World Of Ideas Research Articles

Plato’s Philosophy and Cloud Computing System with a Cognitive Approach

This study presents Plato’s metaphysical world under the interpretation of today’s cloud computing technology. In this sense, the world of ideas in Plato’s philosophy is defined as a cloud system and some cognitive descriptions are made in this direction. Hence, in this study, ancient philosophy is described as a base of today’s technology. With this study, The Platon's philosophy is also interpreted as a technological reflection of the philosophy and human thinking system.

On Manifold Learning in Plato's Cave: Remarks on Manifold Learning and Physical Phenomena.

Many techniques in machine learning attempt explicitly or implicitly to infer a low-dimensional manifold structure of an underlying physical phenomenon from measurements without an explicit model of the phenomenon or the measurement apparatus. This paper presents a cautionary tale regarding the discrepancy between the geometry of measurements and the geometry of the underlying phenomenon in a benign setting. The deformation in the metric illustrated in this paper is mathematically straightforward and unavoidable in the general case, and it is only one of several similar effects. While this is not always problematic, we provide an example of an arguably standard and harmless data processing procedure where this effect leads to an incorrect answer to a seemingly simple question. Although we focus on manifold learning, these issues apply broadly to dimensionality reduction and unsupervised learning.

KARL POPPER’S CONCEPT OF ‘WORLD 3’

Karl R. Popper (1902-1994) was a great philosopher of 20th century best known for his Political Philosophy and his contribution in Philosophical Epistemology. His concept of ‘World 3’is basically an extension of his Epistemological views. According to Popper there is not one single world in front of us but three. ‘World 1’ is the world of material objects. ‘World 2’ is the world of human perception, conception, a disposition to act or react etc. ‘World 3’ is the world of all possible human creation. Popper considers Plato as the first discoverer of ‘World 3.’ Popper considers World of Ideas or Forms as the first attempt in the history of Western Philosophy to locate the Ontology of Knowledge. In the World of Forms of Plato every Idea is perfect, every idea is a Substance and objectively existent. But according to Popper the ‘World 3’ is Manmade and not divine. He is also of the view that with the interaction of ‘World 1’ and ‘World 2’, ‘World 3’ comes in to being but after its coming to existence, it liberates itself from the previous worlds. It becomes objective, self-existent but Popper claims that it is not divine as Plato and Hegel think of it. This article is an attempt to critically discuss that is it possible for any world to be Manmade in nature and yet totally independent of any human mind at the same time? Keywords: World 3, World of Forms, Objective Spirit, Epistemology, Ontology.

Video between Architecture and Telepathy

On 6 January 1973, Chilean media artist Juan Downey exhibited Plato Now at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York. A hybrid multichannel video installation and performance, this was Downey’s restaging of Plato’s Parable of the Cave—the “Now” registering what the myth might look like from the vantage of his own historical moment. And whereas Plato’s original operated through an inflexible division between the space of the mind and a derivative sensual reality, Plato Now explicitly sought to blur those philosophical lines by assembling a relay of invisible energies, brain waves, video signals, and telepathic communications, such that the space of mind and sensual reality became speculatively entangled. This article clarifies just how Plato Now did this, and situates its philosophical vision as a significant, if relatively unremarked, aesthetic prefiguration of the new materialist tendencies towards relationality, hybrid assemblages, and vibrant conceptions of energy and matter.

BEYOND PHYSICAL BOUNDARIES: THE IMPACT OF DIGITAL RENDERING ON SPATIAL IDENTITY

This research investigates the concept of spatial identity by examining its definitions and Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, as well as Michel Foucault’s concept of heterotopia, to explore the relationship between the physical and digital worlds. To analyze the concept of spatial digital identity, we conducted a literature review of academic articles and case studies that focus on the intersection of digital technology and spatial identity. Using a thematic approach, we identified key themes regarding the influence of digital technology on physical spaces and its impact on spatial identity. Through a case study of Times Square, we examined the role of the digital world in shaping spatial identity, paying particular attention to the impact of urban screens, social media, online interactions, and digital applications. The study highlights the importance of considering the digital world in the planning, design, and use of public spaces, as it plays a critical role in shaping their spatial identity. Finally, the research highlights the importance of being aware of the impact of the digital world on spatial identity in order to develop a comprehensive and integrated approach to the design of public spaces in the contemporary world.

