Sunday, December 20, 2009
...the there-of-the-being…
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Between the paradox and the antinomy...
Monday, December 7, 2009
...,ambiguitas...
In an amphibology (amphibolia,…, ambiguitas, atis) of the Being and of the ens/ente (the one that is, quod est), the human ear is seduced by the resonance of the Verb: the dictum, as Verb, displaces the essence of the Essence as constituent difference between the Being in the Being and the Nothing in the “Same Being”, in a simultaneity of the Being, itself, as rotative metabolized processing of “Itself”: Being and Nothing…, …
…Paradox? Are there Paradoxes? How could there not be Paradoxes?
Monday, November 2, 2009
Will we ever be able to schematize a plenitude?
…The radical evil is out there…, for that "the bell tolls for us"…
Will we ever be able to schematize a plenitude?
Plenitude (Plenitudo) signalizes totality (totum).
The Good (Bem, Bene) signalizes plenitude and perfection.
The harmony between the concrete being and its eidos is plenitude and perfection.
The Good is the coincidence between the being and the must be.
The Good is the coincidence between that which some thing is and that which that same thing must be.
Will we ever be able to schematize: good, plenitude and perfection?
Will we ever, us humans, be able to make coincide the being with the must be?
And what about death and suffering? In the light of the eidos of Justice, are death and suffering just? Can death and suffering be called examples of Good?
Particular extreme situations, depending upon the person, can make emerge feelings and extreme practices of altruism, accompanied by feelings of elevation that can give access to planes of Good that help people become better persons, in the sense of acting in conformity with the eidos of Good (Bene).
However, the perception of the eidos of Good does not have to pass by particular extreme situations, it can happen when one is still very young and in a spontaneous way, in a simple looking at the world, in a simple looking at the suffering of the others.
One can approach the perception of the planes of Good, in relation with the reflexibility of which the Cosmos, itself, and all the things in it, are gifted.
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Percontor, aris, ari, atus sum..., percontari aliquem...
By: Maria Odete Madeira
Percontor: to probe, to question, to inquire. Percontari aliquem: to question someone about some thing.
The primitive sense of the term incorporates an impulse of formative reason, of vital metaphysical root, marked by the imperative of survival of each existent, as presence and opening to the world, opening to itself, to the life, to its life, to the life of the things, as existing things that show themselves, that appear (aparecem), that seem (parecem), remain and (dis)appear.
The experience (ex-perior), in turn, signalizes an existential sense of proof, a sense of necessity, a sense of unity, a sense of truth, and is situated in the opening of the Being to the Being (itself), as being of the things, of all the things.
Percontor, to question, demands systemic referents of constitutive authenticity, displaced in the being of all the things by the dynamics from a question to an answer.
Monday, October 5, 2009
Reflection, Reflexivity, Reflexibility
Reflection, from the Latin reflectere, has the meaning of turning back, and it regards the projective rotative systemic activity of the agents, of any agents, be these agents: particle, field, atom, molecule, cell, animal, person, or thing, ens or entitas. This activity being connected to the respective strategies and effectivenesses, entangled in the computation and exchanges with the environment, included in the computation/production of deliberative judicative valorative syntheses.
Reflexivity, from the Latin reflexu, means folded on itself, and it is a dispositional systemic rotative capability that allows the agents and/or the systems the direct valorative cognitive processing of themselves, from the causes, or originating formative reasons to which each system directs itself intentionally with the objective of producing (re)evaluative deliberative judicative valorative syntheses.
Reflexibility is an intrinsic dispositional systemic property, common to all things, as existing things and, because of that, rotatively present in their own light, in themselves, to themselves and by themselves.
The reflexibility is in the things themselves: ens or entitas, and has to do with the visibility or perception of these same things, ens or entitas, as a proper mode of being, a character, while things that show themselves, make their apparition (aparecem) and seem (parecem), in their visibility. All the things have the power, as a capability, of showing, of reflecting their own light, their own truth, that which they are, that which they do, and in those, ens or entitas, that are gifted of thought, speech and will, that which they think, want, desire.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Ontologies: On the Concepts of: Possibility, Possible, 'Acaso', Aleatorial and Chaos
Abstract:
In addressing the interdisciplinary field that is growing at the intersection between chaos theory and risk science it becomes necessary to reconsider the notion of chaos in its linkages with the notions of possible, possibility, “acaso” and aleatorial.
Aiming at such an interdisciplinary effectiveness, the present article addresses the notions of possible, possibility, “acaso”, aleatorial and chaos in terms of their respective constituent and constitutive systemic topoi, from the formative ontological systemic dynamics, structurally dependent upon the initial conditions of the respective systems and cognitively computed/processed by these same systems, from the perception and recognition of themselves, as individuated resonating rotative positions, in the inter-systemic web of survival.
