The Calculated Spirit

Abstract

Johan Noldus

This book constitutes a revision of two previous books on this matter with precisely the same titles. The content has somewhat been enlarged, but especially its presentation has been drastically improved and many inacurracies in the previous version have been removed. The real beef of this book is also available in another book of mine on geometrical quantum theory: the latter aimed at the professional physicist or mathematician. The material is rather mathematical in nature and does require some substantial amount of effort from those who are not trained as such: that is why I have included a small chapter into the mathematical minimum of this book. It regards some elementary things about linear operators and vector spaces, the language of the old quantum theory as to speak. Let me tell you first who I am, what my intentions are and what this book is and is not about. First of all, I am a trained physicist and mathematician with a double bachelor and a master in theoretical physics; later on I obtained a PhD in theoretical physics, namely quantum gravity, and worked some time as a post-doctoral researcher in that field. I have never been interested in school, but at the age of 13 I was immersed already on my own into the books of Freud, Jung and Aldler on psychology and Nietzsche on philosophy (albeit I considered that work more as a venting of bad, but largely justified emotions towards humanity) but I also read upon engineering, especially hydraulics and so on trying to figure out what this integral really meant 4 years prior to learning it at school. The reason why I went into the exact sciences, is because I was largely dissatisfied with everything I read; Freud was as to say banal, Jung was interesting in some aspects but his theory was “not even wrong” meaning it was ill defined, you couldn’t do anything with it and Friedrich, ah well, was just an interesting story teller of how humanity appears to operate. It was a bit like Harry Potter, high class entertainment and wizardry: you have to love it but I am afraid Hogwarths will never materialize in this world.

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