vol VII: Notes
2019
Notes
Sunday 24 March 2019 - Saturday 30 March 2019
[Notebook: DB 83: Physical Theology]
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Sunday 24 March 2019
Hunting in my mind I sit and wait, reading other things, sometimes going over what I know, sometimes reading through these notes, waiting for another idea to pop out of the jungle, another connection that will throw a bit of light on my dreams. This can get very boring, but like hunting, one has to keep still and wait for the prey. Running around might just scare it away. Fortunately there are many other activities possible while waiting for inspiration (which on my hypothesis is literally god working through my mind).
All the movies we watch and the music we listen to are digital, but the quanta of action (bits) are so small and so many that they all look continuous.
Nevertheless the thing about a perfect continuum is that it carries no information since there is no modulation, from an audio point of view it is an unmodulated tone. The epsilon-delta proofs of continuity are circular insofar as they rely on the fact that there is no information in a continuum so that the epsilon-delta algorithm continues unmodified as the epsilons and deltas approach zero. (ε, δ)-definition of limit - Wikipedia
Differential equations are symmetries and from the point of view of algorithmic information theory they contain no more information than the symbolic expression needed to write them. The fact that they have a spectrum of solutions only becomes apparent when the symmetry is broken, it the continuum is in some way modified. In the case of quantum mechanics the modulation arises by the interaction of the Hilbert spaces of the interacting particles. Algorithmic information theory - Wikipedia
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The solution to a criminal case is the identity of the criminal, but in the beginning when there is no evidence except the fact of the case, the case is in effect an unbroken symmetry.
There can be no information without a space and a point and the information associated with the point is equal to the entropy of the space, so the absolutely simple God, like the initial singularity, is a pointless space. Then by some sort of mapping points appear, stationary points, whose information value is equal to the complexity of the mapping that generates them, so the data involved by f(x) = x is equal to the cardinal of the set x
Music is digitized on many level, all the frequencies that can be extracted by fourier analysis ranging from the actual notes to the rate of repetition of notes to rate of repetition of phrases of notes etc etc [analogous to quantum mechanics where eigenvalues identify actual note and Born rule identifies the frequency of individual notes]. Eigenvalues and eigenvectors - Wikipedia, Born rule - Wikipedia
Symmetries are broken by intersection as crossed lines define a point and two particles interacting define an event with a certain output or two animals or plants mating to define a new creature.
We know nothing about the dynamics until we observe the kinematics and then we have to guess the dynamics.
Our brains are wired by natural selection. First neurons connects in a very rich and comprehensive network, followed by a pruning
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phase that removes redundant connections. We see the same process going on in our personal networks. When we set forth into the world we tend to connect to large numbers of people who are gradually whittled down to a smaller number of close friends and perhaps just one intimate partner. Synaptic pruning - Wikipedia
The power of network to move toward truth is shown by the enormous amount of error revealed on the internet, motivating the forces of negative feedback to eliminate it.
Further selection by inhibition or excitement.
Monday 25 March
Networks comprising communication links are the mechanism for establishing causal connections, which may be observed as correlations.
Tuesday 26 March 2019
I have been crashing ahead wth my plan to logically and scientifically disenfranchise the Roman Catholic Church aware of the pain that it has caused and to a large extent ignoring the consequences of my project, failing to stop to smell the divine flowers and apply my new vision to practical decision about life, but now, slowing down and thinking through moral issues in more detail, I feel that my theoretical skeleton is growing a sweet body at last.
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Science drove the gods out of heaven and Newton brought the quintessence down to Earth. Now I want to make the heavens themselves divine which includes all parts of the world which still enables local examples of crime and deception as we see among the ancient gods of all cultures and modern groups and individuals inhabiting the modern world. Aether (classical element) - Wikipedia
The Lorentz transformation governs what we see and that we cannot see anything going faster than the velocity of light, so that the velocity of light is in effect a [built in] property of the transformation. Is this also true of the other fundamental constants? [the transformation algorithm is indifferent to the actual value of c so that it also applies to communication effected by "snail mail"]. Lorentz transformation - Wikipedia
Galilean transformation embodies simple arithmetic. Lorentz transformation embodies space-time and momentum-energy. Galilean transformation - Wikipedia
We begin the thesis with the connection of the omnino simplex god with the initial singularity, and then work to the mind of god. The first chapter elaborates on the general theory [of relativity] the methodology of simplicity going into some detail about the radical founding of simplicity in the universe and the smallness of its fundamental particles and events as measured by the quantum of action.
The second section is in effect a mathematical treatement of the explosion in complexity that has brought us to this point and emphasizes the enormous complexity of the universe simply as a physical fact, we might say a kinematic image.
