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1999
Sunday 23 May 1999
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[Sunday 23 May 1999 - Saturday 29 May 1999]
[Notebook BOOK 4/5/94 DB 50]
[page 308]
Sunday 23 May 1999
Mob of x = set of x
I am a sinner => you are all sinners => we are all sinners. (but I thought of it first so you can all pay me to cure it.
TASTE <=> FITNESS
Insight, Inverse Insight, Being, Empirical Residue
Being is the object of the pure desire to know. Physics models desire as potential and the force impelling a particle toward the object of its desire as the gradient of the potential function.
Potential function --> field
Any function can describe a field, which is simply the function taken as a whole. The domain might be spacetime, the range might be electrical potential
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So we construct the space of insight in the space of function. We have chosen permutation representation, but may also introduce combination representation = subsets, leading to set of all sets the power set.
The Cantor Universe is the home of insight
Being is the equilibrium at the base of the potential well, and we want it to turn out to be some sort of connection to the computable flow of action through the universe. So we have a link between insight and quantum field theory.
So pure desire to know moves toward being as particle moves down a gradient of potential.
The fact that things exist and questions can be answered suggests that there are local minima in the field of knowledge.
The potential is generated by questions.
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In general relativity we are not mapping from a space to a field in the space, but the structure of space is in some way the field itself. The starting 'points' are geodesics' inertial platforms observing one another through the medium of null geodesics.
*Transfinite version of general relativity shows us the general structure of noetic space.
Object of pure desire to know is a clear and distinct idea or model that serves as a starting point for the planning of action.
[eye] 1.4E8 receptors @ 500Hz - 7E10 bps = 70 Gbps.
Retinal insight yields 100:1 compression of data from primary receptors to be fed down the optic nerve.
Is there insight involved in an engine pulling a plane.
We keep coming back to the view that knowledge is the inverse of the Cantor expansion which
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acts to keep the measure of action in the universe constant at aleph(0).
A field becomes familiar when one learns the paths between the landmarks.
Tensor is a function on a manifold.
Can we use the mathematical theory of insight to unify QM and general relativity? This is what we want, the being toward which
Monday 24 May 1999
Insight is the mapping from world to mind. I say it is a function because the world is far more complex than any mind, so the world is many to one.
This job seems to be a constant battle to relieve
[page 312]
tension (assisted by what I take to be moderate and not life threatening drugs). Systems cannot move down a potential gradient without having a way to shed their energy eg atom.
MAPPING = meaning in general. Specific mappings = specific meanings
FUNCTION = INSIGHT = lens by which outside world is mapped onto the 'soul'
Tuesday 25 May 1999
RELIGION
The main yield from all this is mystical bliss. The one common thread of the 'professional' end of all religions (the region of popes, bishops, priests, ayatollahs and the rest) is the attainment of a mental state called heaven, bliss, nirvana, mystical union etc. The routes to this states (and hence opinions
[page 313]
about what they are are
The art forced by love
Wednesday 26 May 1999
The struggle is to get from the bright idea (principle of equivalence) to the calculation (solution of the differential equations of general relativity)
How do we model the beatific vision? The final insight, when the vision of god fully satisfies all questions. This is a static view. Thomas recognizes that we can see god but we cannot comprehend it.
"everything I have written seems like straw" apocryphal? Thos would surely have seen his writings as a realisation (incarnation) of the ladder (road, path etc) that carried him to his vision. Writing is a characterization of the geodesic. The universe is continually rewriting itself according to the rules of a) mathematics and b) physics.
The pure desire to know has no inherent terminus (but at present death terminates us all. Later
[page 314]
we maybe reincarnated in silicon (neutrons?))
The proportionate beatific vision is an 'equivalent' (same cardinal) mate = peer.
PEER = EQUIVALENT
Or peer differs with relative difficulty of encoding and decoding. Limited memories (processes) can carry only a limited representation.
Toward calculation - explaining the maxims of religion
ie WISDOM the test of antiquity? the test of error probability.
A scientific measurement carries with it an 'uncertainty space' with a certain structure. The entropy of this space grows with the precision of the measurement.
Get people out of numbers into language.
