Sense Fields(variants of common sense, but sometimes dreams, and even nightmares)
Behavior of any 'living' being in a Common Sense Field is the accumulation of accumulated rituals.
This was what 'progressive' US citizen Thomas Kuhn posed in his writings about paradigms,
only thomas kuhn saw 'science' as the accumulation of total knowledge. Kuhn forgot that 'science' itself is the accumulation of accumulated 'western' rituals.
Only a limited set of Roman Christian rituals.
Accumulated absolute knowledge is what the 'conservative' US-citizen Donald Davidson in the (dual) tradition of Immanuel Kant pointed at with 'conceptual schemes'.
That shows that life is awfully complex. Beings feel 'free', but behave within Common Sense Fields.
And easily go from optimizing conservative rituals, via absolute rituals,
to superiority rituals (= self worship = ego-ism = total rigidity = fascism)
Human animals of type female very well are aquainted with living in a hostile Common Sense Field: playing humble, playing pretty; playing nice; missionary sex;....
Replacing Freedom of The Human Family with MY Individual Freedom (liberty; individual enterprise; egoism) may accumulate in something like western democracy (absolutism disguised),
and might result in ferocious Sense wars (wars on terrorism) between a
Field of Recession (weakening, fragile and showing conservative spasms = recession) and strengthening beautiful Human Animal Common Sense Fields (using flexible common sense).
Evolution 'solved' getting in strangling conflicts with
an archive of successful behavior in DNA and in the research phase of DNA (common sense behavior).
DNA and common sense are culturally relative and prevent that
Sense wars end in total destruction. Fine example: 'European' Australians realizing that they completely mistreated Aborigine culture.
And the Canadian Goverment making excuses to the Red Indian population, about years of mistreatment.
Total rigidity also means 'cultural blindness', only in rigid superiority way sensing a virtual world (fine example: The United States Empire).
Dreaming 'freedom' fundamentals fight an Axis of Evil full of terrorism. Practicing
Freedom of Speech in Wars on Terrorism 'fundamentals' forget about common sense.
Don't expect 21st century change to be initiated in places in semi-capitalist Common Sense Fields like: Bombay, Beijing, Hong Kong, Singapore.
You might find sense forces here though, that are quite positive to change (Zoroastrianism ..., Buddhism, ...).
In Canada, California, Belgium, Ireland, Malta, ... I see hopeful sparkles of common sense.
But essential change will come from TOTALLY OUTSIDE the dominant Western World. Places like Philippines, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Iran, Malaysia, Thailand, Tanzania, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bolivia, ..
With as creative and VERY powerful motor the area Iran, eastern Iraq, Pakistan and Northern India (areas with strong and colorfull Zoroastrian traditions)
A seemingly negative aspect of 'nature' is that it is very 'patient'.
So it takes being decades in the midst of a devastating 'Wars on Terrorism' before common sense
starts resisting. When water resources (base of earth-life) become threatened.
The variant of 'life' as settled on earth is based on water.
All beings on earth (plants and animals) are largely water.
Without clean water, no life
After essential change got started, 'things' happen like a landslide.
In the Western culture in defense seen as unpredictable 'recession', elsewhere with creativity and intelligence seen as predictably bumpy 'road to freedom'
Local Truths = Local Common Sense Fields
Conceptual Schemes
In the past in evolution on Planet Earth rigid cultures just disappeared. Both human-mammal cultures as wel as other animal or plant cultures.
Such cultures had killed environment, or had got stuck in hallucinations.
Ice-ages, meteorites, supervolcano's ... and recessions just make room.
'Conceptual scheme' is a 'rational' notion related to an EXPERIMENT (concept) that points at Common Sense Field behavior fitting within
the constraints of that experiment.
And used in the way of David Davidson this 'rational' notion 'conceptual scheme' points at a set filled with 'rational' behavior.
That's like: a fungus claiming that it's a healthy fungus.
In "On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme" (about Common Sense Fields) the mammal-human Davidson (no offense)
uses the 'rational' sense behavior 'understanding' (= Western conceptual scheme) to deny the evolutional conceptual scheme 'common sense'
that every living entity sees reality using a cultural 'scheme' (some subset of common sense) but nevertheless in own way.
Davidson got stuck in 'rational spasm', and was able only to make 'rational' moves.
Davidson 'rationally' 'stutters' 'your tree is my tree', is the tree of a bird, of a bee, it is a tree with ... 'rational' properties
(as if 'trees' grow using the same 'rational' spasm).
'Rational' speech IS interpreted in common sense, but is not a common sense scheme, and causes utter confusion.
A human like a fly caught in sticky 'catholic' superiority illusion that insect, bats, spiders, etcetera, live in 'rational' worlds.
Donald Davidson believed that all beings sensed reality in 'rational' way ('rationality' as common sense and as The Law of Nature) .
Davidson concludes that all variants of space-life are 'rational' 'Sense Fields of life'.
And that every pair of Common Sense Fields of life has a kind of "Stone of Rosetta" transfer-table.
In fact with the Stone of Rosetta 'table' the complex common sense Egyptian culture was made
into a simple 'understandable' 'catholic' variant.
Davidson honestly in the 'rational' Common Sense Field behavior 'understanding' makes all of space into 'Catholic Scheme' = 'Rational Scheme'.
Narrow minded critism of 'incommensurability
'Rational thinkers' see a surprising paradox in conceptual schemes and say:
"Views without 'rational' translation of the same set of things is a paradox". Because for them all essential properties of 'that thing' are 'rational' and thus
continuous.
BUT, quote Thomas Kuhn: Ideas from past eras don't simply fit seamlessly into the next one.
The One: To arrive in the next paradigm ('scientific' era) takes a JUMP (paradigm shift).
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The Western mammal Donald Davidson with structured 'rational' noises like a wizard in 'rational' trance moves in the Common Sense Field 'reason'
(Enlightenment Common Sense behavior 'understanding).
'Selling' the ritual behavior 'understanding' as a 'virtual scheme of reality in his brain' (
when bees 'see' a flower they do some 'bee common sense' rituals).
