Saturday, January the 19th, 2008

The first day of the National Center Test for University Entrance Examination, with those of social sciences and English.
Kant says; "I cannot obtain the least representation of a thinking being by means of external experience, but solely through self-consciousness. Such objects are consequently nothing more than the transference of this consciousness of mine to other things which can only thus be represented as thinking beings." (p.216, Immanuel Kant, "Critique of Pure Reason", 2003, Dover Publications, New York) It is clear that we cannot cognize the consciousness of others themselves. We, in stead, build a representation of another conscious being in our cerebrum neural network "by means of external experience," and we cognize the representation in stead of cognizing the being itself. That is the reason we sometimes over-cognize or under-cognize other conscious beings. However, how can we tell the difference between over-cognizing and under-cognizing? The case is that we cognize conscious beings randomly or as we like, and estimate the proportion of the cognition empirically afterward, or presume it beforehand. Our judge over the standard of cognition itself is random.
It seems the national government has dealt the educational policy and administration as a domestic matter. As the global competition has soared, both governig process and its result cannot be measured by domestic standards only.