- “A palavra Deus não aparece no livro inteiro, por quê? Deus existe!” -
- “Who can speak competently about God, are theologians. So if God exists, he belongs in the real world, and therefore it might be, that you will find something in the book, that touches indirectly on this topic.” -
- “Früher konnte man in Freiheit das Studium nach eigenen Kriterien und Interessen gestalten, heute wird man in berufsorientierte Schemata gepresst und verliert Lebenszeit, Formulare ausfüllend.» -
- “Forms? Career-oriented? Restriction of liberty? It may be, that the new path to culture and veritable formation will lead to rural areas, where the libraries of the past will be dusted off, or new ones will be set up, computers will be added, and the damage caused by the sedentary life will be kept at bay by agricultural work and gymnastics.” -
- « Und Diplome?» ‹
- “Diplomas? If you master the mechanics of machines, the computer technology or know good foreign languages, you don't need one. For medicine, a good private education is very useful, but if you are not studying just out of interest, you will have to go to the big city and adhere to the recently extensive standards of the state.” -
- "Liberty in studies, love at first sight in direct contact, both is possible only without interference from groups, and this has become difficult today. Even the repair of our car is affected by the rules of groups like professional associations. Women tend to present themselves as ugly and devalue themselves, so as not to be rejected by the group at university or at work. Group dynamics have become a universal law of behavior, oppressing individualism. How can we return to a better world era again?" -
- "The Renaissance in Italy was a kind of individualized life based on adventure. The most important adventure was, to discover the principle, that holds the world together: the painter Leonardo da Vinci applied the structural knowledge of art by inventing and building machines. A great adventure is, to read old books, especially from the Middle Ages, to be able to make comparisons with today's reality. Another adventure could be, repairing your own car or planting your own flowers, to have red flowers, if you planted red ones, or blue flowers, if you planted blue ones." -
- «Книга рассказывает о любви с первого взгляда. А что она принесла поэту Пушкину?» -
- “Pushkin died for his honor.” -
- "В конце своей книги вы приводите балет Чайковского «Лебединое озеро» как пример отношений с метафизической составляющей, в данном случае между принцем и лебедем. А что, если бы лебедь был реалистичным, а не романтическим, — могло ли бы это быть плохим выбором?" -
- "Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, metaphysical component of the relationship, realistic swan and romantic swan, possibilities of failure:
The logic of the thing depends on two premises. First, whether a metaphysical component really exists in general and, second, whether in a direct encounter it should somehow manifest itself. The fictional logic of Swan Lake leaves only one possibility for failure: the case of the demon winning."-
- "What would happen to the fictional depiction of the Real World, if the demon were to conquer all the white swans? An invasion of the Occult World into the Real World?"-
- "If God exists, he logically belongs to the real world, but so does also the demon, whether each of both have a metaphysical component or not.
The Dialectic is a complex structure of logical judgments. In both, the fictional and the real world, dialectical processes are at work mainly during crisis, when the time "paints gray on gray". According to the dialectic formula of Hegel in his "Natural Law", "...the owl of Minerva only begins its flight with the approaching dusk." -
- «Where did come from the liberty at the University of Basel, you are speaking of?» -
- «The traditional municipal university retained still its medieval structure. In my experience, there were no restrictions on academic liberty or liberty of speech. The Rector was responsible for handling any disciplinary issues, that might have arisen. He was also charged with protecting teachers and students from external interference, with the assistance of the Faculty of Law. This concept of the university as «alma mater» is a model, born at the first German University of Prague. The German Emperor Charles IV granted the institution and its members the privilege of exemption from municipal laws and from taxation. However, he was unable to eliminate ecclesiastical oversight of the Faculty of Philosophy. Switzerland managed to preserve its medieval university structure even after Metternich’s imposition of censorship and police infiltration at universities in Austria and Germany, prompted by the Carlsbad Decrees. « -
- “The «language created world» by propaganda ministries, how was it generated?» -
- «It suffices to analyze the structures of the relationships between a country's ministry of culture and its newspapers, theaters, universities, libraries, writers, actors, and artists in general. In Germany during the national phase of the 1930s, for example, cultural professionals were organized by the Ministry of Culture and Propaganda into seven specialized chambers. The ordinances (V.O.) of November 1 and 9, 1933, stipulate the following: Anyone involved in the production, reproduction, intellectual or technical processing, dissemination, preservation, sale, or sales intermediation of cultural goods must be a member of the specific chamber responsible for their field of activity.
Cultural professionals were compulsorily integrated into state-created bodies, a system of corporatism as imposition of censorship .The Ministry of Propaganda distributed subsidies and guaranteed a high level of protection—even against the regular police. The Ministry of Propaganda was backed by the Secret State Police, which operated outside the ordinary judicial system and employed elite units, answerable only to the ruling party and the head of state. In other words, it seemed to be a legal exclave for universities, media, and the arts— like at the University of Emperor Charles IV.
However, the liberty, enjoyed by cultural professionals had its limits. Like the Church in the Middle Ages, it was now the ruling party, that oversaw the implementation of the «language created world», it had designed. The money invested by cultural professionals was subject to due diligence (bank's duty of care) and disclosure obligations to the State. Many of them withdrew into private life or left the country. German-speaking Switzerland was an alternative for those, seeking privacy and liberty. At the time, it was autonomous and neutral, and maintained banking secrecy.
Free german media grounded in the “real world “ could have reported, for instance, that Berlin no possessed adequate air defenses in those days.” -
- «In the age of artificial intelligence, does the ‘intermediate world’ , produced from language, still remain a usefull notion?» -
- «The "intelligent world" based on computer language possesses a fictional character; it is apophantically structured.
It may be based more on data attempting to approximate the real world, or, for instance, be fed by data from the world of clichés.
Oriented towards propositions, artificial intelligence is an excellent cultural tool. Yet it is also capable, for instance, of analyzing the structures of past forms of governance and cultures—of "dusting them off" and imitating them—and feeding them into politics as new, modern administrative schemes and party platforms, albeit with different colors and symbols. The intermediate worlds created through language in times past are thus reawakened and filled with contemporary content.
Archives belonging to ministries of health and archives coming from biometric recognition systems can acquire significant value through AI within the process of materializing past cultures.» -