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Oversimplification problems reductionist
08
Aug
As there is much current information, but little quality information, the 
reductionist principle, we should always adopt a simpler solution, like that of Ockham’s razor, between two explanations, choose the easier it seems today lead us to very complex things , which is a paradox with the principle of “simplification” reductionist.
The most reductionism is Manichaeism, that is entirely good or bad, it was something settled in the fourth century by Augustine of Hippo, to say that evil is the absence of good, but the problem returned with Hanna Arendt in “The banality of evil” or Martha Nussbaum “The fragility of goodness” or good, as some prefer translators.
Fractals are a good example of complexity, but there is the ideal simplification of numbers, the butterfly effect is another example, Edgar Morin wrote about the complex thinking.
In 1995, the Italian Piergiorgio Odifreddi, dedicated to the “liar’s paradox” of Epimenides, according to which all Cretans would be lying by a “systemic” logic.
Epimenides showed the error of worshiping gods that could not help them at all, and told them to put sheep in the Areopagus high that they would show them the place that God wanted to be worshiped. It was then that an act “mystical” the sheep down the Areopagus and went to a place where there was no kind of idolatry, there is the altar of the Unknown God that the Bible speaks, but curiously Christians are unaware of its origin.
Einstein doing a fairly simple radiciocínio, he said: “We can not solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them”, ie those who are in a systemic logic may collapse without solving their problems or become liars saying it has no problems, technology is one of these.
The problem or the proper use of technology should be treated in its complexity, it is there.
Critics of Hegel
21
Jul
I consider the most important one that emerged from Husserl,
who has roots in Franz Brentano, because there arose much of existentialism, and three of the most important contemporary thinkers: Heidegger, Paul Ricoeur and Emmanuel Levinas, there is Karl Popper, a critique of part of which will be for the next post.
The first fiercest critics of Hegel are Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche, both had an important influence of American transcendentalism of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), and although both also had the influence of oriental readings, it is through this influence that can explain the transcendentalist subjectivism of both, or in other words, it has not completely broken with the egoic center of Western culture where the self is where part of the philosophy, both make speeches on the question of “will”.
Karl Marx is not just an opponent, of the belief Hegelian system in the state, and this in a way in a kind of “god”, for example, the philosophy of history, he does what he defined himself as a Hegelian head down, not a sky system for the earth, but the earth to heaven, but what was heavenly paradise Marx? A classless society, the real socialism revealed that just built new “caste” in power.
Let us return to Edmund Husserl (1859-1938), work maturity Crisis of European Sciences (1936), Husserl wrote, “our critical reflections on Kant already made clear in the danger of striking conclusions, but still obscure or, if you want the lighting pure conclusions in the form of vague anticipations … and it also became understandable how he was forced toward a mythical conceptual construction and a dangerously hostile metaphysics all true science. ”
He defended an essentiality, is famous for his phrase “return things for themselves”, but his belief in the phenomenological model that creates basis for a genuine science, rewired to be (existentialism would come with Heidegger, his student who succeeded him in the gym ) a new transcendentalism, and explained: “We ourselves will be directed to an internal transformation that we will be face to face – in direct experience – the size long felt but constantly hidden from’transcendental’. The basis of the experience revealed in his infinity, will then become the fertile soil of a philosophy of methodical work with the self-evidence, moreover, that all conceivable philosophical and scientific problems of the past are destined to be presented and resolved on this basis“, wrote Husserl.
(Português) Empirismo é racionalismo ?
18
Jul
Following our author-guide Peter Kreeft in his imaginary Socrates’ dialogue
with Hume, now Socrates ask about the method and what is true for Hume, trying to show it as rationalist, to Hume says it is not, Socrates replies:
“SOCRATES: In his epistemological theory, yes, but not his method. Your method, like theirs, is to reduce or data to explain the complex to the simple, the rich variety of experience to simple universal formulas. HUME: But this is just one of the elements of the scientific method. SOCRATES: And this means that it should be an element of philosophical method?