Book review: The philosophy of person‐centred healthcare, By DerekMitchell, MichaelLoughlin, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2023. 201 pp. £64.99. ISBN (10): 1‐5275‐9058‐5, ISBN (13): 978‐1‐5275‐9058‐8

Book review: The philosophy of person‐centred healthcare, By DerekMitchell, MichaelLoughlin, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2023. 201 pp. £64.99. ISBN (10): 1‐5275‐9058‐5, ISBN (13): 978‐1‐5275‐9058‐8

Lessons on knowledge transmission from Plato’s allegory of the cave: the influence of reason and companionship on transmissive and participatory pedagogies

ABSTRACT In this paper, I show the ambiguities in the interpretations of Martin Heidegger and Alain Badiou of Plato’s allegory of the cave as an enlightening educational experience. In Heidegger’s interpretation, knowledge appears as a rational process that corrects the thinking of others. By his claim of an education by truths, Badiou prioritises, again, the Platonic event of knowledge. To indicate the limit of the rational process in these two interpretations of education, I introduce Jan Masschelein’s claim that knowledge transmission in Plato’s cave story can be seen as a process where the immanent experience of companionship comes before the instruction of knowledge. The arguments in this article will be discussed in a broader context that explains how transmissive and participatory pedagogies have been influenced by the view of education as a process of rationality and companionship, and how the various approaches have either constrained or broadened the learner’s perspective.

Coleridge and the Idea of History

Coleridge spoke in September 1831 of his wish ‘to make History scientific, and Science historical – to take from History its accidentality – and from Science its fatalism’. This self-description raises the question of Coleridge's status as a ‘scientific historian’. Is Coleridge a prototype for R.G. Collingwood's definition of this mode of scientific study, of solving problems, not surveying periods, putting questions to ‘the world of ideas’ which historical evidence ‘creates in the present’? Is Coleridge, alternatively, the pattern of Collingwood's deluded ‘pigeon-holer’, arranging the past ‘in a single scheme’ and bragging about ‘raising history to the rank of a science’? Re-reading Coleridge with Collingwood and twenty-first century accounts of methodological idealism and of ‘presence’, I trace a distinct historical interest back through Church and State (1829), The Friend (1818) and Biographia Literaria (1817) to the ‘Comparison’ essays of 1802.

Plato’s Republic 515a5: Prisoners ‘Like Us’

Abstract This paper questions the traditional interpretation of Plato’s Republic 515a5. When Socrates claims that the prisoners in the simile of the Cave are ‘like us’, he does not imply any sort of similarity or analogy between their cognitive state and ours. Rather, I argue he says that we should imagine a cave inhabited by ordinary human beings, instead of some fictitious creatures. Among other things, Plato’s intent is to highlight the weakness of our human nature in both parts of the simile. Consequently, concerning someone’s chance to become true philosopher, Plato’s view is quite pessimistic.

플라톤의 『국가』에 나타난 ‘동굴의 비유’와 그 교육적 함의

The aim of this study is to analyze and translate ‘Allegory of Cave’ in Plato’s Republic, vol. 7 from an educational perspective, focusing on the unique meaning and importance of allegory. For achieving this aim, researcher firstly tried to reconstruct forms of this allegory, introduced by Plato in a conversational type step by step, and tried to identify many educational implications involved in this allegory in three main aspects. Conclusions are as follows;
 Firstly, researcher found that concept of ‘conversional education’ handled as important assignment of educational work in allegory. In view of this suggestion, educators would be rethinking critically and be prepared to change their traditional concept of education.
 Secondly, researcher found that removing prejudices or preconceptions is an important assignment for educational activities in this allegory. In view of this discovery, educators would make efforts to remove prejudices or preconceptions before teaching specific knowledge or information.
 Lastly, researcher discovered that one of the important attitudes of educators is to have the humanity toward ignorant and stupid people in the allegory. In this view, educators would provide their own true knowledge or information to the ignorant. In addition to this implications, researcher tried to suggest the possibilities of re-translating the ‘Allegory of Cave’ for having meaningful connotations and implications.

