Blog Marcos L. Mucheroni Filosofia, Noosfera e cibercultura

Being in Portugal, I participate from this weekend of a “doctoral retreat”, in a cultural center, in the heart of the Alfama district of Lisbon.
As is common expression in the streets of Lisbon, “comes in handy”, also the readings of Byung Chul Han helped me, he proposes “Contemplative delay presupposes that things last.”
The active vita is that which is dominated at all by labor and by a vertiginous accumulation of capital enclosed within the pure limits of the dialectic of production and consumption.
Homo laborans is inevitably forbidden to the time of rest, of leisure, but the present forms associated with rest or passive entertainment are nothing other than panaceas that do not integrate the deepest of “being.”
There is an Aristotelian notion (the so-called bios theoretikos) founded on the reflection and aesthetic analysis of the world, perhaps this is more appropriate than other analyzes that oppose only the systematic and frenetic “laborans” or “creative leisure” and other remedies.
It takes an “essential emptiness”, a real “arethé” (a virtuous circle, an excellence not a simple specialization) to arrive at a-letheia, the unveiling of truth and reality, a true “epoché” is needed.
It is said of modern epoché, the cogito of reason did not suspend the ego, it was Husserl who went beyond the so-called “evidence of cogitatio” in generalizing the suspension of judgment, and saying that it is necessary to “go the thing by itself”, this is almost a “uprooting,” which Heidegger and other modern existentialists will deny.
The intentional object of Husserl oscillates between the immanent character of the noema and that which transcends the noema itself, so it is a third concept of transcendence surpassed the theocentric and the egocentric.
The Husserl patron of part I of The Crisis of European Humanity and Philosophy – conference given in 1935 in the Kulturbund of Vienna, will criticize the particular cultural form invented by the Greeks, a kind of “Radicality” that is proper to it, and that the finite (circumstantial and episodic) goals are linked to the original meaning of the ideas of “Good”, “Fair” and “Beautiful”, but never separated from ” ideal “and dual: being is and non-being is not.
The negativity proposed by Byung Chul and others (Gadamer for example), is neither positivist negation nor even Hegelian dialectic negation, linked to Greek thinking, is a negation within the “epoché” to bring forth the “new” anything.
Whoever can not go to the desert, does not retreat and does not transcend, does not abandon the ego, does not go to the desert, only “transcends” and affirms nihilism

The exegetes believe that they have found the truth and thus expect to have the last word on a given subject; if someone challenges them they say that it is by arrogance and not by falsehood, Hermeneutics are those who believe that a new interpretation is always possible, since all truth is contextualized and the naive believes only in what “feels.”
Exegesis is a deep interpretation of a biblical, legal or literary text, although it may have elements of depth as all knowledge, it has implicit and intuitive practices like any other form of knowledge.
Hermeneutics, however, is a branch of philosophy that develops a theory of interpretation, but can also be seen as the “art of interpretation” and also refers to practice and intuition, in this it merges with other knowledge, with the difference it admits interpretation and is not supposed to be the last word in a dialogue, as the hermeneutic circle predicts.
The idea that the senses are the foundation of truth is a very old one, but it is naive because all truth must be contextualized, then it must also be analyzed and interpreted in the light of one’s personal experience, and finally confronted with history, not romantic of the analytical or pragmatic of history, but mainly of what is advance, of what is irreversible and special of what is contextual.
Contextual understanding by culture, the social and traditional structure of a people at a given moment in history, also involves political aspects, and there may be disruption factors that can either be caused by a major social change or by a technological or structural change of a particular process Social.
Exegetes, too, accept the hermeneutic circle, which starts from preconceptions, can interact with hermeneutics, but they know that simple interaction can take them from absolute truth and this does not mean falling into relativism but in dialogue.

