Actually, monotheism--comes from the Jewish tradition predating the Christain and Islamic monotheisms. The white hole is actually--as you have the three in one--three traditions of the one (God).
Re the analog/digital discussion--I shared some of the posts with a friend who works as an "architect" of computer programs. He pointed out that the Turing hypothesis proposes that everything in nature can be reproduced digitally. So far there is nothing that has proved this wrong.
He also pointed out the same thing a physicist friend had noted: that in this discussion, no one knows the math. Words, language are being substituted for the lack of math--and it results in confusion. What is being discussed is actually not understood. Without knowing the mathematics they say, much of the philosophy is also muddled.
>From: Alan Sondheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: "WRYTING-L : Writing and Theory across Disciplines" <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: ....A./D.
>Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 00:31:13 -0400
>
>....A./D.
>
>
>...Analog digital / analog discrete, but also Anno Domini; one can
>only
>point out that linear time from 0 moves through both negative and
>positive
>numbers; the years are integers, the continuum backgrounded. A/D:
>Monothe-
>ism's gift, this or that, before or after; A/D: the continuum of
>time
>re/produced as discrete. The year 0 of our lord, the year 1 of our
>lord.
>This is the trouble with religions or ideologies with monolithic and
>linear narratives apparently grounded in specific and human events -
>everything proceeds like a white hole out of them. Of course every
>system,
>however broken, has its accountancy; I am punning here on A./D., the
>ferociousness of this division, and from the viewpoint of believers
>- as
>if humankind were waiting for this, the insertion of our lord into
>history, breaking history, remaking the codex of dates. Islam is
>similar.
>With monotheisms it's all gone bad; the fabrication carries a
>suspect
>political ideology, as if the world has waited for year 0 and the
>insertion of a related temporal framework. This is what happens when
>there's a guy - Jesus or Mohammed or whomever - involved. The
>construct of
>absolute time is equivalent to absolute negative and positive, right
>or
>wrong. Clearly history doesn't start or end with the guy, so one
>counts
>forwards and backwards from him. But he's there as a stopper,
>transformation, wave equation collapse, as deadly as Schrodinger's
>cat
>might be.
>
>Somewhere Weyl wrote about the last vestige of the self/ego in
>physics -
>the Cartesian origin. The guy hangs out there, claims the origin for
>himself/itself, refuses to recognize the tensor algebra of the thing
>which
>isn't a thing. It's be-all and end-all for him. Time begins, marches
>forward or backward, a permanent light-cone. The rest are its
>children.
>
>( Note that this absolute time is _finite,_ that it begins and ends,
>that
>the origin is _historical._ And note that so many other systems
>portend a
>creation behind/beyond which numeracy was non-existent; the numbers
>begin
>in mythic time. So there are configurations that are lost in essence
>- not
>a guy hanging out, as if known by one and all. There's always the
>problem
>of the divine with historical time; mythos turns to miracles, Jesus
>doing
>this or that, almost like a party. Three and one is one by the way;
>for
>any absolute finite X here, X -> 1, I believe it is called a
>_kernel._ )
>
>
>===
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