In American politics today we have among our parties “no
morality” versus “faux morality,” while each claims high morality. All to
confuse the philosophers, I’m sure. J
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A theory is a lens
which focuses information into knowledge.
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When you have a religious fervor but are constrained by
morality, this is one thing. When not so
constrained, this is another; it allows almost any action.
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If you intend to write a book about knowledge, be sure your
publisher prints it on yellowing paper bound with dusty covers. This gives it
a head start on its final outcome, residing on a library shelf, untouched for
years on end.
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Many agree that truth correlates with knowledge, and vice versa.
Whatever would the statisticians say about correlating two objects with no clear meaning?
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We all too often hear about comparing apples and oranges, but you can’t do it. Wrong, they have much in common. Both are fruits that grow on trees; both have about the same size. Both produce
flowers to pollinate and have seeds
within their fruit to germinate. That’s a lot in common. About as common as Democrats and
Republicans. But compare the apple to a
rock reduces commonality to having a form made up of atoms. Not much is common.
Or compare an apple to a gust of air. No
form but just atoms. Even less
similar. Now compare our beleaguered
apple to a flash of light, e.g. photons.
Then, almost nothing all these.
Part of this made some of those old Star Trek episodes so
interesting, with species so different from us as to be comparable to the apple
and a blast of energy. Of course,
Captain Kirk was able to find common ground and save the day.
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Pictures. Can you
picture an atom other than something like a planetary system with the sun as
the nucleus and the planets as the electrons?
(Bohr atom) The newer version is that of a nucleus (the sun) surrounded
by an electron cloud (quantum). Probably
now the nucleus is pictured as a dense cloud (sun) surrounded by an electron
cloud. The last two are good pictures
but convey little understanding to folks that understand distinct object – like
most of us. Yet we do imagine electrons
and protons basically as tiny chunks, even though we’ve learned to view their
behavior is as if clouds.
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