It was the mixed reality that clarified what real and virtual objects are, the very authors Paul Milgram and Fumio Kishino who have placed lights not only on the taxonomy of virtual and immersive environments, but mainly on the question of the real and the virtual.
They addressed the distinction between real and virtual in three aspects, which can be seen in the figure that is a modified version of Figure 2 of Milgram and Fumio.
The first aspect is the difference between real and virtual objects, which are to the left of the figure, real objects have real objective existence, while virtual exist in essence or effect, but not formally, but it is from them that the in-formation , which they are in essence.
For a real object to be visualized, it can be directly observed or can be sampled (before imagined Shannon) and resynthesized by some artifact.
The second distinction is drawn by the authors of a Naimark paper, which is the question of the quality of the images reflected in an aspect called reflected reality, great efforts were made for this which is the direct visualization in air or glass of a real object, or the so-called “unmediated reality,” now made a reality at Brigham Young University.
The authors’ point of view, and also ours, is that it is not only because the image “looks real” it may be representing the real and its formation, and therefore the terminology used must be careful in explaining this difference.
Clarification of “representation,” the third distinction is between real and virtual images, for this we return to the field of optics and “operationally define a real image as any image that has some luminosity in the place where it appears to be located”, this includes and the image projected on the artifact (the authors say on the screen, but the concept can be extended).
Thus the virtual image can be defined as the inverse mode of the image that does not have luminosity in the place where it appears, and, therefore, this can include examples of holograms and mirror images as suggested by the author, however, escapes the fact that human vision itself mirrors and inverts the images, so what is real if we need the eyes?
Also the question of luminosity is interesting, the shadows and the projections that can be thought from the cave paintings to the myth of the cave of Plato, there already was the virtual one.

Naimark, M. Elements of realspace imaging. Apple Multimedia Lab Technical Report, 1991

It was already a myth and could be forgotten, were it not for Albert Camus’s book on the subject in which he provokes the philosophy of his time which he describes as having an attempt to deal with the feeling of the absurd Heidegger, Jaspers, Shestov, Kierkegaard and Husserl.

It would be easy to contradict Camus for his own myth, a closeness to nihilism in his thinking, his tragic death in a car accident, however, his thinking is serious and must be taken seriously, as many authors have done.

The myth of Sisyphus is of a character of Greek philosophy, who having defied the gods is doomed to push a mountain stone up, and when it rolls down, must continually repeat its effort to push it up hill.

The myth of Sisyphus must be taken seriously because in it today much of mankind lives, which resignedly carried out its heavy daily task although sometimes doubts its meaning.

For Camus the world is not the absurd, the absurd happens when “my appetite for absolute and unity” completes the “impossibility of reducing the world to a rational and reasonable principle.”, Thus recognizing the absurdity of man could lead him to the absurd, to live it intensely.

Thus Camus’s reasoning is not a misnomer or irrationality, it is necessary to have the strength of the Brazilian thinker poet Guimarães Rosa, who contradicting logic, without being illogical, affirmed: “Everything is and is not” (ROSA, 1968, 12) in his Book: “Grande Sert]ao: veredas”.

The force of the essence of é is so strong and present that it can create an entity, the finite, the nothingness.

CAMUS, A. (1991) The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays (Vintage International) .

As promised (post), I bought Ricardo Araújo Pereira’s book, the Portuguese that is making a success, now with the Reactionary with two c´s, I jumped and went straight to two stories of the index: When God got in my car (page 76) and Corruption does not enter here (page 31).

I do not like transverse readings, but Ricardo Araújo’s book is a series of short stories that could fit well into a blog, but he would not make any money with it, I’m immitating him who makes irony and joke with everything, but with a lot of creativity .

These two tales drew my attention because of the proximity to Brazil, the first account that they were in a traffic jam and saw God waving for almost crowded taxis (it must be the youngest) and asked the parents who were not “believers” to ride to God.

For a young supporter of Benfica soccer, God was Eusebius and the tale goes around, talking about the emotion he kept for many years from the father’s car that he later bought and then made his children sit on the bench that had sat “god”, either to say Eusébio, celebrated player of the Portuguese selection of the 60’s, the similarity with Brazil dispenses comments (Pelé and Neymar are Gods).

The second tale, as I read in this order, tells of a corruption case that involved Germany, explaining that the executive of this case was punished in Germany, although the corruptor here refused to go into history, would be the purchase of two submarines, and ironically says that “in Portugal people do not have the decency to participate in the dance of corruption”, and again the parallel with Brazil is evident, even in the case of “German effectiveness”, I thought that only Brazil thought of the 7 x 1 lost for Germany, there is the Portuguese version of this.

I do not know how much more we inherit from them, but that there is a paternal resemblance, no doubt there is, everything is two c’s because I begin to accept paternity, I explained to the Portuguese my rejection, but I should have remained silent and accepted the paternal affection.

In its fourth decade of democracy, Portugal has one of the most popular governments Marcelo Rebelo de Souza, a professor of law at the University of Lisbon, a great communicator who was popular for his political comments on the television channel TVI, where he was an audience leader.

Rebelo had in the election of 2015 52% of the votes winning in all 18 continental districts and in the two regions of autonomous administration.

