miércoles, 9 de febrero de 2011

Anarcho-syndicalism - Foucault & Chomsky

This debate is one of the most interesting I´ve seen in recent times, is about Anarcho-syndicalism. Foucault was a great analytical philosopher, instead of learning from history as such, he was able to indicate the spots in which the structural forces that configure the political power acts and settles. And the places in which such power is concealed plausibly lies behind the curtains of neutrality, thus neutrality is a diplomatic tool or method used to garnish many autocratical institutions, such as schools, hospitals, volunteers organizations, religions etc.

Those structural forces have the capability to give us freedoms (optionally) and facilitations to learn and initiate ourselves in new knowledges that generate certain skills. Those skills are supposed to serve for the good of the individual and therefore for the society in general as well. But those institutional powers also have the ability to deprive us of other kinds of knowledge. Why? Well that's a topic for research, although any kind of research emerges from speculations. That means that these speculations do not appear without reason, or more specifically, without a cause. No matter if the deductional calculation is wrong or not. I personally use to say; everyone thinks properly but some more than others.

The purely correctness is a paradox, cause how can you correct something that is correct? Perfection on the other hand is what we call; an ideal state with an ideal result. Perfection and correctness seems to be related to each other, since you can only reach perfection through correction, or at least that is how is supose to be. Chomsky is more positive and idealistic in his utterance while Foucault is more pesimistic but realistic about the problems we must confront.

Two thinkers that complete each other on their demands. enjoy!   

About complexity and methodologies - Fibonacci

Structure of DNA
It is amazing to see that human understanding is based on apprehension of patterns that, less or more, accurately approximates and fits into the reality we observe. Even if these patterns either are compound by the mere act of believing or perceiving or both, those patterns emerges in the mind alone. Being that the outside world is full of patterns,(geometrically; forms figures or numbers) that we either don't recognize they exist until we perceive them. Every thing that we see in the outside world seems to be different and distinct from one thing to another, however science has shown that all living organism are compound by what we call DNA, except the (RNA viruses). DNA sequences have structural purposes or are involved in regulating the use of genetic information, that information is recognise as a genetic language, the letters of the alphabet of DNA  A, C, T, G have an important role, since these have the function of encoding all the information necessary for life. This constance that language has very crucial role, not only for our cognitive economy but for life itself!

Mathematics has been devoted to represent the universal language, a language that establishes it self on natural universal laws ( which could be materialistic or laws applicable to matter ). These "universal" laws are important, since no matter where you are these laws are plausible and applicable dependently of how well you understand them and use them in the praxis, in other words those laws transcends in time. And if you have creativity enough  to find the similarities in apparently different things, then you have the keys to the doors of diverse knowledges and wisdoms. These keys are placed on grounds or fundaments shared by a diversity of knowledges. 

Mathematics are boring just because there's not enough motivation by the reader, and less motivation leads to less concentration, in turn everything seems to be pointless just because you don't understand enough. You are able to comprehend what the methods of reasoning (logical methods) are capable of, and it's potential, only when you understand them, or at least achieve a dimension of understanding. Reasoning is a matter of calculation and measurement with the finality of judgement. However, the action of judgment is present in everything we do. For a Psychological Diagnosis is better to ask a psychologist, for economical issues I better ask advice of an economist and for my physical health I should visit a medic and so on. But how much can we achieved by our selves? There's no human being that can live and transcend isolated, and so are the ideas, teachings or anything else related to the kind. I usually use to remark that in physics is well known that motion is generated by at least 2 particles, an isolated one scarce of movement and therefore dynamism. This is an approach to incentive the mathematical intrerest for the reader, I'm not saying that this is better knowledge than others teachings but a useful and subtle one. Motivation is a psychological factor that determines the way you behave into a specific situation. Motivation is alike a frame of mind which have the power of altering the concentration and therefore the intention.

I'm not gonna say no more, but this video shows the mystery of the mathematics. Enjoy!      

             


jueves, 3 de febrero de 2011

The Rosetta Stone






Jean-François Champollion deciphered the hieroglyph in 1822. He was able to make the first translation, showing that the Egyptian writing system was a combination of phonetic and ideographic signs. Here can we see when western logic and rationalism wasn't able to decipher the ancient Egypt's methods of writing. However, judge for your self in this journey thought the mystics of this forgotten civilization!    












martes, 1 de febrero de 2011

Life is a matter of choice!

Barry Schwarts - "Paradox of Choice"

It is common to hear those who believe that the more options you have, better are the chances of making the right decision. However, there's no need of being an expert to understand that the more options you are exposed to, the more complex becomes the issue of choosing. Another important issue in this discussion is the understanding of the expectations, which the subject creates within the mind with the influence of the stimuli from the material world.
The human being live in a world that is very uncertain and that contain abundant amounts  of information. It seems impossible for any person to pay attention to all the information we received at once. This is an obvious reason of why we are selective. Since we take a choice, no matter what, always will become a paradox. It's a matter of "what if", and this question requires reflection from diverse perspectives. Nevertheless, selectivity requires the division of information into two states; quantitative information and qualitative information. The first one it's all that we suspect have the potential of knowing, while the latter is the information we accept as subtle for us. Probably known as knowledge. The point is, that when you are uncertain about a choice or at least don't have any idea of what you expect to find before you know you options, the paradox of choice will become more difficult to handle, in the other hand there could be problems with expectations. It may be like Socrates answers when a young citizen asks him advice if he should or not get married; "Do whatever you want, you will regret it anyhow"                     
  




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