User:Visarga/Pratibimba
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Power simplifies our thinking
Google as Pratibimba
- Google is created as a Pratibimba (reflection) of the internet on itself; PageRank is an iterative function that repeatedly reflects the value of one site based on the value of the sites it is referred from
- When using Google, especially to Google some person, organization or idea, one gets the reflection of the "collective mind" on the respective subject
- thus Googling X is like "asking for a Pratibimba of X in the collective mind"
Satisfaction associated to Pratibimba
- There is a peculiar satisfaction in feeling that one understands another person, and in feeling that one is being understood
- Also works for any domain of knowledge, foreign languages, philosophies, scientific insight, etc
- Satisfaction is an aspect of Ananda
Pratibimba - in Politics
- I propose that building reflection into society is the key to reducing the duality and consequently, the suffering of people
- Homogenous countries have a reduced crime rate
- Elections are considered a form of bottom-up reflection, a feedback mechanism of our society; the direct mechanism, of course, is the top-down application of political power
- I see internet as the key to realizing Pratibimba in society, as it allows for a dramatically increased awareness of other people's thinking, and is a conduit for worldwide interpersonal interaction
- "any particular event becomes not only a system within itself but part of a greater system as well"
- in Science, encouraging interdisciplinary research and meaningful dialogue
- in Economics, the reduction of nationalist protectionism, and lifting of the divisions separating rich and poor countries
Interactionism
- see Emergent Interactionism