vol VII: Notes
1999
Notes
[Notebook BOOK 4/5/94]
[Sunday 25 April 1999 - Saturday 1 May 1999]
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Sunday 25 April 1999
Intelligible = able to be understood
= able to be given meaning
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= able to be linked to other entities.
A set I is intelligible if it can be mapped onto itself, ie its elements have meaning by their interrelationships (interior intelligibility).
Exterior intelligibility = a set I, being a subset of U is intelligible E if elements of I can be mapped to elements of U - I. Technicalities.
INTELLIGIBLE = PERMUTABLE
Card(I) = Card(I) = card(I+1)
Insight to make intelligible into 'understood' by finding a relevant subset of the possible links.
The act of realizing intelligibility -> understandable to understood: Insight. Now we have to model this. So Insight is a step into the transfinite by identifying a finite subset of the transfinite. Though finite, because it is a subset of transfinite or carried high entropy. INDUCED ENTROPY/HISTORICAL
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MASS.
Insight: A model
The physical realisation of this model is a network of machines operating in parallel, each collecting and processing a subset of the total data stream. Data allocation is a (the?) major concern. How the data are mapped onto the model is part of the model.
Somewhere the calculations have to expose observable quantities, ie the model needs OBSERVABLES"
What is observable : Anything for which we can a) construct bins b) count bins is observable.
The meaning of the model lies in defining the bins and the expectation of the count.
DIVINE = 100% INTELLIGIBLE and UNDERSTOOD
= PERMUTATION GROUP = set of
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permutations and group operation = SWAP
. . . Ecclesiastes on software engineering 'to every thing there is a season'. Ecclesiastes 3:1
Intellect in pursuit of social goes.: to be in love and not act on it.
Insight vs Steven Pinker" 'How the mind works'.
Pinker p 376 'our species default habitat preference."
MEMORY - set of multistable locations with addresses and control lines. Address coding = measurements
ADDRESSING = MEASURING
Not BUILDS ON but BUILDS WITH / the old pigsty.
Landscape: prospect + refuge (p 276)
379 Disgust is fear of incorporating something alien into ourselves.
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INDEX
Every ten years I seem to bob up for air and can relax long enough to burst into tears and thank the world that I am still alive and can possibly see signs of land over the horizon. Seems to me to be a matter of pacing . Now the net gives me a way to publish.
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The first target in a religion must be to remove the violence from family politics. Religion does this by lowering the temperature until the interactions between people become primarily elastic and the measure of inelastic events decreases toward zero.
Thermodynamics.
Physics: Here we begin examining subsets of the model and comparing them to what the science industry can tell us about the world we inhabit./ Can only deal with subsets as the model
Does all this make any sense? We have to wait and see until we have accumulated the time and resources needed to build one.
ESTABLISH an ELASTIC flow of money ie MEASURABLE.
The dissipative flow to increasing complexity is a superposition of the above.
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THERMODYNAMICS = {NEWTONIAN PARTICLES = NETONIONS.
The biggest problem (requiring the strictest discipline) is to keep going for the bigger and simpler picture. The first break in symmetry is between consistent and inconsistent.
CONSISTENT = CLOSED CIRCLE
IN OPEN PATH
(The distance between the ends of an open path can never exceed the length og the path, but until it is closed we do not know how far apart they are.
the Internal Combustion engine - a cycle.
Thermodynamics - reversible = cyclic/ irreversible = non-
Reversible is driven by the ireversible. Energy flow in a car - chemical - heat - mechanical - heat.
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Because the system is transfinite, every action is a decision, the realisation of one of a finite (infinite, transfinite) set of possibilities.
Can we say that the Universe is so big that every possibility is realised somewhere?
So every action is a decision, that is a selection from a set of p[ossibilities. This selection operates at every level of complexity including quantum events and biological evolution.
