Since the beginning of time free thinking can be define as anyone who did not conform to status qua-wherever was social, political or any kind though outside, like Jews refusing to accept Christianity or Islam prescription of the Messiah or political moments from the right or left in19 century. The Blog follows the spirit of Spinoza which challenge not only his own Hebrew roots, but also Christianity with the tolerance of Montaigne. We dedicate this blog to all them were burn for dare to ask.
Tuesday, October 03, 2017
Natura naturans
Spinoza dictum Natura naturans (while coined in
Medieval times), meaning Nature does what nature does, not divine, in other
words according to their own nature rules. While the scientific method means
two factors, there is a control and anyone with some skill (Training in the
Arts) can reproduce the claim, on other hand, any claim dependents on the experiment,
and experiment itself, dependent on instrument and observation (for closed to
two thousand years human cosmology was Claudius Ptolemy model—only when the observation
of Tycho Brahe and Kepler analysis, Copernicus setting a new theory and interpretation set based with Galileo
introduction of telescope as instrument open a new dimension how to view
science) , and while theoretical models can give inside, dependents allot about
how much uncertainty is being described. Biology is a descriptive science, but occur
with so much uncertainty, not possible to reduced only to some rules, where statistical
analysis is intertwined with the description, making Biology a complicated
science, moreover when combined with other disciplines, chemistry and physics
makes this a very complicated field.
Since, the nature
of science required persistence, dedication, and perseverance, time, limited
his access, while no one can own science and anyone can practice and become a practitioner,
while in our political system have created privilege by setting gates to
limited, in some ways, the reason of their influence, because we accepted the
tradition, not tradition is not set, change, due to external, social and scientific
method (mention early), change occur, even when the leader of a field lose influenced
(death), open the field to a new group, since is not dominated, science is in a
continuum flux, while, some principals become fundamentals, like evolution,
today Genetics have verified more than ever, but Darwin evolution made
prediction and verified-case of some Orchids for pollination need a long stock
to access eventually found, verified the prediction.
The Scientific Method,
only can be when is verified, the simplicity, but the complexity, because to
verified required in uncertainty—this is the beauty of nature, nature follow
his rules, we the observer, to find and described this rules is the challenge.
Technology is the manifestations of the observations.
How to practice these
Arts, as to let others to follow our observations, the written are recipes anyone
can follow and get to the same conclusion, does not mean somethings we travel
in the wrong direction—but needs verified.
One example of
this beauty, Newton inside the Gravitation, affected in long distances (we conclude
the force affected infinity), Einstein in his theoretical model demonstrated not
what it is the relation of mass and space, but finite (everything is limited to
the speed of light) and taken more than 85 years to prove of this gravitational
waves, but in more deeper, how in the microscopic is behaved become a challenge,
since in this level quantum rule, wave function the limitation does not applied—making
the reality a challenge and interested, while we do not have a total undemanding,
nature follow his rules, whether we understand—the beauty is able to find ways
to get better understanding, we maybe will do not have all the understanding,
but nature will continue in his rules, given any one the opportunity to get
inside.
The objective is
to advances—not a competition, the assigned to limited the access, not just
unjust, who made the judge, the jury and executioner—any one, none, we share this
third rock from the sun, who because and happen, we are, we should leave a
better place, not for us, but the generations to come, science dependent on
billion eyes, our eyes, we can make lives of everyone better, no one owns, we
share, because in the end no one knows which eyes will open the universe, prolong
live, make live better by taken away diseases or better life. Science should be
access to anyone, we should share, while knowledge is being limited, what we do
is we taken from ourselves the opportunity a possible answer, a clerk in India (Ramanujan)
become the prince of Mathematics (taken more than 75 years to realized his
significance), only because Hardy open the doors in Cambridge (at the time there was a Bachelor at research—today the educational
program is created to limited the access, monies become the gate, in Europe the
Diploma system was change to the Anglo Saxon model, which is based on monies,
as the economic meltdown of 2008 not supervision, the educational model based
on limited axes, become a privilege). At the same period of time a clerk in
Patent office in Swiss (at least one of the 5 papers was help of his wife—even he
did not acknowledge, does not take away his genius and creativity), shock the
foundations, by publishing let anyone to question and verified his work. Here
is the model open access, because in the end we all benefit, even false, then
we can advance, open and transparent, access, the individual measure should be based on the work.
