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Friday, March 15, 2019

We are all intellectual capitalists



Many problems that arise out of conflict in society between people, organizations, nations, and so on, are a direct result of how our biological brain's design.

We are all intellectual capitalists.

What is capitalist? 

A capitalism is a system of interaction between individuals about objects. Normally, it is the system of trading physical objects or abstract services between those that participate.

It is not accidental why we evolved to this kind of society system.

Our brains' operation is capitalistic. Our brain considers ideas of value, or not, and takes in the valuable and throws out the non-valuable.  It doesn't matter what the topic is, how it is met in the open in society, and makes personal decisions based on beliefs and reason one each.

We seek things that answer our Maslow's hierarchy of needs. We repel things that, we believe, take us away from those same needs.

In the process, we determine that ideas, like people and other objects, are part of how we get there on this journey. At the same time, we also reject ideas, like people and other objects that will not help us get there.

We treat ideas like real objects because to an evolved brain there is little distinction between the imaginary and the real. It's not a bug, it's a feature.

Saturday, March 9, 2019

Hegel's Know thyself

Know thyself—whether we look at it in itself or under the historical circumstances of its first utterance—is not to promote mere self-knowledge in respect of the particular capacities, character, propensities, and foibles of the single self."
- Hegel's Philosophy of Mind

Firstly, where is an individual's unity?  Point out it's location directly to me.  If you say it is the soul then indicate exactly where in the body that soul is. I defy you to discover that to any reasonable standard. What is our identity if you can't locate it?

Koestler points out biological beings may be holonic rather than individual. Both on and off, alive and dead, many and one.  Can anyone prove we are not alive and dead at the same time? At any one time cells are dying and dead as others are created and living. This is known scientific fact. Can anyone say the living cells are outside our humanity while the dead ones aren't? Live cells are equally inside our body and outside: when we defecate there are live cells within that matter that are outside of ourselves. There are dead cells within us as we exist. The self, in the real, is by itself a problematic condition.

Secondly, what is inside our knowledge if we can't prove under solipsism if we exist outside our own thoughts?

Self-knowledge is like self-language: both are artificial constructs founded as a way to ground the appearance of other dubious things that we can't prove exist.

If you can't prove self-knowledge rests within a non-definable individual, you can't prove that self-knowledge exists.