Human Being Theory. For Dummies. Jacob Feldman
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Название: Human Being Theory. For Dummies
Автор: Jacob Feldman
Издательство: Издательские решения
Жанр: Философия
isbn: 9785448342714
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Fig 13. Contexts differ.
Between science and philosophy
I am so good
I will not stop. Five!
Now six!
Now seven on top!
Suppose you have found some very new idea and you want to tel it to your colleague. But the idea is so radically new that you partner does not understand you. What should you do?
Probably you should pack your idea into right form? This way leads to logics. Probably you should tell your partner how did you get to this great idea. This way leads to methodology. Probably you should tell your friend where any new ideas come from. This way leads to epistemology. Probably you should tell your friend how this world works. This way leads to ontology.
But for really new idea all this does not help.
Unexpected result: next generation of readers will consider you as a serious philosopher.
Fig.14. Philosophers
When we have a model
Seven apples
up on top!
I am so good
they will not drop!
Suppose you live your regular life.
Suppose in some moment of your precious life you feel, that something goes wrong.
You feel it must be fixed. But how?
This moment of your life, this point of the space-and-time-and-person, this point and its neighborhood, I call them a problem. The problem is a part of physical world.
Fig.15. Physical world
Fig.16. Knowledge
Suppose we could describe the problem in some detailed and consistent way. I call this description a model.
The model exists in a mental world. There is a good detailed mapping between problem and model. This triplet of «problem, model, and mapping» I call it knowledge. Is it a true knowledge? Or is it a false knowledge? We do not know yet. Anyway, we try to solve our problem using the model.
Fig.17. Practical solution
First, we investigate the model and find some theoretical solution.
Second, we map this solution into the physical world and get the practical solution. Practical solution tells us what to do.
So, third, we do it, we implement the practical solution.
And fourth, we look around an decide is the problem solved now or it is not yet.
Suppose we many times came to the (almost) same problem and always solved it with the same model successfully. If so, we can say that this knowledge is true. If sometimes it works but sometimes it does not, we call it false knowledge.
When we have no model
«Where do you come from?»
said the Red Queen.
«And where are you going?
Look up, speak nicely, and don’t twiddle your fingers all the time!»
One step back.
Suppose we have a problem but the life is not easy now and we cannot find a good model. What should we do?
As in the swampy bog, we jump from one dry place to another. Sometimes we have a choice and time to think and choose where to jump, left or, may be, right.
Fig.18. Values
When we think some images came to our mind, one image for the left turn, another image for the right turn. We can compare these images, choose the best one and make the jump toward the better future. If so, the images we compare, I call them values.
How many worlds do you know?
Five, six seven!
Fun, fun, fun!
Seven, six, five, four, three, two. one!
What do we know about mental world?
First, there is an eternal part of the mental world, like PI number. I call it mathematical reality. We do not build mathematical objects – we discover them like stars in the sky.
Second, there are pure mental objects, which we build. They live while we support them. Words of languages, heroes of legends, music and dance. I call it virtual reality.
Fig.19. Thinking: Worlds
And third, there are objects of physical reality that help as to control both virtual and mathematical reality. I call them symbolic reality.
By definition, physical object is a symbolic object if it points to something else for somebody who understand the pointing and this somebody exists now (or existed in the past).
Fig.20. Symbols refer to other things
By the way, physical reality consists of events, not objects. You can put word event instead of object in the last definition.
Why values are so stable
«I beg pardon, your Majesty,» he began,
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