The parable: Analogy of illusion and reality in “The Iceman Cometh”

The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O’Neill has a linear structure of a journey from illusion to reality and back again to illusion. Carefully considered, The Iceman Cometh is a parable analogous to the famous parable of “The Simile of the Cave” in Plato’s Republic. The parable, which is about the nature of reality and man’s relationship to it, describes the human condition as identical to with that of a group of prisoners chained to wall in a cave. Outside of the cave, in the clear light of the sun, lies reality. Plato then describes how painful it would be for the prisoners to face reality, if they were set free.

Canvassing the Concept 2023. Architects in dialogue

Canvassing the Concept event took place in May 2023 in the form of a dialogue with presentations held by young London architecture graduates - in online format. The organization, script and moderation of the 4 sessions were managed by Matei Mitrache, architect and university assistant at Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL and University Westminster, London. The idea of these meetings - presentations was provided by the Educational Forum of Architecture and Urbanism - FEdAU - held within the "Ion Mincu" University of Architecture and Urbanism, a project promoting the connection of UAUIM with the international and national educational environment. Such manifestations seem to fit naturally into a mode of operation and education, in a world of excellence in communication. Starting from 2021, the organization of these events has periodically brought to attention of Mincu students the innovative experiences of fellow architects from the European space and beyond, as well as the experiments, concerns, successful studies surprised in original projects - a world of ideas, searches and research finally materialized in the concept. This year "Canvassing the Concept" hosted eight young architects, designers and researchers from London sharing different approaches to the creative process and how they managed possible solutions to various challenges in recent experiments.

The Allegory of the Rock Engineering Cave

Geoscientists and engineers are part of a system that produces changes to the world we live in. As machines are expected to gradually replace humans in various technical tasks (e.g., data collection and data characterisation), it becomes crucial to apply critical thinking and to question the foundations of commonly accepted practices. The challenge is to accept that empirical methods are shaped by cognitive biases, which result from our mind interpreting data by a process of data simplification. Indeed, it is possible to draw an analogy between rock engineering methods and Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. The fire casting the shadows along the cave walls represents the process of quantification of qualitative assessments of commonly accepted data collection methods. The chains holding the engineers as prisoners in the cave are empirical methods accepted as industry standards despite important limitations. Engineering judgment alone will not allow engineers to break free of those chains, and to emerge from the confined spaces of the cave and see things for what they really are (i.e., introduce truly objective data collections methods that better reflect failure mechanisms). In this paper the authors use philosophical arguments to justify the need to “dequantify” the GSI classification system and to teach us that engineering design should always be driven by the important questions of how, why, and whether.

Буддизм и платонизм в интертекстуальном поле романа В. Пелевина «Любовь к трем цукербринам»

The paper is devoted to understanding the role of the ideas of Buddhism and Platonism in the intertextual space of V. Pelevin’s novel, given that throughout his entire writing career, the prose writer plays with elements of various cultural systems, including philosophical systems. The aim of the paper is to determine the features of the religious and philosophical context of V. Pelevin’s creative work in the 2010s using the novel “Love for Three Zuckerbrins”. The study focuses on the intertextual connections of Pelevin’s prose with the philosophy of Plato (in particular, his doctrine of ideas) and the religious concepts of Buddhism (in an eclectic combination of its various schools and teachings). The paper is original in that it is the first to identify the synthesis of the philosophical thought of the West and the East in V. Pelevin’s novel “Love for Three Zuckerbrins”. As a result of the study, it has been found that, firstly, the appearance of ideas and images of Plato’s philosophy in the novel “Love for Three Zuckerbrins” reflects a change in the vector and the complication of the author’s worldview system; secondly, Plato’s allegory of the cave, idea of the Cosmos are synthesised with the Buddhist motifs of sleep and emptiness and are aimed at creating the Multiverse.

Interrogating the Myths of Education: Dorothy Bryant'sElla Price's JournalandMiss Giardino

Interrogating the Myths of Education: Dorothy Bryant's<i>Ella Price's Journal</i>and<i>Miss Giardino</i>

