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Ambivalence and evil
14
Jul
A concept very developed today, of late modernity is the idea of 
ambivalence, modern version of Manichaeism, and the idea that we are always between two poles, we talked about the infernal dichotomies (subjective objective X; X nature culture).
I believe that agreeing with Augustine of Hippona, that evil is the absence of good, and the profound book of Paul Ricoeur The symbolic of evil, which is the second volume of Finitude and Guilt work, written in 1960 is the founder thought of this contemporary philosopher.
Like any philosophy of issues and no answer, what the philosopher want to respond, can be read in the preface of the book “From the beginning of the end, the sovereign consciousness root of science and full autonomy of the human, becomes now in problem to clear up as the experience of ill will just brings to light its opacity and still puts the question about the meaning of the human race”. Is he sapiens or demens? It will be condemned to tragic or salvation? Will be given at the outset, or arises first lost and widespread, need to take ownership? “Are current issues at the end of an era. We must first understand, as stated Alain Thiomasset (1995, p. 35), the works of Ricoeur must be read “as dialogues with thinkers he crosses over his ways”, and not as metaphysical digressions or philosophical or theological presuppositions.
As good phenomenologist, recognizes the importance of the “thing in itself”, but he sees that came in missing a dip in the intentionality of Husserl, the Greek epoché able to launch awareness out of herself, we would say one thing beyond other by Intent.
Taking this background that deeply penetrates the Ricoeur considers that idealism, that beyond the critique of Husserlian idealism, phenomenology remains the unsurpassable hermeneutic assumption that it can not point more to be without it.
(cf. Ricoeur, 1989, p. 64). Ricoeur, P. O mal um desafio à filosofia e à teologia, SP: Papirus, 1998. Ricoeur, P. Finitud y Culpabilidad: el Hombre Labil y la Simbólica del Mal. Madrid: Taurus Ediciones, 1982.
Among the techniques and humanism
10
Apr
It would be a kind of technical human condition or was she separated from the man? Heidegger and Sloterdijk embraced
this issue pirmeiro understanding that modernity has fulfilled one of his promises, opening new possibilities of being-in-world (one of the possible translations of Dasein), but after thousands of years man has a promise: to distinguish radically this world, not as an autonomous subject and away from his worldly circumstances, but how to be with other beings, animate or just things.
The man also won dreamed what the realists no longer as having a high interior that could serve as shelter, fleeting in this world, where he could eventually choose here that wished to be, surpassing living animal, the zoe.
But if Heidegger stopped in his reflections on the technical modernity, one of several liquidity Bauman, it would release the man the edge of the abyss opened by rampant technical unveiling, Sloterdijk attempts to reach the other side without fear of seeing the art as made for ” improve man “of their immunological conditions.
So your antropotécnico arises, or the complement of that would be the onto-antropotécnico, not cyborgs beings and advancing technical about privacy and eye-to-eye human, using for this a concept of “foam”., which means that “society” can not be understood “outside”, thus following a hierarchical and general concepts, but view “inside” as a set of subcultures, communities and networks, forming a set of isolated units, but connected midiaticamente, which means technical forever.
On the contrary, it must be interpreted “inside” as a set of subcultures, communities and networks, a set of isolated units, but connected midiaticamente, which already involves the technique from the start, in a less philosophical language close to the young people: it isn’ t the world B.
It is by Heidegger’s notion of language as a house of being that man can come into existence by being the language (speech, in Being and Time) keeper of the truth of being. Man of the care process with their education (Bildung) in the exit towards clearing generates in Sloterdijk a antropotécnica, which is an onto-anthropology, or if you prefer a antropotécnica in the disturbed sense.
The young Argentine philosopher Fabian Ludueña, near the antropotécnica view of biopolitics and also the human condition Hannah Arendt defines it: “techniques by which communities of the human species and the individuals who compose act on their nature in order to guide, expand, modify, or taming its biological substrate in order to produce what that first philosophy and then the biological sciences and humanities often called ‘man’. ”
Ludueña, Fabian. O (des)governo biopolítico da vida humana, XI Simpósio Internacional IHU, 2010.
Sloterdijk, P. Rules for the human Zoo: a response to the letter of Heidegger on humanism. New York: Harper and Row, 2009.
Multiple intelligence: philosophy and virtual
09
Mar
The theory of multiple intelligences was developed by the American psychologist Howard Gardner, around of 1980 years.
