What theories are we going to explore tonight? Nothing so serious, nothing so theoretical, just everyday life: Can a change in logic change the reality?
"If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem wonderful at all" - Michelangelo
Have you ever tried to make two people analyse the same event? Come on! Sure enough you did billions of times, maybe n times : n »1, can better formalise this concept. Now already this sentence is a trick, I know that you were indeed expecting that: Dialectics, what for a gift! And semantics …
What is semantic though? The study of meaning. Short, clear answer, but suppose you [A] are saying something like: “What a beautiful day today!” and [B] is listening. I see two problems: 1. Decoding: In order to grasp your meaning the other person must be able to understand the same as you. Suppose they have another language. The instruction is not readable! Oh yes, aber natürlich! Yes, you see: informatics.
2. Perception: “What a beautiful day!” - with sarcastic tone = change of meaning.
They are both huge issues, but the first one is quite interesting to my eyes. Who has made the rules for decoding [and therefore coding]? Who has programmed [B] to be able to read/not to read the information coming across the channel? I mean for computers is quite trivial: Humans. And for humans? [and then for computers?] There exists one super-language? What are the principles ? Who has installed it? And for what reasons?
Federica, tonight so many questions, one should also answer.
Well maybe no, maybe this is all this blog is about. Try to stretch your minds, especially the more rigid ones!
I can predicate something though: I am sure when you let other people give an interpretation of facts happened to you or even general impressions concerning a person, they perceive them differently. What it takes for these views to be unified? ...
However, what actually is reality then? Or better, your reality? One can think yes, if [A] and [B] are given a different logic, they process same data with different outcomes.
My question is: Are you sure? Are they different in the ontological sense or in the gnoseological one? Maybe they are just looking the same array, claiming the objects are distinct when they are in fact identical just because one of the two, or maybe both, cannot identify the other as part of themselves.
Have a nice week ... and better thoughts!
Federica
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