vol 7: Notes
1999
Sunday 20 June 1999
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[Sunday 20 June 1999 - Saturday 26 June 1999]
[Notebook BOOK 4/5/94 DB 50]
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Sunday 20 June 1999
Computation: The symbols used for a computation may be any definite symbol, ie name attached to a black box - packing case with ID on the outside, Mapping between contents and name is twofold. One is in the environment, what I expect to find in a box marked 'margarine' and what actually exists in the box marked margarine, which is normally margarine and may be drugs, explosives or anything else that Will fit in the box.
If you understand and accept or reject my position, at least I know I have a position, a point now somewhat moot since it is hard to look at myself at the outside. The mirror of most importance to me is writing.
FORMALISM IS A mirror image (REPRESENTATION) of REALITY.
We approach the problem of the theory of everything by looking at the relationship between formalism.
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So
Generalissimo relativity: correcting for power in human relationships so as to create a level playing field. The inverse of power. This is love.
Politics - we know that all particles interact, and that they use some method to decide the outcome of the interaction. This may or may not involve the creation of new particles (always involves at least virtual particles)
All thought is an exercise in translation, translating the information transmitted by one point into the language of another point.
Monday 21 June 1999
POLITICS
The specific feature of humanity is the ability to organize. There are two constraints on an organization: the task that the organization aims to perform, which is generally complex, a point in configuration space, a necessary transformation of the environment from
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the point of view of individual organisms. The second constraint is the nature of the units from which the organization is composed. The local driving force for the organization is the individual realisation that things can be better if we work together. Since we are not already working together, this position is a conclusion reached from as model of the world.
The force for wholeness/the force for disintegration ENTROPY, VACUUM, GAS, POSITION SENSITIVE NOTATION, SELF CORRELATION
Lonergan is onto the recursive nature of the universe, and it seems to me that his ideas can be expressed in the mathematical formalism pioneered by Cantor, and extended by Goedel and Turing. In particular the universal Turing machine seems a good starting point to model his schemes of recurrence (one of which is insight itself)
The computer we have on our desks have all the features of the universal Turing machine except that they are infinitesimally small measured by memory size
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and speed. The mathematical machine has a countably infinite memory and its formal operation is instantaneous.
Every recursion is a network of a network.
So how do we convert logic (ie a proof) into a network. This transformation will allow us to enter a new realm of truth GRAPH THEORY.
topology
Lonergan has failed to see how the networking of intellects produces intellects, and that this process gives an approach to an asymptote we call god.
The generation of cosmopolis. The centralized church appears to be an error. Einstein and quantum mechanics have shown us the local theory is the way to go. Points become local by communication. Quantum entanglement is the root of communication in the universe.
Mind is the atom, and mind = {mind}
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To understand mind is to understand quantum computation.
A set theoretical representation of quantum computation and the expansion.
QM describes the elemental mind of the universe.
Workplace relations =- parallel processing.
Mathematical proof = transformation of a problem into a form where it is immediately obvious, ie to a yes-no decision or a contradiction.
Frontier shows us how to turn sentences into networks of graphs - this is a linguistic or parsing problem. Putting problems on networks solves them.
The glass transition in a computer : the processing overheads of any move become so high that movement ceases. Listen to the overloaded bank computer slow down.
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The hyperlinking allows you to take a random walk around this site. But there is a 'director's cut' which is listed here. This is the way I would read this site, knowing what I want each file to achieve.
Tuesday 22 June 1999
Wednesday 23 June 1999
Thursday 24 June 1999
Deutsch.
We are dealing in culture
Frans B M de Waal, N399:635 17 June 1999. de Waal Imanishi Culture definition: non-genetic transmission of habits.
culture: art/cuisine/science/politics. 'Cultural pneumatology'.
Friday 25 June 1999
Students are clients of the public service in that unis are clients of the bureaucracy.
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delivering services to students who have to some extent paid.
Having pursued the greenie thing fro the tripod to the courthouse, am I now ready for the big job, the removal of corruption from mindspace?
CORRUPTION = using resources as less than optimal complexity, ie DESTRUCTION OF CAPITAL
CAPITAL = {EMBODIED FORM}
. . .
Does the academic immune system reject foreign ideas beyond a certain level of foreignness (or when they show significant markers on their outer coats)?
We plough on in. As I become more certain in my belief, the plan for capitalizing on the truth that I have appropriated becomes clearer and clearer. The force driving the propagation
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of new algorithms in noetic space is the benefits they provide for both source and recipients.
Today we change the name to toward neutral religion.
NEUTRAL definition
The size of the accident is proportional to the sparseness (ineffectiveness) of the surveillance.
Fides quaerens intellectum = data seeking a model.
We believe this: what does it mean. But the divining of meaning requires flexibility of belief.
So now we want neutralReligion.com
Saturday 26 June 1999
. . .
Mathematics is an ideal (or formal) world. We talk about the set N of natural numbers. It is
I am looking for a way to make sense of the world, and one thing becomes clear that sometimes I am looking
The CU is the space for the evolution of form.
