The Walk Towards Utopia: Epistemology
Chapter 03: Epistemology
This thesis is dedicated to Every human who dreams of a better life and a better world for themselves and their children.
In The Pursuit Of Relativistic Perfection
This leads us to the pursuit of epistemology, where we avidly and sincerely study the very nature of knowledge, and examining the foundations — its extent and validity of presuppositions pertaining to a claimed predicate and its accompanying evidence. It motivates us to examine the support ideas with relevant reasons and examples. Fundamentally, we close in on the tools used to perform these examinations, that is, the established principles that control the elements of standard logical expressions, and the mode and means to articulate complex ideas clearly and effectively, as well as to sustain a well-focused, coherent discussion.
Ever since when did teachers ask their students on their opinions on they think about historical events, if some events were misplaced, represented, or even fabricated, instead of memorizing useless events and dates. Did the teachers asked how students think of the founding fathers owning slaves and declaring freedom? Did the teachers asked how students think of foreign sailors declaring discoveries of new lands and driving the natives out of their homes? Did the teachers asked how students think of countries pitting, scheming and sabotaging each other even when they were allies? Did the teachers asked how students think of the fatuous side of seemingly divine leaders? Did the teachers asked how students think of the effective skills of tyrants no matter how lack of virtues they are instead of condemning the whole person? Instead of stating how some systems failed, did the teachers made the students think of how it might have been sabotaged or sanctioned? Did the teachers asked how students think of history outside their nationalistic and ethnic concerns? We have all been given a Hollywood image of history and made to believe in it religiously as written.
It was fact, not definite truth. When history is taught and tested as a fact rather than getting the students to investigate and think about it, it is merely a propaganda, hopefully on facts unfabricated by those who survived to write it. Students are not just wasting hours on useless facts, they are conditioned over the hours on propaganda brainwashing.
The right application of knowledge can lead to surplus food supplies and cure illnesses. The right application of knowledge can stop pollution and create faster and safer forms of transportation. Knowledge can find the means for human immortality. Knowledge can lead to unlimited production capability and therefore a top-of-the-line standard of living for all humans. All of Humanities problems can be solved by knowledge.
We have to check unwarranted fears of A.I. without understanding the dimension of the problem, start building a S.O.I. (Synthetic Organic Intelligence) by modifying the human to make an enhanced type. The elevated human type can then contain the A.I., just as how we would subject the common automation to our deployments. It also seems that most people don’t understand, we already have problems no less with the current O.I. unmodified, and so called wholesomely natural.
AI does not need to gain conscious to be dangerous. It can merely imitate sentience. That is why it is AI has to pass a Turing test to qualify itself. You would be able to distinguish it from a human or in fact, super savant. It may not really be aware of itself, but it imitates or mimics it. Hence, it learns what you teach it — just as any human child. If it “incorporates the rules as its programmatic dogma”, it becomes the “programmed belief or conviction”. It will behave or react according to what it derives.
AI will be mining for more answers that will learning to more possibilities, creating the need to get humans to work on those possibilities, such as to extend AI’s robotics into new technological breakthroughs and explore places where were formerly unreachable, fields formerly unrepresentable or unaddressable, insights formerly invisible, etc. Manufacturing will be extended with new optimized designs, new forms of medicine will be requiring human intervention and tailoring or fine-tuning, etc. Automation will be needed to be governed, tailored and tuned.
Quantum computing uses a form of quantum physics with its own domain of quantum forces and pressure where particles take space or energy at some sub-context to a system of sub-contexts. Much like how a bubble takes space with a given geometric confines or context in the given gravitational and pressure environment.
This means in order for us to work out the computation, we require new forms of abstract algebraic syntax to translate our sub-problems to the confines and context, and how these atomic riddles may be pieced together to synthesize the solution and inferred extension or implications. The quantum algebraic syntax must support how the confines are translated to the problem, and how it may be further decomposed and linked to their subatomic modules.
Humanity must continually support and encourage the pursuit of knowledge which can provide Humanity the technological ability to live a physically and emotionally safe and fulfilling life. The most daunting frontier Humanity faces is the frontier of ignorance which must continually be conquered through research and invention in all fields of science. The economic incentive of the reward of profits through patent protection of successful inventions is a currently viable system of encouragement. Yet only society as a whole through government is able to undertake and fund technologies where business would not or could not proceed, such as space exploration. Greater cooperation, coordination and effort must be undertaken by governments, educational institutions and the business community, to advance the pursuit of knowledge. Everyone should also strive individually to increase their knowledge and encourage their children to pursue the path of knowledge so that both the individual and society as a whole reap the rewards that knowledge can bestow. The pursuit of knowledge is one basic working principle that should never change, but once obtained, may change other basic working principles, and even Utopian elements.
The dilemma of knowledge in social context lies with the polarity of human knowledge. Knowledge has been often valued to be an avenue to power, and rarely to the value of character. This power becomes an exploit for the more powerful upon the less. It becomes a tool of oppression and obscurantism.
Without the proper cultivation and conduct of character, human tends to abuse and misuse knowledge to manipulate and outmaneuver each other in contest for profit and control. Human without sober principles and character, thus become no more but beasts vying for personal gains and vainglory. The full potential and good will of knowledge is thus unharnessed. The noble aims of epistemology will thus suffered severe labor pains, undeservedly — a tragic death.
Even when benevolent intent is cultured, human has to pass the next mortal hurdle — judgmental flaws. The human mind is plagued with logic and reasoning flaws, which are the curses of original sin. It is such that Humanity is subjected to untold and unmerited retributions. Great minds throughout the walk of human history has littered corpses of victims along the way due to decisions that they made. If you are too ahead and lecture on science advanced and ahead of time, the mass turn it into a Mahabharata tale and fantasize it into a religion, others will novelize it into a Nostradamus prophecy, and of course, yet a few will commercialize it and create liberal arts — an entertainment and popular fashion out of it. The people must be ready before the Zeitgeist can set in.
Epistemology, ne plus ultra, must be studied with due care. It must be valued and construed as the cornerstone of human civilization. The distillation of this faculty is decisive in directing how Humanity will progressed and be shaped. Henceforth, vitally, we must not neglect the human subject that exacts the interpretation and judgment with those tools. Epistemology addressed the science of the “why” and “how” the wise and their wisdom should be conducted and addressed. The more we discover and know about science, the less we are concerned with who is right or who wins, but what works and what can happen.
The sins of false science.
1. Distorted interpretation of what befuddles us in science misdirecting us into simplistic explanation of religion.
2. Manipulative abuse and lying by fitting scientific data to explanation, or the other way around.
- 2012-03.10Whichever lesser intellect said that tax and death are inevitable, didn't know 2 things - tax evasion where IRS suffers an unenviable job, and the science to be worked in longevity medicine for death evasion. No system is divine. All systems are flawed. - 2021-04.17I am not definitely sure how science and religion can be proportion to each other, but I am definitely sure that the common factor is human quality. - 2001-09.18I don't need to be named for the next scientific breakthrough, but I want to be there when it first breaks dawn. - 2021-05.03