Davidson sees himself as smarter than bees and looks in ritual 'superiority' way (understanding).
In mode 'superiority' Western World mammals of race human like Davidson obviously value 'the rational scheme' as being 'higher' than intuition.
Western World humans addicted with 'rationalism' practice beautiful 'rational' rituals,
but also react like killer bees (war on terrorism) when meeting common sense warlords.
'Rational world views' practiced by western human animals
are much the same (always dual = conflict supposing).
The Western ethics 'rationality' per definition has as basis
that the world is based on 'rational laws and that way denies that 2 world views can be essentially different (Kuhn's incommensurability).
Inherently the Western mammal-human called Davidson claims: in 'rational' trips' one sees TRUTH (natural law).
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Different Truths (Schemes) are very well Possible
But worldwide Common Sense is much the same
Most frequent question, related to the notion 'paradigm' of Thomas Kuhn:
0 Are different conceptual schemes possible, i.e. do different truths or incommensurable paradigms exist?
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The obvious elements of our everyday Western conceptual scheme include Enlightenmenment views about time and space,
IF-THEN memory, local language, and so on.
Sharing 'conceptual schemes' means living much of the same 'dream'.
All schemes on earth are based on millions of years common sense,
very much simular with stubborn minor differences
The Western Catholic Truth (away from common sense)
The ROMAN Christian world was built on the paradigm idea immaterial 'spirits' use bodies as housing,
because that allowed superior humans (Romans) to keep other humans as slaves.
Alien 'pagans' were supposed to be 'empty bodies' [slaves = houses of flesh], without the 'spirit' of superior humans). Confusing is that Mohammed envied Romans having slaves and he created 'Mohammedanism' with his 'Koran'.
And Mohammed and his wives started keeping 'houses of flesh' (slaves).
Ages later during Catholic 'Enlightenment' in Europe the fundamental protestant Immanuel Kant posed: Uniform for evolution is that immaterial 'spirit' rules physical body.
BUT according to The One:
All common sense beliefs consider medidating (trance) as bodily BEHAVIOR and
consequently consider slavery (spiritual behavior) as non-sense and both slaves and slave-bosses as human animals (body =soul).
This very well possible scheme (evolution; behavior follows outcome of all senses) was ignored in the Western World,
because since Enlightenment Western people arrogantly started to believe that 'divine spirit' (the Roman Catholic idea 'pure reason')
created human culture.
Western cultures see 'language' in a shortsighted way. Western character based languages without a stable word base invite abstract thinking and finally fascism.
| Essentially different languages split original Islamic ethics and Roman Christian ethics. In fact Osama bin Laden mentioned as a basic problem: Unlike in the Muslim World in the Christian world politics and religion are split.
Mind that only Roman Christian, Muhammedan and Hindu Worlds in 'top' circles split reality in spiritual heaven and sinful hell. Instead of recognizing life as ONE (an eternal flame).
During a few ages out of many BILLIONS. |
Being 'perpendicular ' or without any relation is a notion from mathematical logic (total denial). In the logic discipline 'Formal Languages' such being in different world of logic is treated. In my opinion general philosophy could speed up quite a bit by looking more at mathematical logic.
Of course the imagination 'spirits from heaven' can be denied, already Wittgenstein in his Tractatus said: ANY statement can be denied.
Two absolute worlds are equal if their angle of relativity (in all sense logics) is zero. Two different absolute worlds are relative if their angle of relativity is not perpendicular.
Translation is still possible, but might take effort
Davidson Profile
conceptual schemes survived Davidson's attack
The American philosopher Donald Davidson (1917-2003) was the last in line of influential 'thinkers of rationality' (Rene Descartes, Immanuel Kant, Karl Popper. Defenders of
The Dogma of Rationalism).Davidson became one of the 'hero's' after World War II
in US-analytic philosophy.
Davidson (quite Catholic/Protestant) argued that inphysical 'analysis' causes physical human behavior (the discussion
appearence versus reality). Davidson argues that the idea of a conceptual scheme is confused and that there can't be different conceptual schemes,
and thus that the concept has no use.
In fact Davidson suggest that IF the behavior described
by a sentence of English language is TRUE, then this behavior is TRUE everywhere on earth.
Said in another way: if some behavior 'scientifically' is determined as FALSE or EVIL in the
US, THEN this behavior is EVIL or TERROR everywhere on earth. That why FBI,CIA and US-governments invented War on Terrorism.
Quite 'rational' Davidson denies the relativism behind paradigms and just like Aristotle trusts IDEAS as absolute substitute for behavior.
In an interview Davidson says: We recognize all the
differences against a shared background: everyone knows there is a
common space and time in which other people (and lots of other things)
exist, and we all know that some other people have minds much like
our own. And so forth
Zarah2nd: The 'shared background' is earth-common-sense.
But within earth-common-sense
there are HUGE differences in major 'paradigms'.
Like we all know = arrogance.
'space' = reality; 'time' = a 'rational' 'idea'.
The notion 'idea' presumes 'mind',
and 'mind' presumes a mind-body-split.
So the wizard Davidson only acts ritual in 'rational' way.
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Davidson attacks in 'Davidson's Razor' what he calls The third dogma of Empiricism:
This second dualism of scheme, of organizing system and something waiting to be organized,
cannot be made intelligible and defensible. It is itself a dogma of empiricism.
Partly wise, indeed a paradigm of reality is not waiting to be organized. Partly 'rational' non-sense,
a paradigm cannot be expressed in words, but description is a good tool
to get grip on the paradigm.
Davidson denied that there is any other kind of description besides the literally false one.
This way he divided 'material reality'and 'mind reality to distinct domains (dualism).
'Idea' is a synonym for 'Form'; 'Forms' and 'ideas' are 'simulations. Paradigms are being simulated.
Davidson's dual view on reality is almost unbelievable:
a statement = TRUE (when 'rational' good) or FALSE (when 'rationally' evil or 'irrational').
Of course Davidson rejected conceptual relativism, i.e., the idea that the behavior of
human cultures follows local conditions.
