, arrogant fool, is given a more thoughtful treatment by McCullough, who shows that the king considered the colonists to be petulant subjects without legitimate grievances--an attitude that led him to underestimate the will and capabilities of the Americans. At times he seems shocked that war was even necessary. The great Washington lives up to his considerable reputation in these pages, and McCullough relies on private correspondence to balance the man and the myth, revealing how deeply concerned Washington was about the Americans' chances for victory, despite his public optimism. Perhaps more than any other man, he realized how fortunate they were to merely survive the year, and he willingly lays the responsibility for their good fortune in the hands of God rather than his own. Enthralling and superbly written, 1776 is the work of a master historian.' --Shawn Carkonen Amazon back |
Links
| Eugene Wigner The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences 'The first point is that the enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and that there is no rational explanation for it. Second, it is just this uncanny usefulness of mathematical concepts that raises the question of the uniqueness of our physical theories.' back |
| Christopher Mosely Bose Statistics 'In 1924 the Indian physicist Satyendra Bose derived the quantum statistics of photons by assuming them as indistinguishable particles. Albert Einstein was fascinated by this idea and applied it to atoms. The fundamental difference is, that for atoms the particle number is conserved (if they are trapped in a box or a magnetic field) whereas photons can randomly be emitted and absorbed (e.g. from the walls of a box). Particles behaving in accordance to Bose's statistics are today called bosons (in contrast to fermions, which are described by "Fermi-Dirac statistics").' back |
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