From Golden Dome to New Jerusalem: Breakthroughs Now Available

 When Trump declared he would support a "Golden Dome" thrust developing the most advanced breakthroughs now on the horizon, able to stop murderous missile attacks anywhere on Earth.. I was excited at first. But when he turned it over to Musk, I remembered how many other great thrusts Musk has worked on which fell short, because Musk is not keeping up with the best available advanced technology.

And so, when a friend from Israel asked about what REALLY could be done, NOW, I replied:

SOME aspects are very sensitive, and I would not use email for them. 

I have seen enough of the technology that I assume all my gmails exist somewhere in the vast archives of Google, of USGOV and of China, and that all of them are slowly upgrading their ability to actually use their files.

I think of the New Jerusalem suite of technologies as a blend or portfolio or roadmap of some technologies which may seem new and surprising, but all reflected in the Book of Revelations, and some more recent, more established. Also -- I would do my best to help get any ONE of them deployed, though my highest hope would be for a space habitat in geosynchronous orbit actually over Jerusalem proper. 

A quick list would be:

1, ABSOLUTE priority, extending the UN discussion for which I sent you the link: "seeing the sky," which is itself a portfolio. My recent patent https://patents.justia.com/inventor/paul-j-werbos included several papers filed at USPTO not published yet (to my surprise!). The key point is that a new type of quantum information processing, based on the same physics as the standard Quantum Turing Machine (invented by David Deutsch of Oxford) but radically different in capability and architecture, gives order of magnitude in all image processing tasks, including "seeing the sky" either just overhead or deep into the universe. 

It builds on work I funded at NSF by David Hyland, which later became classified after NASA and DOD used that same technology to achieve higher resolution on earth. I was allowed to see follow-ons AFTER China also achieved high resolution in seeing the earth -- but this new technology is also crucial to more intelligent USE of high resolution databases. I often cite China and Israel as world leaders in such aspects, in neural networks based on classical physics, but the quantum one is orders of magnitude beyond that.

All of this "sees" light (electromagnetic radiation), but the same design could be connected to new sensor networks focused on nuclear force signatures, which certainly cry out for further development, on an urgent basis.   

2. High power Intelligent Guidance Navigation and Control (IGNC). This includes how we steer an interceptor vehicle to destroy an attacking missile or drone. You know that "iron dome" technology is an important tool preventing total disaster in Israel, but few people know the full history. We should get into details at some time. Long ago, Patriot missiles became very famous, back when their success rate was only 1 or 4% .

I had many connections to BMDO and USAF and Boeing, from my program at NSF. 

I funded one of my PIs, Balakrishnan of U-Missouri Rolla (Now MST), who passed "shoot out" competitors, which led to a partnership with Lockheed and a ten-fold improvement in reducing failure to intercept.  But Lockheed never deployed the stage two version, which would have reduced failures by another factor of ten, simply because they did not have an economic incentive. Bala is dead now, but (1) the stage 2 design is fully understand by his research group leader, who is now in Bangalore, India; (2) the new quantum version of the algorithm will give orders of magnitude improvement, and important qualitative improvements. 

IGNC can be used EITHER on interceptor vehicles, OR on directed energy weapons.  

3.  Low cost access to space, far beyond what Lockheed or Musk know about. In building a space habitat, or even just deploying interceptors, cost per kg to LEO or GEO are of central importance to what can be built. I was delighted to read that Jewell of Purdue, Trump's nominee for S&T head of DOD, has a strong background in hypersonics with some background to good old pre-corruption Boeing engineering. This is a huge topic... but in brief, Musk has his own very narrow stable, and we have LOTS of data on what makes him so far behind what China and others know. I was one of three frontline

USGOV funding agents who funded work aimed at understanding very advanced hypersonic work leaking out long ago from Russia. I am still in regular contact with people from DARPA, AF and BMDO, which could assist a New Jerusalem project get us orders of magnitude more than what Musk could get.

 

4. New electrooptic crystals to be made in space. This is one of the two "OLD" breakthrough options! I will never forget 1972 when I accidentally read the Book of Revelations ( a story which might amuse you, but for later), and saw what crystals were displayed in the space habitat depicted in that book (named "New Jerusalem"). Most were easy to understand for me... getting a PhD then in the Harvard Division of Engineering and Applied Physics, but one puzzled me. I had a classmate from GE Aerospace, and I asked him what THIS crystal would be good for. He was shocked 

and promised me that GE could get every copy of the book removed from circulation, whatever it was! I just laughed... but later learned that that kind of nonlinear photonic crystal is fundamental to starting quantum nonlinear optics. There is also a similar nonlinear electro-optic crystal whose capabilities go beyond what almost anyone knows as yet. (There was a group by Lake Konstanz in Switzerland with amazing results; on a recent web search, I learned of quantum computing work in Japan almost unknown in US which verifies the startling new results.)

5. New energy sources and detection. This has a link to 1, but is the least proven of all five so far. Circa 1990, when Julian Schwinger visited me at NSF, he described new empirical work already done strongly supporting his general claim, published in Science (A Magnetic Model of Matter), supporting a family of Hamiltonians quite different from the usual QCD, which we may now have a need for. See https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.aac9788 for a family on nonlinear electric/photonic crystals which need to be studied much more exhaustively because of their potential both in "seeing the sky" in new dimensions, and energy sources which might change the game. 