Davidson Profile (end)
conceptual schemes survived Davidson's attack
Davidson taught at Stanford, Princeton, Chicago, Berkeley, ...
Davidsson used the "principle of charity" for language and introduced the notion "anomalous monism".
The Principle of Charity: interpreting statements as 'rational'.
It forces the interpreter to maximize the truth (= rationality) in the statement.
The goal of this principle is to avoid 'irrationality' (seen as FALSE).
Anomalous Monism is the dream of the relationship between mind and body.
In a nutshell: body follows 'mind', but 'mind' is not physical (mental anomalism).
The source of fascism. Indeed, since the sixties in top The US in accelerating speed became fascist.
These influential human animals can be characterized as 'Dreamers' (Analyzers).
'Dreamers' ever more arrogantly (superior) dominate the period between start of Enlightenment and begin 21st century.
Davidson's western human mammal 'analysis', presented in a series of essays starting 1960, became flags.
Directing the western human mammals away from 'down to earth' common sense behavior towards
analytical 'rational' behavior directed by 'thinking' (like dominant 'rational' urine on the bark of the dying human 'philosophy' tree in a common sense jungle).
Flags of importance for Davidson were the writings of W.V.O.Quine, C.I. Lewis, Frank Ramsey and Immanuel Kant.
The One: Davidson did not 'smell' the fascist tendencies in the work of Kant.
Anyway, Davidson completely had suppressed the sense that he needed to 'touch' the 'relativism' in the work of the later Ludwig Wittgenstein about language.
Though he was more 'invisible', Donald Davidson even more than Karl Popper might be seen as superhero of 'rationality'.
Davidson with clouds of complex words chased away the threat of the relativism of
the in non-American eyes only really important American philosopher Thomas Kuhn.
For Donald Davidson Kuhn's relativism was 'irrationalism' and thus FALSE.
In the roaring sixties in America 'irrationalism' was by 'the establishment' seen as simular to terrorism and threatening for
law and order. And often violently with ALL means (including murder) these 'threats' were suppressed.
Thomas Kuhn was lucky to be a famous professor, and very wise to stay almost 'invisible'.
The 'rational' myth 'Understanding' (1)
Understanding is a tough myth, dating from Enlightenment and already many ages before invented by the ancient Hellenist Greek biologer Aristotle.
'Understanding' is a notion in the logic 'rationality' that substitutes the common sense notion 'intuition' with 'rational' Unidentified Flying Objects (illusions) called 'spirits' .
No more the common sense 'what you sense is all you get' (wysywig), but the 'rational' 'what you 'spiritualize' (brain-addiction) is the heaven for thinking' (wyshfothink).
In the 20th century Donald Davidson adds his part of confusion with his 'rational' claim: We can investigate the world, and man as a part of it, and thus find out what [rational] cues
he could have of what [rationally] goes on around him. Subtracting his [rational] cues from his [rational] world view,
we get men's net [rational] contribution as the [rational] difference. This [rational] difference marks the extent of men's
sovereignty--the domain with which he can revise [rational] theory while saving THE [rational] data.
More than 20 ages ago Alexander the Cursed destroyed the Persian 'UNITY of body and mind' world (Zoroastrian) to introduce the dual view 'SPLIT of human mind and animal body' introduced by
his tutor Aristotle in Nicomachean Ethics. Especially designed to divide Alexander's predator behavior and 'divine' human thinking. A sneeky way of splitting his terrible murderous moods and his non-sense making politician-talk.
Aristotle made brilliant non-sense quotes, like: We make war that we may live in peace. In the 21st century used to sleep better by the US president while his army shoots around for oil in Iraq.
And thus when in ancient times this no-sense ethics was gradually taken over by The Roman Senate this was a way to introduce egoism in the Western World, as 'divine' right of
'divine' people. Inherently disrespect of all life that is not considered 'divine' (wars on terrorism).
Better not aim for the Aristotelian myth 'spirituality', or the 'rational' hallucination 'understanding. What works is working.
A return to respect of ALL life will bring turbulant times. Wise people should not worry about things like
social position, but use their talent in 'puzzling' to find a generally acceptable translation. One tip: the Buddhist way
of using their 4 Noble Truths for Social Ethics, and rational thought for ONLY Technology worked perfectly.
In some 'rational' writings understanding is also referred to as 'capacity', something you own or not.
You don't have the 'capacity' to speak Chinese, after 10 years of training you're just starting to get 'the feeling'. Similar to having the 'capacity' of a drinking glass.
A Kuhnian Paradigm Shift is producing a slight angle between 1 or more ethical values (sense experiences given value) in 'old' and 'new' paradigm (differences in HUGE common sense, not only the TINY differences in 'rational' values) . Even such 'maintenance shifts' proved to be shocking.
An Ethical Law Shift produces HUGE differences in some BASIC social ethical values.
The myth 'Understanding' (2): Being smart is not knowing 'theory but 'Creativity + Training'
'Understanding' does not exist. It's an IDEA, as is 'IQ'.
The behavior 'smart' means being quick in being-trained (quick in learning).
The myth 'understanding means being talented in memorizing and reciting 'formulas'.
To have 'formulas' ready for use is religious behaviour, and practical in a religious society. But nothing special.
To be fast in learning, since Enlightenment, is related to 'rational intelligence' ('understanding' = knowing 'theory').
But everybody knows that there are very clumsy professors, and quite practical carpenters.
Many professors are not quick in learning to use a screwdriver, but quick in repeating complex dreams (theories).
When fighting better not theorize about the next blow, but just react.
Education = Training the sensory motor, not memorizing theories.
Theories are great TOOLS in technology, but disastrous in social life
An Example of a Scheme
Davidson distinguishes organized experience (schemes), and experience waiting to be organized.
Davidson warns for theories that place some third entity (fantasy) between such a scheme and language.
Or use such a fantasy as filter of this scheme.
He forgets that common sense language is part of reality. He in fact says: placing 'rationality'
between the scheme 'common sense language' and 'reality'/sensory-experience is asking for trouble.
