Defining Heritage Science: A Consilience Pathway to Treasuring the Complexity of Inheritable Human Experiences through Historical Method, AI, and ML

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Visual, kinaesthetic, neuropsychological method. Introduced by Alfred Korzybski to train in nonidentity. In his book entitled “Science and sanity. An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics” [71], Korzybski states and demonstrates that Aristotelian systems are inadequate to face the challenges of our society. Socrates (469-399 BCE), his student Plato (427-347 BCE), and Plato’s student Aristotle (384-322 BCE) formulated the complete system of knowledge and education of their time, which was perpetrated until today. Aristotle “aimed to formulate a general method for “all” scientific work.” He was so comprehensive that, so far, it has been changed only field by field. Korzybski uses the history of mathematics to highlight how non-Aristotelian methods were needed and developed for the advancement of learning in this specific field (Introduction to the second edition, 1941, pp. xlix-l). However, “no methodological general theory based on the new developments of life and science had been formulated until general semantics and a general, extensional, teachable, and communicable, non-Aristotelian system was produced. The main difficulties ahead are neurosemantic and neurolinguistic because for more than 2,000 years, our nervous systems have been canalized in the inadequate, Aristotelian orientations, which are reflected even in the structure of the language we habitually us” (ibidem, pp. xlix-l).