EVERYTHING Is Open To Question

	CA Ideology

illustration by: Lynette Cook - Original source

EVERYTHING is open to question, some things are more "reliable" than others and they are labelled accordingly. Evaluation and "linking up" of data is constantly going on in our mind. When we learn something new, sometimes we are days re-arranging knowledge both consciously and in dreamland.

In the end, it is this mechanism by which we form our convictions which will, when well understood, set us free to question "authority" and reach our own conclusions.

While thanking Sepp Hasslberger for this valuable and insightful contribution I like to take on the topic a bit further and assess the importance heretofore to design a new paradigm for human understanding which integrates in itself the acknowledgement and opportunity for increased and repeated amplification of our learning.

If it is through a mechanism of sincere questioning and investigation that new solutions and viewpoints can be formulated, our own paradigms supporting science and education must deeply embed this profound truth in the development and design of their curriculums and trades.

Our understanding of reality is gained through different stages of comprehension. At each one, our perception and computational apparati are able to take in and comprehend more of the reality surrounding us and to provide working explanations and principles that "check out" for most of us. Our interpretation of reality is an ongoing pursuit leading to an ever more refined understanding of the rules and immutable laws at work in this and other universes.

Overspecialization through Education seems to be one of the fundamental dumbing patterns enacted on humanity naive and short-sighted understanding of global evolution to limit its capacity to "see", "hear" and "understand" in much greater and more capable levels of intelligence the reality sHe lives in.

Through dedicated overspecialization main autoenslaves himself by self-negating the ability to maintain a broad and interconnected perspective on the nature of life and of living systems in the universe.

"'Jobs' represent a relatively recent pattern of work. From the fifteenth century to the twentieth century, there is a steady progress of fragmentation of the stages of work that constitute "mechanization" and "specialism".

These procedures cannot serve for survival or sanity in this new time."

(Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, The Medium is the Massage, 1967 Bantam Books).

"Education must shift from instruction, from imposing of stencils, to discovery - to probing and exploration ad to the recognition of the language of forms."
(ibid.)

"We now experience simultaneously the drop-out and the teach-in. The two forms are correlative. They belong together. The teach-in represents an attempt to shift education from instruction to discovery, from brainwashing students to brainwashing instructors. It is a big dramatic reversal."
(ibid.)

The mind is like a network of information. Pieces of data depend on other pieces for confirmation, for deciding about relative importance, or for being suspicious about. No single datum is ever completely discarded, nor is any single datum ever labelled as absolute truth. EVERYTHING is interrelated and always open to question; some things are more "reliable" than others and they are labelled accordingly. Evaluation and "linking up" of data is constantly going on in our mind just like the Google Dance. When we learn something new, sometimes we are days re-arranging knowledge both consciously and in dreamland.

In the end, it is this mechanism by which we form our convictions which will, when well understood, set us free to question "authority" and reach our own conclusions.

(Sepp Hasslberger)