Thursday, September 14, 2017
The Slave Trade
After Theoduses II codex and Valentine II in 432, where
frame how Christianity will in the Roman Empire established , one of the
fundamentals was Emperor choice by God, to have this direct connection, the
claim—a tradition from Nero to others was the Roman Emperor was a God, here
the claim was less, but the chosen was frame in Hebrew Bible, because that one
of the many rules to constrain the Jews, were not a lot to own slaves.
While Antisemitism of the Roman Catholic Church was vicious
and harsh, Martin Luther in 180 pages rant against the Jews in the Jews on his
Lies set the the ground work wish in the Protestant and specially Germany,
with secularization of Antisemitism, because that and many other factors the
Jews become permanent outsiders is described by Arendt in the Origin of Totalitarianism described the secularization.
The slave trade in the west of Africa, small scale, was accepted by Islam, specially regarding pagans, the trade was encouraged, when Portuguese encounter in west Africa the slave traded, established is trade my Arabs, the mass scale was accepted, not only by Portugal, Spain eventually British, while Spanish slave trade, basically was based to the last slaved standing as described by Gates Black in Latin American, 2011 New York University Press, while the British North America Colonies the trade pick at 500,000 Slaves, the Portuguese and Spanish colonies brought 11 Million Slaves, which majority did not survived the institution.
The trade was limited only to Christians, Hugh Thomas in The Slave Trade, The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440-1870, 1997 Simon & Schuster, made clear from the Transport, the capture, where done in Kingdom of Bennie or other in West Africa, but the purchase, transport and sell only Christians allot, not Jews (or Practice the Jewish fate) were a lot to participated in the trade, when new Christians began to be involved the inquisition got involved and stop in the tracks 1667 Grillo Curacao, where while Jews were allot practice their fate openly, the inquisition made sure the other end of the trade--1670, will not beneficent the Jews or the New Christians--One of big traders ended with Auto fe in 1633 in Seville (Antonio Lamegos) for being decedent of New Christians.
Tuesday, August 01, 2017
God, Evolution and the Polis
One big
misconception and used today, by many when they are speaking about evolution,
if was a theory, which need some verification. To convey ideas is very
important to make simple, clear, transparent and précises. When we are speaking of the scientific method,
it’s not just about the falsification, but control, we have a reference, while
Darwin in the Origin of Species spoke the mechanism was natural selection, and
while itself become complicated idea, natural selection is not just a
biological process, but the environment, internal and social behaviors (Kropotkin’s
Mutual Aid, and recent time De Waal) . The fundamental verification: DNA, in
Humans around 30,000 and Mosquito 50,000, one of the factor of Human mortality
being complicated, the cells continuous mutation (due to external or continues
error) make difficult to handle, while stripes are made from individual immunology
(the cells hide from our natural self-defense mechanism), to DNA repair or
modification, one underline factor the capacity of this cells for Mutation, one
of the fundamental factors driven Natural Selection. We can say with full
certain the Evolution is a fact, as life is bound by the physical experience,
like gravity being one of the fundamental forces, evolution is one of the fundamental
fact science can explain a phenomenon, while science is not just the only
source of knowledge (epistemology), and science may explain everything or not, science
advantage verification and reproducible.
While as danger
to make this fact as an ideology, example and consequences, the Indus valley
civilization, with all their gods, there was not hierarchy and the collapse,
like Egypt, Mesopotamia, a drought, the Maya Civilization abandon their cities
because could not be sustain—they destroy the environment, where in case Indus
Valley climate change, not just them, but extend to Egypt, like of water brought
the civilization down.
In the Athenian constitution,
the reason of the creation of the constitution by Solon and extended Peraclies,
was to deal with poverty, the fact the wealthy bound the poor by big percent
above the original amount interest (a fundamental flaw of the Polis was the citizenship
was male—women excluded and slaves where the drive the economics of the cities),
they created a city bureaucracy, and by paying from Jurors to positions given
poor access to power.
To be consider
as a Polis need to have the angora (public space—the center of the live, where
general assembly, the market was the political center, despise of the demagogues
use the same space to create an opinion), intuitions the Athenians ships stock
with the poor, but pay, the temples, library where become this institutions,
the houses where equal distribution given sense of equality, and in this
assemblies they send themselves to wars, democracy need assemblies, public
spaces and public building, and participation—not political parties, while
factions where created, the randomness and limiting the occupants of office by
time, never to be in the position, again, more important, the salary given the
poor access to participated.
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