Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Three level of reality
The
signal and the noise:
The noise is the wide and deep production of information broadly defined to include a lot of false reports, and opinion widely defined to include expert knowledge, informed guesses and kooky nonsense and special pleadings based on which side of the bread has the butter on it. With or without intention bends backwards to material rewards. If you say X you get a salary and can pay your bills but if you say Y not so much.
This background becomes knowledge broadly defined (things believed to be true that are not really true) What we know, what we know we don't know, and unknown we don't know we don't know when integrated into models. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Popper or paradigms.
Popper
is known for his attempt to repudiate the classical
observationalist/inductivist
form
of the scientific
method
in
favour of empirical
falsification.
He is also known for his opposition to the classical
justificationist
account
of knowledge which he replaced with critical
rationalism,
"the first non justificational philosophy of criticism
in the history of philosophy".[9]
In
political discourse, he is known for his vigorous defence of
liberal
democracy
and
the principles ofsocial
criticism
that
he came to believe made a flourishing "open
society"
possible.
The
Logic of Scientific Discovery,
1934 (as Logik
der Forschung,
English translation 1959), ISBN
0-415-27844-9
The signal
is the deep realism – The real is material reality, hard facts
proven by the scientific methods.
The
really real is what Popper is talking about the connections to models
or regions of paradigms.
The
true, beautiful real is an essence that is transcendental
Helena
Petrovna Blavatsky
(Russian:
Еле́на
Петро́вна
Блава́тская,
Ukrainian:
Олена
Петрівна
Блаватська),
(born as Helena
von Hahn
(Russian:
Елена
Петровна
Ган,
Ukrainian:
Олена
Петрівна
Ган);
12 August [O.S.
31 July] 1831 – 8 May 1891) was a Russian-German
occultist.[1]
In
1875, Blavatsky and Henry
Steel Olcott
established a research and publishing institute called the
Theosophical
Society.
Blavatsky defined Theosophy
as "the archaic Wisdom-Religion, the esoteric doctrine once
known in every ancient country having claims to civilization."[2]
One of the main purposes of the Theosophical Society was "to
form a nucleus of the Universal Brotherhood of Humanity, without
distinction of race, creed, sex, caste or color".[3]
Blavatsky saw herself as a missionary of this ancient knowledge.
Blavatsky's
extensive research into the many different spiritual traditions of
the world led to the publication of what is now considered her
magnum
opus,
The
Secret Doctrine,
which collates and organizes the essence of these teachings into a
comprehensive synthesis. Blavatsky's other works include Isis
Unveiled,
The
Key to Theosophy
and The
Voice of the Silence.
Blavatsky is a leading name in the New
Age Movement.
The
Theosophical Society had a major influence on Buddhist
modernism HYPERLINK
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_Blavatsky#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcMahan2008-4"
[4]
and Hindu
reform movements,
and the spread of those modernised versions in the west.[4]
Along with H.
S. Olcott
and Anagarika
Dharmapala,
Blavatsky was instrumental in the Western transmission and revival
of Theravada
Buddhism.[5]HYPERLINK
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_Blavatsky#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGombrich1996185.E2.80.93188-6"
[6]HYPERLINK
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_Blavatsky#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFields199283.E2.80.93118-7"
[7]