HUME: There is nothing absolutely true or false with respect to a method … a method is just a tool, a practical means in order to find the truth. What we should discuss is about true.
SOCRATES: I agree. But it can not be true that the scientific method is not suitable for the philosopher an unscientific method to a scientist?
HUME: And that would use method to compare the scientific method to any other method? SOCRATES: I would use the universal method of logic.
HUME: Fair enough.
SOCRATES: And I say that reductionism violates the laws of logic.” (Kreeft, 2012).
The reductionism is the basis of rationalism and empiricism also, this is a simplification of reality in formulas and processes apparently explained, but they are complex.
The theme is earlier modernity in the late Middle Ages, the English nominalist William Ockham created the method “between two explanations choose the simplest,” and because of it it became known as Razor Ockham.
Philosophy drops: starting with Socrates
14
Jul
We know Socrates by Plato, that is appears in the dialogues of Plato 
and how good philosophy, is a conversation in which an argument is being engendered in a logical as claimed Leibniz: in which a truth leads to another, and so someone contradicts or is refuted in the middle of the conversation, finally they are dialogues.
Dialogues by are not aphorisms, maxims that said almost dogmatic way might seem true, but they are not the lack of dialogue, in the words of today’s philosophy, without the presence of the other, but only the presence of the same, monologues sometimes self-referential or systemic, the Gödel paradox: no axiomatic theory (logic) is complete.
The debate between Socrates and Hume, but a hypothetical meeting in eternity is important because empiricism was the last major current scientific thinking, borrowed the Vienna Circle, who tried to reconceptualize and demonstrate the falsehoods of metaphysics.
It was Peter Kreeft (2012) who wrote “Socrates meets Hume: The father of Philosophy meets father of Skepticism Modern” humbly writes in his introduction: “I believe I have not violated the integrity of Hume’s philosophy” (Kreeft, 2012) and then; “This is not an academic work” (idem), I would say better.
After an initial presentation, in which Hume says as a skeptic and Socrates and he did not, but are as censored by the academy, and make a dialogue on the critical ideas.
Highlight initially, on this issue of critical Socrates says is important to education
“SOCRATES: So does not claim you are subject to the same criticism.
HUME: I have nothing to fear. I’m not one of those builders of dogmatic systems, such as those Rationalists, Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz.
SOCRATES: That remains to be seen”(Kreeft, 2012).
KREEFT, P. Socrates Meets Hume: The Father of Philosophy Meets the Father of Modern Skepticism, Boston: St. Augustines Press, 2012.
TDM in Digital Humanities
12
Jul
Digital Humanities is an emerging field that seeks to explore social and 
human consequences in digital environments, so consider the more correct name Humanity in Digital Environments, and TDM (Text and Data Mining) is one of these trends.
A London School blog has just published interesting article that points to a trend that libraries and librarians operate and assist in the use of TDM for research and searches.
The blog explains that in particular the amendment of the Hargreaves review of copyright in the UK, remove legal barriers to explore texts and make data mining (TDM) on the corpus of the research literature, then the article explores how libraries and librarians can facilitate the work of researchers who want to apply TDM methods in library resources to either print or electronic sources.
The article also states that in the case of resource libraries, librarians can advise researchers and encourage them to use the new rules of copyright exceptions, which means that they can overcome certain copyright barriers.
The blog explains that this can mean valuable resources, for example, in research on molecular chemistry (photo), crystallography and other very confidential areas.
The article points out that as an example of Digital Humanities, a major newspaper body of the Victorian era can be mined to extract jokes this time, and can also analyze other aspects of time and UK social history.
It’s not just the electronic corpus that can be extracted, although it article provides a copy of scanning for example TDM purposes to aid the reader.