Davidson wants to show that language = 'rational' scheme of 'the world', but without realizing
inherently states that language is common sense scheme of 'the world', and 'rationality' is a superfluous scheme.
A perfect example of a scheme is rational thinking. or diminishing reality to 'rationally good' and 'rationally evil' (TRUE and FALSE).
It illustrates that the thin 'rational' tops of early 21st century Western Cultures reduced common sense experience to 'TRUE rational experience'
obeying scheme 'social science', and got very one-sided (prejudiced).
Such 'rational' thinking made them dwell in tiny virtual worlds, far from reality
The inherent explanation of sensory experience in the logic 'rationality' is:
(A. the Roman Christian Mind-Body-Split; considering reality a dualism of we versus they) + (B. Views called a-priori of left brain thinker Immanuel Kant about space and time).
Or the Aristotelian doctrine lend by the Romans that immaterial souls are imprisoned in physical bodies (the belief in 'flying' souls).
As far as I know in the 20th century beside Roman Christians only Muslims and followers of Krishnamurti (of the Hara Krishna sect) supported this we-they thinking. His writings are 'spiritual' (abstract or vague), but he argued that human brains are unfit to grasp reality as a whole). This thinking allows slavery, castes (Hinduism) and Jihads.
| WHY did the Romans do that?: Possibly unaware, but WITHOUT DOUBT because thinking in terms of 'sacred souls' and 'unclean bodies' tolerated the PRIME basic of Roman culture: .... slavery. |
Immanuel Kant much later in late Enlightenment created some very dense complex 'fog' in "Critique of Pure Reason" to introduce some 'humbug' a priori.
Practically NOBODY in scientific circles wanted to admit that he/she got completely lost in the tricky fog of Kant's fantasies. But it was quite convenient, that Immanuel Kant obviously tolerated
the Roman inheritance consisting of slavery, suppression of women,
capitalism, industrialism (extreme engineering), power politics and 'rule of THE people' (democracy).
So his curious and at his time already 2 ages old (!) Christian New Science ideas
about space and time were accepted. In fact again ages later Albert Einstein was reluctantly permitted to make only a minor adaption.
Ideas of early 17th century (the Age of Absolutism) rule our 21st century world! You might have a look at how many models a thinker like Karl Popper used to filter sense experience.
That's why the Roman Christian church tolerated its fundamental Protestant branch to INVENT 'apartheid' and slavery of 'black human animals with little soul'.
And why the Mathematical logic 'Rationalism' of the Catholic priest Rene Descartes effortlessly adapted in 'protestantism' to War on Terrorism.
Tolerating brutal murdering of in majority ignorant peaceful people, with use of:
Starfighters, Crusaders, Stratofortresses, Thunderstreaks, ThunderChiefs, VooDoos, Hustlers, Delta Daggers, Buccaneers,
Phantoms, Blackbirds, Hawker Harriers, Intruders, Dragon Ladies,
Skyhawks, Lightnings, Tomcats, Eagles, Tigers,
Thunderbolts, Falcons, Hawks, Ravens, Hornets, Tornados,
NightHawks, Lancers, Tigersharks,
Spirits, Super Hornets, Raptors, Joint Strike Fighters
| Chinese language describes a 'fighterplane' as 'war machine'. 'Bomber' as to the point imagination: 'noisy machine that fries people alife'. |
Continuity or Time
As already said:
Davidson (inherently) warns for theories that place some extra scheme (fantasy)
between common sense language and reality. Like the Hellenistic Greek Aristotle with his 'Nicomachean Ethics,
or Immanuel Kant with his pure reason, or Karl Popper with falsification.
Davidson wants to show that sense language = representation in 'common sense' logic of sense experience.
So Davidson claims that 'logic about logic' (meta-logic ='spirituality') is only deviating from common sense, and nothing but creating TOTAL confusion.
Such a fantasy is 'continuity', inherently introduced by Descartes. The concept 'time' since Enlightenment totally distorted Western view on life.
And these views since the ancient Greek 'Aristotle' already were heavily distorted by 'egoism'.
With result that in the Western World sensing the energy state 'history' started fading.
Now especially the concepts 'linearity' and 'continuity' were like heroin.
'Time' is perfect in skill to judge 'wear', but inadequate in social life.
A 'jump' has no 'duration' 'length' or 'distance'.
The concept 'continuity' together with 'egoism' allows the 'compromising' that via the energy state 'fascism' end in 'history'.
A more 'common sense' view is considering social life as a camera with energy states (history, now).
'History'=The Other Side=Pause=low energy states,stable; 'now'=play, execution.
Then between (all of) 'history'=pause and 'now'=play are only energy jumps.
In 'rational' view 'paranormal' people can retrieve movies from a camera in pause
Like retrieving a corrupted sense movie from a broken sense camera (or related sense camera's).
And that way making a playback of energy sense experiences in 'history', while being in 'now'.
That is like sensing someone's recent high energy history as if being there, and quite weird in 'rational' opinion.
Until now very rarely western people have the talent to combine 'pause' and 'play'
That way such hoovering 'prophets' play the movie 'History' while still acting in the tophit movie 'Now'.
Such 'superwizards' realize that only 1 tweuron 'divides' pause and play.
It helps to consider a living humanoid body as as camera (brain integrated with body) storing pics in archive .
With a lot of local intelligence (motors), and always 'on' but with 2 energy states (pause, play). The brain is like a 3 dimensional memorycard +CPU.
Every pic takes a certain amount of energy shots of size 'tweuron' (see brain).
Losing pics from memory or CPU happens frequently.
The camera stops functioning (braindeath=stop of 'play') when either the memory or CPU gets too much corrupted.
A 'paradigm shift' is a growth spasm, an irreversible chain of fresh pics. Life is filling the archive of a camera.
Realize that a meteorite of size 'moon' might be a ball of dung fired by space life to squash an irritating flie. And that for flies a human 'sink' is a black hole.
Elephants are relatively 'slow' and 'huge', invisible for Ant-cameras, nevertheless ant-life without elephants is a beautiful movie.