6. MORE CLASSICAL... large AI servers of any kind need power. From our IEEE climate technology work, we know of high  efficiency Brayton-based 

solar thermal energy, and thermal storage, ready for more immediate deployment both on earth and in space. It is SO well proven and developed already... but vested interests in the energy sector have had huge biasing effects, weakening the US. If Project Golden Dome, mutated into New Jerusalem, could just get this piece deployed, it would be worth more than the entire life's product of >99% of people in these fields!

As I type this, I note that Abdul Kalam's proposal to use solar sail mirrors to create zones of high illumination on earth could be combined with the new solar technology, which is described in https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/14JNhumdUGzAkoOadlXiR1fqE79WPOLsL?usp=sharing, to possibly produce renewable clean electricity on earth at a cost many times lower than  any alternatives in sight. 

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Appendix:

In this email, I said I was leaving out many details (all filled in in my files, too long for one email)

BUT ALSO some related topics.

One topic is the place of our life -- the life of this solar system -- in the much larger ecosystem of our universe,

discussed a bit more in my chapter in https://www.amazon.in/Exploring-Consciousness-Non-Locality-Come-Carpentier/dp/9391759947 . When a space enthusiast asked me what the chances are of our descendants 

reaching out beyond the solar system and establishing a stable existence there... I replied that it depends on an equilibrium probability distribution, which I derived and published in a paper in the con-mat part of arxiv. In practice, it depends on what kinds of sources of free energy we can use. That is not easy. The New Jerusalem proposal in motivated in great part, underneath, by the hope of making it possible. 

How Freud Gave Us Backpropagation and Links to Jung

Long ago, IEEE gave me its Neural Network Pioneer award for the original discovery of backpropagation -- the main foundation of the deep learning sweeping the world today, which was transferred and disseminated only because of very great efforts over many years. However, only recently have psychiatrists and psychologists started to learn the true story -- how I derived backpropagation BY translating certain ideas from Freud into mathematics. Here is part of that story. I wrote it down when asked for a discussion of it... ===================================================== Direct human contact, even by Zoom, allows a depth and richness I value a LOT. However, when I worked at NSF (1988-2015), I also learned how some conversations can go off course, and generate misunderstandings and false memories. IN THIS CASE, I feel it calls for me to put certain facts on "paper" now, as a kind of foundation, reality testing, whatever. Also, to be honest, I strongly believe I reach higher levels of awareness in the early morning, on most days, before I get distracted by many other things. Over time, I have gotten VERY deep into many approaches to psychoanalysis and psychiatry. The first big step for me was when I was 7 or 8 years old,when my sent me to a summer camp, Long Acres, where I met George Davis Gammon ("Davis"), whose father was chairman of neurology (they said) at the University of Pennsylvania. When I turned 9 (1956), I entered Chestnut Hill Academy, located in northwest Philadelphia, where Davis was in my class, living near the school. In the many, many conversations we had, he passed on what his father and other family members had taught him about psychology and psychiatry, mainly from a Freudian point of view. He showed me Gray's anatomy and the book by Sherrington on the brain. I pored over Sherrington, but for anatomy and physiology I mainly studied a text my mother had used when she took nursing many years before that. In those days, everyone I knew was aware of Freud, but feelings were very polarized. (As they are today about many topics!) I had an image of young girls who would violently tease boys about how confused and distorted their thinking was. (I did not even think at the time that there might be a friendly aspect of such teasing. But I was never teased that way, so I did not think of that aspect.) IN FACT -- at age 8 I was injected with testosterone by a Dr. Bone (just a precaution, he said), and that, combined with normal stuff, put me on the extreme side of yang. Like many other yang boys, I was disgusted and repelled by a lot of what people said about Freud, and I was aiming for a logical mathematical understanding of brains, mind and universe, which tends to make people too disgusted by what was said about Freud to pay much attention. However -- thanks in part to what I learned from Davis, and from conversations with people like my sister's classmates... I decided to take a third path. I UNDERSTOOD the first basic concepts of Freud's theory of pyschodynamics, based on his studies of neurons in medical school. I understood the idea "if there is a forwards association from A to B, based on causal learning, there will be a corresponding flow BACKWARDS from the B neuron to the A neuron, for chemicals representing 'cathexis' or 'psychic energy.'" Instead of rejecting Freud as nonscientific, I decided to translate his idea from a bgroping effort to develop a mathematical theory by Freud, into real mathematics. That was just the START of a rather complex journey -- as the brain and mind are also complicated. In the early 1960s, I took advanced computer summer course for high school students at the Moore school of University of Pennsylvania, which led to a summer job in 1964 at a research project under Dr./Prof. Karreman, a cardiologist. He had me study Hebb's classic book, still important, The Organization of Behavior. As I pondered Hebb's ideas for a universal learning rule, I realized quickly it could not even do as well as simple linear regression in learning how the world works; for a mathematically viable design, I needed derivatives, and by then I simply knew the relation between Freud and how to calculate derivatives, a kind of childhood memory by then. FINALLY -- a decent documentary record of sorts: https://vixra.org/abs/1902.0046 from 1972. SO much happened related to this story between 1964 and 1972! In early 1967, I believed fiercely that this view of the brain -- grounded in Freud whose works I studied much further in visits to the Harvard Adams House library -- totally explained human intelligence. But (werbos.com/religions.htm) from spring 1967 until winter 1972 I had many startling personal experiences which totally changed my views, step by step. NOW -- when people ask me "what are your holy books?", I say that Von Neumann and MOrgenstern is my Old Testament (the foundation of my neural network models of the brain as supported by data analysis in Werbos and Davis in Frontiers in Neuroscience), but now Cawhich just came outrl Jung's Red Book is my New Testament. The same mathematical models built up from Freud and Einstein can be extended to understand and justify concepts of collective mind which Jung worked so hard to probe. And yes, that kind of extension does require seeing how Freud's concepts of chemical or electrical "cathexis" signals must have PARALLEL , mathematically similar flows to implement backpropagation BETWEEN PEOPLE. In 1967-72, that seemed crazy to me at first.. but I took courses from Julian Schwinger, who shared the Nobel Prize for inventing "the second quantization," who led me on a path showing a very solid path to the physics which allows that. That path is outlined in the attached book chapter, from 2024 https://www.amazon.in/Exploring-Consciousness-Non-Locality-Come-Carpentier/dp/9391759947 .

