Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Powerful knowledge / Powerless knowledge

Knowledge Base by Paul's Picx
Knowledge Base, a photo by Paul's Picx on Flickr.
10 April 2011 at 18:09
Power knowledge that is produced by experts and scholars on the base of using skill and Technic of science it is said to be rational, everybody can retest and proof along the rule of mathematics that numerical value, on the contrary ,personal intuition cant be shared among many people because it is personal and it is said to be unscientific .science is one of style describe about phenomenon of nature but in the present it is extreme dominant.so personal intuition is disregarded.



 Local government beforehand set the evacuation point in the policy of handling disaster situation ,according to this framework many school yards and public parks is appointed to be safe place people must evacuate.
i had interview to some refugee in the Arahama and Nobiru seashore of Miyagi prefecture Japan.

According to one of refugee, it is the fact that many people died because they no doubt evacuated the place (gym of elementary school)government appointed.

Why ? it was not safe place? ....

We can say  there was safe place according to the explanation of the local government.and even now they can explain that place had been safe in the same way,perhaps you can get many information and data which can prove the place had been safe.These scientific data and information described on the base of numerical value manipulated by experts or scholars. It was very strong and powerful knowledge to people.

Of course they can advise to decision maker ,however ,at most cases they cant reach or take part in the process of decision making where is the best place to evacuate

On the other hand ,according to refugee's talk (as mentioned before),some people all survived however they didn't go to safe place (gym elementary school) government appointed because they had intuition that place is dangerous ,they felt that place same level height vertically from sea-level,and just go to another higher place. It was personal knowledge getting from their ordinary life, which is consist of observing the coast , changing waves, tide, sky , smell ,every little things.

Personal intuition or personal knowledge comes from long-term experience which is accumulated in the process of everyday, they may look access road narrow,may watch how wave come when wind blow,may look perspective as a whole,may take information from chattering with neighborhood,may smell something,may touch something,every moment is contributed to gather personal data as the base of his/her intuition.

Is it powerless knowledge ?

It is one of style or manner of describing nature just like 'science'. If so,why people did they claim to government at that time that place is dangerous?

 Because they did not have the word or manner of scientific way and just had a personal intuition .They can say only personal feeling they can not scientific explanation.and they think themselves intuition is subtle thing ,it had not worth saying.....the rest of that ,sound of silence.....

Science is one of manner or style to described phenomenon of nature as well as personal institution the modern age after Renaissance it is predominant. but not everything.It maybe possible to say 'scientific' explanation must be thought again or questioned again by personal intuition.

But I know some people criticize severely saying it is anachronism. 

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