vol VII: Notes
2019
Notes
Sunday 8 September 2019 - Saturday 14 September 2019
[Notebook: DB 83: Physical Theology]
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Sunday 8 September 2019
The difficult step facing us is from traditional God to inertial space, and the only clues are the Trinity, [general relativity,] and quantum mechanics. God is pure act. Then we introduce time and energy and the simplest hamiltonian and we have only one invisible photon which will travel at the speed of light when space appears, but right now we have two states, entanglement and invisible events that will later, in the world of space and observation be able to be observed and appear as spooky action at a distance. What we we need to know [is] how all this got from god to here. So we are just crashing around at random, hoping something comes. An idea: the bifurcation of energy into potential and kinetic cannot happen until we have space because potential exists in space but the existence of inertial space means that we can have potential free space, so space is a layer beneath potential.
The cosmic constant problem arises from the zero point energy which arises because we think of the uncertainty principle as a dynamic principle rather than simply limit on cosmic resolution. So where does it fit in the creative sequence of the universe?
Monday 9 September 2019
Science works to free itself from politics, overcoming the dualism built into evolution which we might characterize as business epistemology and scientific epistemology, the old struggle between flesh and spirit, between reason and emotion and so on. The power of
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reason lies in the stability of print.
Tuesday 10 September 2019 2019
How should I live? Teleological? Non-teleological? Hybrid? How do I live? Always trying to understand, to make things, ideas, sentences. And some time devoted to self maintenance and a long time spent gathering sensory input, reading, looking, walking. Inching toward the next idea, a target, to get from God to an inertial frame, a weightless space. I am trying to understand the transition from nothing to something which might be identical (given scale invariance) from a single person to a community. You can't have up without down. Inseparable dualities, obligatory dualities whose sum is zero: Mountain + valley = plain.Wednesday 11 September 2019
Feeling good this morning with the usual little edge that I may be bordering on the fool's paradise but when I read the work of all the pre-Darwinian political theorists I know that I am not alone in that.Thursday 12 September 2019
Friday 13 September 2019
Feeling even better, argumentative. I entered the university in a spirit of docility, knowing that I am on the whole older and more experienced than all the teachers and much less in need of guidance and mentoring than the students. I have to date received the criticism of my essays in silence, but, in the philosophical spirit of defending my positions I now feel that a brief defence of my positions is warranted.
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Saturday 14 September 2019
Struggling to get to the essence of gravitation. The mathematical model is good, but what does it mean? The same problem with quantum mechanics. My hunch is that 'digital to the core' is the foundation for understanding a rational, intelligible intelligent universe, but everything the physicists do is based on real numbers and the notion that the universe is not only a perfect analogue machine, but also only communicates with us digitally. Auyang and Noether and many others say it is all about symmetry and continuous transformations seem to make sense of symmetry. How are we to understand symmetry from a logical, digital point of view? That it is an expression of the via negativa, the fact that everything is permissible except local logical contradiction. The only answer seems to be to go back a step and let the neural network find a logically continuous path through the maze and/or reread Misner, Thorne and Wheeler plus Hartle etc. There must be a symmetry which embraces the path from quantum theory / gravitation to human science / politics. This is the theological symmetry I want to see and describe. Among my many hunches is that it is echoed in the transfinite computer network, but how to express this in a way that anybody else appreciates? The immediate task is to capture the ides in the thesis by exploring the hypothesis that the method used by the divine universe to create itsef is isomorphic to the scientific method working always towards the best explanation, the foundation of the best political policy, unfettered by ancient ideological chains that bind the right wing to an imaginary theological past. Auyang: How is Quantum Field Theory Possible?, Neuenschwander: Emmy Noether's Wonderful Theorem, , Misner,Thorne & Wheeler: Gravitation, Hartle: Gravity: An Introduction to Einstein's General Relativity[page 327]
Looking for the theory behind the expression love makes the world go round, love makes, ie love is consistent (unbounded) communication. The universe creates because it is unbounded. Unbounded = bounded only by consistency, so love occupies the whole space inside the space outside of which is inconsistency, which in realistic terms is spatial separation, and expression of the invisibility theorem.
In order to make the thesis more 'philosophical' I reimagine the network idea as a history of evolution and a history of science, playing down the technical and mathematical side of the network.
The geometrodynamic theory of gravitation shows that purely formal mathematical considerations, ie the theory of geodesics in a differential manifold [can provide an explanation of the structure and dynamic of the universe]. Although Gauss, Riemann and Einstein worked this out in continuous space, there is no reason to believe that digital formalism should not have a similar relation to dynamics. The inverse of this notion is built into the technology of digital computers where the mathematics of quantum mechanics digitzed by the quantum of action is used to provide a dynamical foundation for digital computations.
Chandrasekhar, Hartle page 8: 'The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe, the only element in their construction are our concepts of space and time. And since general relativity provides only a single unique family of solutions for their description, they are the simplest objects as well' (Chandrasekhar 1983). Chandrasekhar: The Mathematical Theory of Black Holes
The coupling of logic to behaviour is intrinsic to human life. I write to you asking you to do something for me and I can
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be embedded in a matrix of law if we make a contract wth one another. Particles move in space-time in trajectories that are determined by the geometry of space-time. People move in social space-time on trajectories that are determined by the 'geometry' of the messages they receive from their social environment. So simple, and we use the network paradigm to unite these vastly different realizations of the same 'gauge' symmetry [and as quantum mechanics reveals, trajectories are not absolutely determined but are elements of an alphabet of possibilities from which intentional agents like ourselves may choose].
Algorithmodynamics, Arithmodynamics, Algebrodynamics, logicodynamics, linguisticodynamics, and in general psychodynamics, logodynamics, ratiodynamics, the interaction of potential and act. Aristotle's big mistake was to see potency as passive or maybe the scholastics endowing the universe with passivity to give a role to an active God.
