Discussion of my works . . . Part 1
Meta Rationale: The rationale for this post is to provide an overview of: The rationale of some of my works in progress. It does not go into detail on each topic and subtopic and in fact it does not mention all of the topics in my complete works.
Diversion: I also divert a little to reflect on things that I have not built a rationale of. These works I am talking about are not built in an exact order - the ordering takes place on the fly.
This post then is a rationale and reflection of sections and subsections of my works that contains a few definitions of terms used in the philosophy. I do not talk about everything in one post but rather split it up into multiple posts that I term a post. So this is Part 1 of a multiple part post.
Right now I am working on the topics: Instinct, Mood and Emotion. I am also furthering the concept of Rational Confinement(aka Bounded Rationality) which I believe is affected by Instinct, Mood and Emotion.
Reality and Mind are also to be built into this Philosophy.
I intend on bringing together my works into a cohesive whole as time goes on. Following is a list of items that are a part of my works:
The first version of these works is termed Reality Version 0.0 which is the foundation of:
The Primordial Template Of Consciousness
The Primordial Template Of Consciousness forms the basis for the following topics:
Rational Confinement
Paradox Of The Sensed
This list is not exhaustive by any means as you are about to find out.
By versioning reality I come up with the two concepts of: Reality In The Future and The Reality Of Mind In The Future. These two concepts in particular deal with the idea of making sure to update each Reality Version and The Reality Of Mind In The Future Version, for example: Reality Version 0.0 - Reality Version 0.1 - Reality Version 0.2 and so on and so forth. I do this because something that is constant in life is change. As uncomfortable as change can be to some of us it presents itself as inevitable.
I start out the post with three main themes as follows:
- Rational Confinement
- Emotional Confinement
- Social Confinement
I then move on to include five more considerations:
- Instinctual Processes
- Learning Processes
- Natural Morality
- Learned Morality
- Mood Resolution
The idea here is that these eight items on the above list interact to produce curious outcomes that are different in each person and how they could affect society as a whole. I also explore how paradoxes in the eight items could occur. I could have taken a couple of items off the list and I could have added countless others but these are the items I am mainly interested in at this point in time - these items stimulate thought that could be applied to many combinations of missing items.
Rational Confinement is what I once referred to as Bounded Rationality and is inspired and partially based on work performed by Herbert A. Simon.
Bounded rationality:
1. Rational Confinement
Rational confinement is defined as follows:
Limitations imposed on a person’s logic in any given period of time.
One of the subsections of Rational Confinement is as follows:
Logical deduction, when answering a question, is limited by:
[list]1. cognitive limitations
2. time available to answer the question
3. openness to influence from the social norm
4. availability of accurate information[/list:u]
There are other subsections that deal with rational confinement including but not limited to interactions that affect Rational Confinement. Rational Confinement can be used as a measure of any of the items contained in the lists of the subsections of Rational Confinement.
2. Emotional Confinement
Emotional confinement is defined as follows:
Limitations imposed on a person’s emotions in any period of given time.
Like Rational Confinement, Emotional Confinement inherits the concept: openness to influence from the social norm.
It is still yet to be determined what all of the limiting factors are on emotion.
3. Social Confinement
Social Confinement is defined as follows:
Limitations imposed on a society in any given period of time.
- Contains the social norm.
- Contains agreements arrived at by people of the society.
An example subsection could go something like this:
When living in a society you are limited by
[list]1. the social norm.
2. agreements arrived at by people of the society.
[/list:u]
These three confinements need not be negative or positive as far as their value to people or society is concerned. It is also early days regarding Emotional Confinement and Social Confinement so the concepts have not yet been fully built. Rational Confinement on the other hand is well developed - not complete - but well developed.
Confinements can be used as a measure in each of their respective topics. Being able to measure the level of confinement could be important when considering the type of philosophy the person or society follows along with its economics and politics but the economics and politics have not been fully considered as of the time of this writing. By measuring the levels of confinement you are able to determine how effective the elements that make up the individual and the society are.
Confinement Levels are also useful when developing a new society and possibly useful for its ongoing progress as a society. I still include the concept of decision making - I use the past - I add the future - past and future to form the present based on the best decisions possible within the confinements of the current reality.
That concludes Part 1 of the post.
Any thoughts, suggestions et cetera are always appreciated.
ASIDE: Where does curiosity fit in to all this? An individual and her/his society should always maintain a curiosity in how to improve her/his own situation and her/his society. I am curious as to how equal rights fits into everyone’s different idealized society given how men and women are biologically different. I am curious on the subjects of racism, prejudice et cetera and their emotional impact on different people and society in general.
Humankind really needs to start connecting the dots a little better. I see no reasonable excuse for a lack of this. I see plenty of excuses.