vol 7: Notes
2005
Sunday 4 December
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[Notebook: DB 58 Bringing god home]
[Sunday 4 December 2005 - Saturday 10 December 2005]
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Sunday 4 December 2005
'Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has so little experience. But a grown up person knows the word because they've seen it often before.' Agatha, Vicarage, p 65. Christie
The epistomological works of Agatha Christie
Since the world started with very little structure, the 'initial singularity' we would expect the fundamental explanation of it to be very simple. The universe we see is a point in a space with sufficient entropy to describe every detail of the universe.
Use Goedel's technique, to give every particle or string of particles in the universe a transfinite number.
What is the entropy of a space with no constraint? We begin with the Cantor universe.
Monday 5 December 2005
Government for the people vs government against the people.
MOTIVATION carrot vs stick, for vs against
The Stalin model is to govern against the people, using what you take from them to build the strength to take more. de Jonge
Since the days of Newton and Galileo, the terms 'theology' and theological' have gradually accumulated the connotation of 'unscientific' and people have been at pains to distinguish theology from science, as they have been to divorce religion and politics.
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Tuesday 6 December 2005
'That god is not observable' is a model dependent assertion, since we can verify nothing about things which we cannot observe.
In network terms, a religion is a protocol or set of protocols which binds a group of people into an effective whole. By effective we mean that the members of the religion are fitter (in the Darwinian sense) than if they were not members. We see competition between religious groups, and we have seen, in the last two millennia, the Roman Catholic Church and its offspring replace thousands of local religions with something approximating a global religion, the communications protocols of the one, holy, catholic and apostolic church of Rome whose head office is the Vatican state.
In short let us define a community of people as a group sharing common protocols to maintain a peaceful and secure environment in which people may prosper. In communication terms, peace and security are increased by decreasing the probability of errors in the network. This problem shows up most acutely in contact situations where people from different religions meet. The question arise as to whether this meeting will lead to competition or cooperation or a mixture of both.
Now there is no reason why one person may not use different protocols when communicating with different people. Care is always necessary when moving into new territory, but one can remain at peace in many worlds if one fits into these worlds. A corollary of this observation is that human freedom demands that
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no religion may require its adherents to reject the protocols of another religion. Since religions are organizations competing for the resources for survival, there is naturally conflict between them, which requires members of a religion to 'stand up for their side'. This requirement for conflict may be avoided by demonstrating that cooperation effectively increases the fitness of all members of both religions.
Theology and religion are an instance of the general relationship between theory and action. The network theology developed above may be applied to the problem of creating wealth by cooperation and avoiding the destruction of wealth by conflict. Wealth and fitness seem to be closely correlated, although we notice (sued contra), that poorer people tend to have more children, perhaps because they have fewer options in life. Many reject the difficulties and responsibilities of reproduction and instead use their wealth to pursue some other less biological good.
What does network theory have to say about the creation of fitness? It shows us how to establish the sine qua non of a stable network, the ability to detect and correct errors efficiently enough to make the network useful and so valuable.
We take our arguments from quantum mechanics using the notion of invariance with respect to complexity, ie recursion.
The key to error correction (and this is the theoretical foundation for any global manifold of religions is Shannon's theorems.
Communication is error free (in the formal sense) when the symbol received by the receiver is invariably the same as the symbol sent by the transmitter, so an a is an a and so on. A noisy communication is one that is capable of changing the identity of a symbol en route through it so that, for instance, an a is received as
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z.
Shannon's first idea is that confusion and effort are a result of the symbols being too close together so that the are easily transformed or mistake. His second idea is that we can make symbols further apart from one another by encoding strings of symbols from the source in a special way. His third idea was to measure information using [the probabilistic idea of entropy.]
As you probably know my ambition is to create an uber-religion that shows that all religions are in fact instances of a certain function, so enabling them all to live together in peace.
Always trying to reach a little further, to capture the pith of the matter.
The quantum mechanical route to peace was first seen by Feynman, who drew attention to a feature of quantum mechanical formalism which clearly distinguishes it from classical mechanics. [ie that there is a lot of processing (communication, correlation, entanglement) going on that we cannot see] Milburn
Fitness: ability to manipulate probability currents so that events favour one's survival and reproduction.
ACTUS PURUS = aleph(0) x h bar (Planck's constant)
Ancient theory is that pure act excludes all possibility. We see that pure act is attended by a Cantor Universe of possibilities.
Wednesday 7 December 2005
Thursday 8 December 2005
Friday 9 December 2005
The quantum world lies 'behind' the classical world and explains it. Can we say that all classical
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communications are examples of quantum teleportation?
