On the Database Principle — Knowledge and Delusion

Abstract

The following is an experiment I initiated without being fully convinced of its success. I’ve had my doubts if it would work, whether it was something you can expect of an audience at all. Now, after having done it and while I’m writing these last words as an introduction to confirm the experiment’s methodological settings, I am inclined to believe in it. It is quite possible that it works. Surely, the audience remains an unreliable constituent. Most probably, you will have read the www (in a fragmented way, obviously) or you might have visited one of the last Documentas at Kassel (again in a fragmented way, there is no alternative) or you may have watched Christopher Nolan’s film Memento (this, also, is only possible in a fragmented — though different — manner) or you may have learned other ways to error to get lost. If there is just a faint common basis here, it will be quite likely that the following conjectures will have found a symbolic arrangement and thereby can be communicated as knowledge, as an epistemological object.

I think, therefore I am. René Descartes

You know who you are and you know all about yourself. But just for day-to-day stuff notes are really useful. Leonard Shelby