vol 7: Notes
2005
Sunday 20 November
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[Notebook: DB 58 Bringing god home]
[Sunday 20 November 2005 - Saturday 26 November 2005]
Sunday 20 November 2005
Monday 21 November 2005
Tuesday 22 November 2005
Wednesday 23 November 2005
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Thursday 24 November 2005
How does Goedel's theorem apply to the real world? The answer lies in quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics postulates a transfinitely complex invisible process whose effects appear to us as distinct quantized events that are in effect acts of communication between the observed ad the observer. Because quantum events are discrete they are countable. In fact, the whole purpose of experimental particle
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physics is to categorize and count events to see if their observed frequencies match those predicted by the relevant applications of quantum theory.
The symbols in the formalism of the observable universe are 'quantum events' and we may consider the universe as a source (In Shannon's sense) emitting a string of quantum events. Einstein has taught us to see that the order of such a series of events depends upon where you look from, and that no observer can see everything observable [because many things are outside any observer's 'light cone'].
Many writers will tell you that mystical contemplation is better than sex, but I disagree. For the better than sex points of view holds that anyone who disagree with their position is in some way a subhuman animal. I reject this categorization now, although my Catholic upbringing drilled into me that sensuality was sinful.
Let us model a region of space as a network with a certain fixed total amount of network activity, energy, which is the rate of quantum events in the 'network'. Each quantum event is an act of communication, that is the transmission (emission) and reception (absorption) of a signal. This act of communication is accompanied by a change in the (invisible) internal states of the communicating nodes.
The transfinite space of quantum mechanics is generated by the tensor product of a countable number of elementary Hilbert spaces of countable dimension.
This book is itself part of an attempt at intelligent design, but, as it shows, what little interesting structure is to be found represented in it is surrounded by all the false starts, misunderstandings and partial glimpses of structure which seem to be inevitable parts of the process of finding new
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things. The search is in principle undirected because if it was directed it would not be so much a search as a lookup.
SEARCH --> INDEX + LOOKUP (presupposes the operation of indexing = systematic comprehensive search.
Software is harder than hardware, since it can be copied perfectly forever. It does not wear.
Friday 25 November 2005
QUANTIZATION - COUNTABILITY - (ARITHMETIC, SET THEORY ...) - GOEDEL --> EVOLUTION == INTELLIGENT DESIGN.
Saturday 26 November 2005
Depressing myself by reading de Jonge, Stalin. de Jonge Life is what you make it, and the Russian people in general seemed to have preferred it nasty, brutish and short.
Von Neumann used Hilbert's function theory to bridge the gap between the discrete and continuous versions of quantum mechanic. The key to this bridge is integration. Se theory shows us how to integrate transfinite numbers by the 'trick' of normalization. Another keystone in this bridge is the theory of probability in the finite and transfinite domains. To move from discrete to continuous we substitute integration for addition.
CAPITAL INVESTMENT: The input of effort necessary to change a random search situation into an ordered look-up table, thereby speeding up exponentially the search for the next appropriate action given the current situation.
Books
| de Jonge, Alex, Stalin: and the Shaping of the Soviet Union, William Morrow & Co 1986 Editorial review: From Library Journal: 'De Jonge has written a provocative biography of this major figure of Soviet history. He has drawn heavily upon emigre accounts and diplomatic reports; all the same his study is not free of superficialities. He sharply criticizes Stalin's rivals and his World War II allies, and he hides nothing of Stalin's savagery. Yet de Jonge's conclusions, sure to be challenged, are also clear: Russia could never have become a superpower without coercion (the national work ethic being what it is), and, in exercising that coercion, Stalin enjoyed support from every level of Soviet society. This biography will not replace Adam Ulam's Stalin: the man and his era (1973), but it is a useful, clear-eyed introduction for the general reader.' R.H. Johnston, History Dept., McMaster Univ., Hamilton, Ontario Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. Amazon back |
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