The (inter)systemic risk is, then, addressed in connection with the chaos in the deterministic systems. An example of Malcolm effects and synchronized risk being researched upon for a two-dimensional nonlinear map that produces multifractal chaos. This allows for the signaling of conceptual linkages that occur at the intersection of chaos theory and risk science, between homeostatic mechanisms, synchronization and chaos.
Keywords: Possibility, possible, “acaso”, aleatorial, stochastic, clinamen, chaos, Malcolm effect, multifractal chaos, synchronization, risk, risk science, multifractal self-organized criticality
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Can an amoeba be a genius?
By Maria Odete Madeira
What does the notion of genius synthesize? What values? What cultural, social and, above all, political values, are involved here?
Any organism is dispositionally gifted to perform tasks that concern its survival, some organisms exhibit greater ease in the performance of some tasks while others exhibit greater ease in the performance of other tasks. Genius is just a name for those that can maximize these abilities in order to transcend patterns considered normal, but this depends on training, willpower, and also of available means. All of us can be geniuses in different ways. For instance, a "simple" domestic worker, especially gifted to that kind of work, can be a genius, even if society would not classify such a worker as a genius, because it is a type of work without sufficiently relevant social value (no Nobel prize for domestic workers).
In certain societies the genius would be the one who found good solutions to the community's problems, and, not necessarily, for instance, the individual capable of feats of abstract reasoning but otherwise socially awkward and capable of having contra-adaptive responses when put before basic survival problems. Thus, for instance, the pattern of genius, in the first case, might depend upon an ability for common sense thinking and/or for finding good responses to adaptive problems. In such a sense, even an amoeba or any organism that reveals robust adaptive effectiveness can be considered a genius.
All the neurobiological cognitive work is supported by an image space and a dispositional space, supported, in turn, by distinct neural bases activated in the limbic cortices and in subcortical nuclei, whose work depends upon and is inseparable of an integrated organismic work, in permanent interface with the environment. And when we speak of organism we speak of bones, flesh, blood, homeostatic mechanisms, emotions, feelings, etc…
Anaximander - "apeiron"
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
What is a thing?
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Afairesis, Abstractio or Abstraction
Saturday, July 25, 2009
The Problem of Time in Quantum Cosmology and Non-Chronometric Temporality
Keywords: quantum cosmology, time, relational structures, relational nexus
Working Paper Series
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
A Systems Theoretical Formal Logic for Category Theory
The Problem of Time in Quantum Cosmology
The Problem of Time in Quantum Cosmology
and Non-chronometric Temporality
by
Carlos Pedro Gonçalves
Mathematics researcher at UNIDE-ISCTE
Maria Odete Madeira
Interdisciplinary researcher in philosophy of science and systems science
mosmg.research@gmail.com (primary), mariaodete.sm@gmail.com
quantum gravity, one that invokes the path integral formalism for quantum gravity to state the
absence of time between two three-geometries, and another that defends the absence of time, as
a fundamental notion in physics, in terms of: (a) the configuration space argument , put forward
by Barbour, Smolin and Kauffman, and (b) the Wheeler-DeWitt equation.
We argue that although being correct with respect to a space-time dependent physical
chronometrizable clock-time frame, both of these lines of argument fail with respect to a general
sense of temporality, expressed in terms of the more elementary notions of a before and an after
of a quantum computation.
address two kinds of temporalities, one that is the space-time geometric dependent temporality,
which coincides with the usual definition of a space-time dependent physical chronometrizable
clock-time frame, the other is a temporality associated to the notions of input and output of a
general quantum gravity computation, that is expressed, in the theoretical discourse of quantum
gravity, through the usage of the concepts of: (1) propagation of a wave functional in superspace,
as addressed by Wheeler; (2) transition amplitudes of three-geometries and (3) the pathintegral
formalism, used to calculate such amplitudes, as addressed by Hartle and Hawking.
While the first temporality (space-time dependent temporality) disappears from the theory, the
second plays a fundamental role, not only in the several aspects of the theory’s construction, but
in the clock-time independence as well, as Wheeler showed.
notion, we search for a general mathematical and logical structure that is capable of addressing
it from a formal point of view. This is done through a family of mathematical structures that is
more general than the mathematical category. These structures not only will allow us to address
the nature of the temporality present in the transition amplitudes between two three-geometries, but they will also allow us to refute the configuration space argument and to show how a static clock-time-independent quantum state, can be put into a non-clock-time processual expression in terms of fine-grained computational histories, obtained from the relations between different observable’s bases."
