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Knowledge Map Equation

Name: Anonymous 2010-01-27 8:04

So far, I have figured that all reality changes mostly outside and partially inside human perception.
All-knowing is not a human trait. Given.

What I'm trying to plot out is a good mathematical equation that will illustrate not only the logical given of what is, but also a process of action that can take place for various mind-sets. Ie, you may have someone that can have an experience, confabulate and self-deceive themselves into believing and remembering and feeling what actually didn't happen and what did happen will be forgotten; whereas, there also exists a person who can perceive an experience for what it is, find out what good can come from it and utilize that experience which is not changeable, and can be appreciated towards a vibrant and connected perception of the world around them.

It's a tough task ahead, anyone have any ideas? :/

Name: Anonymous 2010-02-01 10:24

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Well we don't know exactly what happens, that's a paradox in science. You can find out a rainbow is caused by diffraction of different frequencies of light, but then what causes light? Electro-magnetic pulses? But then what causes electro-magnetism and so on...

All we can do is employ ockham's razor, which was elaborated apon by Descartes to yield scientific method, but I suppose ockham's razor is a more relevant point...

The justification for ockham's razor is that we have no other choice, if it's the only conclusion we're left with that has no contradictions then it is justifed to assume, note "assume", it is valid. If ice is cold and we are hot we have no choice but to assume putting ice in our drinks will help cool us. This is not certainty, neither is it a case of "just does", but rather a case of "it's the only thing that just doesn't". As early as Isaac Newton european scientists had mastered this conclusion and readily admitted that their apparently certain conclusions may in the future be disproven and replaced by a better theory (which classic physics was) but by the 19th century scientists were habitually assuming certain conclusions were certainties and developing a flawed culture of science which has led to some confusion about these matters today.

So the answer I suppose is our minds are inherantly limited, what "can" happen is just a result of our limited ability to process all the facts, even if improbability is an inherant property of the universe.

"aren't any intellectuals that have such a wide opened mind"
cool elitism bro

"God exists so that I may know myself. Without God, I would assume myself as God, that which I am not."
im pretty sure god loves science and wants you to be more humble

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