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The Spell of Popper: Reducing Reality to 'Science' (Virtual Reality)
The confused Western Wizard Popper hated unpredictability and with 'scientific attitude' replaced 'willpower' by 'critical rationality'

This often called greatest philosopher of science of the 20th century ignorantly produced following quote: Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.

poor man's reality
poor man's reality
Karl Popper was born as jewish baby in a by cosmopolitan Vienna, and grew up as Lutheran boy in anti Jewish pre-world war I Vienna.
Popper had many examples, in his desire to see a 'grand design' behind nature, but to keep things easy. I won't mention them here.
Popper saw 'rationality' as the motor behind life. In "Conjectures and Refutations" Popper wrote on page 47: Thus we are born with expectations; with 'knowledge' which, although not valid a priori, is psychologically or genetically a priori, i.e. priori to all observational experience
No offense, but Popper acts like a wizard claiming that billions of years old tested and adapted experimental magic (evolutional life; dna) is not valid when compared to The Design.
Popper designed the method 'falsification' to find out if something is valid in Design-terms. In Popper's view the senses produce invalid 'Observational Experience'. Popper does not accept 'dna + short term experience' as decisive trigger of behavior.
Popper still awfully much in Enlightenment tradition believes in 'rational understanding' as control unit of behavior. Very convenient if you want to torture terrorists and your emotion says 'this feels wrong'. In Popper's falsification test emotions are not accepted, so torturing terrorists is 'rationally OK for some 'rational greater good' This must have been what made him so popular in 'liberal circles'. 'Rational' progress is always 'rationally' allowed, no matter emotional objections.

Karl Popper became the hero of the 'liberal' part of the babyboom-generation after WWII, allowing the building of an individualist after war society as huge collective emotional costs. A generation of people that still is very much in power start 21st century. A generation that believes in unemotional 'politics', and in inevitable 'collateral damage'. The 'politicians' of this generation make so much 'collateral damage' that what develops is a ruined earth and worldwide social recession.










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karl popper Karl Popper: Attacker of 'Terrorists of Non-Science'
Karl Popper and Falsification: logic underlying falsification
Testability: IF a theory is TRUE, THEN its predictions must be all TRUE. However IF 1 prediction is FALSE, THEN the whole theory is FALSE.
However: Popper in The Demarcation Problem (inherently arrogant) defines science as consisting of only IN RATIONAL EXPERIENCE falsifiable hypotheses. Completely opposite to Buddhism Popper divides earth-reality in 'sense' and 'non-sense' (science and pseudo science). Falsification judgements are verdicts about 'reality' in 'rational' ethics, by a 'rational' judge.' Popper knew better, because he wrote: No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude


'Falsification' was known to mathematicians , because many of my engineer-friends around 1975 were fans op Karl Popper. I myself did real 'sociological' work and spent my spare time at my Dutch 'University Twente' being responsible for the publicity of a student bar with the name 'Vestingbar'.
Ten years later practically all 'management' functions in student social activities were taken by students in Management Science (Dutch: 'Bestuurskunde') as coming from The USA. Nice young people, often dressed in suit, and wearing ties. Using weird English words (like efficient = using N bullets to kill N people), and eating 'with knife and fork'. Equally 'clever' as Karl Popper when it came to logic. This generation of students took (in the whole Western World) the majority of functions in society in politics and management. Western armies became very efficient. Also Western society became totally burocratic, managing was seen as working. Ever more Western people wanted to be 'manager'.
The disastrous result of ABSTRACT thinking without deciding ('analysing' and 'compromising') and a totally mistaken method of verifying a bigger 'truth' than the own can be seen in all Western Countries. 1 example: try to imagine EFFICIENT sex.
In Chinese language the English word 'decision' is translated as 'thought of a Master' (in inventing appropriate behavior).
Not as 'democratic' 'compromise'.
Popper, without saying so, got his ideas from his forgotten teacher Otto Selz (1881-1943), who died in concentration camp Auschwitz. Falsificationists see not falsifiable theories as unscientific, like computers they only accept TRUE or FALSE. In rational reasoning a male having tried sex ONCE with a woman fails the computertest for being homosexual. Greedy lawyers would make dead meat of him. Computers also deny that he is heterosexual. Lawyers and judges consider the lucky bastard bisexual. Women claiming sex with gay men are 'confused'.

