JOURNEY
2000: NARRATIVE
ANIL MITRA PHD, COPYRIGHT © 2000, REFORMATTED June 2003
Document
status: June 10,
2003
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
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