Outside Context Problem

A außerkontextuelles problem is a term used by Iain M. Banks introduced in his novel Exzession.

A außerkontextuelles problem is a problem that can not be understood in the context of the perceiver. Thus, take any measures against the perceiver.

For example: for a smaller, more with their own things employed civilization, the discovery by a larger one außerkontextuelles problem. For two-dimensional imaginary beings encountering three-dimensional beings would be a außerkontextuelles problem. These types of problems occurred in the course of human history on this. The arrival of people from industrialized countries, such as in aircraft, provides for pre-industrial cultures such dar.

Although Iain Banks has introduced the term in 1996, the concept of außerkontextuellen problem is quite widespread in science fiction literature. It is, among other things in Flatland ( Edwin Abbott Abbott, 1884), Solaris ( Stanislaw Lem, 1961) and 2001: A Space Odyssey taken ( Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick, 1968). Even Arthur C. Clarke's third law puts the idea in general terms to the expression: " Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. "

• Epistemology
• Perception