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vol VII: Notes

1999

Notes

[Sunday 14 February 1999 - Saturday 20 February 1999]

[BOOK, DB 50]

Sunday 14 February 1999

[page 157]

Monday 15 February 1999

. . . Steering the ship of state. CYBERNETICS. Sum up the steering of a ship a la NORBERT. Wiener

POLYTHEISM -> MONOTHEISM (Pope, Jesus, God, Spirit) -> POLYTHEISM (we are all gods with all these powers)

The MOMENTUM OF THE SHIP OF STATE is a product (function) of its multiplicity.

Once again I have to assume that you have a parent / child / boyfriend / girlfriend/ friend/ somebody who has done enough cybernetics to decode / expand this outrageously precise representation of something deep in modern technology to you with all the passion, excitement and intelligence that it deserves. I take it that this sort of stuff is bread and butter to all the mathematically cultured intelligentsia that purports to advise my governments, so I am allowed to speak in code for sheer want of space.

I notice that our little rat faced PM wants to put God (big G) in the preamble of our constitution and play down the Aboriginal.

The reason, moderation and learning of the English Church was beautifully done but poorly founded. Darwin, as the fathers of the Church knew, totally cut the ground out from under them, but like all those bomb factories shut down

[page 158]

by the end of the cold war, they continue to go through the motions more than a century later because they know nothing else.

The ship of state navigates through a state space which is immensely complex.

This complex state space is the environment of the state and includes the natural world, including all those highly evolved animals called citizens, and also includes all the other states (eg SA, Australia, the US, the UN, etc etc etc)

Our minds (here by mind I mean all internal information processing) are formed by our environment.

Junkies: take the drug for what it is, a painkiller for personalities rather too sensitive for the environment in which they find themselves.

Tuesday 16 February 1999

[page 160]

Wednesday 17 February 1999

...

An entity can be represented as a transformation (computation / process). My passage through life is manifested by a track of transformation in my environment, like grub tracks radiating

[page 161]

from oviposition under bark.

Looking for a line through space - back to the generalized geodesic. We seek the line of extremal action, the path through heaven. But how do we know how we are eon the right tack? Seek some model to justify the course taken.

We seek the path we want our children to follow - the path of maximum entropy ? complexity / life.

Force: increasing entropy - CANTOR - decreasing entropy E-THEOREM Cantor, Khinchin

KILL = Decrease entropy? Life is a maximum entropy state (if we count our entropy right?)

Maximise entropy for given dynamic realization of the system. Still cannot see it, but it is there. A few hundred more IQ points would surely help. Has to be some measure theoretical link between transfinite numbers.

[page 162]

Just talking ad lib here, on the monkey principle that if we try every possible sentence, we will find the right one (through variation and selection).

Thursday 18 February 1999
Friday 19 February 1999

The moving equilibrium - moving target requires feed forward (prediction) to maintain stability. Simple reaction leads to hunting, overshooting etc.

Cybernetic symmetries in the transfinite network.

Physics is an account of the symmetries in the transfinite network.

Speed up theorems (Goedel) and Cantor's principle of finitism (Skolem Lowenheim theorem?)

Structures: Planetary disc

Newton's law founds cellular automata called gravitating systems.

[page 163]

Rename FORMALISM --> LANGUAGE

Static ACTUS PURUS is a CONTRADICTION. GOD MUST GROW if GOD IS ALIVE. Theology models god; here we have a new growing model of go, TNN (transfinite neural network)

The entry of a luscious woman into my life <++> the entry of my life into a luscious woman.

Particle moves in space. Space moves in particle. She enters my environment (me) I enter her environment (her)

A sequence or motif in DNA specifies an action to be performed by the resulting protein, ie it specifies a tool and the proteins of a cell are a set of tools spanning life.

TECHNOLOGY: A spanning set of tools a) tools for life b) tools for culture or civilization.

Release of tools in to the environment causes execution of the tooled activity whenever substrate(s) are present in the warm (random) environment

[page 164]

of the tool.

TOOL = ENZYME

So the release of lego into the environment of children causes the evolution of lego structures, as car factories cause cars. But car factories do not make roads.

An implemented (realized) equation is a CONSTRAINT on the Universe.

