journal or
publication title
Eco-Philosophy
volume
14
page range
143-146
year
2020-03
URL
http://id.nii.ac.jp/1060/00011603/
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Summary
Natural Intelligence-Artisan Philosophy: Da Vinci
KAWAMOTO Hideo
With the rapidly advanced development of artificial intelligence, a debate has begun including a question whether AI has been making progress to be used with more options for humans (Homo-Sapiens) or not. There are different types of abilities in nature that humans do not possess, and there must be extensive researches into extracting and digitizing them. Let us call this type of research “Natural Intelligence” (NI). In fact, research on NI has already been carried out in herbalism and the theories of evolution. It is possible to take these out and proceed them with consideration in the direction of devising a way of modern utilization. This study examines Da Vinci's large number of manuscripts and developed it as Da Vinci theory.
Keywords: Artificial intelligence, Natural intelligence, Da Vinci, Control principle
Watarase: Towards a Historical Eco-Philosophy
KAWAMOTO Hideo
The Watarase River is located as a vertical line of the area, and played an important role in spreading Ashio copper mine pollution. The river still forms part of the lives of many people, though including historic traces of the pollution. Environments are based often on historical records. Such a historical environment is not a mere monument of the past, nor a memory of suffering, but is now included in the present as it disappears. The site for mitigating mineral poisoning is Watarase Retarding Basin, created downstream. Now, the basin is a huge wetland that mitigates floods during heavy rains and typhoons. Reservoir flood control is now offering new options.Ethnic Trap: Geo-economic Ecology of Conflict
KAWAMOTO Hideo
Environment includes variables such as ethnic culture, national policy, and globalized economy. And ethnic variables may cause unsolvable problems. In particular, ethnic groups often create their own codes that are ambiguous and difficult for others to decipher. In the rapidly changing region of Asia, extracting and examining the variables of each ethnicity is a typical case analysis for understanding the cultural environment. This study analyzes cases of China and South Korea. A nation is one of the devices that does not exhibit its people, but when it fluctuates, the citizens express themselves in unexpected ways.Keywords: Ethnicity, State, International organization, Ethnic self-esteem
Flood Control of China: From the Age of Myths
SAKAI Tahoko
Since ancient times, rivers in China have often generated floods, and flood control has, therefore, been essential to the Chinese civilization. Yu and Li Bing were two leading flood control engineers in Chinese history. Yu became the founder of the Xia dynasty with a success of flood controls, while Li built the Dujiangyan in Min Jiang during the Warring States period to transform Shu County into a rich area. Both of them were deified by their achievements of flood controls. Yu became a god in creation myths. Li’s family (father and son) became a Taoist god called “Erlangshen,” and appeared in several novels, for example, “Journey to the West” and “Fengshen Yanyi.”
Modern China faces water problems, not only floods and droughts. Water pollution has been a serious issue due to its economic development. At present, two major flood control projects are the Three Gorges Dam and the South-North Water Transfer Project. While these two big projects may improve people’s lives, they also create new problems, such as poverty of migrants from the construction sites.
The Meaning of Animals in Dreams of Myōe
KARASAWA Taisuke
From the adolescent age of 19 to the age of 58 in his later years, the Kegon Sect (the Huayan school of Buddhism) monk Myōe Kōben (1173-1232, Kamakura period in Japan) continued to record his dreams intermittently. He documented a variety of dreams, but this study focuses on dreams about animals. A very wide variety of animals were involved in his dreams. However, no studies have exhaustively covered and mentioned them. These animal dreams he saw can provide interesting ideas and perspectives in understanding how Myōe had viewed animals or non-humans. At the same time, there is a possibility that his eyes on animals may be linked to the Kegon ideology (jijimuge-hokkai: an idea that attaches importance to how things are connected in a rich way).
This study first reviews records of Myōe’s dreams that have been printed and published to date, and then extracts and lists them regarding animals. It next analyzes animal trends appearing in his dreams. It also discusses what these animals were meant for him. Finally, this study discusses the possible connections between his experience of synchronic phenomena concerning animals and the thoughts of Kegon.
Keywords: Hayao Kawai, Toshihiko Izutsu, Jung, Jijimuge, Synchronicity
Two Principles of Environmental Movement
HATA Kazunari
It is commonly thought that the substance of environmental movements is found in practical action and in the proposal of realistic solutions to environmental problems. If this is the case, ecology movements primarily consist of practical philosophy and thus take ethics as their main principle. However, such a movement does not represent a mere practical activity nor is it a simple reflection on ethical norms. It is not only related to action but also to knowledge, i.e. to scientific knowledge as well as theoretical philosophy. Scientific knowledge, however, cannot be derived from the ethical principle of practical philosophy. The movement thus draws on the double
dynamic or disproportional movement results in a standstill or in the dynamism’s dissolution once the both principles involved come into discordance. It can thus be stated that each participant of an environmental movement is assigned to the doubled task of scrutinising theoretical sciences as well as practical ethics, or to put it more simply: to know and act.
Keywords: Environmental movement, Ethics and natural science, Practical philosophy and theoretical philosophy, Business ethics
Motion Production and Coupling in Improvised Dance Therapy
SUZUKI Shinichi
Improvised dance therapy including interlocking with others can provide its participant with a certain benefit regardless of one’s physical condition, healthy or unhealthy. However, it is difficult to analyze and precisely describe the effects of physical exercise and the linkage with others such as expanding the selectivity of actions and improving the linkage with others. This study, therefore, applies autopoiesis and coupling methods in system theory to body movements under a hypothesis of motion unit production system and coupling system, describes the practice of improvised dance therapy in practice, and clarifies the structure and the effects of the therapy practice.