Many of the people who have left us any record seem to have imagined a hidden force manipulating the visible world. We might see this as a natural 'anthropomorphic' view arising from our own awareness of the motivation and design of our conscious acts. This invisible force sometimes conceived as a person is commonly called god and described as divine, the subject of theology.
Quantum mechanics brought theology into the heart of physics. So strange were the observed phenomena that many of the founding fathers, like Heisenberg, specifically excluded attempts to understand what was going on. We can be satisfied with the fact that our mathematical models work.
Quantum mechanics describes the world in terms of states and transformations between states. The mathematical home of quantum mechanics is Hilbert space. In this space stats are represented as vectors [or functions] that is ordered sets of symbols, and transformations between states are performed by operators represented as matrices, ie two dimensional arrays of symbols.
Definition of Hilbert space
State Vector
Operator
Interpretation - Born
Network - Shannon, Turing, Goedel etc.
The wave functions evolve through a 'virtual' process which controls the outcomes and their probabilities, given various initial conditions.
One cannot design effectively unless one can predict the
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behaviour of the structure so designed so as to optimize it and maximize the cost/benefit of implementing the design.
The connections between the atomic events of the universe are mediated by the transfinite network working beneath the surface, just as a puppeteer gives meaning to the atomic gestures of the puppets by selecting and ordering them into an ordered set, the puppet show.
The gulf between evolutionists and creationists is a result of the gulf between modern cosmology a (the study of kosmos, ie ordering the universe) and ancient theology.
Saturday 10 December 2005
Carlyle Sartor Resorts: universe 'one huge dead immeasurable steam engine.' Keynes Annie's Box p 21. Keynes
Books
| Milburn, Gerard J, The Feynman Processor : Quantum Entanglement and the Computing Revolution , Perseus Jacket: 'Starting with a clear and concise description of the basic principles of quantum physics, Milburn goes on to introduce some of its most amazing, newly discovered (sic) phenomena, including quantum entanglement, the strangest property of what is already the strangest field of science. Quantum entanglement - which Einstein called "spooky action at a distance" - underlies the interdimensional connections that join seemingly unrelated events and objects. He shows how conventional computers cannot go on getting smaller and faster forever and how the unpredictability of matter at this level has enabled scientists to rethink the way that we could design, build and use the new "quantum computers". Finally Milburn takes us into the near future, when physicists and computer scientists will build new and incredible devices that will deliver a world of lightning-fast computers, unbreakable codes, and even the beginning of Star-trek like matter teleportation.' Amazon back |
| Christie, Agatha, Murder at the Vicarage, Dodd Mead 1986 Amnazon customer review: 'Murder at the Vicarage, first published in 1930, is the book that first introduced the world to Miss Jane Marple and the cozy English village of St. Mary Mead. Every mystery fan in the world is or should be familiar with Christie's classic character of Miss Marple. This book presents her at her best and is required reading for any mystery fan. The writing is sharp, the plotting crisp and clever, there are many red herrings and the solution is very satisfying. This is Christie at her very best. Highly recommended.' Lisa Bahrami Amazon back |
| 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 |
| Keynes, Randal, Annie's Box: Charles Darwin, his Daughter and Human Evolution, Riverhead Hardcover 2002 Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly 'In this intimate portrait of the great naturalist as devoted family man, Keynes describes how Charles Darwin's "life and his science were all of a piece." The great-great-grandson of the scientist, Keynes uses published documents as well as family papers and artifacts to show how Darwin's thinking on evolution was influenced by his deep attachment to his wife and children. In particular, his anguish over his 10-year-old daughter Annie's death sharpened his conviction that the operation of natural laws had nothing to do with divine intervention or morality. Keynes, also a descendant of economist John Maynard Keynes, shows that much of Darwin's intellectual struggle in writing On the Origin of Species and The Descent of Man arose from his efforts to understand the role of suffering and death in the natural order of the world. Early in his career, Darwin saw the indifference of natural law as an answer to the era's religious doubts about how a benevolent god could permit human misery; cruelty and pain, he argued, should not be seen as moral issues, but as inevitable outcomes of nature. After Annie's death, however, Darwin's views darkened, and in a private letter he railed against the "clumsy, wasteful, blundering low and horridly cruel works of nature!" Though Keynes doesn't break new ground about Darwin's life and work, he produces a moving tribute to a thinker who, despite intimate acquaintance with the pain inflicted by the "war of nature," could still marvel that, from this ruthless struggle, "endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved." ... ' Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc. Amazon back |
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