By other space life 'humans' might be seen as 'microbes' living on 'flies'. In that case surrounding space seems huge, because humans are miniscule.
A NASA microbe from Earth might pass hundreds of life shapes of size 'moon' who feel no need to screen space with microscopes.
Example 'Taliban'
Islam as way of life is much older than Mohammadanism. Mohammad is 'only' thought to be the final prophet. Although he was (praise on him) a quite agressive trader. Many Hebrew prophets are also Islamic prophets. And even some Hindu prophets.
In Islam and in its totally dominant variant Mohammedanism drugs are totally forbidden. So growing papaver
for heroin like in Afghanistan is a crime in Mohammedan Law. Also gambling is not allowed.
Likewise the lending of money on interest is forbidden as it tends to accumulate wealth within a narrow circle and that is considered harmful.
After the trader Muhammed took over control (imitating Roman Catholicism), Islam in practice devaluated to Muhammedan Islam.
Mohammedanism became the surrogate Roman Christianity for Arabian people.
Like the Roman version of Christianity a Muhammedan Muslim believes in:
One male god called 'Allah', his Angels, his Law Books and his Prophets. Life after Death.
The Quran of Mohammad stealthily evades the subject 'slavery'. BUT: Mohammad and his wives owned slaves and traded in them.
The Quran of Mohammad describes he who let his slave inherit as a person who is ungrateful to Allah.
The Quran teaches that a slave is not equal to a free man. In practice in fundamental Mohammedan countries women are treated as slaves.
Muhammadan doctrine has five aspects which confusingly became known as the five pillars of all of Islam:
Kalima ; To agree that Allah is 'great' and that Mohammad is His Messenger (absolutism).
Salat ; To say five daily prayers at their appointed times (Islam religion).
Fasting ; To observe fast during the month of Ramadhan (Islam religion) .
Zakat ; To contribute a certain percentage of wealth for charity (compromise).
Haj ; To go for pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in one's life-time if physically and financially possible (Islam religion).
Just like Catholicism in a stealthy way Muhammedanism tolerates and even stimulates slavery
Mohammadanism like Roman Christianity might be considered as a rigid religion around a dual view on life (following Aristotle).
Roman Christian Bible and Muhammedan Quran are more fundamentalist addictive books than the Red Booklet of Mao.
The prohibiting of using pictures of persons, of lending on interest and of using drugs shows common sense and that Islam is a tolerant belief and aims for the happiness of the whole community. Only that Islamic aim is corrupted by the Mohammadan rule 'Zakat'.
| In their paradigm the Taliban-leaders make their followers worship 'kalima', focus on religious aspects of Mohammedanism, allow growing papaver as long as most of the profit
goes to them (zakat), and still see the way Mohammed treated women (slavery) as law. |
Example: The Conceptual Scheme of Chinese Qi
Qi or ch'i is one of the most tough and most essential of Chinese concepts.
Qi in common sense might be seen as sum of energy fields of a human body.
According to Zhuangzi, "There is but one qi under all heaven."
Zhuangzi specifies breath training: "A True Man's food is plain, but his breathing is unfathomable and tranquil. While the breathing of mass is through their throats, the breathing of True Man is through his heels."
(fetus breathing = 'a hand-crossed and thumbs-jointed' posture of breathing = meditation position)
Ge Hong wrote: "When one is well cultivated in circulating qi, water will go upstream when one breathes out slowly; fire is extinguished when one breathes out slowly; ...
Zhuangzi: "Unify your attention. Rather than listen with the ear, listen with the heart. Rather than listen with the heart, listen with the qi.
According to Confucius, qi is the source of emotion = behavior. Then qi would
be part of the 'sensory motor', an accumulated energyfield extending from the brain
Qi easily 'touches' seemingly far away objects.
The art of using Qi is becoming completely relaxed and let your intuition experience such 'touch' (behaving through the qi).
This is for instance practiced in the buddhist fighting art 'karate'.
Emptying the brain (chemical memory-archive) and directly using sense experience. That is 'forgetting' about fear of death (tradition),
and acting without 'breaks'.
Like 'karate' shows original behavior is 'forgetting about 'fear', and experiment with creative behavior.
Superiority = Slave Farming
For the third time:
Davidson inherently warns for theories that place some third entity (fantasy) between common sense language and reality/sensory-experience.
Like the Hellenistic Greek Aristotle with his Nicomachean Ethics,
or Immanuel Kant with his pure reason, like rationality, or like Karl Popper with falsification. Davidson wants to show that sense language = representation in 'common sense' logic of sense experience.
So Davidson (without realizing) claims that 'logic about logic' (meta-logic ='spirituality') is only deviating from common sense, and nothing but creating TOTAL confusion
'Superiority' is totally abstract and needs no sense experiences.
'Superiority' logics (like 'rationalism) aiming at giving sense to 'slavery produce TRUE or FALSE judgements.
'Superiority' logic needs input, a scheme that transfers reality in 'superiority' notions.
Here things get fishy. Such a scheme has a hidden goal, is personal, based on prejudices and own experiences.
So between the reality and a 'superior' individual are the major schemes:
(1) the outer layer 'rationality; (2) the input layer.
A simple example:
A 'superior' male might in his personal scheme (his personal language to make sense of reality) create the rule that sex with his secretary is part of his job.
(Or a Mohammedan might claim that his wife is his property. ).
That rule is input for his abstract 'rational' layer.
His 'rational' layer translates this behavior in brilliant 'rational' notions like: ... a satisfying relation with an employee improves working relations, and as such productivity,
or Allah is Great and Mohammed is my example
This confusing output is input for reactions of others.
That process is perfectly illustrated by American lawyers, who aiming at the 'rational' goal 'success' even without problem defend murderers of whom they are sure that they are guilty.
This is exacly how it works and how things can get totally weird (fascist)
OK, 1 more example. In New Orleans after hurricane Katrina common sense dictated: Help at all costs.
