vol 7: Notes
2005
Sunday 13 November
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[Notebook: DB 58 Bringing god home]
[Sunday 13 November 2005 - Saturday 19 November 2005]
Sunday 13 November 2005
Monday 14 November 2005
Tuesday 15 November 2005
[page 16]
Wednesday 16 November 2005
Letter to the editor, Nature.
Sir, although it seems to generate plenty of political heat, the intelligent design/evolution debate seems to be a storm in a teacup [resulting from a misunderstanding of the environment in which we live]. The critical observation (garnered in my case from sixty years as a would be intelligent designer) is that intelligent design proceeds by trial and error and so is in practice intelligent design in indistinguishable from evolution. [sic] This personal observation may be confirmed by observing the history of any technology one cares to choose. I am aware am aware of no technology that has come into existence in its final form from the minds and manufacturing enterprises of its designers. Motor cars, for instance, began as powered horse drawn carriages and have evolved year by year into the sleek and powerful vehicles we now enjoy. Any environmentally conscious driver is also aware that they have a long way to go before we meet all the current criteria for a satisfactorily safe and economical form of transport.
Some might argue that an omnipotent and omniscient God could, nevertheless create the perfect vehicle in one step. Theory, in the form of Goedel's incompleteness theorem would seem to rule this out. This theorem seems to say that no symbolic system can fully constrain itself, and there seems
[page 17]
to be no reason to believe that things could be otherwise in the mind of s self-consistent god. In other words, the possibilities of any given set of initial conditions can never be fully constrained by those conditions [they are in a Turing machine, but we propose that the universe is bigger than this] God itself is thus constrained by the requirement of elf-consistency to proceed by trial and error, that is, to evolve.
Formal truth is true for all time, that is eternal or symmetrical with respect to time. The dynamical dual of this truth is that entropy is fixed for all time, and what we are seeing is conversion of entropy from temporally encoded to spatially (formally) encoded. All the elements of a space (eg a packet) coexist eternally, that is without time ordering.
FORMALIZATION = ELIMINATION OF TIME
REALIZATION = IMPLEMENTATION OF TIME = TEMPORAL ORDER = SERIAL.
We might divide communications (by meaning, not formal representation) into requests for information (open sentences, a complex space) and supplies of information, that is questions and answers, problems and solutions. The question and answer process brings the communicants into correlation in different ways, choosing to abide by common fixed points in the space of possibility (eg no killing as part of trade negotiations)
Thursday 17 November 2005
Friday 18 November 2005
Saturday 19 November 2005
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