Lessons From travel to Alaska and Yukon -- brains, indigenous culture, Vietnam, etc

 I owe great thanks to my wife Ludmilla, who has unique world-class skills in leading us to places all over the world, where we have learned many things known to VERY few Westerners. One month under her unique planning equates to about three advanced graduate courses across many new disciplines.

ONE of those trips, in the summer of 2025, was to Alaska and the Yukon. I recently sent a summary of what we learned on that trip, that few others ever learn, to a group of friends and family:

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1. New discoveries about how our brains work:

FOR EXAMPLE -- Frontiers in Neuroscience asked me to organize a special issue this year, bringing together all the best radical advances in our understanding of how brains really work to generate intelligence. I put together a position paper on this ( https://drpauljohn.blogspot.com/2024/09/position-paper-for-next-great-advances.html). Section iii, just past halfway through the paper, reports on radical improvements in our understanding of how mammal and bird brains attain the highest levels of general intelligence that they are capable of. The final improvement can be credited to this tour (though it also reflects a foundation we built on from previous trips we have photos for.)

2. Indigenous People

The second group of incredible learning involves indigenous cultures. From earlier trips, we knew how human civilization arose from three MAIN streams of progress beyond the hunter-gatherer stage: "people of the boat, people of the horse, and people of the vegetable." (After our recent trip to Indochina and Thailand, I would refine this a bit, paying more respect to highlanders and elephants.) We knew that the Tlingit people, especially, were important well-integrated people in the ancient high civilization of the people of the boat of the Pacific, crossing the ocean, ranging from places we have seen from Pacific islands, like Hawaii and Maori, to

Peru, to the Champa people of Vietnam. In this trip, we saw more of them (and other great fisher people), BUT ALSO of inland Athabascan people who have a lot to teach us, and others. 

BEFORE this trip, I mainly thought of  early shamanism as MAINLY "mother earth, father sky" (or  mother sky, as Hava has taught us about early Israeli culture). HERE, the role of clans and connections with specific species was VERY striking. For example... in the Yukon (around Dawson) we saw the place where gold was first really discovered, causing a massive change in the world economy. We saw the faces of the group, and the real leader.. a Tlingit guy living inland, whose house (we visited) displayed a prominent statue of an orca, his clan, and ... a bird.  My brain paper mentions orcas... but we now know a lot more about them, about this guy's spiritual connections. And WE met a lot of creatures, like a family of friendly ravens we connected to. 

3. Human-huskie collaboration and brain synchronization

OK -- third most important, but some would say first. In Denali, especially, but also other places, we saw lots of cooperative behavior of humans and huskies, especially. Suddenly I add the names of my long-time friend and collaborator, Robert Kozma, and Scott Kelso, a world leader in the study of brain synchronization. Last year I was amazed by the collaborative, synchronized behavior I saw (unique in the world, in many ways) connecting humans and huskies. At Denali, a lead place of USGS, I saw VERY serious well-funded research teams studying these teams, connecting very important basic science with practical realities of life important to the lives of people in Alaska and Yukon, now and in the past, Euro-American and indigenous both. (I DID see great teams of humans and horses in Iceland, as well, but both places are unique, and I have to say THESE teams in Alaska and Canada were the most impressive.) Above all -- I see exciting NEW opportunities for very important fundamental research strengthening these connections and understanding, making full use of the newest mathematical and cybernetic  tools. 

A lot to learn for those with open eyes... and ears and hearts. 

The geology and the worlds of rocks, the economics and history were ALSO very interesting, but this post is already long enough. 

