Since the first post on the Theory of the blooming society and the positive multitude is about knowledge, and this post is not ready yet… I decided that in the meanwhile, I will instead post a strong recommendation and celebration of this newly released, fantastic homepage/project:
… the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone. You enter your question or calculation, and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and growing collection of data to compute the answer.
… 175 million queries (yielding maybe a billion) per day—over 5 billion queries (encompassing around 30 billion calculations) per month.
The spreading of knowledge to everyone is like this is an important, beautiful and fantastic gift to humanity. It can lead to many good things. The free access of knowledge lies at the very foundations of a prosperous, democratic world. Access to knowledge liberates and can make the human being better, smarter and more accepting of others.
Sokrates said
To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
The access to a large variety of knowledge from many different sources often brings this insight after a while I think, if you have an open mind toward it of course. But then again, positive/constructive learning often opens your mind.
I also think that the more you learn, the more you realize that you
a) cannot hold all knowledge in your head, so you have to rely on others to know things
b) the knowledge that is out there is cannot assure us 100% accuracy in practically anything.
So we know nothing in the end. But still, learning and acquiring more knowledge in many cases lead to a state of humbleness towards the knowledge of others; at least on a theoretical level, when we are on our own. In face to face arguments with others we often become competitive, and in our days knowledge is key to be a winner, so one might often feel that one has to know best…
But in either case, I think in the long run, knowledge brings larger understanding and acceptance of others, which brings peace, and peace brings prosperity – a prosperous, peaceful society enables a good life and the free flow of love…
narrator: orson wells, animator: dick oden, music: larry wolff
This is the best thing that I’ve come across this week, since a while actually, and it reminded me of that so many insightful and great people has existed at all kinds of moments and places in history. I got the info about the makers from the credits at the end of the film and the Long Island University Libraries…
The tale of the cave of Plato is such a wonderful critic of society, it is metaphysical, almost sprititual, and so many other things.
The beginning of it reminds me of something I read a while ago about us partly copying the synaps-connections of our parents when we are children. The synapses more or less decides how the different parts of our brains are connected. So, we are physically programmed to, partly, process and react to knowledge and stimuli more or less exactly as our parents would.
Talk about having our heads in chains… (see movie)
Once upon a time there was True Love in the middle of Nothing. True Love was full of joy and harmony, but it was lonely, it had no one to share everything with.
So True Love made a hard decision, and split itself into billions and trillions of pieces, screaming of pain, but also singing in joy! Because True Love knew, that once all the billions and trillions of pieces had fallen into harmony, it would be able to see and love itself as the wonderful creation that it is! And it would never be lonely again.
You are a part of True Love, and so are your friends and so are your enemies. Remember your origin, and you will look upon the world in a different way.
EL CUENTO DE HADAS
Una vez habia Amor Verdadero en la mitad de Nada. Amor Verdadero era lleno de felizidad y harmonia, pero se sentia sólo, no tenía a nadie con quien podía compartir todo.
Asi que Amor Verdadero hacía una decisión muy difícil, y se compartió en billiones y trilliones de piecos, gritando del dolor, !pero también cantando de felizidad! Porque sabía que, una vez que todos los piecos habrián caido en harmonía, !sería capaz de verse y amarse a si mismo por la creación fantastica que es! Y nunca más estaría sólo.
Tú eres una parte del Amor Verdadero, y también lo son tus amigos, y tus enemigos. Recuerda tú origín y mirarás al mundo en una manera diferente.
SAGAN
En gång fanns Sann Kärlek i mitten av Ingenting. Sann Kärlek var full av lycka och harmoni, men kände sig ensam, den hade ingen att dela allt med.
Så Sann Kärlek tog ett svårt beslut, och delade sig i billioner och trillioner bitar, skrikande av smärta, men också sjungande av glädje! För Sann Kärlek visste att när väl alla de billioner och trillioner bitarna fallit på plats, skulle den kunna se och älska sig själv som den fantastiska skapelse den verkligen är! Och den skulle aldrig vara ensam igen.
Du är en del av Sann Kärlek, och så är dina vänner, och dina fiender. Minns ditt ursprung och du kommer att se på världen på ett annat sätt.
DAS MÄRCHEN
Es war einmal Wahre Liebe in der Mitte von Nichts. Wahre Liebe war voll von Freude und Harmonie, aber es hatte niemanden womit es seine Liebe teilen konnte.
Also traf Wahre Liebe eine schwierige Entscheidung, und explodierte in Billionen und Trillionen Einzelteile, schreiend von Schmerz, aber auch singend von Freude! Weil Wahre Liebe wusste, das wenn einmal all die Billionen und Trillionen Teile Harmonie gefunden haben, wäre es fähig sich selber zu sehen und lieben als die wunderbare Kreation die es ist! Und es würde nie wieder alleine sein.
Du bist ein Teil von Wahre Liebe, und so sind es auch deine Freunde, und deine Feinde. Erinnere dich wo du herkommst, und du wirst die Welt anders sehen.
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