The third section, by developing the network communication
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model emphasizes the dynamics of the universe of mind. We begin with quantum mechanics viewed as a digital communication, arguing on the way in parallel to Shannon's paper on communication in the presence of noise that the superposition of wave functions leads naturally to digitization snd that the observable and virtual particles are the messages in the universal network. Virtual particles are explained by the invisibility theorem, since communication is computation, and the world is a computer.
Beethoven's ninth: a structure of phonons created by large variety of vibrating mechanism constrained in various way to give specific frequencies and amplitudes that sound to us like a symphony, a mysteriously moving power [whose formal content may be captured in a musical score, a fixed symmetry which is broken by the interpretation of the musicians in each performance]. Ludwig van Beethoven: The Berlin Celibration Concert
Wednesday 27 March 2019
Thursday 28 March 2019
Dad 100 today.
We understand things by knowing their mechanics, which requires that we resolve the details of the mechanism. Some things, like large machines, can be understood on the metre scale but in general to understand the working of the world we have [work our way down from gross anatomy] to look at the scale of a nanometre or less in distance and nanoseconds in time although our current level of space-time resolution is in the range of 10-18 m and 10-18 seconds.
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God and the cosmos are very passionate, beginning with the big bang and going on to supernovas, black holes, war, sex, opera, football and other passionate activities all in their own context, all events motivated by potential.
A quantum mechanical description of music in a Hilbert space of countable dimension, the wavefunction being driven by a score, eg J. S. Bach BWV 29. Musical scores are digital, attributing frequencies and timing to individual notes which are blended into a continuum by the technique and time constants of the performers. J S Bach: Cantata: '(Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir)' BWV 29
What we want to do is organize the transfinite universe so that with all the natural numbers replaced by Turing machines, it can act as the network processing system for the whole universe. The first try is to produce strings of processes corresponding to permutations of the natural numbers and select out of these some software that is self bootstrapping, to act as the 'alphabet' for the next layer of the universal network and so on. What we are trying to model is the construction of the current universe from the number and variety of fundamental particles that are available at every point in spacetime.
How does this idea compare to the structure of a big software system like a climate model or the software of s national government, which is coupled to a database of all the citizens? In the universe, the database carries all the fundamental particles [which are frequently annihilated and created].
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The database of the universe is distributed throughout space and time, every particle either on its own geodesic or on the geodesic of itself and its bondmate, eg I am bonded to the geodesic of the Earth which is bonded onto the Solar system, etc.
Friday 29 March 2019
From the doctrine of the Trinity via fixed point theory to the dynamic unity / fixed point diversity of God. Issues to deal with – time versus eternity, space versus spirituality, knowledge versus simplicity, omnipresence versus omnipotence, evolution versus benevolence.
Destroyer: a detective tale told in dribs and drabs, building up to a logical connection between the initial and final scenes. Destroyer (2018 film) - Wikipedia
Saturday 30 March 2019
Slaughterhouse-five Vonnegut
As a consequence of the mathematical theory of communication we can establish as a principle that all true communication must be digital. At a minimum the distance between digits must be one quantum of action, the distance between p and not-p, something that was clear to me in the 60s when I first began to think about the binary representation of information through the twenty (or n) questions algorithm, which is in effect an analogue to digital converter, half of an analogue ↔ digital codec.
In everyday computing machinery the software runs on a carefully designed hardware system which tacitly serves as a lower layer of the overall system and serves to bind all the software together, rather as
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the paper I am writing on is serving as hardware to bind all my writing together. In a way there is no hardware and software distinction in the universe as all the 'software' is built into the hardware, as for instance the functioning of haemoglobin is built into the actual structure of the protein [and the software aspect of this writing is built into the shape of the ink, since information is a physical entity]. Nevertheless we can think of an individual protein molecule as a network of atoms held together by their communications with one another rather like the structure of s machine like a car engine where all the 'software' functions are to some extent built into the metal, although now engines are equipped with a range of sensors and actuators that feed to and receive data from a computer rather as my central nervous system operates me.
A deterministic God like the traditional God is limited by computability and completeness, assuming that it is capable of solving both polynomial and exponential problems. Is a network more powerful than a Turing machine?
Nothing can stop time – everything has constant 4-velocity, a unit timelike 4-vector, length -1, u.u = -1. Four-vector - Wikipedia
The complexity of humanity is the sum of the complexities of all the layers that underlie it. How do we properly measure the entropy of the human space?: the sum of bacteria, worms, mice, monkey all the way up the tree of life to us and all the way back down to God. All these layers are within us [including the stars and supernovas that made the materials from which we are made].