What I want is a model of the U that makes me feel at home in the U as I once felt at home in the Church. I am looking for a formalism that
FIDES QUAERENS INTELLECTUM = THEOLOGY Different fides gives us different theology.
What we would like to show is that the externally imposed demand for fidelity among couples may be a force for decreasing, rather than increasing, the level of
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fidelity that is achieved. My faith that I am entirely part of the universe is a new faith which places demands on me not present in the old faith. There we live in an alien world where we are the chosen children of a supreme being. Discontinuities between ourselves and the world are put down to the fact that the world is a limitation upon us which we will eventually escape if we think and act correctly. I have no such 'loophole' and so naturally must start with a space big enough to encompass my feelings about myself.
I have made this transition in faith. You may hold other beliefs or none. From the point of view of the theoretical exercise it does not matter. You may look without buying.
At the moment our social engines are PR firms which get results by giving individuals exactly what they want with little regard for the wider picture. On the other hand one has religions (often using PR methods) try[ing] to guide people in a certain direction. Or [are] they? Perhaps they too
The elementary intelligence = LOGIC GATE = FUNCTION
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The elements of a group go through a dance with as many dances as there are elements. Although it might seem open to the participants, embracing all conceivable possibilities, it can be shown from the outside to be closed, because one could imagine manipulating the elements of a group in a way outside their definition.
All mathematics is actually done by finite local machines and represented in finite ordered sets of data.
FONT = lookup table.
pi is computable because it can be represented by a finite algorithm
The proof of possibility is performance.
Some legal research : on the dispensation of vows.
Does Thomas inhabit the days before doublespeak became a way of life. You give us money and we will preach to you what you expect to hear because the system has been entrenched for
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centuries. A vow is a private thing? How can the pope dispense my vows: because they were taken under false pretenses.
To bring rights to all means standing up for your own rights: a
well constructed right
a) contributes to the structure of the whole (consistent) and
b) is what everyone wants.
I desire to kill without being killed. Cannot be a universal right.
A model must be a way of calculating the world, and so we need to learn how to make a calculation.
We have some parameters 1..0, 0..1 peace - violence/life - death/ fit - unfit/ correlation length/consistency/phase
Event = change of quantum state occupation. Quantum computation: coherent change of a
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large number of states.
Maximizing the entropy of a system between the extremes of complete coherence (zero entropy) and complete chaos (zero information). A string of bits only makes sense when it is decoded through the appropriate process, otherwise it is noise. So do we have an infinity of fundamental particles, only some of which makes sense? Dark matter.
I do not know the answers. I feel exceedingly slow in that it has taken me thirty years to just develop an attitude and still not be able to make much of it. The think is being constructed for beauty, not for utility. But have confidence the utility will come ; the coupling between bandwidth and gentleness.
But there is the optimum, measured in some way by feedback. The unification of minds in communication is modelled with choice machines. Each bit of information I receive from you makes me bigger, so each machine on the network is potentially as big as the whole network.
The fundamental resource MEMORY = CAPITAL. The universe is a memory by virtue of Newtons first law everything stays the same unless it is changed. The conservation of energy means that the rate of change of the universe is constant and <= aleph(0)
d aleph(1)/ dt = aleph(0) (this is not fast enough to even visit the whole of aleph(1)
aleph(0) is the rate of pairwise changes ie interaction.
Dark matter very low (gravitational) rate of interaction.
Cannot give rigorous mathematical proof: only conjecture guided by intuition seeking consistency,
change of state = change of realised eigenvalue.
If it is important to keep battling on with an idea then I have done that for about E4 pp = 2E6 words (like these). The notebooks are the mirror (map) in which I track my progress, loping along somewhat randomly toward the perimeter of
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my patch, or at least away from my starting point. The basic step is the change of faith.
FAITH = FUNDAMENTAL FICTION = HYPOTHESIS
FITNESS of THEORY = ability to pass reality tests/ ability to eat other theories (thus growing at their expense)
Each form is competing for the available action = energy.
Uncertainty principle means particles can interact even if they do not share precisely the same geodesic, since a real event is 'blurred' in spacetime, although the readout from it is not. A definite particle or {particle} is emitted. When I speak I say something our of the infinity of things that I could say. The information carried by a symbol depends on the entropy of the space from which it is drawn. (how many times have I written this) When these diaries are all in e-form I will be able to search for this.
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Getting practical, what are the functions of the church
a) survival by taking goods for goods
b) authenticating messages from god
c) validating processes authorized by god for the development of his
people, sacraments etc.
Read the code of canon law.
Draft a constitution for a church
baptism - recruiting to the database
confirmation - taking control of own life
confession - error correction
eucharist - sustenance from the whole
extreme unction - taking care of business in extremis
ordination - graduation as full service agent of church
marriage - registering contracts and checking for justice.