WAIT: MORE:

History of earth and Champa people of the boat:

SEE https://youtu.be/ghmjIBD2Fd4

After our return from Vietnam, which made me wish SOME of the people in UDSGOV knew half of what we learned, Ludmilla said: "You still have a lot to learn. Watch this video, and the others in the series." I was astounded at how much NEW I learned, complementary to the things Ludmilla and I learned (not in that video), but consistent, and crucial to the whole story. Since we visited the main center of the Champa people in Vietnam, and even met some, and knew the history in Vietnam... we knew SOMETHING, but did not realize how much power they had in earlier centuries. At one point, their power in Southeast Asia...  reminds me a little of my own ancient Viking ancestry (which visited all of Britain and Ireland and penetrated into Germany and France and... on Ludmila's side as far as the Black Sea). Creative and innovative and open people, but a bit oppressive to others at times. Essential parts of humanity and even the genome of humanity, but only PARTS, always in need of balance. As the video made clear!! 

Great new video -- first step in physics to brings humans back to reality and quantum tech which works

 A strong subject -- but 100% well-grounded. Yesterday I saw a RELATIVELY new youtube manifesto from 

Sabine Hossenfelder (whom John has often urged us to track, to keep up with the most serious new advanced physics) and David Deutsch and a moderator named OConnor. ANYONE who has any interest in how the universe really works, OR in quantum technology, really should ignore the commercial and click on the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bux0SjaUCY0. This video is a "small step" in a way, but opening a door can also be a small step... and this door leads directly to what 99% of human "experts" need to know, to know what REAL quantum physics WILL be doing to radically change our lives, our technologies, our politics of war and peace and money, and our very souls sooner than we usually imagine possible. 

COULD changes in technology (and the means of production and the means of war) possibly have such huge impacts? Given the lessons of history, we really should take this seriously. If we worry whether the changes will be good or bad for all of humanity, we really should try to understand what they are. That is especially true when we discuss how the universe works, at a most fundamental level -- and when the known new reality is radically different from even what most physicists have learned (except for a few who thoroughly understand the most relevant physics in nanohub.org, device and condensed matter physics).

I saw this great video for the first time yesterday when I was reviewing a VERY advanced paper on a major advance in quantum technology. I recommended adding citations to David Deutsch of Oxford who INVENTED the quantum turing machine (the foundation of >99% of US funding in quantum computing, for which I was the NSF representative until my retirement in 2015). More precisely, I recommended citing:

 Deutsch, D. (1985). Quantum theory, the Church–Turing principle and the universal quantum computer. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. A. Mathematical and Physical Sciences, 400(1818), 97-117.

https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall06/cos576/papers/deutsch85.pdf

and

Deutsch, D. (1998). The fabric of reality. Penguin UK.

https://youtu.be/bux0SjaUCY0?feature=shared

I do NOT believe that Deutsch's multiverse theory (which I call EWD, Everett-Wheeler-Deutsch)

is the full theory of how our universe works, mathematically! Iam reminded of Brian Josephson's argument: You can always imagine that the universe we see is actually just an approximation, like a world resting on a turtle deeper down... and and another turtle on thet... turtles all the way down. I really DO believe I have a

better theory, based on studying the emergent behavior predicted by Einsteinian "Classical Fields"

(BOOK] Classical fields: general relativity and gauge theory

M Carmeli - 2001 - books.google.com ) 

as derived in several papers I have published. HOWEVER: in the case of ORDINARY physics of electrons, electromagnetism, and ions, EWD is EQUIVALENT to the relevant Einsteinian

model, if correct models are used for the macroscopic devices we use to observe quantum systems. 

And so, for any technology based on electronics and photonics, or for understanding consciousness in brains like ours based on such physics ( Regular cycles of forward and backward signal propagation in prefrontal cortex and in consciousness ), UNDERSTANDING EWD is the correct foundation for the next big progress we need to make

in all these fields. For example, UNDERSTANDING EWD IS ABSOLUTELY CRUCIAL to the next big step,

the development AND MANAGEMENT of Quantum AGI (https://patents.justia.com/inventor/paul-j-werbos) and the understanding of the quantum effects which ensure that there are parallel copies of every one of us which affect our futureS and our fateS.  See https://drpauljohn.blogspot.com/2021/11/q-basic-realities-of-living-in.html .

If you think carefully about the fundamental points I just made -- please notice that quantum intelligence

is NOT necessary to understanding those LEVELS of intelligence or consciousness (including emotions, feelings, qualia) which exist in mammal or bird brains, OR in the new explosion of AGI based on classic QED electronics and photonics. The true picture of such QED brains fits the image of computers called "Romeo and Juliet" in George Bernard Shaw's number one play https://nmi.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/1375.pdf. 

To develop a correct inner understanding of the emerging new levels of human and machine consciousness, I strongly urge you all to read that play and preface, if you haven't yet.

QED AGI can replicate all the pious proud emotions people often cite, arguing for the superiority of humans and human souls over QED AGI. That is a correct picture.

