Re: Knowledge and Ignorance over Time

"David Cressey" <dcressey_at_verizon.net> wrote in message news:HXPnf.2507$pF.1490_at_trndny08...
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> "mountain man" <hobbit_at_southern_seaweed.com.op> wrote in message
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>> Humans have three inner capacities: instinct, intellect and intuition
>> whereas
>> the environment of database theory really is only modelling the
>> intellect,
>> which
>> is essentially machine-like in its operation.
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> Could that be because we are running our databases on machines?

The intellect uses the "machinery" of logic and set theory, and is thus (in theory) machine-like in the evaluation of what the intellect perceives as "logical truth".

I recently read a book in which the author makes the following assertion:

"The individual human mind is like
a remote connection to a database.
The database is human consciousness itself, of which our own cognizance is merely an individual expression, but with its roots in the common consciousness of all mankind"

• Power vs. Force, The Hidden Determinants of Human Behaviour, Dr. David Hawkins, 1995. [p.34] http://www.mountainman.com.au/map_of_consciousness.htm

I found this an interesting claim from a database perspective, and wonder to what degree such a database may be seen as "relational" or otherwise.

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Pete Brown
IT Managers & Engineers
Falls Creek
Australia
www.mountainman.com.au/software