Stetoscope

Writing my last post “I do not beleive in truth”, I figured out that I melted two ideas (at least). One is the impossibility for any human being to establish “truth” and the other point was the superiority of discussion over any synthesis effort.

This last idea is fundamental as to me. I remember my old philosophy lesson with the teaching system of Socrate that was all based on discussion, dialogue. May be I have been too much influenced by how I pictured it. I had the idea of walks, under the sun,… Anyway, it is incredibly rich to follow a discussion because all the aspects of a argumentation are fully developed. And I think that somehow, on twitter, facebook, blogs, friendfeed, the real benefit is the discussion and the pleasure to discuss.

Within pearltrees we are thinking about pulling down some fences between seperated discussion to create one global discussion about a single topic (the topic would be the pearl). Today any user (if logged) can comment any pearl. So discussion exists on a pearl. The question becomes more complexe when two users have the same pearl in their own account. Today, the discussion are localised and melted even if it is the same pearl that is discussed. The idea now would be to melt any conversations about a same pearl.

I think it is very interesting and that would postulated that discussion is the benefit.