BUT: some of you are aware of how Walter Freeman, one of the world's two top systems neuroscientists two decades ago (when I was close to both), included papers both by me AND by Vitiello in his final summing up, the book edited by Freeman and Kozma (now in a second edition). Vitiello tried to use physics more advanced than QED to try to explain consciousness. More precisely, he built on EWT, the more proven half of the "Standard Model of Physics" as defined by Weinberg, who co-invented EWT and wrote THE authoritative three volumen textbook on mainstream Quantum Field Theory. EWT is NOT necessary to understand that level of consciousness exhibited by mammal brains (or by "Romeo and Juliet" AGI). But in my view, AN EXTENSION of 

EWT, as needed to understand dark matter, IS necessary to understand human potential beyond that level -- EXACTLY AS SHAW portrays!!! 

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In my view, human survival even through 2100 urgently demands major progress in BOTH areas: (1) radical improvement in human potential, including even use of physics beyond QED to "see the sky" and see ourselves more than what QED alone offers; (2) full deployment, understanding and open, benign management of quantum AGI technology.

As an old man (forbidden to use the best known antiaging technology, by order of FDA), without more allies ambitious enough to learn how to take on more of the work, I focus for now on (2). The actual deployment of the full QAGI technology, defined in the patent and in the MANY supporting papers, requires more research centers able to understand the new technology, which requires understanding several of the fundamental IMPLICATIONS OF EWD which very few physicists (let alone policy people or philosophers) know today.

For example... to understand and build on the most advanced papers today, like what I reviewed yesterday (being prepared for submission)... it is essential to know what a wave function psi really is, for use in the mathematics of design and design analysis. When I managed reviews of quantum technology, either for the big interagency efforts or for the program I led (https://arxiv.org/abs/0709.3310) , MOST highly respected researchers with respected credentials failed review by reviewers aware of modern condensed matter physics because they still believed what they were taught. They believed that the wave function in quantum mechanics represents the state of our knowledge of a system, and can thus represent MIXED thermodynamic states like what we see in real devices. They simply would not work! Even places like DOD fully understood and accounted for that even before

I joined the group; the people who decided to do massive funding of quantum technology did so only after

they saw the paper by Gersheld and Chuang Bulk spin-resonance quantum computation in Science showing how a QTM can be built using the "density operator" way of representing thermodynamc states. A particular value of the wave function, in EWD, represents ONE POSSIBLE state of the universe... or even one possible state of an electronic or photonic device. Only by understanding the evolution of such states through  time can one do valid device simulations or calculations. Such work has in fact begun, demonstrating the kinds of massive benefits described in the new patent, in supporting papers filed with USPTO and in the directories of QAGI LLC (of which I am not an owner, by mutual agreement). 

Is there a university or government or industry lab interested in building up the new physics capability applied to

the relevant multivariate master equations and thermodynamics needed to become centers of QAGI, in partnership?

God: a radical more complete unification with science

 

God is real, and is a set of nonlinear PDE.

Please do not just jump to conclusions here about what I am trying to explain in this post. Yes, the opening sentence is ambiguous and incomplete, but it points to a radical alternative both to common extreme forms of religion and of popular beliefs about science which are equally bind and unscientific in themselves. This post will define that alternative, which i hereby name as "Hard Core Scientific Understanding of God (HCSUG). God is hugely important to all of us, and nontrivial and serious.

Here is a brief summary of what I really mean to say, also in need of further explanation but less cryptic:

1. My foundation here is the work of John Von Neumann, whose book The Theory of Games and Economic Behavior includes the concept of personal or subjective conditional probabilities. His concept was explained and applied in great work by Howard Raiffa. On that foundation, I firmly believe that  no sane human is justified in attributing more than a 60% probability to any meaningful story about "God". (See my published papers linked to at werbos.com/religions.htm giving science-based definitions of two levels, two types of "sanity".) This post defines and partially explains HCSUG -- but I continue to work hard to be alert to anything with real evidence beyond that view.

2.HCSUG includes HCER, hard core einsteinian realism. (See werbos com/mind_brain_soul.htm section 2 for a few of the many sources on HCER.)

HCER postulates that anything we have any real contact with is just a pattern in space-time across a finite number of classical force fields, as described in the great classical book Classical Fields by Moshe Carmelli. That book was written for people who fully understand the mathematics of Einstein and of John Wheeler, but it is quite solid, and we have a duty to explain it more to the public in the future.

In a way, I am saying that God did not create the universe, that God IS the universe.

Many modern thinkers -- proGod magical thinking theologians who inherit the top down theologies disseminated by Sargon the great of Sumeria -- would regard this as an intolerable insult to God or to sacred human languages like Sanskrit or pali or Hebrew or English or ancient Chinese  Many others would say this is a reactionary scientific viewpoint which implies some variant of hard core modern atheism. Both are incorrect, because they do not understand the full radical power of new mathematics and its solid emergent properties,

and its direct connections to our lives .

3. The key issue here for real humans trying to understand their relation to God is the question of whether there exists any kind of intelligent personality out there, encompassing the entire universe, whom we can relate to -- and if so how.

How could a set of nonlinear pde constitute a personality?