Rational falsification SEEMED so 'natural', and Popper as still common in sociology saw math as more than a tool.
No mistake: Karl Popper was partly a genius, but obviously even studying math didn't make him a Master Thinker.









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Popper revives Cartesian Interactionism
Belief in 'spirits' or' gods'


Popper inherently argues:
It is NOT the experience that creates sense experience (emotion), but senses react on our fantasy that there is an experience (emotions are 'white noise').
Emotions are automatisms (that makes sense, though emotions are VERY complex), 'understanding' = Truth (non-sense).
If a stone hits our head, than the fantasy 'stone' hurts, it wouldn't hurt if we 'understood' 'strawberries'. Life is a dream (virtual movie) with good guys who have to shoot down the bad guys (terrorists), directed by 'God.

Popper as scientist completely rejects the claim of Ludwig Wittgenstein that 'philosophical' problems result from language interpretation.
But the inventor of 'falsification' writes: No doubt some people talk nonsense, but I claim that there does not exist a logical or language-analytical method of detecting philosophical nonsense . Well that's a misleading representation. There is no 'rational' process for 'watertight' detecting of all 'rational nonsense', but Common Sense considers all of 'rationality' as non-sense.

Karl Popper rejects the thinking of Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein, and considers language as more than physical behavior. That means he rejects evolution as creator, and believes in a 'spirit' called 'God' as creator.
Example: say a 'female' expresses female emotions in female common sense. Then Popper 'argues': emotions are rubbish, I use 'scientific laws', I filter 'female' language with 'rational' filter and then apply 'falsification'. Then I 'understand' that expressing 'female emotions' in common sense produces mostly FALSE 'rational' info in 'scientific' English. Henk Tuten: try replacing 'female' with 'Red Indian', 'Aborigine', 'Polynesian', ....
To the ancients, common sense provided knowledge and experience: in short wisdom. But 'science' as used by western governments = following absolute rules ('understanding), and is presented in 'law'. 'Science' believes in understanding'; Law = accepted 'understanding'. Freethinkers and most historians and freethinkers are 'quite unhappy' with Karl Popper's thinking
Popper 'rationally' judged that the following 'principle of rationality' of Newel (1982) was empty: If an agent has knowledge that one of its actions will lead to one of its goals, then the agent will select that action.
(Henk Tuten: Popper's 'narrow-mindedness is that 'rational understanding' rules reality.)









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Fundamentalism


Logic learns: The goal of ANY theory is testing a logic, and interesting is: "WHICH logic did Popper use, and was not used by his 'victims'".
Because Popper's truth was accepted in toplayer of the Western World. Not 'on the street' though, where by far most people live. In my birth region decisions are still mainly based on the common sense value 'respect'. I concluded that the truth of Popper exists only in Worlds of RATIONAL logic.
Though the rational split of reality in 'sense' and 'nonsense' was already a basic of Catholic thinking since start of the Roman Christian Church. That church and the Roman Army between 100 and 500 thoroughly erased 'Gnostic Christianity' that practiced 'holistic' thinking. And the Gnostic thinker Valentinus ALMOST managed to become Pope around the year 125. He must have lost the fight against rich and powerful Roman slaveowners, who were rightfully afraid that Valentinus would use his power as Pope to end 'slavery'.

Popper's use of rational logic caused him to become fundamentally suspisious in case of statements of Einstein's theory of relativity, Marx's theory of history, Freud's psycho-analysis, and Alfred Adler's so-called "individual psychology."

Suspision arrives in his case from them being RATIONALLY unintuitive (waiting to be falsified). Peculiar is, that fundamental rational scientists never feel urged to falsify rational fantasies like 'Axis of Evil'

Not that strange because falsification is meant to falsify theories that are not 'rational'. Einstein's relativity theory is MORE than rational thought, Freud and Adler are often called IRrational. Marx uses rational thought, but some of his 'predictions' are easily to falsify.

