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August 27th 2008 07:22
6 months ago the US/EU were defending Kosovos independence, while russians were claiming it was against i dont know which international law. Now its the exact oposite for Ossetia.
Do you still think their real reasons are based on "international rights"?
They must think were all stupid. For my side i think theyre clowns.
cheers



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More on causality

July 22nd 2008 11:18
Well, i didn't have much time to read philosophy these last months, so i had no new subject to talk about in the blog... since i don't like posting bullshit just to fill up some pages, there were no new posts these last months. Well, after some days off at work, i have time to think about some new ideas.

These post comes from the 4th "cartesian meditation" from the book from Husserl, "Meditations cartesiennes".

Somewhere on it Husserls comes to a delicate subject, causality. The average person will ask what's the problem about it, lets present the thing in 3 lines.

There are 2 main ways of seeing how causality affect us. The "determinists", who think the world can be defined by "cause-and-effect" rules, think that we can, by the mean of cience, describe and predict the world, and all it's "states". The main problem in that approach is that,

if we take causality to it's extreme, all our life would be already defined before we were even born, so we have no real "freedom" to define our lives. Thus, the other main way of seeing the world thinks that the world is a chaos, and we have freedom to define our will (this can be considered the Nietzschean way, even though it is way older than him..).

To avoid discusing if the world can be completely defined by rules, Husserl avoids the term, prefering the use of what he calls motivation. Thus, he leaves the question partially unanswered, and goes to his considerations about how phenomenology can analyse the world.

Well, following the ideas we presented in older posts, we can give a better answer to the question, although you might disagree in the end of it..

This blog considers the world as an ensemble of "infinite dimensional" facts. By "infinite dimensional" i mean that, for each fact that happens, the quantity of information that defines it is infinte. In our "math" version, this would mean an infinite dimensional vector, but let's leave maths for another post.

In the same way the world is "inifinite dimensional", we can see that causality, if it exists, has to be infinite dimensional. I mean, the causes that it rained all day are an infinite ensemble of things, from the factories in US and China to the sequence of climate changes from 2000 years ago till today.

This leads to the conclusion that the question about "causality" has no sense. Why?Because, if it exists, the real causality is infinite dimensional, thus impossible to be completely modeled. And if it does not, we wouldn't be able to have complete models anyway.

Please don't think that i undervalue the models we have today. History show us that in every domain our models evolve everyday, and without evolution we would still be living in caves. But we will never be able to say that a model is completely representative of the truth. There will allways be a black shawn to proove that our model is no good.

So the conclusion about causality is that "if i exists, it won't change a thing" (to use Sartre's phrase about God..)

cheers.
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Some overvaluation of language

April 16th 2008 17:28
hey all,

i'm quite tired of the way philosophy deals with language. So, a little post to complain


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Dasein, or the transcendental ego, and some existentialism

March 31st 2008 13:33
Following the last post a friend of mine asked for a little explanation on the Heidegger's concept of Dasein, which is mostly the same as Husserl's "transcendental ego".

Normally people tend to think it's a tuff thing to explain, but i bet this example will help us out. Remember Newton and the story of the apple falling in his head? I bet you can't understand now why am i coming with this one, but think again


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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


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Transcending...

February 19th 2008 13:55
A friend of mine was asking me these days what the hell means "transcend", used in most all philosophy books you find.

Well, the simple translation to commom language would be "to get out of yourself". The first example that comes to my mind is the dice one. Pick up a dice, look at it so that you know where are the numbers on it. Then, place it in front of you. Of course, there are some faces you can't see. But you can guess which numbers are written on each face, since you've looked at it before. This ability to guess the numbers in the faces you can't see is one simple case of transcendence. You're figuring out thing in reality that do not present themselves to your senses


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"Eigen-facts" and balance

October 12th 2007 17:06
Maths mate, if you don't understand it, leave it.

Analysing "facts" as infinte dimension vectors and "real" as an infinte dimension space has already been discused in this blog. Also, seeing "interpretation" as a linear transform being applied to the "facts" in "real" is 6 months old by now. You can take a look at it here
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Ontology as the limit of epistemology

August 28th 2007 21:10
What is the 'thing-in-itself"? What are all those things around you right now? How can you get to the point where you see it not only throught your phenomenal eyes, bound to have a small picture of the thing?

