Summary

This page gives an overview of the most important contents of this website and my beliefs in general. Therefore, this page could be used as an introduction to my work and my thoughts. If you are more interested in the details, you should use the other pages (if you can speak German, especially my Grundlagen articles). This on the other hand is merely a short summary.

Subsequently I am going to describe my education, my abilities and the things which are created by them. After this I am going to explain my life goals and my beliefs and try to create a definition table which can be used in conjunction with the other parts of this page.

Table of contents

Education and abilities

• Systematic problem solving: My fundamental goal in solving problems is to solve them systematically. This implies that I am not only solving a specific case but more importantly the whole category of related problems. Therefore I am thinking about the efficiency of specific problem solving methods to find the best methods suited for the situation.
  • For example, this websites tries to open up my own understanding of the world, so it can be criticized wholeheartedly. Therefore I can arrive at better beliefs and methods.
  • The methods page collects systematic approaches for finding solutions in my daily life and research.
• Certified media creator: I have an education in creating audiovisual products. I know about the work flows of media companies and can plan, record and publish different productions. I can use Photoshop, Premiere, Audition, Media Composer, Samplitude and After Effects.
  • Verpflichtung was my graduation piece and won the third place in the FinEx in 2014.
  • On my Bandcamp page you will find some of musical compositions, but this is more of a hobby than a real profession.
  • Prior to my professional education I created several short films, which deal with philosophical ideas and a thoughtful youth. The full-length movie "Autocheiria" is more or less one of the results from this time.
• Certified Master of education: I've studied education for high school equivalent schools at the University of Leipzig. I had to plan lessons and taught in different classes. I try to describe my insights of teaching experiences on my teaching page (which is not translated in English).
• Programming: Programming is conducting machines to simplify work or automating solving problems. In this regard it is an extension of my view on systematic problem solving. My programming work includes web projects like this website (with HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, SQL) as well as desktop applications in Java and C#. I am very open to educate myself in this regard, but I am also very goal-oriented. When I want to finish a project, it is mostly, because I need the program for a specific task in my daily life.
• Open research on philosophy, politics, education and computer games
• Journalism: I was part of different projects in which I was writing about news and did research on them.
  • In 2013, I was a co-author of the book "Geschichten aus dem Leben. Menschen in Döbern-Land".

Goals

The most important goal in my life is to be happy and stay happy. But I also want for other people to be happy, because only in this situation I am sure that they are not interested in threatening my own happiness, because they are not experiencing any situations that would call for that. I want to have a society in which every individual can live their life as they want it to be (without harming the happiness of others) and in which people are valued regardless of their appearances.

For this goal, I think it is necessary to pay attention to the wishes of a every single individual, as long as they are not limiting the wishes of other individuals. What you can call limiting has to be set by the beliefs of a group. But the group must not disregard fully the wishes of one individual. An agreement has to be found. My specific wish is to live a secure, healthy and relaxing life, in which I can enjoy the things that the world is offering.

Beliefs

• Pragmatism: For myself, it is important that I am able to derive every position from my foundational beliefs, because I am convinced that this is the only way to show others how I could arrive specifically at my current beliefs, so they can at least tolerate or accept them. To support this aspiration, I try to reflect on how to include my beliefs into my daily life by defining their consequences for my actions.
• Individualism: Persons or personal individuals are delimitable elements of a group with the experience of consciousness (a group of inner abilities like thinking, reflecting, feeling working with each other) and which are potentially capable of an argumentative negotiation process. For me, individuals are important, because I perceive myself as an individual and try to stay alive. I try to prevent the dissolution of individualism, because I cannot comprehend any other form of personal existence. It could be better or worse, but I do not want to take the risk, because it is unintelligible for me.
• Humanism: I try to see myself in the situation of other people and try to support them, if I think they need it. I want to better the world with a more fundamental understanding of the different perspectives and lifes of other people.
• Reliabilism: In my opinion, knowledge is only approached (probability) by gaining perceptual differences which are matched with our understanding of a specific word (truth), which we are convinced of (belief) and which were obtained by a reliable process (external justification), for example like the scientific method, which produces explanations which can be directly connected to the experiences.
• Determinism: I am convinced that everything in the universe is connected through rules like causality and therefore you cannot expect to do something that does not trace back to your past. Every action is fully described by the rules of the universe and the history of its smallest particles. Even quantum states can be understood in this regard (for example with the Many Worlds theory).
• Physical materialism and science: I think that the idea that everything consists of particles is helpful in understanding how science is useful in daily life. Science can use the metaphor of material as a possible starting point for describing consequences of daily phenomena. For example, if you want to understand why something is hot, you can explain it with the motion of small particles, which can be experienced in some kind of way by looking at them with microscopes.
• Atheism: I have not seen any independently reproducable evidence for a specific god. On the other hand, I tolerate the idea of "god" as a word for describing something great and unknowable. Anyway, I think there are better ways in finding their own place in the world than trying to appeal to something that is only real in the traditions of certain groups.
• Feminism: I am convinced that every individual should be able to live their life as they want without the pressure of society. This includes the education of other people to further this goal.
• Informed meat eating: For me, the limit for differentiating eatable things from non-eatable things is situated not in the experience of pain but in the potential capability of argumentative negotiation.
• Antirealism and cognitivism: I hold the opinion that you can find connections between the morals of a group and the biological and psychological development of humans in general (natural cognitivism or naturalism). I am not convinced by the realistic argument that morals are existing in the world. The whole realism debate in meta ethics seems to be focused around the question of what existence means.
• Language dynamics: Words do have definitions (Bedeutung) and meanings (Sinn). Definitions are a group of intersubjective properties which describe possible usages of words. Meanings on the other hand describe the specific usage of a word in a specific context. A meaning does not need to coincide with a definition, because it can extend definitions with own experiences and creativity or create new ones. This leads to constant negotiations between different meanings of the same word between different people. Individuals change their language in regard to their environment, which is described by Schmidt/Herrgen as Sprachdynamik (language dynamics). This leads to the belief that words can only be understood in the context in which they are expressed.
• Nominalism: In addition to language dynamics, I am convinced that the words which we are using are not eternal and therefore do not refer to universal ideas. They are just abstract tools in our minds for describing some part of reality. Maybe there are universal concepts somewhere, but in my opinion it is impossible to deduce them or find good evidence for them, because you have to use the concepts you try to describe.