If some decisions coming from Koran interpretation are RATIONALLY untrue, then realize: such judgements have ONLY 'rational' value
Some decisions coming from Koran study however are dubious too in common sense. What about forbidding burning dead bodies after a tsunami?
But also Islam as stated in the Koran bases 'leadership' on authority by 'respect'. In the Western World 'leaders' are appointed who fit 'rational rules' (making Western democracy)

Muslim countries having a government that is tolerated by 'respect' of the people are seen as 'undemocratic' in Western eyes.
Henk Tuten: Bullshit, I prefer a government that makes sensible decisions to a 'democratic' goverment that makes no sense. The decision in the 21st century of Iran government to have all nuclear tools makes sense, because rival cultures USA, England, France and Germany have those tools too. What Iran goverment plans to do with its ability to make nuclear bombs is another question. Just like the US at the end of WWII it claims that it will not use nuclear force. Do 'Christian' countries don't want non-christian countries to have power tools? Because the US at the end of WWII dropped two nuclear bombs on Buddhist Japan.









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Verisimilitude and Fallibilism

Popper: one theory can be closer to THE TRUTH, or has greater verisimilitude.. Not worth discussing. This verisimilitude still very 'rational' presumes THE TRUTH. This is absolutism 'rationally' disguised.

Fallibilism: Admitting that human knowledge may be mistaken, even if human beings have good evidence and have done their sincere 'RATIONAL' best. VERY tricky is that still is presumed (in hidden way) that there are natural laws. And that our human 'rational' assumptions make sense (humanism).
Doing sincere 'rational' best means nothing, just like 'rationally 'falsifying means nothing. The honest admittal: I may be 'rationally' wrong attracts sympathy , but stealthily hides that truth is much more than only 'rational'. And that 'right' and 'wrong' or 'good' and 'evil' are 'rational' concepts.

Even more treacherous than 'fallibility' is the 'rational' hallucination: 'theory triumphs over experience'.
Or in reality exchanging fact and fiction in the 'rational' doctrine (or the 'rational' religion) and arrogantly and fundamentally believing that fantasy even beats 'fallibilism'.
That results in replacing awfully complex and effective living products of evolution with boring predictable machines. Of course in the end machines are living beings too, but the next at least 100 ages very dum ones.
Popper's rationality principle: Persons act 'appropriately' or 'reasonably' given the situation in which they find themselves. (free will limited by 'rationality')
Imagine that you're an astronaut on his/her way to an unknown planet with earthlike conditions, but with huge deserts. You should in Multiple Choice decide for a companion. Either a shovel with one tank of gasoline, or a camel with one week of food, able to give love and a tremendous survivor.
Imagine that you're an Israelian soldier. You should make a existential DECISION after religious orders. Either without hesitation follow tradition. And Hebrew tradition just like Muhammedan Islam is quite agressive, and now able to hide behind the rational excuse "there must be (rational) law and (rational) order". And in a war on terrorisn with high tech weapons kill a few hundred civilians (including children) and ruin a neighbouring culture because 2 of your fellow soldiers are kidnapped (but alife).
....Or use COMMON SENSE.
Then read internet clopedia Wikepedia:
The Popper is a small, blue biped lifeform in the computer game X-COM: Apocalypse. It is basically a self-delivering biological warhead with the sole purpose of charging at an enemy at a high speed and exploding. It is also likely to blow up when hit by piercing weapons, struck by an explosion or shockwave, ....
Let's finish with some recent quotes of the very common sense anthropologist/biologist Stephen Jay Gould:
a) Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This [..] is rhetorical nonsense.
b) No rational order of divine intelligence unites species. The natural ties are genealogical along contingent pathways of history.
c) Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.
d) The fundamentalists, by 'knowing' the answers before they start (examining evolution), and then forcing nature into the straitjacket of their discredited preconceptions, lie outside the domain of science-or of any honest intellectual inquiry.
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