The purpose of coding is to deny insight.
I want to express the nature of insight in a model based on computation of functions with
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(possibly) transfinite domains and ranges ? The range of all observable functions is countable. This is the basic physical hypothesis.
. . .
The aim of religion is the beatific vision (peace, heaven etc). The classical theologian Thomas Aquinas tells us this.
. . .
Beatific vision. A phase change in the world. To be a nucleus of crystallization is to find and create what maybe a somewhat unstable structure. Growing crystal
Perhaps by the end of this year the main struggle will be over and the armature finished, to be fleshed out in the PhD years (as the online ? grows, so the PhD will become succinct.
So conceive of on line as supplementary
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material, providing a cell into which the new genes/memes can be expressed
DECODING DNA into LIFE. A mere 10 000 protein x 1000 base pairs each = 200Mbits = 25MBytes defines how to make me out of my food.
The endpoint of the Catholic Religion, the beatific vision, is the starting point here.
Thomas has at his command a quite concise theory of knowledge and reality which he built himself upon the work of the Greek philosophers and the Fathers of the Church.
Hopefully this section will grow and be revised quite energetically, so that it will converge quickly to a clear representation of the picture I have in mind.
. . .
Notebooks (edited) (History)
Let the world crystallize back into peace and harmony (where information but not so much ? ) move. Atoms hop around, exchanging photons and phonons. May also be free electrons. Not a too bad model for society given enough degrees of freedom.
The important feature of a crystal is LATTICE = NETWORK.
This all makes me so happy, but is there a word of truth in it?
. . .
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Going into competition with all the other weird and wonderful religious offerings on the net. I only hope that in the long run the toward natural religion project reveals the most weird and wonderful of them all.
tnrp, an activity of Dodgy Theological p/l
cool and loving
annual report
dodgy.com
Thursday 27 May 1999
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Friday 28 May 1999
Saturday 29 May 1999
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The 'denumenization' continues apace. Clearly the religion debate has to be opened up, but I must go into it with plenty of capital. Step 1 seems to be to keep silent until I have [developed my position] and then go
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on the campaign trail to get people thinking about the true nature and purpose of religion and how quality control should operate in religious matters. Obviously we must stick to scientific truth, just as is done by the other reasonable (as opposed to adversarial) professions. So the tiger must come out of the lamb and the scientist turn political.
BUSINESS = publicity+income
Reading Nixon's memoirs brings these thoughts to mind. Nixon The global burden of political corruption is enormous, and it should be the duty of theology and . , ,
A business gains income by appropriating some of the benefits flowing from its chosen product/s.
So we can take part in advertising campaigns pushing our name over the others by a) emphasizing our advantage b) emphasizing their deficiencies
Religion is not above politics. All beings act through a superposition of possibilities
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of which one set are political, ie relate to the psychological networks of a set of people.
So stress my rights as an animal as well as my aspirations as an angel.
POLITICS - the feeling of the group (dictator -> democracy)
To live, ideas must be embodied, and so some sort of procreative activity is required.
Nixon page 312 'collapse of the wave function' '. . . like most important decisions, this one would not be final until it was announced.'
Politics (democratic) depends on numbers.
CARDINAL = POWER (just as Cantor said)
What we have to do is translate the principle of extremal action into religion, culture, politics, economics, design and work. Through the Cantor symmetry.
[page 322]
The basic epistemological foundation is honest appraisal of one's self. This is because one's self is, through the power of evolution and survival
The theory of evolution is the root of epistemology, in that survival is the filter than we have come through to be here. Whatever we may turn out to be, we know that we have good credentials as an evolved being.
Cybernetics: expanding on the nature of evolution. What you see is the result of a long path of evolutionary time meandering hither and thither as it makes its way from the big bang to the human race.
I need to truly fall in love with myself overcoming those barriers which were downloaded into me in the first 24 years.
This is the point of writing. To observe as carefully as possible and record mental
[page 323]
states. This sentence is such a record. Each sentence is the 'collapse of a wavefunction', that is an event selecting one of a superposition of states to interact with the outside world.
HEAVEN: to be at home with oneself. That is the closes point on god and the window to the beatific vision.
