{"id":463,"date":"2020-02-12T23:14:15","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T06:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joshuadahl.net\/blog\/?p=463"},"modified":"2020-02-12T23:14:15","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T06:14:15","slug":"tuning-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joshuadahl.net\/blog\/tuning-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuning In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"688\" height=\"387\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7s4GgqX_9r8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n\t&#8220;Is someone playing with the computers?&#8221; Carl asked. <\/p>\n<p>He was freaking out, he just lost 4 million dollars that was laundered drug<br \/>\nmoney. Of course he couldn&#8217;t say that, but he needed to find it.<\/p>\n<p>Tormenting Carl, was his former co-worker Sam Wheat. He just picked<br \/>\nup a skill from the ghost who haunts the Subway. The skill was<br \/>\nthe ability to move things without a body. Sam Wheat is dead, stuck<br \/>\nin the afterlife, in the movie Ghost. <\/p>\n<p>He remembered the man who shot him, and he was determined to avenge his untimely death.<br \/>\nHe lingers around his former home where his girlfriend Molly lives.<br \/>\nOne day when Molly was out, Sam&#8217;s killer makes an unexpected visit.<br \/>\nHe follows Willie, his killer, to his home and remembers the address. He communicates this information<br \/>\nthrough a psychic Oda Mae Brown, and convinces her to warn Molly.<\/p>\n<p>Frightened with this information, and a little bit leery she tells Carl<br \/>\nto check it out. Low and behold Carl was not really that great of a<br \/>\nfriend.<\/p>\n<p>This is another one of my favorite movies, and this is another love<br \/>\nstory. We seem to be having a theme going on here. Well it is February<br \/>\nthe month of love.<\/p>\n<p>The afterlife is in the realm of ideals, we being alive cannot ride the river of<br \/>\nStyx and visit the plane of the spirits. We cannot punch through some<br \/>\nmembrane and arrive at the place where the dead &#8220;live&#8221;, at least<br \/>\nnot that I am aware of.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s say that the world of the dead is reachable but the medium<br \/>\nin which it is crossed can only be traveled by &#8220;special&#8221; individuals.<br \/>\nIn Greek Mythology the individual who could do that was Hermes. He<br \/>\nwas the messenger of the gods, and associated with language.<\/p>\n<p>Hermeneutics &#8211; the branch of knowledge that deals with interpretation, especially of the<br \/>\nBible or literary texts.<\/p>\n<p>Hans-Georg Gadamer is the leading philosopher on hermeneutics. His<br \/>\nwork can be attributed to four main areas.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Philosophical hermeneutics<\/li>\n<li>Dialogue within Philosophy<\/li>\n<li>Literature<\/li>\n<li>Practical Philosophy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nGadamer remained connected with Greek thought especially Plato<br \/>\nand Aristotle. When trying to discern Plato&#8217;s work, Gadamer developed<br \/>\nan approach that rejected the idea of hidden meaning to Plato&#8217;s thought,<br \/>\ninstead Gadamer focused on Platonic dialogues and their structure.<br \/>\nThis is critical in order to understand Plato was by working the texts<br \/>\nnot only by reading the dialogue, but to capture the dialectical<br \/>\nstructure of Platonic questioning.<\/p>\n<p>From an ontological standpoint we can only learn about the past<br \/>\nthrough archives. In order to better understand scripture or any<br \/>\narchive, along comes hermeneutics, that is its function to recover<br \/>\nmeaning.<\/p>\n<p>Obtaining knowledge from books is key to growing your understanding<br \/>\nof the world in its current form. Thousands of volumes have been written<br \/>\nand there are more books in libraries than you can shake a stick at.<br \/>\nAuthors who construct their text are preparing the reader, providing<br \/>\nthem with meaning of some kind whatever it may be, the knowledge<br \/>\nis in there. <\/p>\n<p>I am facinated by the concept of communication. I am not very good<br \/>\nat it myself, but the process of information being passed around<br \/>\nis intriguing to me. In computer programming there is this<br \/>\nprotocol used to transfer information between agents, called SOAP.<br \/>\nOne of the requirements for SOAP is that whatever object is being<br \/>\npassed through the protocol it must be serializable, what that means<br \/>\nis that you must be able to take an object and convert it into<br \/>\nbytes so it can be transfered over the wire and de-serialized<br \/>\ninto it&#8217;s original form. Kind of like the movie &#8220;The Fly&#8221;, but less<br \/>\ncreepy.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, the goal is to get the meaning out. Gadamer focused<br \/>\non human sciences and wanted to apply hermanuetics as a process<br \/>\nto make extraction of information in those desciplines more &#8220;scientific&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Or to &#8220;release the fly&#8221; from the bottle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;4 million dollars, oh my God what am I going to do with this money?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Is someone playing with the computers?&#8221; Carl asked. 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