Although a conservative leader of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), he is from a more left wing of his party, being concerned about the almost a third of the poor population, a disaster in a European country.

It is important to note that in Portugal, voting is not compulsory and almost 10 million voters voted only 4.7 million voters, or almost half.

The current political regime in Portugal is known as a semipresidentialist democratic republic with four sovereign organs: the president of the republic, the assembly of the republic, the government and the courts.

As the center-right government did not have a majority to form the government, a large leftist bloc was formed and took over the government, called by the Portuguese “gerigonça”, little by little appear optimistic results.

A government was formed with Antonio Costa, the promise in the face of the serious financial crisis was to recover the Portuguese social deficit and accelerate growth without compromising the economic and financial balance,

The defense of public health, with the hiring of more 1,100 doctors, 170 laboratory technicians and 1,900 nurses; the growth of 6.9% in Education spending, with the addition of more than 3,000 teachers to the public schools network; the reduction of unemployment to 9% against 12.7% in 2015.

The recipe for Brazil will not be the same, there difficult to negotiate, here it would be unthinkable a center-left president with a leftist government (here a public policy).

We should study more Portugal because of its influence on Brazilian culture, but we know the facts that influenced Brazil: its dependence on England, the search for “a way for the Indies”, although the story may be quite different and our dependence / independence of Portugal made by D. Pedro I.

The little that I know, Portugal was marked by the presence of the Romans for over 600 years finally by the Moors for about 800 years, a history shared with Spain over these more than a thousand years.

Portugal was recognized as an independent kingdom in 1143 by King Afonso I and with the help of the Christian military and the Treaty of Zamora was made, between D. Afonso VII of León and Castile (then Spain) and D. Afonso Henriques who was a cousin of Alfonso VII of Leon and Castile, on the map of 1150 was still smaller than today (photo).

The name Portugal came from the Portucalense county, born between the rivers Minho and Douro, who knows this already knows enough,

The stabilization of the borders in 1297 made Portugal the European country with the oldest frontiers, it also formed in the following years the first global empire of history, with possessions in Africa, South America, Asia and Oceania.

A crisis of succession in 1580 resulted in an Iberian Union with Spain due mainly to the Dutch offensive (including in Brazil), a period in which the kingdom lost much of its status and wealth, only to be independent in 1640 with the dynasty of Bragança , very well known to Brazilians, but it was the period when it lost its largest colony, Brazil.

Again after this period we no longer know the history of Portugal, for obvious reasons, but in 1820 the Portuguese adopted their first constitution,

In 1926 Portugal had a coup d’etat beginning a dictatorship, from 1961 began a series of colonial wars that ended military government in 1974 (revolution of the carnations), when was military government established the Salazar period, in 1975 all possessions in Africa became independent.
The constitution and 1976 defined Portugal as a semi-presidential republic, and in 1986 began the modernization and insertion of the country in the European space with the insertion in the European Economic Community (CEE).

The recent history of Portugal, its serious crisis and the alliance that governs today, we already spoke in another “geringonça” post we will see later.

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This international electronics fair in Las Vegas was held earlier this month between January 8 and 12, showing several technology launches, ranging from TVs to state-of-the-art handsets, but the area of business and chips is promising further progress.
Following the security flurry of Intel chips, now associated with AMD, the company unveiled details of a new processor called Intel Core 8th. Generation, special with models to process Radeon RX graphics See M, being able to work with heavy loads of graphics and virtual reality.
Intel and AMD have revealed more details of the new processor they are working on together. Called “8th-generation Intel Core with Radeon RX Vega M graphics,” the chip will be targeted at PCs and laptops, focusing on graphics-heavy workloads such as Virtual Reality (VR).
Another highly commented issue at CES 2018 was Amazon’s digital assistant, Alexa (photo), which can already be used in cars, smartphones and also in offices, is likely to be incorporated into laptops and PCs soon.
Variations in laptops include thinning, the new version of Dell, the XPS 13 weighs 1.21 kg and is less than 12 mm thick, with a 4k almost borderless screen (called an infinity edge) and with a touch-sensitive version ( touch screen).
The ThinkPad X1 tablet from LeNovo was another novelty, a 12-inch display with a resolution called 3k (2160 x 1440), the battery also grew in power, which gives 10 hours of use, but with this it became heavier with 1.26 k (that is, not so much).
No hybrids appeared attacking people or androids controlling mankind (of course it is to remind some who have too much fantasy on the subject).