vol 7: Notes
1999
Sunday 28 February 1999
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[Sunday 28 February 1999 - Saturday 6 March 1999]
[BOOK, DB 50]
Sunday 28 February 1999
Monday 1 March 1999
Tuesday 2 March 1999
[page 180]
. . .
Long ago human beings survived using the same technology as other animals
[page 181]
Now most of us life by complex arrangements of varying degrees of strength and reliability with other people and entities. We must now contend with a global commercial entity, linked together through the tentacles of markets that balance capital, value and cashflow.
Religion teaches us how to deal with an infinity of languages to express this one reality.
Money is the abstract representation of value.
[page 182]
SURVIVAL - COOPERATION
Common language.
a) sharing material resources
b) information
c) self
Sharing is measured in connect time.
Basic sharing process is not altruism, but TRADE. (between equals).
ECONOMICS and RELIGION
The Christian message of love begins with food.
Religion: guidelines for the happy and healthy society.
Security requires a way of interfacing with the world that guarantees survival, freedom from pain, health and happiness.
[page 183]
ISOMORPHISM between NETS and SETS. A net is a superposition of sets.
The power set is the set of all superpositions of subsets on a set.
Spiritual principle: cooperation pays - aleph(n+1)
Material principle: competition pays aleph(n)
Resources are always limited at the lower level.
CURRENTDEV - INTRO The Religion Problem
The fundamental problem for religion is how to attain peace in a wild world. Our species evolved long ago as hunter gatherers from simian ancestors, also hunter gatherers. Life in those days was nasty, brutish and short. At the opposite extreme ate those denizens of modern civilisation who can afford the best of everything.
Maintain human morale: once promised a remote heaven: now see a heaven on earth.
Cutthroat corporate environment brings pressure to bear on individuals.
[page 184]
Religion seeks to define the good.
Each industry responds to a certain set of human needs or questions. To what need does religion respond?
. . .
CurrentDev Introduction
a) the problem for religion
b) this attack on the problem.
c) prognosis: a research report
Religion R&D
R&D in the industry.
Tapping productivity by sharing
It takes some confidence to expose wares for sale as to hunt or
ply a trade. Authentic TRADE
VALUE for VALUE (MONEY=MEASURE)
VALUE - GOOD - MONEY Medieval Cathedrals
[185]
1) Download society into newborn - Education
2) Updating downloads - Research
upbringing children the critical test of good religion is that we would pass it on to your children. - The evolutionary think about parenthood is passing resources on to the children to improve their chances of success 2 children = 4 grandchildren = 8 ...
Wednesday 3 March 1999
Technology -> PRODUCTIVITY = delta FITNESS/EFFORT
delta FITNESS = INTEREST = GRACE
EFFORT = ENERGY = integral POWER d proper time
LIFE = PROPER TIME (PHYSICS)
From an evolutionary pov the doomed never exist and so they never have to suffer. Suffering is UNNECESSARY given the correct algorithm. Is this true? Yes, given infinite productivity.
[page 186]
FITNESS = 1 => ETERNAL LIFE
= 0 => NON-EXISTENCE ie unrealized possibility, ie PATH NOT TAKEN
Any space has paths in it. So the story of the U of Cal (?)
Where do the paths go to? FULFILLED DESIRE.
definition: Religion is the technology of peace.
(There is no real distinction between science and science and technology - all new knowledge comes from a new instrument, a new sense, a new tool.)
So THEOLOGY is the technology of peace (FORMAL IE written)
What the spies are really after is the tons of blueprints and specifications that tell is how to making. (I am thinking of the Mirage-Kfir story.)
[page 187]
and
definition RELIGION is the ARCHITECT of PEACEFUL society. One manifestation of religion is churches, but a lot of religion goes on outside the churches in schools, universities, parliaments, and all other venues which contribute to the maintenance and development of just and peaceful society.
. . .
My heuristic principle: the universe is divine, and therefore a self-sufficient system in no way constrained by any imposed restriction or control.
I express this assumption of divinity by beginning from the biggest system we have yet envisaged,
[page 187]
that is the whole of mathematics, known and conjectures.
When we look out into the universe, we see a set of points. The most obvious points are the stars, but we now know that there is a cosmic zoo out there, stars, planets, galaxies, supernovas, neutron stars, red giants, white dwarfs, black holes and an infinity of other details.
Law brings us structure by prohibiting undue force.
1 The rule of law: This is the fundamental assumption. There is very little to be said about its alternative, chaos but chaos is very important. The book of Genesis that before god created heaven and earth
The design of law.
[page 189]
Thursday 4 March 1999
The afternoon debriefing. Anything? People are moved by inspiration - PNEUMATOLOGY
The epistemology of survival. To understand something is to see where its strength comes from and so know when to trust it.
The evolutionary paradigm does not apply to genetic evolution alone. It appears anywhere where there is competition for limited resources by a set of recursive systems needing a certain minimum of resource to survive.
CYBERNETIC EPISTEMOLOGY
WILD = STABLE
. . .
[page 190]
Not just matching frequency, but matching {frequency}.
What am I striving for: stable harmony = sustainable habitat = PERMANENT NICHE
Stability is zero tolerance. What we seek to do is to minimize action consistent with continued existence.
EXIST = COMMUNICATE (Pragmatic point of view (POV)
. . .
POV = communication channel a<->b
[page 191]
MORALITY - we only need to take care of the physical.
We may think of each transfinite level as a phase and a transition as a phase change.
A PHASE is characterized by a pattern of communication between the elements of the system.
The set aleph(0) has aleph(1) meanings which grow out of aleph(0) by the requirement of consistency.
Axioms are succinct statements of the generating principles (DNA) of SET THEORY or whatever.
Yes = connection
No = no connection
Friday 5 March 1999
We take the cybernetic approach to existence.
[page 192]
After METHOD & LANGUAGE, we deal with control at growing levels of complexity from physics which explains the reliable structures in the observable world to religion.
The height to which a religion may climb depends on the depths of its foundations. Some religions are so poorly founded that they lead to mass suicide by all who accept them. PBS You will note that (at least so far) this site lacks the music and incense, gorgeous robes, treasures of art and noble and inspiring words that go with the old religions. Instead I concentrate n foundations, knowing that if the job is done perfectly, there will be no limit to the flowering.
Religion is the industry devoted to creating humanity, or we might say, creating human capital, that is the structure of skill and goodwill which we use to maximize the pleasure of existence and minimize the pain.
Saturday 6 March 1999
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