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Categories of service to be rendered by whole to parts and parts to whole
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baptism |
'habeas corpus' one enters the model of the mystical body. |
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confirmation |
access to personal database and control of same. CREDO. Access to the constitution = protocols of peace. |
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confession |
maintenance of justice, ie enforcement of constitutional rights and remedies in order to keep the body politic free from error. Education./judgment/mediation. moral theology = guide to action |
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eucharist |
blessings of the whole received through the system in cash and kind, including transport, clean air etc etc. Building the body of the anointed |
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marriage |
registration of personal contracts so that they can be matter for confession and correction if they fail. Children |
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ordination |
election to special position in the body politic, where one receives an income for delivering religious services, including academic function, degrees, certificates, etc etc etc. Certification and standardization |
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extreme unction |
sealing the record, grieving and generally making good the loss of a person from the community. |
Anyone can form a church which assumes any number of the functions listed above, just as individuals may derive different religious services from different organisations and individuals.
Specific expertise of religion is the bog picture, that is theory of everything.
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Mathematical models of consequences of truth and lying: the fragmentation of society when error levels become too high.
How do we calculate when the network will break down due to overloading, error or a combination of both?
RELIGION delivers human network services.
One can imagine that the bandwidth of the web will never match the bandwidth of all the kitchens, living rooms, bedrooms, bars, coffee shops etc etc etc where people practice local communication.
So we see the sacraments as network functions.
But the internet links all the kitchens into a common culture as do all the other non-local media.
Theoretical physics; spacetime theology. The standard theological model.
Corporations that deliver religion are traditionally
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called churches.
What feature of a new religion can guarantee that in the long run everyone will want it? palpably increased fitness.
Only you can deal with your inner fitness but religion ensures that the network delivers all that it is designed to deliver.
Entering battle, space of chaos, well armed.
Religion seeks the grace of God. We can take that over intact. The Lord helps those who help themselves, and we help ourselves by organizing - form controls matter and an organisation is a form.
Organization = controlled = variety restricted action which yields (by catalysis) more of a desired outcome than random action can.
Books
| Dawkins, Richard, The Selfish Gene , Oxford UP 1976 Amazon: Editorial review: 'Inheriting the mantle of revolutionary biologist from Darwin, Watson, and Crick, Richard Dawkins forced an enormous change in the way we see ourselves and the world with the publication of The Selfish Gene. Suppose, instead of thinking about organisms using genes to reproduce themselves, as we had since Mendel's work was rediscovered, we turn it around and imagine that "our" genes build and maintain us in order to make more genes. That simple reversal seems to answer many puzzlers which had stumped scientists for years, and we haven't thought of evolution in the same way since.' Rob Lightner Amazon back |
| Humphreys, Christmas, Buddhism, 1991 Amazon back |
| Misner, Charles W, and Kip S Thorne, John Archibald Wheeler, Gravitation, Freeman 1973 Jacket: 'Einstein's description of gravitation as curvature of spacetime led directly to that greatest of all predictions of his theory, that the universe itself is dynamic. Physics still has far to go to come to terms with this amazing fact and what it means for man and his relation to the universe. John Archibald Wheeler. ... this is a book on Einstein's theory of gravity (general relativity).' Amazon back |
| Weinberg, Steven, The Quantum Theory of Fields Volume I: Foundations, Cambridge University Press 1995 Jacket: 'After a brief historical outline, the book begins anew with the principles about which we are most certain, relativity and quantum mechanics, and then the properties of particles that follow from these principles. Quantum field theory then emerges from this as a natural consequence. The classic calculations of quantum electrodynamics are presented in a thoroughly modern way, showing the use of path integrals and dimensional regularization. The account of renormalization theory reflects the changes in our view of quantum field theory since the advent of effective field theories. The book's scope extends beyond quantum elelctrodynamics to elementary partricle physics and nuclear physics. It contains much original material, and is peppered with examples and insights drawn from the author's experience as a leader of elementary particle research. Problems are included at the end of each chapter. ' Amazon back |
Papers
| Chaitin, Gregory J, "Randomness and Mathematical Proof", Scientific American, 232, 5, May 1975, page 47-52. 'Although randomness can be precisely defined and can even be measured, a given number cannot be proved random. This enigma establishes a limit in what is possible in mathematics'. back |
| de Waal, Frans B M, "Cultural primatology comes of age", Nature, 399, 6737, 17 June 1999, page 635-636. 'The chimpanzee keeps inching closer to humanity. After decades of patiently gathering information, the heads of seven field-sites pool their knowledge to reveal the astonishing variation in tool technology and social customs in chimpanzees across Africa.'. back |
| Landauer, Rolf, "Information is a physical entity", Physica A, 263, 1-4, 1 February 1999, page 63-7. 'This paper, associated with a broader conference talk on the fundamental physical limits of information handling, emphasizes the aspects still least appreciated. Information is not an abstract entity but exists only through a physical representation, thus tying it to all the restrictions and possibilities of our real physical universe. The mathematician's vision of an unlimited sequence of totally reliable operations is unlikely to be implementable in this real universe. Speculative remarks about the possible impact of that, on the ultimate nature of the laws of physics are included.'. back |
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