CONSTRAINT = EQUATION

Technology = TOOL
Economics = MARKET

Saturday 20 February 1999

The trouble with Xian god is male, simple and univocal. So now we introduce quantum mechanics, superposition, complexity,

[page 165]

femininity. Newton's linear superposition - the parallelogram of forces.

Central question: Neural network, humanity and superposition.

Theology: private /public experience. Drug is public externally applied chemical that changes private experience.

Addiction is disordered desire, outside the control of the whole system. One should not cancel a desire because some might become addicted to it.

A living god must grow. God became congealed in the notion that actus purus means realization of all possibility.

Possibility is as real as action. Possibility and action are PEERS, not an ORDERED ST. POTENCY IS CREATED BY ACTION and ACTION is driven and defined by POTENCY.

[page 166]

On the measure of justice (GOVERNANCE)

Bandwidth as a measure of JUSTICE.

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Beale, R, and T Jackson, Neural Computing: An Introduction, Adam Hilger 1991 Jacket: '... starts from basics and goes on to cover all the most important approaches to the subject. ... The capabilities, advantages and disadvantages of each model are discussed as are possible applications of each. The relationship of the models developed to the brain and its functions are also explored.' 
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Cantor, Georg, Contributions to the Founding of the Theory of Transfinite Numbers (Translated, with Introduction and Notes by Philip E B Jourdain), Dover 1955 Jacket: 'One of the greatest mathematical classics of all time, this work established a new field of mathematics which was to be of incalculable importance in topology, number theory, analysis, theory of functions, etc, as well as the entire field of modern logic.' 
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Dirac, P A M, The Principles of Quantum Mechanics (4th ed), Oxford UP/Clarendon 1983 Jacket: '[this] is the standard work in the fundamental principles of quantum mechanics, indispensible both to the advanced student and the mature research worker, who will always find it a fresh source of knowledge and stimulation.' (Nature)  
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Feynman, Richard P, and Robert B Leighton, Matthew Sands, The Feynman Lectures on Physics (volume 3) : Quantum Mechanics, Addison Wesley 1970 Foreword: 'This set of lectures tries to elucidate from the beginning those features of quantum mechanics which are the most basic and the most general. ... In each instance the ideas are introduced together with a detailed discussion of some specific examples - to try to make the physical ideas as real as possible.' Matthew Sands 
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Khinchin, A I, Mathematical Foundations of Information Theory (translated by P A Silvermann and M D Friedman), Dover 1957 Jacket: 'The first comprehensive introduction to information theory, this book places the work begun by Shannon and continued by McMillan, Feinstein and Khinchin on a rigorous mathematical basis. For the first time, mathematicians, statisticians, physicists, cyberneticists and communications engineers are offered a lucid, comprehensive introduction to this rapidly growing field.' 
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Pais, Abraham, Inward Bound: Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World, Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press 1986 Preface: 'I will attempt to describe what has been discovered and understood about the constituents of matter, the laws to which they are subject and the forces that act on them [in the period 1895-1983]. . . . I will attempt to convey that these have been times of progress and stagnation, of order and chaos, of belief and incredulity, of the conventional and the bizarre; also of revolutionaries and conservatives, of science by individuals and by consortia, of little gadgets and big machines, and of modest funds and big moneys.' AP 
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Schwinger, Julian, and (editor), Selected Papers on Quantum Electrodynamics, Dover 1958 Jacket: In this volume the history of quantum electrodynamics is dramatically unfolded through the original words of its creators. It ranges from the initial successes, to the first signs of crisis, and then, with the stimulus of experimental discovery, the new triumphs leading to an unparalleled quantitative accord between theory and experiment. In terminates with the present position in quantum electrodynamics as part of the larger subject of theory of elementary particles, faced with fundamental problems and future prospect of even more revolutionary discoveries.' 
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van der Waerden, B L, Sources of Quantum Mechanics, Dover Publications 1968 Amazon Book Description: 'Seventeen seminal papers, dating from the years 1917-26, in which the quantum theory as wenow know it was developed and formulated. Among the scientists represented: Einstein,Ehrenfest, Bohr, Born, Van Vleck, Heisenberg, Dirac, Pauli and Jordan. All 17 papers translatedinto English.' 
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Wiener, Norbert, Cybernetics or control and communication in the animal and the machine, MIT Press 1996 The classic founding text of cybernetics. 
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