This resulted in heroic 'rational' sentences like: We'll do everything we can (while 'rationally' thinking: we're not gowing to throw our money in the Mississippi). And as fast as possible ('rationally' thinking: well, time heals all wounds). That resulted in continuing spending HUGE amounts of money on War on Terrorism.
After the 2004 tsunami The US promised Thailand at least 200 million dollar. 17 were really donated, ....by private funds.
Isolated in technology 'rational' logic works fine, WHEN used by people with mathematical training.
Since 'rational' logic in the Western World was introduced in social science as replacement for common sense (under name 'sociology') during WW2 (by UK and US)
in a couple of decades things went totally berserk.
The Roman Paradigm
Back in time:
During the Roman occupation of Judah locally there were 2 very dominant world views (paradigms): the Israelian Paradigm (the Pharisees) and the Roman Paradigm.
Both based on the superiority thinking of the Hellenist Paradigm (superior masters and worthless slaves; dual thinking).
It helps to imagine paradigms as aquariums. Jesus, because of being educated outside those aquariums in Zoroastrian Egypt was able
to act as a 'prophet' and to imagine being a 'fish' inside the local aquarium of an by Israel and Roman Empire occupied Juda and at the same time looking from outside at the aquarium.
That way Jesus could laugh about seemingly predictable behavior (rituals) in the aqarium.
And Jesus could predict that one day the piranhas in the aquarium would rip him to pieces.
And Jesus foresaw that the person who was most close to him might lead the piranhas towards him.
Because such a person (Judas) could not help treating him as a beloved one (ritual love).
That way the piranhas would find Jesus.
In 451 AC at the Council of Chalcedon the European Christian Churches deviant from the Middle East Christian Religions AGREED to consider 'God' and his 'only' son Jesus as holy IMMATERIAL 'spirits'.
That way between reality/common sense and language the Catholic and Byzantine churches plus Israelian Hebrew 'christianity' ('Pharisee' Christianity forced by Alexander the 'Great') placed the 'mental-juggling' concept 'spirit'. Completely abstract (not only invisible, but even immaterial) and thus TOTALLY flexible to serve
the purposes of those in power. Ages later the scheme 'spiritualism' was formalized in the scheme rationalism by the catholic priest Rene Descartes.
Since then in the Western World things got weirder and weirder. From exorcism, inquisition, witch-burnings, slavery, concentration camps, nuclear missiles, war on terrorism.
Making a director of Rockefeller Oil Multinational Chevron responsible for Law and Order on earth (Minister of Foreign Affairs of the US). During a many hundreds of billions costing Iraq War that clearly is about the huge oil and gas reserves of Iraq. In a period of industrial global warming. ....People go to prison for much less.
Annihilating earth environment ....while considering itself as First World, and other human cultures as Third World or even Axis of Evil.
Donald Davidson was quoted in 2000
What I was questioning was (1) the idea that we
can distinguish between an unconceptualized content given in
experience and an organizing scheme.
[The One: Osama bin Laden shows that his common sense
emits that killing Muslim children wordwide through hunger doesn't feel OK] .
(2) the idea of radically incommensurable basic views of the world. We recognize all the
differences against a shared background: everyone knows there is a
common space and time.
[The One: space and time are LOCAL Roman Christian Enlightenment concepts.
And outside the Western World nobody shares the Aristotelian idea 'IMMATERIAL spirit']. The evolutionary shared background
is archived in DNA (long term) and common sense (short term). Not in the European 'translation' 'understanding' (rationality) of the Aristotelian hallucination 'spirit'.
A common sense Australian might say to a 'spiritual' American with high 'IQ': man you're talking shit |
Local Truths = Locally Normal Science
Davidson says: Something is a language, and associated with a conceptual scheme [i.e. a local truth], whether we can translate it or not, if it stands in a certain relation to experience (predicting, organizing, facing, or fitting).
In fact he says: something is a local truth if it relates to 'reality' through sensory experiences.
Thus, the CHALLENGE is to say what the relation is and be clearer about the entities related.
The difference of two logic schemes that are essentially different is found in two ways of explaining.
There is no real comparing, only trying to find out the different explanations for the same object or reaction.
Something is generally said to be an acceptable 'conceptual scheme' or local truth if the sensory entities fit some accepted logic.
Thus in the case of failure of translatability there clearly are different logics,
maybe even incomparable senses. Here we have two different local truths.
An extra complication of rationalism is that the prime basic 'the spirit God exists' is not related
to sensory experience, but is pure fantasy. This basic result is dividing reality in 2 parts: Abstract Laws of Nature (God) and Empirical Results of those Laws of Nature, that is in 'good' and 'evil'.
That results in discrimination like: smart/stupid, whites/blacks, heterosexuals/homosexuals, men/women, christians/pagans, slim/fat etcetera.
Realize that all second parts only exist when you IMAGINE the first half. You respect someone because of by behavior triggered moods, not because of abstract divisions.
Another serious complication is that the 'Empiricism' restricts itself to 'rational' experience.So most experience is ignored.
Realize that Natural Gods represent a logic found in total sense EXPERIENCE. Not abstract and only 'rational' at all. |
Just for the sake of being able of considering translatability as part of any language Davidson speaks about
'partial failure of translation'. In fact two different truths means TOTAL failure of translation.
Sense languages can only be translated into one another IF they share the same truth (a conceptual scheme like 'common sense').
A common sense interpretation uses evolutional ethics (= MANY MANY ages old proven intuition).
Take care: part of 'common sense' is any communication system, like 'smell language'.
The Enlightenment myth 'understanding' in the Western World created the arrogant opinion that (Roman) 'Christian' humans are different from other humans,
and that the human animal is not an animal. That resulted in considering 'Christian' humans as 'normal', and members of other paradigms as 'anormal', 'pagan', 'terrorist', ...
Understanding is an abstract fantasy (concept), we humans just became quite consistent in sense reactions (WITHIN major cultures).