The claim here is that a "personality" is just another way of referring to the full state (current state and underlying dynamics ) of a system possessing General Intelligence, as defined for example in my patents (patents.justia.com/inventor/paul-j-werbos )  .  Finite general Intelligent systems always possess an intrinsic cardinal utility function U, which they learn to maximize over time. To do so, they usually learn how their environment works.

The universe as a whole (under HCER) does not fall within THAT concept of intelligence or personality  . But why? Only because it does not need to learn approximate predictions  . It already KNOWS the state and dynamics of the entire universe! It maximizes its U       , its Lagrangian function, based on complete perfect information.

Should we view a system as less of a real personality if it knows too much about its environment? In the limit, if we know more and more, and converge towards complete knowledge, does perfect knowledge make us less real and less personal? Is the universe itself less of a real personality than the lesser intelligent systems which inhabit it?

BUT for us, these are not the real issues. The real issue for each of us lesser intelligences is how to interfaces with the greatest and most powerful system, the universe itself. Since the universe does gave its own motivating force, it's own gargantuan or utility function, we will achieve OUR goals better if we understand more clearly how IT works, and what it is striving for,

and we remember that it manifests an optimization far more overwhelming and focused and complete than what even the highest and most intelligent finite minds within the universe is capable of.

4. HOW CAN WE DEVELOP AND STRENGTHEN THAT UNDERSTANDING?

Like life itself, this question opens up a huge ladder of possibilities. It calls for us to reconsider many things we may have known or read in the past.

One great source to remember is the great novel The Sirens of Titan by Vonnegut. What if our lives and our world and our history are being by a great plan .. but not a plan centered on what WE want? It would be stupid to fight such a reality  but to be true to ourselves we all have a great balancing act to perform .

Each of us individual humans are like employees of the bottom level of the management structure of a vast tightly focused large corporation organized to maximize ITS bottom line over all space-time. The payment to each of us is personal  not identical to the universal bottom line, This analogy goes much further, but this post is just an overview.

The collective intelligence of our solar system is just one of the intelligent systems with personality higher than we are as individuals, but small compared to the universe as a whole. Some people think of that person as Gaia, but I prefer the name Amaterasu for reasons beyond the scope of this post. The reinforcement signals or "payments " sent by the universe to or through Amaterasu are a more complete reflection of the bottom line of God than the local signals sent to us as individuals, but signals to us from Amaterasu have a huge effect in bringing us good luck or bad luck or other things which surprise us.

To better understand Amaterasu, it helps to have serious full clear understanding of the real concrete story of life on earth. For that  I highly recommend the book by Ward and Kirscvink, discussed and cited only in part at biild-a-world.org, in our paper on risks to humanity in the climate block. For many millions of years  the search for better animal DNA populations was the main obstacle faced by Anaterasu  in fulfilling the directions received from the universe as a whole. There are many important lessons to us there.

And of course this is a huge universe. My recent book chapters and journal articles fill in many details of the collective challenges we face now.  

Many of the lesser but powerful "gods" affecting humans do exist -- as archetypes , and as patterns within the neocortex of amaterasu. Carl jung's red book is another essential source, the first ofamy I would cite to map more closely what most of humanity now faces.. but the future goes much further into many threads of real possibilities, as new quantum physics reveals. 

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Appendix: selected FAQS 

1. What DOES God want, more concretely?

 There are two main aspects to the answer:

A.  What is the utility function U, called the Lagrangian measure, maximized by the universe? 

The most advanced relevant science on earth is only just now becoming more specific in a testable way. And it considers a more general formulation in principle, minmax subject to equality constraints, as required even to replicate Maxwell's laws without ad hoc injections. For now, max seems to work, but minmax does not yet seem to change the important part, B. 

TO BE MORE PRECISE: the universe is not exactly us to maximize the sum of L over all space-time. Even in the most general case included under the HCER theory, it pushes us towards a state of maximum entropy AS WORKED OUT in my con-mat paper I will now say more about.

B. For any U or L, where could the universe be trying to take us? Which possibility is the real one?

Many early courses on science teach the students that our universe MUST be moving us to a "death death", a state of maximum disorder where all life is extinguished, and all consciousness or brains connected to life are also impossible. This is a dangerous and obsolete viewpoint , just as obsolete as the ideas of flat earth and phlogiston which were also taught long after they were obsolete. 

HCER itself does not say whether our universe is taking us to a heat death (“fire"), to a frozen fixed point outcome (" ice”), to Big Crunch (like a Big Bang but time reversed), or to a whole set of different threads of possibility in our quantum universe. That depends on the list of force fields, on the soecif Lagrangian function L and on boundary conditions . However, there is important circumstantial.evidence and prior work giving us clues.

For example, at arxiv.org/and/cond-mat/0411384, I show the exact entropy function for a large, important and representative family of HCER models. This shows that universes based on that dynamics would drive us to a probability distribution of likely futures similar in spirit to the great cosmology thermodynamics model developed decades ago by John Wheeler. The universe goes to a mix of patterns like galaxies of approximately minimum energy , exchanging energy through deep space. (Of course this is a quick simplification.) And so… if life is what emerges at a certain level and flux of free energy  we expect it to persist indefinitely  But the universe seeks interesting patterns which exploit all types of free energy to support more life and mind if all kinds and levels.