The fair, being and peace
18
May
The justice and peace seem distant be considered idealistic categories, but
recover the ontological concept, so justice will be present in the human being as being, and peace as human need to live a healthy life, then we must understand the ontological mode , justice as fair and peace as the pacific, the “peace-maker”, and also want ethics as ontoética.
These thoughts are present in contemporary thinker Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995), which initially influenced by Edmund Husserl, later by Martin Heidegger, his existential experience in the concentration camps takes a new concept beyond the individual and the person, the Other, in which reassesses his way of thinking, otherness.
Respect, consideration and coexistence with the Other, must not have prerequisites, must first of all “The other has to be what it is and I have to be what I am” (Levinas, 1980 p, 27 but we must understand that this ethic is not a conventional ethics.
Levinas defines it, the light of the doctrines of law, such as:
“If my right has meaning only in relation to other rights, whose action or remedy are assumptions in the recognition or exercise of my right, the right of the Other and has always precedes mine. The (right) Another comes first; before my right and before my identity as organized by rights, it is my duty, my radical turn toward the requirement to respect the existential integrity of the other. Non-essential essence of human rights, the elusive universal involved in all the particular demands of law may be the recognition of the priority of another person whose existence my makes me ethically limited and open to me the field of inter language and right “(Levinas, 1980, p.73).
This implies a new dimension of the right to not judge the other from himself, but from the infinite, and that there enshrines the theory of intersubjectivity (The subject is that there is a lack), and therefore want the other, but the other is reduced by my knowledge of the world, which is limited to my worldview.
Levinas, Emmanuel. Totality and Infinity: essay about exteriority, USA: Springer Science & Business Media, (page numbers in portuguese edition), 1979 (In portuguese: 1980) .
As FinTechs vem aí
11
May
In defining research Venture Scanner company are empresasFinTech upstarts, made mostly by yo
ung people in more than 35 years and do exactly what a bank does, but with a much leaner structure (which reduces costs services).
Using the latest technology, ensures high efficiency and use greater reach of the Internet, and there are already the world no less than 1,406 fintechs, most of them with less than six years, and an important historical fact is that it was after the global financial crisis .
In 2014, these fintechs since they captured $ 29 billion in investment funds, with much lower rates, and the famous JPMorgan, through its president Jamie Dimon said its shareholders: “Silicon Valley is coming,” they are “bringing a lot of startups with brains and money to change our industry. ”
According to Goldman Sachs estimated that $ 4.7 trillion in revenues of banks can go into the hands of these “intruders”, higher than the Brazilian GDP, so a digital parents coming.
The digital technology has rocked the music industry, transport and film, and now issuing cards, loans and insurance contracts, it is a revolution so.
n 2014, these Fintechs since they captured $ 29 billion with the majority of them came six years ago, not by chance, after the global financial crisis in which JPMorgan was one of the epicenters were born these fintechs, in Brazil there are already some companies, the interest is much better, but is made a detailed survey of the customer.
Industry and technology: is a Brazilian way out?
28
Apr
Sectors that held the plummet of our economy are maize with a growth of 
110% approximately, soybeans 46% and 13.4% cellulose growth recorded in the first quarter 2016 with the economy in decline and the brazilian political crisis still without solution yet.
While we see the Brazilian industry is reducing, with major industries out or closed doors, and only the agricultural sector holding on to ask if the high technology has something to say and can be a way to recover the industrial park?
Apparently yes, companies like WEG Santa Catarina, is one of the largest exporters of motor and electronics equipment in the world, and grew 24% last year amid an economic crisis (and political course) because it has a strong standing in exports, almost 55% of its revenue comes from abroad, and employ 31,000 people. Another of a smaller is the Bralyx machines working with confectionery equipment and production masses, has insertion in 50 countries and sales of U$ 12 million, half from abroad, but employs only 150 people.
High-tech sectors are promising and Brazil has manpower and a good education system in this regard, a system that helps the startup* in this sector would be important, although the basis of primary and secondary education needs reform.
* Startup – the name given to any innovative company at an early stage.