The flagship of economic, mathematical and computer modeling: 60 years in line

Main directions and evolution routes of the Central Economics and Mathematics Institute (CEMI) as a leader of domestic economic science in the development and application of economic-mathematical and information-computer models of socio-economic processes and systems were analyzed in the paper. The connection of modeling with such components of the economy as economic theory, economic policy, economic management and economic practice were clarified. It was shown that the economic and mathematical model plays an indispensable role in the integration and systematization of knowledge in the field of economic theory and economic practice. A generalized scheme and the sequence of modeling stages based on the concept of a model as a homomorphic image of a real object in the field of ontology (“the world of things”), ideology (“the world of ideas”), epistemology (“the world of knowledge”) and praxeology (“the world of creation”), were proposed. The evolution of the main components of modeling which had significantly changed over the past 60 years the ideas about the object, subject, goals, apparatus and empirical basis of modeling, were traced. The experience accumulated at CEMI RAS in this area allows us to propose the concept of evidence-based modeling, similar to the ideology of evidence-based medicine, evidence-based policy, evidence-based forecasting, aimed at qualitatively improving the validity and reliability of modeling results for applying in economic theory and practice. The main principles of evidence-based modeling that have to play the role of standards for evidence-based modeling were formulated. The modeling process was considered as an analogue of an innovative project, where every independent stage (likewise the entire project) should be carried out according to these standards. A list of the most important, in our opinion, pioneer works of CEMI RAS in the field of economic-mathematical and computer modeling, which determine significant directions for the further development of this field of science, were given.

Понятие разума в философии Бенедикта Спино­зы

Spinoza teaches that the nature of things expresses itself in two ways: in motion and in the world of bodies, on the one hand, and in the intellect with its world of ideas, on the other. Physical bodies are in perpetual motion – arising, changing, disappearing; since the human body also participates in these processes, they are perceived by senses. Spinoza calls the knowledge of sensual properties and duration of the existence of bodies “imagination”. The human mind processes images of bodies with the help of a special kind of abstractions, the “beings of reason”, and then it forms, on the basis of “general concepts”, adequate ideas about the “inner essences” of things, their “order and connec­tion”, i.e. about the causes for the existence of things and their causal relations. Scientific definitions, formulae and models represent these causes and relations in a perfectly pure form – “under a species of eternity”. The article shows how Spinoza delineates the limits of human cognition: they are set by the nature of mind as the idea of the body (man con­sists of two modes of substance – the living body and its idea/mind in the infinite intel­lect). The wider the scope of the body’s activity, the more our mind knows about the world and about itself. The last section of the article describes the relationship of rea­son to virtue, logic to ethics, and characterises the way of life “according to the guidance of reason”. Social life appears to Spinoza as a battle of “passions”, the passive affects of solidarity and enmity. Society cannot live according to the guidance of reason, but our minds can find a form of government that minimises the damage caused by the “blind af­fects” of the rulers and the crowd: Spinoza considered democracy to be the “completely absolute state”.

Politika i bezbednost metafizika virtuelnog - od Platonove pećine do moderne VR - ispitivanje suštine stvarnost

Virtual Reality (VR) technology and its metaphysical implications pose critical questions concerning the nature of reality, a conundrum that has enthralled thinkers since Plato's epoch. Plato's allegory of the cave emphasized the world of forms over the shadowy illusions, emphasizing a layered reality. Contemporary VR challenges this stratification, bringing forth constructed realities that overlap, enhance, or even replace tangible experiences. Drawing upon a plethora of scholarly articles, this essay examines VR's metaphysical dimensions, juxtaposing ancient philosophical delineations of reality against the transformative implications of VR technologies.

Plato’s Allegory of the Cave and the Early Christian Concept of ‘True Light’ in the Metaphrasis Psalmorum (138.9-23) of Apollinaris of Laodicea

This paper explores the connection and renegotiation of Plato's allegorical simile of the cave and the spiritual exodus from darkness towards 'true light' in Apollinaris' Metaphrasis Psalmorum 138.9-23. First, to inform non-specialists, I outline scholarly views and debates on Plato’s allegory of the Cave and the concept of True light. Second, I compare the fourth-century metaphrase to the Septuagint text and interpret stylistic embellishments in the former as influences of a long tradition of conceptualising light allegorically, together with explorations over the knowability of the divine. Apollinaris' use of the light imagery is, paradoxically, connected with the concept of God as the one who makes darkness bright. Finally, I present Origen and Gregory of Nyssa as pivotal sources to our understanding of the mystical colouring of darkness in the Metaphrasis and the enigmatic verse 12 of the Septuagint's Psalm 138.

Plato's allegory of the cave and the paradigm of complete revascularization in STEMI

Plato's allegory of the cave and the paradigm of complete revascularization in STEMI