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Wolfram|Alpha

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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:

Wolfram|Alpha!

This, quoting their own homepage, is:

… 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.

It was created by  Stephen Wolfram, a “distinguished scientist, inventor, author and business leader”. It is free of charge and seems to be using correct sources, I hope it continues that way… It also has an amazing capacity, according their blog it will be able to handle

… 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.

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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…

All in all; thumbs up for Wolfram|Alpha!

Plato’s Cave by Sam Weiss

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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)

time to get out

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Hi!

So this is my first blog post, I’m liking it already. The sun is shining, and it felt like the right moment to start this project. I have thought about it for a long time, I have written a bit and read a lot, watched films, plays and other performances, listened to people, watched them dance…  I have talked and preached;

shared precious moments of exchange of true knowledge

and I have come to some conclusions. And now I have decided to share them publicly, starting here, today.

Since as far as I can remember, I have thought about life, God and love, about the state of humanity, about how to be… I guess many of us do. I particularly thought a lot about WHY we should be nice to each other and encourage one another. I felt, there must be logical reasons, aside from the spiritual, religious, moral or ethical ones. I remember thinking as a child, that if one could find indisputable reasons for why everyone should be nice to each other, people would change. I don’t know if that is true, or if I have found indisputable reasons, but I have found many reasons.

Along the way I developed a philosophy of life, the theory of the blooming society and the positive multitude. I have decided to publish this theory here, along with thoughts on current events, poems, short stories, quotes and other things that come to my mind…

I hope that many readers find their way to this blog, and that it’s content inspire people.

With love

Susan Florries