2. How does this affect us individual creatures?

Again  this also calls for a full book of explanation, to balance and integrate the many cases, more complex than the broca regions of any single mammal brain. 

Amaterasu is like a small recently hatched goldfish in a big aquarium, full of friendly kin, hostile predators and more, in an unknown mix  Those of us with “second order sanity" (as defined in papers linked to at werbos.com/religions.htm), tuned in to Amaterasu enough to be ever more useful team members, we support “her" three supreme U imperatives: to survive, to grow and to develop situational awareness of the larger aquarium. But to “grow" means learning in a way which reduces the probability that the.himan species makes all of us extinct, in this difficult time of growth.

3. God as Optimization

HCUG, including HCER, says that the one God of our universe is governed by (a metrified form of,) a particular TYPE of nonlinear PDE: Lagrange-Euler equations . This has important implications  even after we generalize the mathematics to consider monmax and equality constraints 

Above all  it implies that understanding the mathematics of optimization is essential to understanding God and understanding what he/she/it is struggling to advance  . "What does that God guy really want, and how do we deal with that?" 

Someight ask:" If God wants more progress here on earth and is omnipotent and omniscient  why doesn't know how he could get more progress fast by his power of miracles,?, "

We usually live in a state of the universe S(t1) at time t2 such that there exists an allowed state S'(t2) with higher value U(S'(t2)) than the value of the actual future state S(t2) predicted by the all-powerful Lagrange-Euler equations. HCER predicts that the universe will not choose the "miracle" of any abrupt change , to S' at time t2, because the histories of S between time t1 and time t2 which lead there are more expensive (as measured by U) than the benefit of S'(t2) compared to S(t2). God chooses the simpler, less expensive  smoother path to the long-term goal. When human thought is part of a new state, giving God new options, he pays attention, but dumb ideas impress him only in the same way they would impress a psychiatrist who understands the bigger picture. 

As a practical matter, I listen more to my wife and to "Amaterasu" (,my name for the shared collective intelligence of our solar system) than I do to God, because of the sheer bandwidth of everyday communications. None of us is omniscient or omnipotent  and we all need to learn the middle way between too much learned helplessness and not enough humility. But we all together benefit from remembering and better understanding the greater universe we are part of.

Given time , I should describe the complex map of personalities WITHIN Amaterasu, ranging from the souls of ants and fish to archetypes worshipped as "gods" by many. AsI leave holang Bay of Vietnam , i hope they all can connect better  , building on thoughts at such special places on earth.

For example  kaiku and Kato of Japan and Izumo can connect here...

If you age, remember you ARE a child

 In my morgensdenke meditatuion period, a "Poem" engraved itself into my mind:

We the people and the life of the earth am a child. As we age that is all that is really left of us. Let us remember who we are and be true to ourselves.

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Here is BRIEF explanation, followed by a more formal explanation of the explanation:

This might help explain my poem of the morning: We the people/life of the earth am a child, more and more as we age. 

In the alchymical marriage of mundane brain/body self and "soul", which is a PART of our noosphere, mortal aging and death shift the balance of hope, power and life more and more to the soul part.... which is PART of our local noosphere, but as part of the noosphere more and more identified with (taking the viewpoint of)  the whole of the organism which it is. 

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Formally:

WHO are we/you, REALLY? In truth, I believe I know the answer more than any other human on earth -- which is not saying much, really. I say this based on very extensive work both in solid mathematical science and in first person human experience all over the world. For example, for mathematical neuroscience see https://drpauljohn.blogspot.com/2024/09/position-paper-for-next-great-advances.html. But discussions by humans in English are often confused by issues of semantics. And so, To explain what this poem REALLY tells us, I copy what I posted today to a debate between a scientist and a leading yoga teacher.

It BUILDS UP  from how we use words to what the words mean:

On Sat, Jan 11, 2025 at 9:23 AM Sungchul Ji <sji.conformon@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi BVK Sastry and others,

(1) 

Your observation (1):    If God is everything and everywhere, as I came to believe based on Matrix Semantics, there should be an infinite number of ways to define God. The purpose of this post is to show how the Matrix Semantics table may be employed to integrate the predicted multiple definitions of God. 

 

BVK Sastry alternate (1) : If HUMANS  everywhere, are using  ‘some’ - ‘language’ – which fits in to a ‘Matrix Semantics / Semiotics’ , there should be some UNIVERSAL WAY TO IDENTIFY PRIME ROOT OF ALL HUMAN LANGUAGE DIVERSITY AND FUNCTIONALITY ;  where in ‘ LANGUAGE is used in a specific way to define-connect to  ‘God’. 

Matrix Semantics and Semiotics may be explored further to identify connection of HUMAN- LANGUAGE TO ‘GOD’ .  

Matrix semantics ... is just an ad hoc tool... but I agree 100% with the deep fundamental truth of what Sung is saying here. 

After all, if a dictionary has n definitions for each word it includes, why not arrange the n of them in a table and call it a "matrix"? And the dictionary usually has other data besides definitions -- like part of speech. Perhaps the publishers of dictionaries have been using tables like Sung's for centuries. 

