Kick a stone
March 23rd 2008 18:43
There is a philosophical problem that have never been completely solved since Descartes, which many good men couldn't get to no final answer neither.
Its the impossibility for us to proove that the world around us really exists. To be clear and go straigh to the matter (i'm not here to tell stories), the last idea that came around to solve the matter was Husserl's "transcendental ego" and Heidegger's "Dasein", which are almost the same. They avoided studying men alone, instead they studied the men inmerged in "real", so that this problem no longer exists.
Ok, that's already a nice solution. But since i've being using this "infinite transforms" modeling to study how do we interpret the world, i should spend some time analysing this matter. So, maths. (Sorry for the ones that don't understand it..)
Well, being the world an "infinte dimension functional space" where the facts are like "vectors", everytime we interpret a fact, we're doing nothing but applying a linear transform to the vector (the fact), and thus the result is a vector inside our "space", our mind.
Ok, the projected vector is no longer equal to the one in "real", which explains why people like Nietzsche, Foucault, Sartre, etc. say that there is no real truth for us, but interpretations. The truth may exist, but we don't have acces to it.
Considering the problem of our access to the truth (the things as they've happened in "real"), i call on the others as help for us. When you talk to someone, you have to interpret facts that have been already interpreted once. I mean, the other saw it (first interpretation, first projection of the vector), then he explained it to you (which makes another interpretation, an even worse one because you do not have all the original information). And so you get the information, a vector that was projected twice, which lost quite a lot of information.
To show that the things in front of you are real, i ask you a simple experiment. Put an object in front of you and ask for some friends to describe it to you. Please, not in case they are drunk. Hopefully they'll describe something really close to what you see too.
So, the modeling tell us so that the vector you projected from real is really close, or equal to the one you got from projecting the description of your friends. So, you can trust a little bit more of what you see with your eyes.
Still, this is no final proof. You can imagine the case where you imagined the hole situation AND your friends, so that what they're describing to you doesn't really come from others, but from you instead.
Well, if you're insane to this point to think this, i suggest you my last way of prooving that the world is here. Kick a stone, and tell me if it doesn't hurt.
Its the impossibility for us to proove that the world around us really exists. To be clear and go straigh to the matter (i'm not here to tell stories), the last idea that came around to solve the matter was Husserl's "transcendental ego" and Heidegger's "Dasein", which are almost the same. They avoided studying men alone, instead they studied the men inmerged in "real", so that this problem no longer exists.
Ok, that's already a nice solution. But since i've being using this "infinite transforms" modeling to study how do we interpret the world, i should spend some time analysing this matter. So, maths. (Sorry for the ones that don't understand it..)
Well, being the world an "infinte dimension functional space" where the facts are like "vectors", everytime we interpret a fact, we're doing nothing but applying a linear transform to the vector (the fact), and thus the result is a vector inside our "space", our mind.
Ok, the projected vector is no longer equal to the one in "real", which explains why people like Nietzsche, Foucault, Sartre, etc. say that there is no real truth for us, but interpretations. The truth may exist, but we don't have acces to it.
Considering the problem of our access to the truth (the things as they've happened in "real"), i call on the others as help for us. When you talk to someone, you have to interpret facts that have been already interpreted once. I mean, the other saw it (first interpretation, first projection of the vector), then he explained it to you (which makes another interpretation, an even worse one because you do not have all the original information). And so you get the information, a vector that was projected twice, which lost quite a lot of information.
To show that the things in front of you are real, i ask you a simple experiment. Put an object in front of you and ask for some friends to describe it to you. Please, not in case they are drunk. Hopefully they'll describe something really close to what you see too.
So, the modeling tell us so that the vector you projected from real is really close, or equal to the one you got from projecting the description of your friends. So, you can trust a little bit more of what you see with your eyes.
Still, this is no final proof. You can imagine the case where you imagined the hole situation AND your friends, so that what they're describing to you doesn't really come from others, but from you instead.
Well, if you're insane to this point to think this, i suggest you my last way of prooving that the world is here. Kick a stone, and tell me if it doesn't hurt.
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