Philosophy today
Introduction
How do the digital revolution, the Internet and social networks transformed society and relationships?. Byung-Chul have author of the book "In the swarm", analyze how the digital revolution, the Internet and social networks has transformed the very essence of society. In particular, a new mass was formed: ‘The digital swarm’. Unlike the classical mass, the digital swarm is formed by isolated and soulless individuals, capable of a joint action, walking in one direction or manifesting the voice itself.
Developing
Superdigital communication destroys the silence that the soul needs to reflect and be itself. We only perceive noise, meaningless, without coherence. All this avoids the formation of a counterpower that can question the established order, which acquires totalitarian characteristics. Companies like Facebook and Google work as secret services that monitor our interests to extract the benefits of our behavior on the Internet and social networks.
As mentioned above, in relation to the soul it is the true self of the human being. It is spiritual and immortal, because when the body is destroyed in death, the soul abandons its miserable remains and migrates towards a beyond where it will receive awards or punishments according to their behavior in the previous life.
These awards or punishments can be resolved in new reincarnations in this land terrain, in other bodies, even other animal species. Plato resorts to a myth to tell that soul trip after death. The soul is of a divine nature, because it comes from the gods. It is a kind of guest, a resident in the body of different nature to that of this. In this position the second orphic proposition is based
Entering the most important themes of this essay is about man who is an intelligent being and through intelligence is that he seeks his progress, as well as reaching the truth of things. All our concepts originate from the sensory experience. At birth, the mind is totally empty and lacks any knowledge. Without sensory experience we would be unable to form any idea. When based only on the functioning of the mind in the state of Vigil, Aristotle abandons the Platonic explanation of knowledge. Denies that intelligence alone is able to know.
Knowledge is different in different states of consciousness. The Platonic explanation is based on the experience of a state of consciousness or pure intelligence, the state of wisdom. In this state intelligence transcends sensory experience and the process of thinking. When carrying out your unit with universal intelligence, it experiences within itself "the plane of the cosmos", the structures of pure knowledge, the forms. In this state of consciousness, intelligence is completely self-referent, it knows itself, through itself and without leaving itself.
Thus, pure intelligence is the source of true knowledge. Since knowledge is structured in the nature of pure intelligence is innate, universal, immutable and eternal. Knowing is not acquiring something new, it’s just remembering. Relations of issues according to class intelligence is the ability to relate knowledge that we have to solve a specific situation, intelligence can never be isolated from feelings, because feeling is a human quality that allows us to spontaneously transcend our animality.
The sensory experience originates when the senses, which are merely powers to have perceptions, are affected by the presence of an external object. This object belongs to the real world and is independent of the mind. In Aristotelian words it must exist in act. But the sensation requires not only an external object and a sensory organ, but also a physical means that one to the subject and the object. Without this medium there is no sensation.
It is the alteration or movement in the physical environment, produced by the object, which affects the subject. Each sense responds to a different object and requires a specific means. When the sensory organ is affected, it resembles the object and participates in its quality. This impression produced in a sense by the action of the object and the environment is the corresponding sensation. But something very important to mention is that we must not confuse intelligence that understands things, or science, or with opinion;because otherwise men without any exception would be all intelligent.
Nor can it be confused with one of the particular sciences, for example, with medicine, because it would then deal with the things that refer to health;Not even with geometry, because then I would study the properties of magnitudes. Intelligence, in the limited sense in which we understand it here does not apply to eternal and immutable things, or to any of the things that must be born and perish
The problem of intelligence is that the only way it has to face reality is through the senses and these can be deceived. A clear example of this, as the author mentioned, are social networks and the Internet, of which we have made slaves and dependents.
conclusion
The senses are presented as the main source of our knowledge;Now, many times it has been found that the senses deceived us, such as when I introduced a stick in the water and seems broken, or when a tower seems round to me in the remoteness and when I approach I observe that it was square, and similar situations.
It is not prudent to trust who has deceived us on occasion, so it will be necessary. It can be considered, then, that there is no certainty in that knowledge, and consider false all those that derive from the senses.
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