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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=448791" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Problem of the Idea</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Philosopher: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'The Problem of the 21st century<br>is the problem of the Origins of the Idea.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Idea has driven much<br>of human history-<br>a major motivator<br>many taken together are<br>Articulators; <br>Ideas compose all Human Dreams.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But ask what is this Idea<br>and silence ensues; <br>ask where is it <br>in the human mind<br>and we'll get charts of its activity centers<br>but nothing about what it is<br>or where it comes from.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Scientist: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Well, we don't have to know what a thing is<br>to utilize it.<br>We can identify behaviors and integrate <br>them-<br>harness them to purpose.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Philosopher: <br> <br>Sure like the Atomic Bomb. It was built because<br>we could integrate various disciplines<br>and make things go bang<br>without thinking of Consequence.<br>technical Ideas-too have consequences.<br> <br>Scientist: <br> <br>So you would hold up all human progress <br>until the over-arching Idea comes along<br>before we act? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Philosopher: <br>Ah, but note that progress that destroys <br>the planet is not<br>progress at all<br>but only a blind mistake; <br>one I might add, <br>that did not have<br>an Idea or Clue<br>of what lesser ideas about tinkering<br>could and might signal or include.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So here my point and drift<br>good ideas are hard to find; <br>cleaver ideas<br>like a bomb<br>are easier to advance.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Cosmologist: <br> <br>Well here is my notion-<br>I hesitate to say Idea-<br>but there is only a little drift<br>between you and<br>the neo-Kantians<br>who claim Plato's Ideation<br>may have an empirical base.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I know, 'heavens' such an outcome; <br>but contemplate<br>Astronomy's 'Inflation Theory'<br>Cosomology's dark energy and matter<br>the implication that every electron<br>is 'aware' of the charge<br>of it's matching<br>opposite charge<br>and 'reacts' to changes<br>across all our known universe; <br>and you will have lot of 'I told you so's'<br>coming from the ancients.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So if human history has been driven<br>by Grand Ideas political, social, and scientific, <br>we have a need know then<br>what is an Idea and where<br>does it comes from; <br>and even if a great new idea<br>does surface<br>and is entirely new<br>how is that an entirely new idea<br>can be understood and acted upon<br>by others who did not share in its generation? <br> <br>If only two people in the world can understand an<br>Idea, what does that mean for History? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So Idea Generation and Transmission are therefore<br>of one cloth and shall we say comprehendable<br>only by Cosmology's 'Inflation'? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Muse: <br> <br>Well, if all Ideas generate in the mind <br>and assuming mind has a physical base<br>in generating mental things, <br>the assumption, too, must be that<br>the electrons of the mind are, too, <br>'popping in and out of the universe<br>in that same mind <br>as all Quantum things.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So are we here<br>dealing with the ' Mind As Portal'<br>between multi-existences<br>and Ideas are merely transmission<br>artifacts of that activity? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Humm, said the Scientist<br>how would you study that? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Muse: <br>We are all becoming Poets are we not? <br>Poets of the Electron Dream.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poet: <br> <br>All knowledge comes from dreaming <br>and math, this is Einstein<br>but how are dreams possible<br>is yet <br>to be answered.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet we do dream<br>and we need to also ask<br>what is the archeology of the dream? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'The Muse said<br>And too, <br>'who is doing the Dreaming? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Kant smiles.<br> </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>So, what is the dictionary definition of 'Idea'? </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>i&#8901; de&#8901; a<br>&#8194; &#8194; /a&#618; &#712; di&#601; , a&#618; &#712; di&#601; / Show Spelled Pronunciation [ahy-dee-uh, ahy-deeuh] Show IPA<br>–noun<br>1. 	any conception existing in the mind as a result of mental understanding, awareness, or activity.<br>2. 	a thought, conception, or notion: That is an excellent idea.<br>3. 	an impression: He gave me a general idea of how he plans to run the department.<br>4. 	an opinion, view, or belief: His ideas on raising children are certainly strange.<br>5. 	a plan of action; an intention: the idea of becoming an engineer.<br>6. 	a groundless supposition; fantasy.<br>7. 	Philosophy.<br>a. 	a concept developed by the mind.<br>b. 	a conception of what is desirable or ought to be; ideal.<br>c. 	(initial capital letter) Platonism. Also called form. an archetype or pattern of which the individual objects in any natural class are imperfect copies and from which they derive their being.<br>d. 	Kantianism. idea of pure reason.<br>8. 	Music. a theme, phrase, or figure.<br>9. 	Obsolete.<br>a. 	a likeness.<br>b. 	a mental image.<br>Origin: <br>1400–50; < LL < Gk idé&#257; form, pattern, equiv. to ide- (s. of ideîn to see) + -&#257; fem. n. ending; r. late ME idee < MF < LL, as above; akin to wit 1</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Related forms: <br>i&#8901; de&#8901; a&#8901; less, adjective</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Synonyms: <br>1,2. Idea, thought, conception, notion refer to a product of mental activity. Idea, although it may refer to thoughts of any degree of seriousness or triviality, is commonly used for mental concepts considered more important or elaborate: We pondered the idea of the fourth dimension. The idea of his arrival frightened me. Thought, which reflects its primary emphasis on the mental process, may denote any concept except the more weighty and elaborate ones: I welcomed his thoughts on the subject. A thought came to him. Conception suggests a thought that seems complete, individual, recent, or somewhat intricate: The architect's conception delighted them. Notion suggests a fleeting, vague, or imperfect thought: a bare notion of how to proceed.4. sentiment, judgment.<br>Dictionary.com Unabridged<br>Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc.2009.<br>Cite This Source<br>|<br>Link To idea</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lonnie+Hicks">Lonnie Hicks</a><div class=q>
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'The Problem of the 21st century
is the problem of the Origins of the Idea.'

The Idea has driven much
of human history-
a major motivator
many taken together are
Articulators; 
Ideas compose all Human Dreams.

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