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JOURNEY 2000: NARRATIVE ANIL MITRA PHD, COPYRIGHT © 2000, REFORMATTED February 2013 Document status: February 11, 2013 Active No further action for Journey in Being Long Canyon 1. Notes on existence 2. Atmospheric pressure calculation Papoose Lake September 10 1. Being and The Elements of Being. Design - priorities - needs. Social action 2. Marta 3. Qualitative judgment 4. Journey. How to prepare at home. Simulation, metabolism… 5. On meaning and use Concept of use… Wittgenstein’s contribution… relation to pragmatism, instrumentalism, Evolution and Design Foundation Need for grammar review A fundamental problem of use: how do words carry meaning / imply use. How is correct use/meaning distinguished from the incorrect. How is experience communicated 6. Political values 7. Content of William James’ Varieties of Religious Experience 8. Fundamental experiences There is no absolute object I am ready for relationship 9. Knowledge words… beginning of an organization and toward/combination with “Kinds of Knowledge” from the September 25 entry i. Innate vs. acquired knowledge Relation/identity: innate knowledge and knowledge by participation? ii. Acquired knowledge: direct acquisition vs. knowledge by description Direct: perception, quality, dimensionality, inner/outer Knowledge by description: expressed or expressible knowledge Linear: language and proto-language… speech, language, logic, mathematics Pre/para-language, para-verbal communication… affect, … art Combined verbal and para-verbal communication: drama, poetry, art… iii. The functions: general, cognition, affect/emotion, motivation, intuition, memory Needs: include memory, toward re-conceptualization and re-organization of the functions iv. Degrees of certainty v. Theories of truth. This is ad hoc vi. Knowledge and world Papoose Lake September 25 1. Kinds of knowledge. Introducing a new kind - knowledge by participation that is over and above and prior to knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description Down to the organismic level Foundation for the later kinds Being includes knowing Absolute being? 2. On language… a continuation of “Kinds of knowledge” i. Origins Unity of experience and communication Communicability of “private” experience; denial of the inverted spectrum etc Discreteness within unity Becoming / seeing That is, becoming all vs. recognizing experience as part of [in one way] and, in another way, unit, coextensive with all On signs, symbols and language. Some of this is inherent ii. Developments Logic Forms of logic Deductive [includes mathematics] Inductive [no mathematics?] Knowledge [synthetic knowledge?] Science Logic and its elaboration need derivation 3. Science of energy 4. Letter to friends - ideas on the WebSite… my nature… the academic tradition… shared adventure 5. Marta: additional ideas 6. Website: ideas 7. Papoose lake… what I saw and felt On the way A special place… symbol/ritual Wildlife log: Trinity Alps 8. Evolutionary epistemology Nagel’s reaction What it shows and can show. What I mean by evolutionary epistemology Relationships among knowledge by participation/acquaintance/description… and so the relationship of human being with organism… with all being Comments on relationship between the discreteness of our existence and our unity with/being all; and: Wittgenstein and the communicability of experience 9. Preliminary to physiology and robotics of perception 10. Outline of differential and integral calculus 11. Concrete plan: ideas, concepts, study, research, synthesis for all phases of Being and The Elements of Being All phases. Focus on ideas. Possibilities for experiment and field work The structure is |
