I would like to share my thoughts on fundamental philosophical tasks such as the Law of Identity the origin of Logic and Math, the nature of information, and self-awareness. I hope that these explanations will also contribute to the fields of Artificial General Intelligence and Robotics.
I will try to write on these topics:
· reinterpretation of the law of identity
· being and existence, representation, and the one (representing being)
· identity and change: remaining identified with oneself
· representation of representation
· Intangible- abstract information
· standardization of information
· parallel structures and points representing more than one value
· natural math vs identical math
· from nonmetric one to nonmetric mathematics
· on the possibility of self-aware systems
The list could go on and on, I’m not sure for now.
Chapter 1 The Law of Identity, Reinterpretation of Identity
Imagine yourself in the eternal now position described by St. Augustine. From this position, you should see a map of the world(existence) extending from the past to the future. If I were to ask you what you saw, the answer you could give me would be limited to what you chose, what you imagined, what you thought. From St. Augustine’s point of view, this must be the case because we are temporal creatures within temporal existence (so let’s not occupy the seat of God). On the other hand, if we look at it from Berkeley’s point of view, he will say that only what we perceive and what God perceives can exist. So what is the point?
Have you ever thought that we, as knowledge-based existence, can produce any amount of energy that didn’t exist before? I mean from noting. As we know we can’t. While we cannot produce new energy, we use existing energy. So there are two situations here. There is an external physical world and there is an interpretation of the physical world, we make this distinction because the representation or interpretation of the physical world and the physical world itself are different. So when we represent the Moon as the Moon we cannot create the Moon itself as physically existing in any way but we create a representation of the Moon by using a quantity of energy that already exists. So, when we use an amount of energy, we are in a process.
What I mean is that although external entities exist independently of us, since the information about these entities passes through a cortex, the identity construct of all kinds of external or internal entities is a process of the cortex. This approach allows us to reinterpret identity as a process. The previous interpretation of the principle of identity curtailed our wisdom and made us passive. While the form “a=a” produced nothing but a tautology, it also ignored the agent role of the subject, as if this “a” as a representation was not created by us. Greek philosophy did not see this law of identity as shallow as we see it now, they sensed it more deeply in the relationship between being and oneness, being and thought.
German philosophy could not achieve this level of understanding of Greek philosophy on identity and did nothing but reduce the quality even further. Except for Heidegger. While he was touching on “is” in “being and time” and explaining his ideas in “identity and difference”, that great thinker was very close to the truth.
I will try to shape my further thoughts based on this interpretation of identity.