It is an alternative to the idea of innate ability, born of idealistic philosophy and running through most of the psychological chains of today, challenges the idea of IQ (Intelligence Quotient) and also those ideas that focus on all skills in school.
Introduces the concept that different professionals should have different cultures, a repertoire of human skills to help them in solutions, culturally appropriate, to resolve their personal, family and social problems.
Gardner worked in reverse the idea of development, thinking more about what skills have resulted in human achievements, and said:
“A) the development of different abilities in normal children and gifted children; (B) adults with brain injuries and how they do not lose the intensity of their intellectual production, but one or a few skills, while other skills are even affected; (C) exceptional said populations, such as idiot-savants and autism, and how the former can have only one competence, being quite unable in other brain functions, while autistic children have absences in their intellectual abilities; (D) how was the cognitive development across the millennia “(Gardner, 1985).
Idiot-savants or savantism (the French savant, “wise”) is considered a mental disorder in which the person has great intellectual ability combined with an intelligence deficit.
Linguistic intelligence are the components of sensitivity to sounds, rhythms and meanings of words, as though the music associated with the first intelligence manifests the ability to enjoy, compose or play a piece of music, logical-mathematical is sensitivity to patterns, order and systematization, spatial ability to perceive the visual or spatial world, puzzles and games that require visual skills, kinesthetic is the ability to create products through the use of part or all of the body is how to produce and grace expressions from verbal or musical stimuli using some coordinated muscle or athletic ability, interpersonal ability to understand and respond appropriately to moods, temperaments and motivations of other people and finally, and finally intrapersonal intelligence is organizing one’s own feelings, dreams and ideas and can make use of this resource for solving personal or social problems.
The virtual world is related to all of them and not only intrapersonal as one might think and this study is true not only for autistic and gifted people, but for everyone.
Won the critics in Oscar 2015
23
Feb
“Birdman or (The unexpected result of ignorance)” and “Boyhood: From infancy to youth” was one of the highest rated for the top prize, best picture and took over three awards. The signs were divided into “Birdman” who won the awards for unions and “Boyhood” took the Bafta. They ran out “imitation game” and “American Sniper” movies that had better send tickets, but not so much critical acclaim.
Birdman took best picture and best director, for Mexican Alejandro González Iñárritu,
The other winner was “The Grand Hotel Budapest”, which took four statuettes too, but in technical categories: best costume, best hair and makeup, best production design and best soundtrack.
Already “Boyhood: From infancy to youth” ended up being the big loser of the 87 Oscar. As in six categories, was left with only the category of best supporting actress.
The documentary “The salt of the earth” directed by renowned German director Win Wnders and the Brazilian Juliano Salgado, on the Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado Juliana’s father, was nominated for Oscar in 2015, but the winner was Citizen Four “about the leak of secrets USA by Edward Snowden.
Snubbed in the best animation, the director Phil Lord decided to “build a” Lego figurine Oscar (photo), the film ran for only statuette for best original song and don’t take.
Six lessons of wisdom from technology
20
Jan
New technologies (or projects) require new way of thinking
The Bloodhound SSC project is expected to be the first land vehicle to break the barrier of the 1,000 mph (1,609 km / h), his biggest problem was reinventing the wheel, it is not the oldest invention, but how to design the fastest wheels in the world , able to remain stable and at supersonic speed and with limited financial resources?
According to the BBC technology, engineer Mark Chapman, “after hitting his head for four months,” understood that should use the new technologies of “new way,” said he, “What is unprecedented is the way we apply the technologies.”
Forming opinion from the evidence, not one’s own ideas
Geophysicist Steven Jacobsen at Northwestern University in the United States, among many other geophysical believed that the Earth’s water originated in comets.
But to study in depth the rocks as a way that scientists use to analyze the passage of time, he found water inside the ringwoodita in results January 2014 a mineral found in the Earth’s mantle, then found that the water is within the planets.
It takes more perspiration than inspiration
Yes it takes hard work, that understood the neuroscientist Sheila Nirenberg of Cornell University in New York who wanted to develop a new prosthesis to heal assist the blind, and thought only in the organs and not in information and their code in the brain.
So found a key element when decoded the project to decipher the code that transmits information between the eyes and the brain, neuroscientist reveals: “When I realized that, could not eat, could not sleep All I wanted was to work.” , the transmission of information was important more than the mechanisms.
