Noise in Korea askphilosophy

As Koreans are sound tolerant, they can do many things that makes life more convenient. Drive around with delivery motorbikes from 1950 which have no mufflers. Scream out cheap Korean beef, cheap cakes in the supermarket. Play loud music in the supermarkets. Honk at any occasion just as a warning, just in case, and in residential areas. Tell news in loudspeakers placed inside each apartment. Driving around with cars with loudspeakers announcing cheap stolen airconditioners for sale, cheap pears for sale! Let the escalator talk: This is an escalator, please do not run in the escalator, nonstop. Let the elevators talk: Sam chim for third floor and it announced whether it is going up or is going down. All door locks in Korea have sounds so one can hear if the door is locked. Koreans never need to replace an old functioning refrigerator, air conditioner fan, as long as it is functioning, that is, cooling down. No matter how loud it gets as time goes by. The mail man can ring the door bell to deliver packages instead of putting a note in the mail box telling that your package is ready to pick up in the local post office. The door bell has its own sounds, for the main door and for the apartment door. Koreans tolerate noise to infinity. No noise is disturbing to them. It makes life very convenient for them, or not?

Submitted August 10, 2016 at 05:44AM by AugustStrindberg http://ift.tt/2b1kLpQ askphilosophy

Noise in Korea askphilosophy

As Koreans are sound tolerant, they can do many things that makes life more convenient. Drive around with delivery motorbikes from 1950 which have no mufflers. Scream out cheap Korean beef, cheap cakes in the supermarket. Play loud music in the supermarkets. Honk at any occasion just as a warning, just in case, and in residential areas. Tell news in loudspeakers placed inside each apartment. Driving around with cars with loudspeakers announcing cheap stolen airconditioners for sale, cheap pears for sale! Let the escalator talk: This is an escalator, please do not run in the escalator, nonstop. Let the elevators talk: Sam chim for third floor and it announced whether it is going up or is going down. All door locks in Korea have sounds so one can hear if the door is locked. Koreans never need to replace an old functioning refrigerator, air conditioner fan, as long as it is functioning, that is, cooling down. No matter how loud it gets as time goes by. The mail man can ring the door bell to deliver packages instead of putting a note in the mail box telling that your package is ready to pick up in the local post office. The door bell has its own sounds, for the main door and for the apartment door. Koreans tolerate noise to infinity. No noise is disturbing to them. It makes life very convenient for them, or not?

Submitted August 10, 2016 at 05:44AM by AugustStrindberg http://ift.tt/2b1kLpQ askphilosophy

The Refrigerator Problem askphilosophy

For the longest time, I've had trouble knowing how to even think of ideas at all. The following story is to help illustrate some of the problems I have encountered when thinking of ideas.

Imagine the following scenario:

Due to a post-apocalyptic incident, all of our current human technology is destroyed and Earth's landscape is significantly changed. Thankfully not all humans have died, but due to the nature of the incident, none have any recollection of the world as it used to be. Over time, they repopulate Earth and come up with their own innovations. Due to the different composition of the Earth, the way for storing food is vastly different from refrigerators that we use. From different materials to different methods of preservation, these devices are unlike anything we currently encounter.

What happened to our idea of what a refrigerator is? Did the idea "die" with all the physical objects that we would call refrigerators and/or when everyone who had knowledge of what a refrigerator was died? Suppose that due to the sudden changes in the landscape, crucial materials needed to make a refrigerator were decaying and after 5 years, they were no longer available. Did the idea "die" when the potential to be discovered went away? If not, where did the idea "go"?

As strange as it seems, intuitively I want to say that the idea of a refrigerator (say, "if you configure certain pieces of metal like this, attach it to a cooling agent like so and power it with electricity, you get a refrigerator") is still something that exists, even if in our post-apocalyptic world, nobody has any conception coming even close to what a refrigerator is or even what components it would have.

But let's examine about the "creation" of a refrigerator in the first place. When an inventor first thought to tinker with the gears, nuts and bolts that would go on to form a refrigerator, did our inventor at some point "pull" the idea of a refrigerator into existence? Or did the idea of a refrigerator always exist and he just found the configuration and arrangement of parts to know of it? That is, was the idea of a refrigerator non-existent up until our innovator started messing around with different configurations that would lead to the invention or was it something that already existed that he stumbled upon?

At any rate, no matter how hard I try, my intuition keeps on telling me that ideas exist in some way before they are ever thought of and it seems bizarre to think of an inventor as "creating" a new idea. But I also recognize how the idea of ideas being anywhere at all is also problematic. Thoughts?

Submitted June 05, 2016 at 05:42AM by FlummoxedNPerplexed http://ift.tt/1UkE6R4 askphilosophy

What are the best arguments for and against objective aesthetic value? askphilosophy

My friend has appallingly bad taste in coffee, and I'm not content to write this off as a mere difference of opinion. I have a very strong intuition that beauty is not simply in the eye of the beholder, but I am not familiar enough with the literature on the subject to make an informed judgment, and I don't know where to start looking. So here's what I'm looking for:

1. Arguments for and against objective aesthetic value. Are some things more beautiful/aesthetically better than others?


2. Arguments for particular epistemological methods in aesthetics. Assuming that there is objective aesthetic value, how can I know that the Mona Lisa is more beautiful than the drawing taped to your refrigerator and not the other way around?

Submitted December 13, 2014 at 09:08PM by X-AnarchoBaptist-X http://ift.tt/1z5MBbK askphilosophy