With Mirdan I investigate the boundaries between knowing and not knowing.
One of those boundaries is described by the chaos theory.
The chaos theory is about dynamic systems.
Simple systems can become unpredictable when elements react on each other.
Society is changing in many different ways.
We are in the middle of a transition from an industrialised economy to a network economy. The big political ideologies seem to be gone for good. We are also in the middle of an economic crisis and maybe at the start of an ecological one. Philosophy changed from certainty to post-modernism and maybe even to something after that.
The similarity between all those changes is the increase of uncertainty. Uncertainty is of course always part of changes, but it seems there is more to it.
When you know that you know nothing, but you give the not-knowing a name.
What happens then?
The Mirdan Project is an attempt to find out.
Pu means: Everything I don't know or understand at this moment.
Pu is an abstraction, comparable to R in math.
It's like a mathematical set of all mental components you classify as "don't know or don't understand". It has no counterpart in the real world, it only exists in your mind.
The contents of the mathematical R are the same for everyone. Sometimes hard to understand, but mathematicians can talk about it and create prove what it contains and should contain. It's at least inter-subjective, if not objective information.
There are borders where science and philosophy are not able to go beyond.
Some people don't like to look at those borders, they find it difficult to see that they exist.
Other people see those borders more clearly, but start fantasizing about their meaning and what is beyond. I don't think that that is a proper way.
The borders have a tendency to move, at least our view of those borders.