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Further readingBooks
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Ballard, J G, Empire of the Sun, Buccaneer Books 1997 Book description: 'The classic, award-winning novel, made famous by Steven Spielberg's film, tells of a young boy's struggle to survive World War II in China.
Jim is separated from his parents in a world at war. To survive, he must find a strength greater than all the events that surround him.
Shanghai, 1941 -- a city aflame from the fateful torch of Pearl Harbor. In streets full of chaos and corpses, a young British boy searches in vain for his parents. Imprisoned in a Japanese concentration camp, he is witness to the fierce white flash of Nagasaki, as the bomb bellows the end of the war...and the dawn of a blighted world.
Ballard's enduring novel of war and deprivation, internment camps and death marches, and starvation and survival is an honest coming-of-age tale set in a world thrown utterly out of joint.
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Chomsky, Noam, Syntactic Structures (second edition), Walter de Gruyter 2002 Amazon book description: 'Noam Chomsky's first book on syntactic structures is one of the first serious attempts on the part of a linguist to construct within the tradition of scientific theory-construction a comprehensive theory of language which may be understood in the same sense that a chemical, biological theory is understood by experts in those fields. It is not a mere reorganization of the data into a new kind of library catalogue, nor another specualtive philosophy about the nature of man and language, but rather a rigorus explication of our intuitions about our language in terms of an overt axiom system, the theorems derivable from it, explicit results which may be compared with new data and other intuitions, all based plainly on an overt theory of the internal structure of languages; and it may well provide an opportunity for the application of explicity measures of simplicity to decide preference of one form over another form of grammar.'
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Jones, R V, Wizard War: British Scientific Intelligence 1939-1945, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan 1978 Amazon customer review: 'This is a great book, because the writer was at the centre of what he writes about, he has humour, he presents enough scientific detail of the work to make it interesting and not tedious. For me the books principal charm is in the depiction of how intelligence officers in those days would get smudged phtographs, or one line radio intercepts from state of the art equipment that to us seems like something from a child's hobby kit, and would try to guess what was up on the other side. Kaushik Ghose
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Kuhn, Thomas S, Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity 1894-1912, University of Chicago Press 1987 Jacket: '[This book] traces the emergence of discontinuous physics during the early years of this century. Breaking with historiographic tradition, Kuhn maintains that, though clearly due to Max Planck, the concept of discontinuous energy change does not originate in his work. Instead it was introduced by physicists trying to understand the success of his brilliant new theory of black-body radiation.'
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Mendelson, Elliott, Introduction to Mathematical Logic, van Nostrand 1987 Preface: '... a compact introduction to some of the principal topics of mathematical logic. . . . In the belief that beginners should be exposed to the most natural and easiest proofs, free swinging set-theoretical methods have been used."
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Vonnegut, Kurt, Slaughterhouse-Five, Dell 1991 ' Kurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis in 1922. He studied at the universities of Chicago and Tennessee and later began to write short stories for magazines. His first novel, Player Piano, was published in 1951 and since then he has written many novels, among them: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Mother Night (1961), Cat's Cradle (1963), God Bless You Mr Rosewater (1964), Welcome to the Monkey House; a collection of short stories (1968), Breakfast of Champions (1973), Slapstick, or Lonesome No More (1976), Jailbird (1979), Deadeye Dick (1982), Galapagos (1985), Bluebeard (1988) and Hocus Pocus (1990). During the Second World War he was held prisoner in Germany and was present at the bombing of Dresden, an experience which provided the setting for his most famous work to date, Slaughterhouse Five (1969). He has also published a volume of autobiography entitled Palm Sunday (1981) and a collection of essays and speeches, Fates Worse Than Death (1991).'