ESPECIALLY (but not only) Israelian Hebrew culture and fundamentally Protestant cultures (like US, UK, Germany, The Netherlands etcetera) appear seriously infected by the 'Star Trek' like myth 'going
where no-one went before' (being special). Of course that 'Star Trek' commanders don't interfere is an arrogant myth, but they don't send soldiers in 'dirty wars' to bring 'peace'.
Rational Myth: Novelties of fact or theory lead to the end of normal science
Theory IS rational research, so it only refreshes 'science from WITHIN. Leading to updated 'normal science'.
Incommensurability is not 'a novelty' in 'normality', it is for 'frozen research' what hot winds are for is for frozen forest. Defreezing of complex but boring 'normality=rigidity'=fascism to make room for beautiful 'para-normality=flexibility'=creativity.
Life and Space (1): Earth Life is not made in space
Roughly present humans might be divided in 2 major groups (only in our brains); the metaphysical realists (dominantly found in the Western World in circles of 'politicians', 'managers' and 'military leaders') and the physical realists (mainly found OUTSIDE The Western World).
Or expressed another way: The CONFLICT 'thinkers' and the COMMON sense DO'ers.
Physical realists
see reality as function of the brain. That function is DNA and common sense as produced by 'evolution'.
Metaphysical realists (creationists) see reality as function of human 'a priori' (THE Truth).
THE Truth = Humans are a part of the creation of God from space.
This fantasy is responsible for all 'irrational', 'supernatural', and prejudicial beliefs in the world today. This arrogance of pretending being special (superiority) is the fatal flaw in Humanism.
This belief is denying the HUGE behavioral archive 'common sense', and accepting the 'supernatural' and 'the metaphysical world'.
Humanism is 'rational', but that is also exactly the fatal flaw. The teeny weeny and very young logic 'Rationalism' arrogantly denies HUGE and billions of years old common sense
In 'rational' judgment a belief like Zoroastrianism (base of both ORIGINAL Christianity and Buddhism) is 'dualistic'. But it is the dualistic good-evil view in 'rationalism' that makes us 'think' so.
'Rationality' finds finds insufficient 'rational' evidence for belief in the existence of irrationality
The 'rational' view makes us fail to see that there are quite different views of the world, much more common sense
Is it a natural human desire to feel we are a part of something greater than ourselves. Bullshit!
'Rationalists' can only accept 'rational' IDEAS, and consider everything else as 'irrational' or FALSE.
Life is about learning common sense (bigger than 'rationality, and multi-dimensional) and TRAINING the next generation
Between physical reality and THE Truth there is no
fixed relation, because THE Truth is local fantasy.
Between physical reality in situation 1 and physical reality in situation 2 there
is ALWAYS a TRANSLATION (a third language).
Physical reality 1 and 2 are part of Total Reality (The One).
Life and Space (2): Earth Life is one of many Space lifes
Space travel could make us meet beings that we can't yet make sense of
(they for instance cut a unity in our ethics into two or more pieces (they might split 'speed' in 'good speed' and 'bad speed'),
or 'see' a unity where we 'see' a dual pair.
But we can have 'moods' about such for us 'invisible' creatures
(called intuition).
Davidson writes: Kuhn . . . wants us to think of different observers of the same world
who come to it with incommensurable systems of concepts.
According to Davidson, Kuhn suggests . . . a dualism of total scheme (or language) and uninterpreted content.
Henkt Thomas Kuhn sees 'life' as made by 'schemes'.
There's no reason at all to see two sense-langages as dual interpretations of reality,
they are only differing logics interpreting a local reality. The duality that Davidsons means to observe is inherent in 'rationality' (sorry)
In case of perpendicularity of parts of schemes, taking a 'dual pair as a 'unity' is a way out.
To keep it simple:
STATEMENT in language 1: "puritanism is good, relativism is terrorism" (US, Taliban, fundamentalism, Karl Popper adepts)
STATEMENT in language 2: "puritanism is evil, relativism is good" (enlightened absolutism, Thomas Kuhn adepts).
Clearly in language duo (1,2) puritanism and relativism the values 'good' and 'evil' are 'perpendicular' in operation 'relation' in 'rationality'.
The way out: A common sense language 3 taking the pair (good, evil) as value, with operation 'fit' in common sense.
The statements 'a particular puritanism' = good and 'a particular relativism' = good (absolute operation: 'is equal to') now
take common sense DECISIONS (lessons from 'life') to become statement:
'this particular relativism' fits common sense more' 'that particular puritanism' or
'this particular relativism' 'fits common sense less' than 'that particular puritanism'.
(like in Zen Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Red Indian culture, Aboriginal culture, Polynesian culture, ...).
Language 1 and 2 are absolute and perpendicular (total failure of translation).
The semi-continuously making and updating of the multi-dimensional 'common sense' is called 'life'.
The chinese words translated as 'good' and 'bad' point to behavior or physical properties. 'clean'='good', 'dirty'='bad'. Nothing 'spiritual', Chinese can function as language 3.
In quantum-theory you have particles described by for instance 75% of time equal to value A in language 1 and 25% equal to value B in language 2.
What if in a third language 3 language 1 makes sense and not language 2?
This situation resembles schizophrenia were someone part of the time in his/her culture is in an unknown world.
Then in the third language 3 25% of time that person speaks non-sense (possibly consistent).
Incommensurability Explanation
An IMMENSELY frustrating aspect of locally perpendicular paradigms is what Thomas Kuhn called 'incommensurability'.
It makes people talk completely 'perpendicular' (or what is inherent in the notion 'paradigm': 'parallel'; both meaning making no sense to the other).
For many critics (who don't recognize common sense as the logic of evolution),
this standpoint seems to mean that preffering any log (ethics) is 'irrational' (not god's choice).
They are right that rival theories cannot be directly 'rationally compared, but forget about 'common sense'.
The western ethics 'Rationality' results great skill, but in social ethics results in cultural frenzy like seen in wars on terrorism,
and growing fascism in the US .
Incommensurability follows The Principle of Common Sense (which is close to Planck's Principle):
A new view on life accepts it's in-curable opponents, it integrates the succesful parts of opposing views and aims
at educating a new generation with an adapted
common sense.
