Kommentare zu: Compassion for a coin

Von: Astrid Reis

Astrid Reis — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:43:31 +0000

I know the coins systems of two countries very well. New Zealand has 5 types of coints, Germany 8! types. Two years ago NZ abolished all small Cent-coins (as all peope were bothered with these) and even made all other coints smaller. The cash desks at shops either round up or round up the figures. The smallest coin now is the 10-Cent-Coin. You may not believe it but the whole country is happy now! Paying in this wonderful country is very convenient and fast. The weight of my purse in NZ is always quite light.
…. being back in Germany I have to be used again to the slow proceeding behind cash desks and the purse gets thicker and thicker…

The small “Penny”-coints even influence the econmy of a country and the leisure time of people. Think of the more time you have for yourself when you can leave a shop earlier (saving some time each visit!) and think of the potential of an increasing effectiveness for the shopping industry…

Isn’t it worth the thought to send a petition to the European Union for the aboliton of the “Penny”-coints in the Euro-Countries ?

Von: Cate

Cate — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:54:49 +0000

He disagreed with Kant. And with Newton.
Laws of form, right. But I was talking about laws of cognition of form. That’s quite a difference.

Von: Walter

Walter — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:06:47 +0000

Perhaps there is no great difference. The comparison with J.W. Goethe ist not so far, for he is as ‘a visionary’ the prototype of the ‘modern man’. he was influenced by I. Kant and the ideas of observation as subjective on objectives. And he tried to find analogies and laws (of form) between man and nature. These are mathematics?

Von: Cate

Cate — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:46:06 +0000

@Walter: No, it’s not a question of perspective. It fact humans do have their own picture of what they see, as their eyes provide a unique view, but the way they feel about it is based on math. That’s my opinion. I don’t think, Goethe thought like that. He was still, after all, just a visionary. Even if he really took part on some scientific research or promted it.

Von: Walter

Walter — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:08:15 +0000

‘I believe in function-based aesthetics by the way. I think, much more, than we are aware of is brought about math. I don’t believe there is a real independent aesthetical cognition by humans. What just happens is the encircling of wishes and ideals by the media.’
- Like Goethe?

Von: Janna

Janna — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:37:44 +0000

@Cate, looks really nice. Could be also a modern illumination concept from a new and stylisch lounge-bar

Von: Walter

Walter — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:25:02 +0000

The beauty of nature.
Beethoven- one Groschen
Brecht/ Weill- three Groschen
= inflation?

Von: Cate

Cate — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:29:16 +0000

…”TO talking”…

Von: Cate

Cate — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:04:44 +0000

@Walter:
But Schrödinger’s cat is more the kind I was talking about… ;o) Something, whose existence is sure and unsure at the same time, whose position is indeterminate, whose composition doesn’t comply with our imagination of composition at all… It’s absolutely out of our imagination, but it’s probably what we’re all made of in our microcosmic formation.
By the way: Look, how beautiful a diagram of an atomic orbital wavefunction is. It’s one of my favourite pictures ever… It’d be in my office, if I had one. ;o)
I believe in function-based aesthetics by the way. I think, much more, than we are aware of is brought about math. I don’t believe there is a real independent aesthetical cognition by humans. What just happens is the encircling of wishes and ideals by the media.
I got the talking a bit… Sorry.

Von: Kata

Kata — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:08:17 +0000

@ Walter: Nice subject, money and music…
Want another one?
Brecht/Weill: Dreigroschenoper Beggar’s opera)
Hey, that would make a nice subject for a charity concert… hand your money over, folks, or we keep singing about it… ;-)