http://socialmediaphilosophy.com/philosophy/patterns-of-recognition-3/ …he still dreamed of cyberspace…bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colorless void… Thu, 12 Aug 2010 19:04:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://socialmediaphilosophy.com/philosophy/patterns-of-recognition-3/comment-page-1/#comment-571 Evan Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:08:03 +0000 http://socialmediaphilosophy.com/?p=298#comment-571 I think it is still unclear if knowledge truly is possible. As we are learning at the quantum level, things we would have considered concrete, like location in space, are not real. Maybe media -which seems to be a driving purpose of humans on earth (I know that's a big statement, which probably deserves an explanation) is only mirroring that reality I think it is still unclear if knowledge truly is possible. As we are learning at the quantum level, things we would have considered concrete, like location in space, are not real. Maybe media -which seems to be a driving purpose of humans on earth (I know that’s a big statement, which probably deserves an explanation) is only mirroring that reality

]]> http://socialmediaphilosophy.com/philosophy/patterns-of-recognition-3/comment-page-1/#comment-569 thePuck Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:18:57 +0000 http://socialmediaphilosophy.com/?p=298#comment-569 Interesting post, sir. I very much agree that the mediums by which the narrative of reality and culture are communicated are affecting that narrative. I think it's hard to make value-judgments about it, though, because we have to use the narrative to do so...it's like trying to judge the accuracy of a lens using itself as a basis for comparison. This is an epistemological problem that, I think, is existential to humans; we have to use knowledge to judge knowledge, and it's just elephants all the way down. If we define knowledge as "justified, true belief" then knowledge is impossible because it can never be justified. Interesting post, sir. I very much agree that the mediums by which the narrative of reality and culture are communicated are affecting that narrative. I think it’s hard to make value-judgments about it, though, because we have to use the narrative to do so…it’s like trying to judge the accuracy of a lens using itself as a basis for comparison. This is an epistemological problem that, I think, is existential to humans; we have to use knowledge to judge knowledge, and it’s just elephants all the way down. If we define knowledge as “justified, true belief” then knowledge is impossible because it can never be justified.

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