Fisrt of all, all the data we can get from an object comes from our representation. Every time we look at something we can find something new about it, that can be added to what we think is this object. Obviously after a couple of times looking at someone you can tell that you are not getting much new information about it, and your knowledge about him tend to be limited to a certain point


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The echoes of randomness

August 27th 2007 20:51
Some people tend to think that the world can be defined by models. Others, on the other hand, are there to proove all the time that the only model that works is randomness, and thus no model created will work all the time.

For the best, it will work until someone prooves it is wrong, following Popper


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Reason as an a priori for men

August 14th 2007 16:26
These days i tought that one thing have be considered as an a priori that every man have. Following Shopenhauer, that would be reason.

It's true that every men is born with this capacity. Having this capacity is the only thing that garantees that we can learn and take conclusions on things. We are obviously so apart from animals here


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The archeology of genealogy

June 25th 2007 21:47
A post to link these so paradoxal things in philosophy. A systematization for the infinte deepness of reality. I'm writing this one to explain to a friend who asked what the hell i was talking about some months ago..

Fisrt of all, for people to understand, i need to explain what i mean by archeology and genealogy


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De-constructing Kant's concepts

May 15th 2007 16:55
Still on physics, here it is a little post trying to get our reason back from "meta" stuff, before you all start to think i'm crazy...

This post is also due to some comments from Adrian on the last one


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The illusions of our cause-and-effect rules

May 7th 2007 10:39
Ladies and gentles, that's not my idea. That's not even new.

This comes from Kant, and to better understand it, you should read on Critic of Pure Reason. A second but great presentation on the subject is on Kant - An introduction to the 3 critics, by Luc Ferry. The third option would be to read this post
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Models and Analogies

May 5th 2007 17:59
Rules and Comparisons.

Whenever choosing what to do, anyone will try to get from his past similar facts and its conclusions to decide whatever he has to do to optimize his outcome. From experiences, he gets information that he'll use to compare to other cases in the future


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Concepts, Ideas, Intuition

April 24th 2007 01:26
Hey all,

little post presenting 3 definitions Kant used in his work that are quite important if you someday try to read and understand what the guy has to say


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What about Infinite Transforms and me?

March 7th 2007 12:49
Hey all,

since people might feel that the 3 parts of the ideas i presented in these last months have nothing to do one with the other, i'm writing a post to show the importance of the understanding of the physical concept of the Infinite Transforms to be able to understand better all these posts on Wisdom


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Hey God, are you looking at me?

January 26th 2007 18:41
Hey,

little post to talk about a matter that i don't think is really important, but i've just commented in one guy's blog about this, and i though it would be good subject to write some lines about


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God, Cosmos, democracy, and hammers...

January 24th 2007 16:43
Hi all,

this last post about physics will prepare us to start talking about ethics. On it i'll complete the knowledge we need to be able to understand things in next posts


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Husserl vs. Heidegger

January 22nd 2007 02:03
Hi all,

Here we go for more analisys in the world of "beings


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Ontology, terminology, essence..

January 21st 2007 17:12
Hi all,

Since in this post we'll be talking about beings, it's time to get a little deeper into ontology. To start it i'll need to add some definitions in my terminology. I should have done this before, but it's quite boring, and it needs the knowledge presented in the last posts. So


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Causality and models

January 15th 2007 20:36
Hey all,

here we go for a little reflection on causality. It would be good to take a look at it if your're not used to the thing, so take your time. We won't be getting to deep on it, since i'm not an specialist either


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Noumena, Phenomena, and examples

January 12th 2007 14:17
Hi all,

hehe, still on physics (there is plenty of things to talk about before we go to ethics). As i said in last post, in this one i'll be focusing on the phenoumena-phenoumena relation, and in the end a little reflection on causality, since is a subject that we have to go through


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Infinite Transforms and Western Philosophy

January 7th 2007 21:15
Hi,

In this post i'll be talking about the ideas of 5 philosophers


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Hilbert Spaces and Nietzsche's genealogy

January 4th 2007 03:02
Hi,

Here we go, after a presentation, a little bit about (meta)physics. In this post i present the core that will guide all ideas that will follow, so take your time to understand it clearly. Before reading it, i strongly advise you to read about these ideas, if you're not familiarized to


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