Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-28-2007, 10:58 AM
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Replies: 36
Views: 658
Re: Kool-Aid didn’t kill those people.
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A scientific form of inquiry assumes that the world is an ordered whole and that we can, through reason, acquire knowledge of this whole. The world of science is governed by...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-28-2007, 07:12 AM
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Replies: 0
Views: 97
Freedom is an ever expanding comprehension
Freedom is an ever expanding comprehension
Society is not a collection of individuals but is a system of containers.
Non-philosophical forms of inquiry are intellectual endeavors constituted by...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-28-2007, 07:11 AM
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Replies: 36
Views: 658
Re: Kool-Aid didn’t kill those people.
Non-philosophical forms of inquiry are intellectual endeavors constituted by certain basic assumptions. A scientific form of inquiry assumes that the world is an ordered whole and that we can,...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-25-2007, 05:49 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 100
Comprehending the Whale From Within Its Belly
Comprehending the Whale From Within Its Belly
Archimedes’ platform is a means for comprehending the society in which we reside. We are splashing about within the belly of our society and the only...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-25-2007, 03:41 PM
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Replies: 36
Views: 658
Re: Kool-Aid didn’t kill those people.
A good example of the power and danger of ideology is the neo-con influence on our government. It seems like a great monster that was lurking out there without most of us knowing it.
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-25-2007, 03:38 PM
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Replies: 36
Views: 658
Re: Kool-Aid didn’t kill those people.
I agree that we are creatures who seek pattern. We respond to pattern in music and we demand pattern in learning. Without it we are lost. Math is our great accomplishment in the art and science of...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-25-2007, 12:57 PM
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Replies: 36
Views: 658
Re: Kool-Aid didn’t kill those people.
I would say that an ideology is an interlocking system of ideas to which we give great value. These are values that define US and those who oppose US is THEM. US tries to defeat THEM often any way...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-25-2007, 12:53 PM
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Replies: 36
Views: 658
Re: Kool-Aid didn’t kill those people.
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And then comes the question:
Is the individual more important than the group?
And think about that one before answering it, because it is actually an extremely tricky question when...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-25-2007, 06:25 AM
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Replies: 36
Views: 658
Re: Kool-Aid didn’t kill those people.
Ideology is something we humans need to comprehend better than we now do. Ideology is both salvation and death.
We are all members of many ideologies. Our ideologies are the abstract ideas that...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-24-2007, 06:15 AM
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Replies: 36
Views: 658
Kool-Aid didn’t kill those people.
Kool-Aid didn’t kill those people.
Transference and suggestibility killed those people.
In October of 1978, surrounded by hundreds of his followers, cult leader Jim Jones was found dead of a...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-22-2007, 02:13 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 94
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-22-2007, 08:35 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 94
Re: Negative persona (mask) inhibits learning
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Our options are reject, accept, and hold. I claim that ‘hold’ is the most important and should be the most often used because everyone is ignorant of almost everything.
Do...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-22-2007, 06:16 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 94
Negative persona (mask) inhibits learning
Negative persona (mask) inhibits learning
‘To be negative’ is not the same as ‘to be critical’.
The dictionary has many definitions for this word, “critical”, but I would choose the critical...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-20-2007, 01:09 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 121
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-20-2007, 09:21 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 121
Argument is war; thus forum becomes battle ground.
Argument is war; thus forum becomes battle ground.
It seems to me that the forum members who participate in a thread approach the experience invigorated with much the same attitude as does a boxer...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-18-2007, 06:32 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 130
What they never taught us
What they never taught us
“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.” Voltaire (1694-1778)
We learned in school and college that the teacher furnishes the question and the...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-15-2007, 10:37 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 61
Re: Do you know music?
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When examining psychosis the psychiatrist advises either the establishment of an interpersonal evolvement or for finding interests and perhaps new patterns of thought. Many of...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-15-2007, 05:30 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 61
Do you know music?
Do you know music?
Many years ago I became conscious of my ignorance of music. Of course, I recognized all the popular music and even tried to sing some of it occasionally. I had, for a very...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-12-2007, 03:43 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 49
New metaphors can create new realities
New metaphors can create new realities
Lakoff and Johnson, coauthors of “Metaphors we Live By”, speak of a newly arrived Iranian student who had mistaken the constant refrain he heard from other...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-12-2007, 07:02 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 56
Re: Critical Self-Consciousness
It’s a Judgment Call
Most decisions we have to make are judgment calls. A judgment call is made when we must make a decision when there is no “true” or “false” answers. When we make a judgment...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-11-2007, 08:40 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 56
Re: Critical Self-Consciousness
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Well thinking outside the herd will always provide strange and painful truths. The hard part is getting people to care what you've discovered with your self critical reasoning. Or you can...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-11-2007, 04:55 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 56
Critical Self-Consciousness
Critical Self-Consciousness
I once asked a professor of philosophy what is philosophy about, she said “philosophy is about radically critical self-consciousness”. I have decided that CT...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-10-2007, 09:17 AM
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Replies: 17
Views: 98
Re: Libraries: a cave where genius abides
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I miss the days when you had to go to a library to get knowledge. There's something about having it at your fingertips and in a highly ephemeral form that makes knowledge less...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-10-2007, 09:13 AM
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Replies: 17
Views: 98
Re: Libraries: a cave where genius abides
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I miss the days when you had to go to a library to get knowledge. There's something about having it at your fingertips and in a highly ephemeral form that makes knowledge less meaningful....
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-10-2007, 04:29 AM
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Replies: 17
Views: 98
Libraries: a cave where genius abides
Libraries: a cave where genius abides
If you find no library card in your wallet or purse you are not a self-learner. You are at best a dilettante, a dabbler in knowledge.
A self-learner has a...
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