The fact that mathematicians can write books and communicate ideas to one another about infinite and transfinite spaces must mean something. Language is a symmetry. We talk in symmetries, using a finite number of symbols to dissect an infinite space.
Work brings order out of chaos, minimizing the action needed for survival, that is communication from generation to generation.
Symbolic (ie communicable) representations of the world have an inherent duality, since it takes two static symbols to represent an event, one before and one after It is they [sic] physicists desire to fill in the contents
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of the black box, giving us eg field theory.
The ends of the duality, the change wrought by AB followed by BA is measured by the uncertainty in the closure of this commutator, ie the fundamental point of QM is that certain operations are non-commutative, ie they have the characteristics of rotations in a certain space, ie they are complex quantities = ordered sets.
See nature:
The dualities of energy-time, position-momentum and spin-number
must be ordered (?) and naturally we opt for spin.
The world is a superposition of all three.
SPIN - NUMBER Arithmetic/Set Theory Pauli principle
ENERGY - TIME Rate of execution of numbers
MOMENTUM - POSITION Geometry=cantor symmetry.
All objects no matter how complex move in space the same way = gravitation.
Work brings order out of chaos. Maximized entropy subject to the constraint on representation which requires duality. As chaos increases in the yin it decreases in the yang and vice versa, so that the value of the commutator is normalized by one unit (independently of the complexity of the operations? No Action of total operation = sum action of sub operations.
The unit of uncertainty. The unit of distance, one action has the measure h or h bar, amounting to the the same thing in h bar omega = h nu.
The unit is measured when we close the loop by doing BA - AB or AB - BA in each case coming back to the starting point A or B. The [ ] difference in action between the two operations is ih bar. The energy associated with an action depends upon the actual states involved, some (like isomorphisms in the nucleus) separated by 100's of MeV and other, like Fermi gas, almost non-existent.
This is the thing I am reaching for, the optimization theorem in Cantor space that corresponds to the Lagrangian approach to finding the actual relationships in
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How do we get the Lagrangian into the study of Insight. Via Cantor symmetry. Action integral = integral pdx = integral Edt = integral jdn.
How do we get this bright idea (= Cantor symmetry) from physics into world government? How, in other words, do we learn to calculate with this symmetry. A symmetry is a wormhole in noetic space.
MIND CYBERSPACE vs NOETIC SPACE
The first thing we learn when we apply the TN to the study of mind is the distinction between cyberspace and noetic space.
CYBERSPACE = physical, countable, communicable
NOETIC SPACE = metaphysical, transfinite, not directly observable
(requires decoding)
Signals at the physical level require no decoding. All the electronic equipment simply obeys the laws of physics within certain bounds and
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has no interest in the actual sequence of states that it goes through. Quantum system has no memory. True. And false, since exact values of states are remembered through time and space as eigenvalues of certain operators.
Eigenvalues are communicable. Off-eigenvalues are not.
Action of one is the move form one eigenvalue to another.
The minimal action is the shortest route between the two states (or was it the longest, cf path integral method)
PHASE = measure(CONSISTENCY) = proportion of identical steps in the proof/algorithm,
Shortest route is deterministic (error free) using optimum algorithm. Finding optimum algorithm requires noetic invention, since space of possible cyberspaces is transfinite.
The notebooks are sketches of bits and pieces of the beast as it slowly emerges from invisibility.
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Social and political minimum action
a) implement policy at minimum cost by 1. good and effective policy 2. efficient management of implementation
POLICY = DESIGN
IMPLEMENTATION = CONSTRUCTION
Cost, ease and utility of the actual implementation depends heavily on the design.
SOFTWARE DESIGN = a) enumerating degrees of freedom b) discovering optimal boundaries between black boxes ie defining nodes and links = objects.
Spirit designs matter for its own convenience. What about black holes, animals etc.
Start straight in with the Lagrangian and speculate about its application to all levels of being through the
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Cantor symmetry,
Lagrangian in evolution, cybernetics, mind and theology -> go for the spirit.
STABILITY
What does extremalizing action do in a communication network ie what doe it correspond to? OPTIMAL CODES(?)
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