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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">How does the narrative influence the facts?<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">No one knows for certain, what Sachverhalt and Zusammenhang
(state of affairs, context: axioms in Wittgenstein’s system of rational
thoughts, which served as conceptual framework for formal logic and the development
of computers), what these early terms actually mean. The basic dichotomy, how
we perceive and think, is mirrored in them: there are things and there are
relations among the things. As an approach towards integrating the two strands
of chat taking place here – discussing the narrative of the search for the
meaning of the term information, and regular reports of formal, logical,
arithmetical observations that can be made on things one dreams up -, to better
interweave the two strands, let us discuss the narrative as the Zusammenhang,
that what relates things to each other, while the facts are and remain the
facts.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Whether the facts or the narrative are actually true, is of
no relevance currently. Facts were that Thor is a Norse god, everyone has a
hammer and thunder sometimes occurs. The narrative: thunder is heard as Thor
throws around his hammer, is a solid one and fits the facts. We work presently
on the narrative that Information sits or walks in the background and transmits
and regulates and influences. <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The narrative creates facts, or at least allows perceiving such
facts which would have remained hidden, continuing their mimicry, if the narrative
had not shown their existence. A well-conducted trial against a witch, or any
other enemy of the state, regularly uncovers factual evidence that supports the
narrative. <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The narrative neds to be persuasive if the relation, which
it states to be existing, disturbs the heavenly peace that reigns in the
well-ordered minds of the audience of the narrative. Freud’s narrative, that
children do have a nervous system, needed some persuasion to be understood, and
the principles derived from it became generally accepted and entered
application. <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The narrative and the facts interact. The more the narrative
about the periodic system of elements got hold, the more facts, in the form of
theoretically predicted and now actually found elements were discovered, and
this generated a fruitful interaction between theory and experimental reality,
like a good narrative should.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">A narrative is a prescription of an operation. The narrative
3+5=8 is an instruction to do so and re-calibrate one’s tools. It is important
that the grown-up re-generates access to the areas connected to the memory
containers, in which the emotional connotations of performing this operation
are registered. The story-teller comes up with a completely new story and
enhances in charming words your memories to the time as it was a matter of some
intellectual work to solve the addition mentioned above. The narrative can not
continue until the audience is in a hypnotic trance and is ready to ask
himself: so, good, here I am, 6 years old and have mastered addition. What is
the message now?<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The message is one of reassurance. Nothing wrong with what
you have learned ever since. We now show you an additional way of playing with
chunks. You have mastered to put two chunks one on the top of the other and
establish that together they are so much as their sum. Nothing wrong with that.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">We now play a different play with the chunks. We play with
around a dozen, say 16, different chunks, of which we make so many different
dolls as we can, each doll being made up of one chunk, called <i>a</i>, which can be of any of the sizes 1
thru 16, and a different chunk, called <i>b</i>,
which can also be any of the sizes 1 thru 16. We play with 136 dolls, which may
sound a bit too many, but we have paper and pencil and we can use video cameras
to record what we do. <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The narrative then shows how the ordering and re-ordering of
the dolls produces patterns. The facts support the narrative.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Before the inner eyes of the audience, a rather complex
picture emerges. The empty space is not empty, but full of a-priori facts,
which state that in case order A is the case, on such places such elements will
be present. Regardless, whether and which of the a-priori existing
possibilities are the case, the geometric structure of the space is itself
remarkable. Two Euclid-type rectangular space are merging into a common, Newton-type
space, which is transcended by two more planes. <span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The next step in the interaction facts – narrative – facts –
narrative - … is to pick up on the narrative. One needs a good persuasive craft
to bring people to imagine natural numbers to be pairs of smaller natural
numbers, and sort and order such a collection. It is only the most sober and centred
persons who will spend the few afternoons necessary to set up the sorting
machine. As the trigonometric tables spread, they were not transmitted as large
works of tabulation. They were transmitted as algorithms, and the licensees
made their own local apps with the tables. <span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Narratives are needed, because the facts are overwhelmingly
complex. One may invite the audience to look into a newly discovered extension
to the cave, where we no more regard the shadows of the facts, but the patterns
of the shadows of the lights we ourselves dream up. <span></span></p>
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