The Common Sense Principle (also Planck's Principle) contradicts the view forwarded by Karl Popper known as Popper's Principle. Popper believed in a kind of handicap-debate, in which opponents of 'rational' views should nevertheless use 'rational' arguments.
That was like women fighting for equal respect while having to use male-superiority arguments.
Such 'mirror-thinking' thinking resulted in the fascinating way of life 'femdom' (extreme feminism). A Western mirror-world with proud Divine Goddesses and humble male slaves (worms). More than only sexual,
and (in a hidden way) with the love that is missing in the world 'rationally' dominated by men. |
Reasoning 'rationally' makes Western males (like being drugged) accept the death of millions of 'third world' people.
And also makes common sense mothers EXTREMELY angry about 'rational' people accepting that their children are killed.
It makes that rational 'high society' defends the War in Iraq, while 'common sense citizens get 'sick' of this brutal behavior as results from the 'rational' 'Law of the Fittest'.
But 'rational worlds' are trio's (public,rational circus, owners). The local public is kept in trance by a local 'rational circus', consisting of 'government', 'army', 'police', 'industry', 'justice' and 'science'.
Every circus being has own public, so being 'left' or 'right' and with elected artists or not only makes minor difference. The purpose to The Owners of the circuses is to keep 'the masses' satisfied without getting 'revolutional'.
The ceremonial boss (for media purposes only) of all the circuses is a Latin whispering old travestite parading in antique dresses, living in Italy and pointed to as 'pope'.
Very much generalizing one could say that there is a undeniable relation (in practice) between
'conservative' and 'absolute'/'rational' and between 'progressive' and 'relative'/'common sense' (see Popper-Kuhn debate).
BUT only in practice, the explanatory causes of dreamlike rational behavior as found in the Western World comes from the 23 ages old Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle,
the 15 ages old doctrine Roman Catholicism
and the 3 ages old doctrine Rationalism.
These 3 doctrines (read: 'religions') are in the Western World shared by both 'camps'.
One Dimensional World
The point inherently forwarded by Davidson is following:
There is only 1 multidimensional reality (Space).
Reality is felt by beings through senses, resulting in 'sense-experience' (common sense).
Sense-experience is locally communicated through sense-signals called 'language'. That results in 'cultures'.
Members of adjacent cultures try to make sense of each other's slightly different common sense by 'puzzling'.
Sometimes the senses of some subculture of animals are tricked to be locked up in a One Dimensional World, an almost empty plane within reality.
Then for such a subculture of animals life seems empty, and might be ruled by empty values.
Such subcultures just skip multidimensional sensing and lure more and more others into their empty subworld.
Such egoist cultures awake when their tiny sub 'goes berserk' (their values don't work anymore).
Such awakening in a recesssion might result in cannibalism and ritual suicide ...
But also in a difficult but promising way back to common sense.
Dominant Paradigms
Dominant Western paradigms were:
People saw themselves as animal (survival).
...
People started believing to be special apes (worshipping gods)
People are apes characterized by human BEHAVIOR (Buddha)
Humans believed to be superior to talking apes, and to have 'anima' (Aristotelian Paradigm)
All taking apes are one human family (by Catholicism suppressed paradigm of Jesus)
Catholics renamed 'anima' to 'holy spirit', and started worshipping 'holy spirit'
Descartes renamed 'holy spirit' to 'mind/ratio' and introduced 'rationalism'
In the 21st century 'scientists are largely trapped within their selfmade paradigm 'rationality'.
This human made paradigm translates reality into the logic 'rationality',
and that way created a dualistic 'one dimensional' 'rational' reality.
That flimsy 'rational' reality has become totally weird (even for most 'rational' people).
On earth and between 'human' animals 'incommensurability' is practically impossible,
humans worldwide share a lot of common sense.
'Incommensurability' between human animals and other animals is daily practice.
1 example: grizzly bears are highly intelligent and advanced in social behavior.
Yet on planet earth in 2007 there is only 1
human who is able to tune grizzly common sense with human common sense on the level of man-dog communication.
Brains use basic behavior, so individual animals in 999.999 out of a million cases
only play an active role as predictable local behavior players of existing common sense.
Only very rarely evolution produces essential brain mutants.
Such mutants show behavior quite different from the locally dominant 'tribe'.
And like a busy spider start tuning reality and their behavior.
That retuned reality-behavior (=common sense) hits conservative members of dominant generations in dominant local worlds like a super volcano or sizable meteorite (whatever their 'political' label),
but keeps things going.
While reweaving such reality redesigners repair most hotspots in the then present dominant paradigm.
Zarah2nd, Reality Redesigner, August 2005,
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Life = Paradigms of Common Sense in limitless Space.(=the all=the one=...=the force).
For instance sensing the creature to the left as suspicious 'duck-lim'. A paradigm is made, the way things are.
Filtered (experienced/sensed) local reality = paradigm = 'common sense behavior' = 'intuition'.
Two entities might sense/experience partly distinct parts of local reality (=have different sensations; weird and difficult).
Like 'comparing' bats and humans.
2 cultures can share a subreality (and have similar senses), but filter 'the way things are' differently out of sense experience .
Then they live partly in different paradigms, and have HUGE difficulties with
sensing 'duck-lims as rabbit-tians' or 'rabbit-tians as duck-lims'.
A paradigm = behavior (intuition) and is MUCH more than IDEA ('sociological' notion 'conceptual scheme').
IDEAS only slow down intuitive behavior and replace
common sense with the limited simulation 'rationality' (reason). In fact this is what Immanuel Kant realized end of
Enlightenment with his Critique of Pure Reason. The EXISTENTIAL problem is that
say only 1 in a billion humans
has the trained brains of Kant, and is able to produce IDEAS that can compete with common sense. Result: chaos.
Ape common sense was best preserved in Zoroastrianism and Zen Buddhism.
Also a lot of quality common sense may be found in Tagalog Ethics, Aborigine Ethics, Inuit Ethics, on Iceland and in Black Africa and Red Indian South America.
Common Sense Field 'Spirituality'
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