Holotopia: Socialized reality

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Socialized reality

The Enlightenment was before all a change of epistemology. An ancient praxis was revived, which developed knowledge of knowledge. On that as foundation, a completely new worldview emerged—which led to "a great cultural revival", and to comprehensive change. On what grounds could a similar chain of events begin today?

From the traditional culture we have adopted a myth incomparably more subversive than the myth of creation. This myth now serves as the foundation stone, on which the edifice of our culture has been constructed.

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"Reality" is a myth

Language, truth and reality

We have made a grave but fully understandable and forgivable error. This error now needs to be corrected.

When I write "worldviews", my word processor underlines the word in red. Since there is only one world, there can be only one worldview—the one that corresponds to that world. The word "worldview" doesn't have a plural

Behind this is the belief, a pervasive meme in our 'cultural DNA', that a "normal" person sees the "reality" as it truly is. That "truth" means "correspondence with reality". That "good", "true" or "scientific" information is the information that shows us a piece of that reality, so that we may ultimately know "reality" completely.

We are about to see that this myth is what holds us back from engaging in "a great cultural revival", which is overdue. And that relevant academic insights, which form an up-to-date knowledge of knowledge, demand that we abandon this myth.

"Correspondence with reality" cannot be verified

<p>In this very concise prototype sketch of the holotopia and the holoscope, Einstein plays the role of an icon of modern science. Our goal being to create, propose and put to use a federation procedure that can take us all the way to "a great cultural revival", we say "let's assume that Einstein did the necessary federation" (which we as culture eventually need to be able to do) and we let him be the spokesman for "modern science". <p>

In "Evolution of Physics", Einstein and Infeld explained why "correspondence to reality" cannot be rationally verified, by using the parable of a closed watch. Einstein, furthermore, held the position that the belief that the results of our speculation or reflection correspond to reality is a common product of illusion. Both arguments are summarized and commented [here].

Since our goal is not to give a new "objectively true reality picture", but only to submit a legitimate way of looking at our theme, nothing more needs to be said.

</h3>Why found a culture on a myth?</h3>

We define myth as a widely accepted but unverified belief, which serves certain social and psychological functions.

Our task being to find a solid foundation stone for developing a culture, or in other words a criterion for distinguishing "truth" (that is, "good" information or knowledge) from illusion, deception and conceptional mayhem, we must ask—Why use a criterion ("correspondence with reality") that cannot be verified? And which is itself a product of illusion? </div> </div>

"Reality" is an instrument of socialization

Evidence from natural sciences<h3>

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<h3>Evidence from sociology

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Socialization theory

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<h3>Odin the horse

Language and Symbolic Power

Descartes' Error

To be continued