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Wirth, Niklaus, Programming in Modula-2 , Springer-Verlag 1989 Preface: 'This text is an introduction to programming in general, and a manual for programming in the language Modula-2 in particular. It is oriented primarily toward people who have already acquired some basic knowledge of programming anf would like to deepen their understanding in a more structured way. ...' page 3
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Papers
Turing, Alan, "On Computable Numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem", Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, 2, 42, 12 November 1937, page 230-265. 'The "computable" numbers maybe described briefly as the real numbers whose expressions as a decimal are calculable by finite means. Although the subject of this paper is ostensibly the computable numbers, it is almost as easy to define and investigate computable functions of an integrable variable or a real or computable variable, computable predicates and so forth. The fundamental problems involved are, however, the same in each case, and I have chosen the computable numbers for explicit treatment as involving the least cumbrous technique. I hope shortly to give an account of the rewlations of the computable numbers, functions and so forth to one another. This will include a development of the theory of functions of a real variable expressed in terms of computable numbers. According to my definition, a number is computable if its decimal can be written down by a machine'. back |
Links
Aether (classical element) - Wikipedia, Aether (classical element) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'According to ancient and medieval science aether (Greek αἰθήρ aithēr), also spelled æther or ether, is the material that fills the region of the universe above the terrestrial sphere.' back |
Algorithmic information theory - Wikipedia, Algorithmic information theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'Algorithmic information theory is a subfield of information theory and computer science that concerns itself with the relationship between computation and information. According to Gregory Chaitin, it is "the result of putting Shannon's information theory and Turing's computability theory into a cocktail shaker and shaking vigorously."' back |
Ben Guarino, Fossils show worldwide catastrophe on the day the dinosaurs died, Sixty-six million years ago, a massive asteroid crashed into a shallow sea near Mexico. The impact carved out a 90-mile-wide crater and flung mountains of earth into space. Earthbound debris fell to the planet in droplets of molten rock and glass.
Ancient fish caught glass blobs in their gills as they swam, gape-mouthed, beneath the strange rain. Large, sloshing waves threw animals onto dry land, then more waves buried them in silt. Scientists working in North Dakota recently dug up fossils of these fish: . . . ' back |
Born rule - Wikipedia, Born rule - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'The Born rule (also called the Born law, Born's rule, or Born's law) is a law of quantum mechanics which gives the probability that a measurement on a quantum system will yield a given result. It is named after its originator, the physicist Max Born. The Born rule is one of the key principles of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. There have been many attempts to derive the Born rule from the other assumptions of quantum mechanics, with inconclusive results. . . . The Born rule states that if an observable corresponding to a Hermitian operator A with discrete spectrum is measured in a system with normalized wave function (see bra-ket notation), then
the measured result will be one of the eigenvalues λ of A, and
the probability of measuring a given eigenvalue λi will equal <ψ|Pi|ψ> where Pi is the projection onto the eigenspace of A corresponding to λi'. back |
Brouwer fixed point theorem - Wikipedia, Brouwer fixed point theorem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'Brouwer's fixed-point theorem is a fixed-point theorem in topology, named after Luitzen Brouwer. It states that for any continuous function f with certain properties there is a point x0 such that f(x0) = x0. The simplest form of Brouwer's theorem is for continuous functions f from a disk D to itself. A more general form is for continuous functions from a convex compact subset K of Euclidean space to itself. back |
Charge at Krojanty - Wikipedia, Charge at Krojanty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'The incident became notable as reporters visiting the site soon after saw the dead bodies of horses and cavalrymen which led to false reports of Polish cavalry attacking German tanks. Nazi propaganda took advantage of this, suggesting that the Poles attacked intentionally, believing that the German still had the dummy tanks the Versailles treaty restrictions had permitted them. The scene of Polish cavalry charging the Panzers with their lances has become a myth.' back |
David Watts, How big tech designs its own rules of ethics to avoid scrutiny and accountability, ' Why this sudden interest in data ethics? What is data ethics? Whose interests are the guidelines designed to serve?
To understand what is going on, it’s necessary to take a step back and look at how the information landscape has unfolded.
The picture that emerges is of an industry immune from the regulatory constraints that apply to everyone else.' back |
Destroyer (2018 film) - Wikipedia, Destroyer (2018 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, ' Destroyer is a 2018 American crime film directed by Karyn Kusama and written by Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi. It stars Nicole Kidman, Toby Kebbell, Tatiana Maslany, Scoot McNairy, Bradley Whitford, and Sebastian Stan, and follows an undercover LAPD officer who must take out members of a gang, years after her case was blown. ' back |
Eigenvalues and eigenvectors - Wikipedia, Eigenvalues and eigenvectors - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'An eigenvector of a square matrix A is a non-zero vector vthat, when the matrix multiplies yields a constant multiple of v, the latter multiplier being commonly denoted by λ. That is: Av = λv' back |
(ε, δ)-definition of limit - Wikipedia, (ε, δ)-definition of limit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'In calculus, the (ε, δ)-definition of limit ("epsilon-delta definition of limit") is a formalization of the notion of limit. It was first given by Bernard Bolzano in 1817. Augustin-Louis Cauchy never gave an (ε, δ) definition of limit in his Cours d'Analyse, but occasionally used ε, δ arguments in proofs. The definitive modern statement was ultimately provided by Karl Weierstrass.' back |
Four-vector - Wikipedia, Four-vector - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, ' In special relativity, a four-vector (also known as a 4-vector) is an object with four components, which transform in a specific way under Lorentz transformation. Specifically, a four-vector is an element of a four-dimensional vector space considered as a representation space of the standard representation of the Lorentz group, the (½,½) representation. It differs from a Euclidean vector in how its magnitude is determined. The transformations that preserve this magnitude are the Lorentz transformations, which include spatial rotations and boosts (a change by a constant velocity to another inertial reference frame).' back |
Galilean transformation - Wikipedia, Galilean transformation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'In physics, a Galilean transformation is used to transform between the coordinates of two reference frames which differ only by constant relative motion within the constructs of Newtonian physics.' back |
Gilbert J Mros, Solving the Myth: Polish Cavalry Charge Against German Tanks, 'Just when it looked like the Poles were going to win the skirmish, several German armored cars equipped with machine guns and automatic cannon appeared and opened fire on the Polish cavalry who then broke off the attack and retreated from the battle scene. Losses to the Polish squadrons were about 20 killed, including Colonel Mastelarz, and an unknown number, probably about 60, wounded or captured. This was the first cavalry charge of World War II.
