Sunday, February 26, 2012
Emerging consciousness
Like water surrounding aquatics, human beings live in a mediating environment. The main element of this environment is language. Of course, there are other elements, norms, practices, etc., that shape the environment that let us to communicate. Development begins when these elements begin to change. But, the change does not appear spontaneously in minds. Our minds find holes in the mediating environment. The holes that must be filled with our material and intellectual objects. These holes are our needs. According to Hegel, the movement of Subject includes there moments: Universal, Particular and Individual. Though our needs for new concepts are widespread (Universal) they appear somewhere definite, like a painful spot on a skin. Movement of Subject and appearance of a new concept is the product of a population but it appears in one or few minds. Particular is the link between Universal and Individual. Particular may be described as the intellectual environment around the nuclei of new concepts.
In this strange world (Majid Mirzaei)
A loose and quick translation of Majid Mirzaei's poem
In This Strange World
In this strange world Oh yea, this is a strange world
The age of technology
You can surveil the four corner of the world!
By just touching a button
You have the universe on the corner of your room
And sitting in front of your computer
You can buy handicrafts of a Mexican woman
Or the artifact of a child in China, India or Vietnam
Or can book a room in the most luxurious hotels of Canary Islands
And even with a woman!
You can lay down on the bed of a clinic close to your house
And your doctor in another continent,
or even in another planet vasectomize you!
In this strange world
Surrounded by one-thousand-eye skyscraping giants
This dusty street-rover, confused and stumbling
Is searching for himself, here and there
Worn out of fruitless search
Tired of faltering along streets
I sit at the table
Press finger on the keyboard
JOB SEARCHING and GO
And soon, Amazed by this high speed
The words NOT FOUND appear
A frozen stream worms its way within remotest rocks of my body
And washes away waves of fear and anxiety
And futile hopes.
I feel the gravity of the whole world on my shoulders.
I feel in the most gallant metropolis in the world
With my ancestors
In deserts burnt of poverty
Like a sweating horse under the yoke
Revolve around the closed circle of straw and sorrow, dizzy and astray
In this strange world
Surrounded by one-thousand-eye skyscraping giants
This dusty street-rover Stumbling and confused
Is stumbling in search for his geography
In This Strange World
In this strange world Oh yea, this is a strange world
The age of technology
You can surveil the four corner of the world!
By just touching a button
You have the universe on the corner of your room
And sitting in front of your computer
You can buy handicrafts of a Mexican woman
Or the artifact of a child in China, India or Vietnam
Or can book a room in the most luxurious hotels of Canary Islands
And even with a woman!
You can lay down on the bed of a clinic close to your house
And your doctor in another continent,
or even in another planet vasectomize you!
In this strange world
Surrounded by one-thousand-eye skyscraping giants
This dusty street-rover, confused and stumbling
Is searching for himself, here and there
Worn out of fruitless search
Tired of faltering along streets
I sit at the table
Press finger on the keyboard
JOB SEARCHING and GO
And soon, Amazed by this high speed
The words NOT FOUND appear
A frozen stream worms its way within remotest rocks of my body
And washes away waves of fear and anxiety
And futile hopes.
I feel the gravity of the whole world on my shoulders.
I feel in the most gallant metropolis in the world
With my ancestors
In deserts burnt of poverty
Like a sweating horse under the yoke
Revolve around the closed circle of straw and sorrow, dizzy and astray
In this strange world
Surrounded by one-thousand-eye skyscraping giants
This dusty street-rover Stumbling and confused
Is stumbling in search for his geography
Saturday, February 25, 2012
What is "New"?
Hegel believes many definitions in science, such as the one about Force in Newtonian mechanics, does not present any new relation in the nature but only illustrates existing relations from another standpoint or by using new terms and parlance. "He points out that the discovery of so-called new forces, was nothing more than a reduction of the reality of a thing to that of another thing as if this solved some problem. This is what Hegel calls something ‘having its being in another’. " (Introduction to Hegel's Logic, Andy Blunden, p. 60). So what is important in Hegel's logic is the confrontation of mind with new relations. Unfolding simple concepts, as Hegel believes to be process of consciousness, is an inward process, or in words of Bludnen is the product of mind working on thought objects, however, the important point is to find the interface between mind and fact, or between subjective and objective logic.
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