SHOULD there be just one standard universal definition?

Maybe one could invent a new language, where that is required, just as they invented esperanto. But that would not be what we now call a "natural language."

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Recently -- in discussing the word "soul", I was reminded that we do not have ONLY a choice of definitions but a choice of what we believe is real.

Both choices are important. The word "God" (or "gods") has the same issue. 

Discussing these subjects in natural languages is difficult, because even rational people assume (explicitly or unconsciously) different subjective conditional probabilities  

Pr( possible reality | information available to "me"), because they have different information available to them. That is especially true for soul and god.

In fact, intelligent humans have different information access at more enlightened times of day and less in various other states. 

The old idea of "alchymical marriage", of a cooperative Pareto optimum arrangement between various "me"s, is rational and better for all the "me's" than a war of "self" against "self", but we all have a lot to learn to do better and better, as we are born to do.

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This was a simplified overview, built on a VERY detailed foundation. Some of the foundation was posted as links at werbos.com/religions.com.

But for now, this is enough. The massgae here fits this gravure from Dante.

 

Overview of Mathematics Showing Einstein's View Fits After All

 Einstein once proposed that everything that exists, that we have any evidence of, is the workings out of space-time fields governed by general relativity. I may well be the only person on earth who agrees with that, AFTER understanding all the basic principles of the kind of quantum field theory needed to fit the experimental e4vidence from modern electronics and photonics.

A week ago, I sent an email to the one other person (retired) giving a very direct, substantive explanation for how I could believe such a thing:

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... I remember how your belief in reality in physics, in the spirit of Ayn Rand, was ever so important in your seminal contributions to lithography...

My outrageous summary: Classical Field Theory as defined in the book by Moshe Carmeli is powerful enough that I have found ways to overcome all the objections which seemed insuperable to the hypothesis that everything in our universe (and everything we can observe in any way) can be fit as the emergent outcome of his kind of nonlinear PDE, which are quasilinear except for the link to general relativity (which is spelled out in his book, https://archive.org/details/classicalfieldsg0000carm). 

This has many, many implications which I hope we THREE can all discuss, in time, but for now, this hypothesis deserves absolute full attention. [GETTING this foundation straight is crucial to integrating all of our empirical knowledge, from quantum electrodynamics to new technologies to dark matter to mathematical understanding of consciousness form Freud to Jung.]

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You and I both read Atlas Shrugged Long ago. We should discuss that too, but first comes my outrageous claim.

You undoubtedly know that Einstein himself often argued that the antirealistic claims of Heisenberg could be overcome by demonstrating how probability distributions for classical fields could be mapped  into wave functions, such that wave functions could be interpreted as statistical descriptions, and Schrodinger equations as emergent statistical dynamics.

Wiener tried very hard to fulfill that. There is a classic paper 

https://www.phys.lsu.edu/faculty/oconnell/PDFfiles.nov92005/137.%20Distribution%20Functions%20in%20Physics%3B%20Fundamentals.pdf

by OConnell, Wigner, Scully et al which was perhaps the closest anyone ever achieved to do that. But it did not work.

(By the way, at NSF I did fund O'Connell at LSU for very important follow-on work, but few of us know how to slash the damage done by aging.)

In the 1970's, I exchanged many letters with DeBroglie, to discuss the problem of explaining the spectrum of helium, which we both regarded as the most

serious problem. (By the way, I still have some of those letters both in hard copy and scans.)

Nothing seemed to work.

HOWEVER ... thanks to Howard Brandt of QISCOG, I learned that Walls and Milburn explained basic physics far beyond anything I had learned from Schwinger at Harvard. The obvious way forward to fulfill Einstein's program is to map PR(states) to probability DENSITY operators, leading for example to entropy functions like the classic generalized Boltzmann distribution in Chaikin's text and many others. I published several papers (admittedly in  obscure journals) and in arxiv, describing an "extended Glauber-Sudarshan" mapping from Pr(states) to bosonic quantum field theories. 

The map to mixed Fermi/Bose results simply by assuming fermions are solitons of finite radius, and taking the limit as the radius goes to zero.

This does not tell us WHAT the Lagrangian of the universe might be, but it is enough to get rid of the "impossibility" result (when combined with the results on measurement which I DID publish in a well-known journal https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10773-008-9719-9.pdf).

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After that... you would naturally expect that I would want to go further and publish a proposed Lagrangian for the universe.

For years, I looked very deeply into that issue. I did publish a few candidates which met SOME of the requirements, but not all.

When I finally found a family of candidates which seemed credible... in tune with conversations I had with Schwinger AFTER I spoke to him at NSF...  they led to a very serious difficulty.  They immediately pointed to technology options to violate baryon number conservation, which, according to Manton's work, has been actively pursued in Russian nuclear centers (one of which granted my wife one of her PhDs) with technology implications we might want to handle very, very carefully.

IF we do something for the first stage, and for new work in quantum computing (for which we could add you and ... as coinventors and co-owners if you are interested), then there are comfortable places here in this area (Arlington, Virginia) where we could get into the nuclear stuff, and discuss what to do with the new Lagrangian and what it might lead to.

Best regards,