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STORIES

...risks lurk in the dark, because we can neither comprehend nor resolve them by thinking as we did when we created them)—we must create new ways ...in general? Truth by convention is the notion of truth that is usual in mathematics: Let x be... then... It is meaningles

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IMAGES-OLD

...govern our awareness – but that the bare foundations of our creation of truth and meaning were emerging from the ground. Having thus lost its self-image Here we show how to turn this disruption into a new construction – by which the project of science is extended to all themes that matter.

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STORIES-OLD

The way we want to remedy this situation is, of course, by connecting the dots. Initially, all we can hope for is to show just enough ...e shoes" of [[giants|giants]], "see through their eyes", be moved by their visions.

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Mirror ideogram

...gm, an alternate academic reality, a creative frontier, or a way to create truth and meaning). The [[mirror|mirror]] here symbolizes the various in ...reating the world we see around us, by looking at it in a certain way, and by instructing others to see it in that way." When we see ourselves in the [[m

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Main Page-OLD

...problems of the epoch were not resolved by focusing on those problems, but by a slow and steady development of an entirely new approach to knowledge. Sev "If I have seen further," Sir Isaac Newton famously declared, "it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." The point of departure of our initiat

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SECOND-STORIES

<h3>We can design scopes by crafting keywords.</h3> ...convention. When I define for instance "culture" by convention, and turn it into a keyword—I am not saying what

192 KB (33,919 words) - 14:02, 1 December 2023
APPLICATIONS-OLD

...he metaphorical [[mirror|mirror]] – where we are being creative by creating a better world. Or more technically – where we practice ...umerably many questions of this kind – which for the moment are answered by our [[prototypes|prototypes]], without even being asked. But y

78 KB (12,628 words) - 12:09, 27 October 2018
CONVERSATIONS-OLD

...ay just as well talk about the perennial "philosophical" theme – how may truth and meaning be created. Is it indeed the case that a whole new way ...ed in Federation through Images offers "the power to transcend paradigms", by transcending any fixed way of looking at the world, and recreating

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Holotopia

...nd the way we look at the world, try to comprehend and handle it as guided by a pair of candle headlights. By what methods, what social processes, and by whom would information be created? What new information formats would emerg

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Five insights

...eached by looking differently. Each structural defect is resolved by embracing [[wholeness|wholeness]] as value. ...m> to be able to live and work; and over our environment, because by organizing us and using us in certain specific ways, they decide what t

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Socialized reality insight

<li>Truth</li> <li>Social creation of truth and meaning</li>

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Holotopia:Socialized Reality insight

...rstand their world. It was a revolutionary change of the way in which truth and meaning were created in our societies that made all other revolutions p The visible problems are caused by the failing foundations

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Holotopia:The box

 What remained obscure, and needs to be illuminated by suitable information, is (1) the long-term effects of our choices and (2) o ...rrow frame led quite directly to the convenience paradox — by emphasizing direct causality, and eliminating culture. Egocentricity become

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Holotopia:Keywords

...ined by design. Technically, we use truth by convention. By using keywords, we can depart from the traditional ways o ...on is what the academic tradition has been all about, since its inception. By favoring the less opportunistic options, both Socrates and Galilei made inc

13 KB (2,164 words) - 09:33, 19 May 2020
Holotopia:Socialized Reality

Instead of conceiving "truth" as "an objective picture of reality", and considering the purpose of infor And to perceive reification as an instrument by which people are coerced to accept a certain societal order of things</

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Holotopia:Narrow Frame

Science, in the role of truth and meaning provider to our culture at large, has never been created for th One may say that the most important change brought about by its results consists in the dissolution of this rigid frame of concepts of

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Holotopia:Narrow frame

Our theme here is how we create truth (what we collectively believe in) and meaning, about the matters of which o ...) if it is "scientifically proven"—or follows as from scientific "laws", by a causal argument. 

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Holotopia:Socialized reality

<h3>Language, truth and reality</h3> ...error can easily be understood when we consider how much the belief that "truth" means "correspondence with reality" is ingrained in our 'cultural DNA'; an

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Clippings

...text of Holotopia, we refer to the Knowledge Federation prototype by its pseudonym [[Holotopia: Holoscope|holoscope]], to highlight its ...enabled us to see the things that are too distant or too small to be seen by the naked eye, and our vision expanded beyond bounds. But science had the <

182 KB (30,999 words) - 10:38, 14 June 2020
N-keywords

<h3>We can design scopes by creating keywords.</h3> ...words are defined in the way that's common in mathematics—by convention. When I turn "culture", for instance, into a keyword</e

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