Tomorrow we continue, but we must “not have ready answers”, “have the chance” that some call the conspiracy of the universe or God’s Will, and finally wisdom is something indefinable for it, even these six lessons are questionable too.
Peter Sloterdijk and the absolute imperative
09
Jan
When grumble about individualism, consumerism and other isms, most often has ignored that this is the Western philosophy, and it is also based on our ethical (read the post about Martha Nussbaum) and there are clear examples: take his testimony, do your part, are forms of individualism often also in groups.
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What we should do is to seek collective action together with humanity, I say in networking.
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Peter Sloterdijk calls attention to the categorical imperative, created by the philosopher Emmanuel Kant at the beginning of modernity, Sloterdijk explains: “Kant wanted to reconcile the selfishness of private interests and the demands of the common good, while enabling the coexistence of all rational creatures in the legal context of bourgeois society “(pp. 53), the small booklet” The world has no more time to lose” the brazilian edition is make Civilização Brasileira publisher, in 2014.
This booklet, published in France in 2012 with “Le monde n’s plus temps to perdre” coordinated by Sacha Goldman, write articles Michel Rocard, Mireille Delmas-Marty, René Passet, Edgar Morin, Michael W. Doyle, Stéphane Hessel Bernard Miyet addition to Sloterdijk, which as the title says the urgency of global governance.
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Sloterdijik known for controversy with Heidegger in his “Rules for the human Zoo” writes about this booklet, which is the absolute imperative to eliminate among men “situations in which he was a poor creature, miserable, wretched, abandoned”.
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Remember the philosopher Hans Jonas, seeing the ecological crisis, which updated the categorical imperative guiding him to the future and the relationship policy with nature, but he remembers two recent phenomena: “a technical and other political, came profoundly transform your reach “(p. 64),” the first of immaterial nature, “we are coming out of the Neolithic”, and the second of a political nature, “started in the 1980s, is none other than the release of capital movements in the world, which, allowing the concentration across national borders, leading to the formation of a planetary financial power superior to the States “(p. 66).
What all authors of this booklet ask, is a “caring and responsible global governance” is worth reading.
Computational Linguistics
03
Dec
In evolutionary line of intelligent agents, which promises to be the next big wave of the Web, is the rising
computational linguistics (CL), who explains that new field is this is the Professor Shalom Lappin, Computational linguistics professor at King College London.
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According to a report in The Guardian, the teacher says it is possible to write software models that automatically analyze certain aspects of a language and thus create and develop models to work with natural languages.
In the aspect of engineering, CL focuses on natural language processing, in order to develop systems that facilitate human-computer interaction, and to automate a number of tasks linguistic practices, such as machine translation, text summarization, speech recognition and generation texts, extraction and retrieval of information and sentiment analysis contained in a text.
By examining the scientific aspect of the CL, the researchers seek to model natural languages as formal combinatorial systems in an effort to identify the procedures by which humans can learn and to represent these systems.
The King’s College of London held the Natural Language Festival to celebrate the diversity of languages, where the development made, were presented by Professor Lappin.
Cinema: what comes again
02
Dec
The film Goodbye to language Jean-Luc Godard’s film is already quite commented, the prestigious Cahiers du Cinema and
the British magazine Sight & Sound place him second in the list of favorite and one that appears much quoted is Under the Skin, Jonathan Glazer´s film , third in two lists.
Goodbye language account the relationship of a husband and his wife, marked by the lack of communication on the ground that the two do not speak the same language. So their dog decides to intervene in the relationship and talk. The cast includes Heloise Godet, Zoe
Bruneau, Kamel Abdelli, Richard Chevalier and Jessica Erickson and will have 3D version.
Under the Skin, tells the story of an alien (Scarlett Johansson) arrives on Earth and will travel deserted roads and empty landscapes in search of human prey using its voracious sexuality as a weapon, it may seem a cliché but what happens in the process is the discovery of a humanization of alien, an interesting dialogue about sexuality.
Preceded by Despicable Me 1 and 2, Minions, yellow and unicellular now earn a movie just for them, their mission is to serve the evil doers of the world go to a convention of villains and there are Scarlet Overkill (Sandra Bullock), who aspires to be the first woman to rule the world, but the debut is only for June.
Jurassic World – the world of dinosaurs and Star Wars – the awakening of strength, promise premieres since before Christmas, also The Hobbit – the battle of the five armies should also debut as early as December, good just to young people, I am on hold.
