TNS Observations

This quote is interesting:

"If you can spend your entire life studying wave equations, diffusion equations, time series, or the Navier-Stokes equations — and you can — you can do the same for the dynamics of people. In more detail, we know from physics (and Stephen Wolfram!) that very simple rules can produce incredibly complicated trajectories of dynamical systems. For Navier-Stokes, for example, we can divide these trajectories up into laminar flow, turbulent flow, inviscid flow, incompressible flow, and so on, to describe different ways a velocity field can evolve over time."

This sort if social physics is what religion is all about. Theologic and cosmologic statements alter our trajectory as a whole just enough to keep us together, like a flock of starlings reacting to a predator-- as we react to social change. I don't know much about the types of flows mentioned, but this measurement seems like a…

I had a meeting yesterday with Ruthana Emrys who encouraged me to read the Talmud (among other things). So I picked up Issac Unterman's Analytical Guide to the Talmud and I'm now convinced of several things. One of those is that through network theory and Christian faith I'm trying to create something that mirrors the Talmud very much, only for everyone everywhere(see ntari.org/jcswm and ntari.org/lsrf.

The Talmud, claims Unterman, is "the cognative development of national identity" enabling the Jewish tradition to survive multiple centuries-long dislodgings from their homeland, and establish some of the strongest diaspora communities in the world.

The Synagogue plays a huge role in this. While recently studying Michael Wine's Etymological New Testament, I found Synagogue is not so much a place as it is a social function. It is the town meeting-- a place to discuss the communal direction or a third-place.

I speculate Mr. Srinivasan is…

I'm normally studying with a baby by my side on Mondays, but I read through the first four sections and noticed how open Mr. Srinivasan is to connection.

He knows how history and computers work, he's chosen a direction and knows it is just one in a world of ways to develop from the core objective of this idea (a type of network society).

Subjectively, he quickly identifies his position and develops the intro to his treatise on network states. What strikes me about the author is he seems to be humbly aware of what James C. Scott calls "state vision". With access to hundreds of millions of dollars, Mr. Srinivasan's estate is a powerful entity all by itself, but how states develop and maintain awareness is important to how they impose themselves on others.

Whether he realizes it or not, Mr. Srinivasan has followed Pekka Himanen's open-source, Hacker Ethic.…