Belief, True Belief, Knowledge and Certainty

 Socrates spoke about belief, true belief, and knowledge 2,500 years ago in Plato’s Meno. Belief can exist before knowledge. There is true belief as well as false belief. Knowledge simply has more verified facts attached to it. Certainty, however, is a separate epistemological issue.

Socrates also said that he knew that he knew nothing. Absolute certainty of knowledge isn’t logically possible (unless it comes directly from God), since all knowledge is known by and for oneself, regardless of its source. Since one begins with little or no certain knowledge — though Socrates believed people have some innate knowledge, at least of mathematics — one must first believe things that arise from outside oneself. Relying only on oneself, it is difficult to be an absolute authority about anything without the possibility of doubt — except, perhaps, for one’s own existence.

There are skeptics and cynics who even deny that the self is real, or that anyone truly exists. They suggest the world might be a hologram and human minds mere self-aware subroutines in a program that simply disappears when the machine is turned off.

I prefer to believe the Bible and in God because it is such a remarkable book — unlike anything else produced in its time. Caesar’s The Civil War was brilliant writing, yet it has nothing comparable to the algorithmic depth and brilliance of the Bible. One can believe the Bible while still knowing that one’s own knowledge or interpretation of it may be incorrect at points.

Soren Kierkegaard, Socratic Irony, Jaimungal and Authentic Being

 I took a MOOC course from the Univ. of Copenhagen named Kierkegard and Socratic irony. Kierkegaard and Socrates each showed that social reality is inauthentic yet persuasive, inclusive and convincing. The aesthetic and employ paradigms in Curt Jaimungal’s terms would miss out on reality and the Christian born again relationship. Humans are embedded in an enigmatic mass-energy field of some sort. To be more and different than that requires spiritual rebirth. Siren Kirkegore (phonetic) is a Christian existentialist in the sense of regarding the apparent field of being as phenomenal. He regarded smug German romanticism as missing the point of authentic existence with Christ. Romantics including Hegel, Socrates and Nietzsche all regarded social reality somewhat inimically. Yet they missed the right response- Hegel less so with his evolution of the Spirit in history context. That is a clever analysis yet I think it fails being included in the tradition of French rationalism ... Descartes, Sartre etc.

On thermodynamics and the 'arrow of time'; It seems a convenient way of cheating to say that one's math, theories or assumptions regarding entropy are correct for set U when given the unobservable set X  containing reciprocals proving theories about set U are correct.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWYxRM__TBU

Socrates was the Gold Medal Winner in Ancient Philosophy (Christ is God)

Plato's realm of forms has similarities with the contemporary theory of time as an illusion since it is an emergent characteristic, locally, of quantum entanglement. A substrate, fundamental reality without time is thought to be actual. Human perceptions of the heterodox provide a time experience. This is comparable to Tegmark's level four Multiverse paradigm derived I suppose from Everett's many world hypothesis. Socrates is the crowd favorite for Gold; what other ancient philosopher seems so familiar? https://suno.com/.../1fbfcf61-ab8b-42da-9140-a2153daf0934...