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Nietzsche: excesso de real
Nietzsche, A Origem da Tragédia.
Nietzsche, A Vontade de Poder, vol. I, II, III.
Nietzsche, Assim Falava Zaratustra.
Nietzsche, Ecce Homo.
Nietzsche, Para Além de Bem e Mal.
Nietzsche, Poemas.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
on gravity
on subjectivity/objectivity
Friday, March 27, 2009
Lucretius: "declination"
In Lucretius De rerum natura
If by its declination the atoms do not take the initiative of a motion that is able to break with the laws of the fate, to impede the undefined succession of the causes, from where comes the freedom conceded to all that breathes upon the earth, from where comes the power plucked out from the fates, that makes us walk by any place to where our will drives us and, such as the atoms, that allows us to change direction without us being determined by the time or the place, but, on the contrary, allows us to change in accordance with the desire of our spirit?
In Lucretius De rerum natura
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
To be in a body is to be in the world
To be in a body is to be in the world, to Feuerbach. Each body exists as a totality submersed and rooted in the world. Each human being lives in an intra-mundane existence and in a daily reality that is inhabited and experienced in permanent situation. The consciousness of each existence is inseparable from an intra-mundane human space localized in a daily reality.
To Feuerbach, each present moment is a point of reference of differentiation, situated between the before and the after. The here and now of each existence occurs in a space that can be approached as a concrete place, a determined place in a time that must be understood as lived duration, that precedes any dynamics of projective consciousness.
Of himself/herself, as body rooted in the world, the human being knows and understands only the present, of the past he/she retains solely that past that left vestiges, whose active causality survived, and prolonged itself until the present.
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Digitizing the Continuum
The reign of the digital imposes itself with the digitocracy over the continuum. The mathematical continuum, irreducible to the countable, is negated as interdict, as dangerous illegality.
Of mathematics, it is demanded a logocentered logicity, a reifying and imprisoning reduction that strives to reduce the semantic to the syntactic and, thus, extends the formal incompleteness to a semantics that does not possess it.
The mathematical intuition is substituted by the cold deduction that, incapable of scaling new horizons because it lacks imaginative capability, does not explore the mathematical idea and its apprehension by the mathematician that intuits it in a sensual immediateness produced by an imaginative synthesis, idea, itself, by nature, irreducible to a logical logocentrism, as Gödel proved it.
To scale new horizons… to think beyond the barriers of the code… dangerous activities… incompatible with a digitocracy extended to the mathematical activity itself. The formal language ceases being just an instrument of discursive organization and of formalization auxiliary to the proof, to become an instrument of thought control.
From abstractive auxiliars, the language and the formal system become instruments of alienation of the mathematical thinking itself, that, to think the formal, empty of semantics, loses its object of intentionality – the mathematical object, in itself, as abstract object of thought, which, as Gödel proved it, is irreducible to the purely syntactic, to the purely logical.
To digitize the mathematical continuum in the mathematical discrete means to abolish, from the thought, a universe of thinkable forms, to impose the limit of the digital, useful to an effort of computative mechanocracy in which the instrument of the number abolishes the analogical and, thus, the interval itself and the continuum. Without interval, without continuum, without shades, without infinitesimal differences, without empty spaces, thought as empty spaces because continua of nothing. End of the différance towards the end of the différence.
Even if different, digitized, we come to occupy the same houses in the bar codes in which we become, clones in our condition of slaves to the digit.
Badly interpreted Gödel’s theorem, to justify that the notion itself of mathematical truth is reducible to a logical validity, in a first step towards the algorithmization of truth, of geometry, of the continuum, of the interval, of the grey, of the individual as individual, separated from the rest, and non-slaved to the number… and non-slaved to a machine incapable of imagining, incapable of innovating, incapable of jumping outside the tyranny of the formal system, itself limited in itself and right from the point in which it deals with the numbers themselves and with simple arithmetic.
The end of the mathematician (second target), as well as the end of the philosopher (first target) are the two first steps to abdicate from our thought and from those natural systems of systemic homeostasis, thinkable as antibodies that protect us from the dictatorships of the formal and of the machines as ends in themselves.
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Digitalização do Contínuo
O reino do digital impõe-se com a digitocracia sobre o contínuo. O contínuo matemático, irredutível ao contável, é negado como interdito, como ilegalidade perigosa.
Da matemática, é exigida uma logicidade logocentrada, uma redução reificante e aprisionadora que tenta reduzir o semântico ao sintáctico e, assim, estende a incompletude formal a uma semântica que não a possui.
