 Biohistory journal, Summer, 2004 |
| Biohistory journal,Summer, 2004: Index >Connecting understanding with values |
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| Dialogue/Narration Cosmohistory and Biohistory Connecting understanding with values Keiichi Kodaira and Keiko Nakamura | |
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| Dr. Kodaira said he wanted to think about outer space as Cosmohistory. When the meaning inherent in the words Biohistory Journal weren't understood, I think we received about a million allies. While the worlds of space and living creatures are different at base, they overlap in the vast reaches of history. My good dialog partner contemplated the narration that inevitably is born within me from a historicity that incorporates science (Keiko Nakamura) |
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Concluding the Dialog / Keiichi Kodaira |
| During my first year at university, Keiko Nakamura and I were involved in club activities together. We also share the same initials, and we really hit it off. Even after we pursued different paths, I was always very glad to see the course she pursued. Nakamura's statements in different settings were firmly backed up by her life experiences. Whenever I heard them, I thought, "That's right, that's right!" We often have opportunities to meet, but don't have the time for a relaxed conversation with our old, respected familiarity. This time, however, I was very happy to have the luxury of spending more than an hour with her while looking down on Tokyo in the lingering twilight from a Toranomon skyscraper. The subject of our conversation was Narration. There is a difference in nuance between the person who uses the expression and the person who hears the expression. Strictly speaking, it is a contradiction. If you allow for the difference, there is some breadth. In that breadth is the diverse development and spread of biological evolution and human relationships. This aspect was also present in our conversation, which I found interesting. It made me want to study Narration further as a means of scientific expression. |
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| Making something based on the understanding of value, hereafter, the scientific spirit linked to value will be very important. |  |
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It has more breadth than the number and volume of expressions in physics, but narrower than the range allowed to literary expressions. We would like to start Narration Science as a new kind of scholarship bringing together data, knowledge, and the phenomenon of life. |
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| From the editors |
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| Dr. Kodaira built the Subaru telescope, an eye pointed to the farthest reaches of outer space from the summit of Mauna Kea on the island of Hawaii. Kodaira is a practical man who has given science a form without being limited by boundaries. One of Director Nakamura's old friends, he also proclaims the idea of cosmohistory. Cosmohistory looks at 13.7 billion years in the macrocosm of space, while the Biohistory looks at 3.8 billion years in the microcosm of the genome. This year's Dialog between two histories is on the subject of Narration. Diversity in the 18th century was subject to reordering, but now diversity is seen as strength. Dr. Kodaira perceptively points out the relationship between the values and the means of scientific understanding of an era He affirms the history of astronomy, forcefully narrates his understanding of contemporary astrophysics, and, above all, insists that science is firmly rooted in society. We got a real sense that, as with the Biohistory, Cosmohistory is based on the knowledge of human beings as living creatures. There are promises in the phenomenon of life, thought they have not been formulated or codified in rules. Nakamura wants to use Narration to gather a scattered understanding into something that perceives the whole. Will narrative science, groping to systematize a vast amount of information beginning with the science of living creatures, lead to systemized diversity in a new understanding of space? Sufficiency is an old/new value narrated from negative feedback in the mechanisms of the molecules of living things. The micro and macro Narration is the current conditions of blessed humankind, told from the Milky Way and the solar system. Narration of the microcosm and macrocosm is simpatico with the understanding of the earth today and the evolution of life, as well as the values of humankind, which should be headed in that direction. A science has now become apparent that can elicit meaningful values from Narration on a large scale that links space, the earth, nature, life, and human beings. |
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| Keiichi Kodaira Born in Tokyo in 1937, Kodaira graduated with a degree in physics from the University of Tokyo's School of Science. He later earned a master's degree from the same university. Kodaira was awarded a doctor's degree from the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel in Germany, and later became a visiting researcher there and at the California Institute of Technology. He then held the position of associate professor of the University of Tokyo's School of Science and instructor at the Tokyo Astronomical Observatory. While serving as an instructor and head of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, he assumed overall responsibility for the Subaru telescope plans. Today, Dr. Kodaira is the President of the Graduate University for Advanced Studies. |
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