A MYTH IS BORN
Two days later, General Heinz Guderian, commander of the 19th Corps, of which the German 20th Motorized Division was a part, wrote that, “…we succeeded in totally encircling the enemy on our front in the wooded country north of Schwetz and west of Grudziadz (German name: Graudenz). The Polish Pomorska Cavalry Brigade, in ignorance of the nature of our tanks, had charged them with swords and lances and had suffered tremendous losses.”' back |
J S Bach, Cantata: '(Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir)' BWV 29, ' The Cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach (German: Bachkantaten) consist of at least 209 surviving works. . . . Most of Bach's cantatas date from his first years as Thomaskantor (director of church music in Leipzig), a position which he took up in 1723. Working especially at the Thomaskirche and the Nikolaikirche, it was part of his job to perform a church cantata every Sunday and Holiday, conducting soloists, the Thomanerchor, and orchestra as part of the church service.' back |
John Pomfret, China took the lead with the Boeing 737 Max. How did it beat th FAA?, ' The agency that helped China turn around what used to be a horrendous air safety record was none other than the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, which was criticized around the globe for acting slowly after the March 10 disaster. In fact, the United States has historically played an outsize role not only in flight safety but also in bringing air travel as a whole to China. From the start, flying in China has been a Sino-American affair.' back |
Lorentz transformation - Wikipedia, Lorentz transformation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'In physics, the Lorentz transformation or Lorentz-Fitzgerald transformation describes how, according to the theory of special relativity, two observers' varying measurements of space and time can be converted into each other's frames of reference. It is named after the Dutch physicist Hendrik Lorentz. It reflects the surprising fact that observers moving at different velocities may measure different distances, elapsed times, and even different orderings of events.' back |
Ludwig van Beethoven, The Berlin Celibration Concert, 'Conducted by Leonard Bernstein, THE BERLIN CELEBRATION CONCERT is an historic performance marking the fall of the Berlin Wall. Performed on Christmas Day 1989 in the former East Berlin, the concert unites an international cast of celebrated musicians and vocalists for a moving performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Symphonieorchester des Bayerisches Rundfunks and members of Staatskapelle Dresden, Orchestra of the Leningrad Kirov Theatre, London Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic and Orchestre de Paris.' back |
Ping Pong Diplomacy - Wikipedia, Ping Pong Diplomacy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'Ping pong diplomacy refers to the exchange of ping pong players between the United States and People's Republic of China (PRC) in the 1970s. The event marked a thaw in U.S.–China relations that paved the way to a visit to Beijing by President Richard Nixon.' back |
Society for Neuroscience, Brainfacts.org, back |
Synaptic pruning - Wikipedia, Synaptic pruning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, ' Synaptic pruning, which includes both axon and dendrite completely decaying and dying off, is the process of synapse elimination that occurs between early childhood and the onset of puberty in many mammals, including humans.[1] Pruning starts near the time of birth and continues into the mid-20s.' back |
Vanessa Taylor, The Three Intersecting Reasons Ilhan Omar Gets Singled Out, ' What has been displayed is not genuine concern regarding anti-Semitism and violence against Jewish people because, as has been well-documented, anti-Semitic comments by nonblack, non-Muslim elected officials barely make a blip in the news cycle. Omar, instead, was condemned by everybody from the president of the United States — no stranger to anti-Semitic tropes himself — to Democratic leadership. Omar’s case puts on display the United States’s unwavering support for Israel, its violent protege, and the use of anti-black Islamophobia to carry that message.' back |
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