A intuição matemática é substituída pela dedução fria, incapaz de escalar novos horizontes, porque não possui capacidade imaginativa, não explora a ideia matemática e a sua apreensão pelo matemático que a intui numa imediatez sensual produzida por uma síntese imaginativa, ideia, esta, por natureza, irredutível a um logocentrismo lógico, como o demonstrou Gödel.
Escalar novos horizontes… pensar para além das barreiras do código… actividades perigosas… incompatíveis com uma digitocracia alargada à própria actividade matemática. A linguagem formal deixa de ser somente um instrumento de organização discursiva e de formalização auxiliar à demonstração, para passar a ser um instrumento de controlo de pensamento.
De auxiliares abstractivos, a linguagem e o sistema formal passam a ser instrumentos de alienação do próprio pensamento matemático, que, para pensar o formal, vazio de semântica, perde o seu objecto de intencionalidade – o objecto matemático, em si mesmo, enquanto objecto abstracto de pensamento, o qual, como Gödel demonstrou, é irredutível ao puramente sintáctico, ao puramente lógico.
Digitalizar o contínuo matemático no discreto matemático significa abolir do pensamento um universo de formas pensáveis, para impor o limite do digital, útil a um esforço de mecanocracia computativa em que o instrumento do número abole o analógico e, assim, o próprio intervalo e o contínuo. Sem intervalo, sem contínuo, sem matizes, sem diferenças infinitesimais, sem espaços vazios pensados como espaços vazios porque contínuos de nada. Fim da différance para o fim da différence.
Ainda que diferentes, digitalizados, passamos a ocupar as mesmas casas nos códigos de barra em que nos tornamos, clones na nossa condição de escravos do dígito.
Teorema de Gödel mal interpretado para justificar que a própria noção de verdade matemática seja redutível a uma validade lógica, num primeiro passo para algoritmização da verdade, da geometria, do contínuo, do intervalo, do cinzento, do indivíduo enquanto indivíduo separado dos restantes, e não escravizado ao número… e não escravizado a uma máquina incapaz de imaginar, incapaz de inovar, incapaz de saltar para fora da tirania do sistema formal, ele próprio limitado em si mesmo, e desde logo, quando lidando com os próprios números e aritmética simples.
O fim do matemático (segundo alvo), assim como o fim do filósofo (primeiro alvo) são os dois primeiros passos para abdicarmos do nosso pensamento e daqueles sistemas naturais de homeostasia sistémica, pensáveis como anticorpos que nos protegem das ditaduras do formal e das máquinas enquanto fins em si mesmos.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
humanity
The intersubjective recognition of the humanity, in us, as a supreme constitutive telos that life has gifted us with, commits us responsibly with the right and the duty to defend our humanity as a good that is ours, that is unconditional and that is inalienable.
humanidade
O reconhecimento intersubjectivo da humanidade, em nós, como um telos constitutivo supremo que a vida nos doou, compromete-nos responsavelmente com o direito e o dever de defender a nossa humanidade como um bem que é nosso, que é incondicional e que é inalienável.
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Sovereign Good
...it is the words, it is the discourse of the others, that address us..., it is the face of the others, the gaze of the others…, it is the existence of the others that searches, in us, the imperative that unites our voice, our discourse, our existence to the voice, to the discourse, to the existence of the others that gaze upon us and that address us, invoking and evoking the good… the wisdom… the justice… in us.
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Beyond the essences: the pathos
The term pathos can mean: event, experience, suffering, emotion, attribute.
In general terms it means: something that happens, that can have by reference that which is the cause, or that which is the effect of that which happens.
In Aristotle, the pathos is the logos of the contingence, it is the logos of the event, it is the logos of the attributes acquired by the subjects, it is the logos beyond the essences.
Pathos is the place of the difference subtracted to the identity, the mark of the asymmetry that prevails in the proposition and that determines it, as such.
Destined to be surpassed in the identity and by the identity of the subject, the pathos is, simultaneously, all that the subject is not, and all that the subject sees.
Rotatively displaced by a fundamental ambiguity, the pathos trajects and projects a (co)condition of constitutive irreducibility that, simultaneously, imposes that a subject cannot be its attribute and that its attribute cannot be a substance.
In Aristotle, the identity of the logical subject supports itself in the pathos, resending towards the origin of a propositional order whose contradictory character allows the unveiling of a presence of an identity inscribed in an order of permanent reason that has in itself an active principle of becoming, as an active principle of the being, itself, as potency, that makes it come to the presence, from itself, as eksistente dasein (Heidegger), or act.