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Post by Victor Tjie on Mar 15, 2015 21:52:20 GMT
Since Professor Lane hasn't made a week 3 topic yet and apparently I was authorized to do so. Everyone post your week 3 tests here. Remember to put your name somewhere on your post, site, or profile  Code:22-2 1. I’ve known about the multiverse theory for a few years now, so it’s not surprising to me if the universe we live in is part of a larger multiverse. I feel like it would be misleading to call the one we live in a “universe” because it feels like it forcefully implies that there is only one large “verse” overall. It should be something like “a verse” within a multiverse in that context. Onto the second part, being made of atoms and smaller stuff isn’t new news to me either. Most children are taught that they’re made of smaller things by the time they’re in elementary or middle school. It does however lead to more questions arising about who were are, where we came from and what our purpose is as humans in this world. It’s actually quite amazing how even though we can discover so many things through science, we can never accurately explain how this world works. 2. A deeper understanding on chance alters the philosophy on life because you can then perceive life as nothing but a game. Similar to how gamblers take risks when they play at casinos to profit, humanity does just by existing. In the end, because of chance life is no different than a table game or slot machine in a casino. Everything is up to chance, we have no control over it. However, just because everything is based on chance does not mean we have the same success ratios fixed in for everything. Our existence has one thing that helps us fight against pure chance and that is manipulation. We can manipulate certain factors of any aspect in life to give us a higher chance of succeeding instead of failing. Take for example school; success is still highly random whether or not you graduate from a college or university or not. The route that one takes after a higher education is completed however, is a manipulated route that favors a higher chance of success compared to one that does not complete a higher education. 3. Science helps us appreciate life because it helps us answer some questions that we have regarding it. It may not be able to answer all the questions we ask it, but it can at least leave us partially satisfied with what it can answer. One particular thing that I enjoyed learning with science was the Law of Infinite Probability. It’s not very practical in use but I enjoy the idea of how putting something within a certain situation can eventually lead to a highly sophisticated task eventually being done given an infinite amount of attempts. I like to play around with this concept by joking around saying “by sitting here in my room in front of this computer, I may eventually become super successful by doing my normal things that I enjoy.” It’s more of a theory that fuels dreams over reality but in my opinion, it helps make life slightly more tolerable and enjoyable putting it in a gambling chance perspective like this one. |
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Post by johnnylovesjune on Mar 15, 2015 22:06:23 GMT
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Post by James Furlow on Mar 15, 2015 23:12:14 GMT
1. Having known about a multiverse theory for some years now actually makes me feel no different when I think about it now. I’m actually quite intrigued by the concept of a multiverse because to me that means that every possible outcome exists in some world. When you combine the multiverse theory with the infinite probability theory you get you get some really interesting outcomes. The most interesting of these in my opinion is that you actually get a universe where the multiverse theory is proven wrong, meaning that there are no other universes. Knowing that I’m made up of nothing more than “atoms and material stuff” also doesn’t change my own self-conception. I can only perceive myself as what I see, and feel, and think of myself. Knowing that I’m made of something I can’t exactly interact with has no influence on my thinking, because why should I care about something I can’t influence at all.
2. Probability has always fascinated me; one of my all-time favorite theories is the infinite probability. Knowing that Quantum Mechanics is probability makes it all the more interesting to me. Understanding that chance is the basis of all outcomes in the universe can lead you to think about some interesting things. You can understand that a higher power doesn’t influence day to day happenstance. You can also come to the conclusion that through infinite probability chance as you might think about it isn’t quite there anymore. If you think about every possible outcome to any given action is in a list or array, the chance isn’t exactly that one of them can happen, but rather which one will happen. You can think of it as if every action you make includes throwing an astronomically sided dice and whichever side it lands on is which outcome you get.
3. I feel like having an understanding of science or any given field will give a deeper appreciation for what those fields produce. In the example of “Feynman’s Flower” an artist could say that knowing the science of a flower diminishes the beauty of it. In the counter to this, understanding the science of the flower allows you to know what’s happening on far more levels than just the surface like what an artist might know. This is applicable to any given art form or object. Someone can appreciate a computer as this every day device, something that they use all the time and can’t live without, but someone that knows about all of the hardware and the software that is being used by the computer can probably appreciate it a lot more. For an example from my own life, I’m learning computer programming. In learning how to write code, I actually tend look at games and whatnot and think about a line of code might be written for certain event or action. I feel like this allows me to have maybe not a deeper appreciation, but a sense of appreciation from a perspective much more different than normal.
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Post by tjhartwig on Mar 15, 2015 23:50:55 GMT
Week 3 Film Questions 22-2 Question 1 If we were truly living in one realm of a "multiverse," then I would be reminded of how small this world really is. It would spark my curiosity to know what the other dimensions were like even if I could not understand them. I can appreciate myself so much in a new way knowing how many parts make up my being. It humbles me knowing that I cannot even understand what I am made of, however it gives me a newfound awe for my creator. Question 2 When one understands chance, they can then make decisions based on what may happen. This allows one to rely on uncertain outcomes rather than facts because of the certainty of chance. It also removes guarantees and promotes the saying, "Anything can happen on any given day." Question 3 I very much agree with Feynman about being able to appreciate the scientific beauty of things. I often see the visual beauty things give off, which is great; however, there is a new appreciation that can be gained when a process or scientific meaning of an object is obtained. For example, I appreciate the human body and its creation the more I learn about it. The fact that everything works so perfectly, cohesively, and purposefully blows me away. sites.google.com/site/tuckerhartwig/ |
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Post by pguirguis3 on Mar 16, 2015 0:51:40 GMT
Week 3 Test 22-2
1. The conception of having another multiverse doesn’t really seem realistic to me. But when I do open up my mind to think that our universe might be one of an infinite amount of other universes, it interests me to think about how life would be in that multiverse. How would we act, how would that universe look like, or would it all be the same exact thing as to what we are living in right now.
2.My deep understanding of chance in life goes as so. Chance is explained to be, “the possibility of something to happen”. So when you are making a certain decision on a certain part of your life, you start to say to yourself, Oh, if I do this, then this certain thing will happen because of my decision. So basically, when you try to understand the concept in a more deep understanding, you realize that theres a chance to literally every decision you make in your life. Every single decision you make. Theres a probability of something happening with that choice.
3. Science gives you a deeper and more detailed understanding of everything in life, literally everything. It lets you see the beauty in the process, how and why things happen. It allows you to be more appreciative because you're understanding why these things happen. One thing that has happened in my life that has to do with understanding life more through science was learning how to develop a more healthy lifestyle. The mainstream advice is to just eat healthy foods, to adopt a vegan lifestyle. But when you learn to research more, you learn that you need to eat more than just what everyone says. You learn to incorporate carbs, foods with protein, whole grain foods, into your diet, while you exercise to maintain the most healthy lifestyle you could possibly have. That revealed to me a more beautiful understanding of how our bodies work, the science impressed me and caused me to learn more.
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Post by bambino on Mar 16, 2015 0:58:04 GMT
Film Test #3
Code: 22-2
1. I find it fascinating to think that all we are is just tiny little atoms that stick to one another and somehow know the right way to jiggle. However, macroscopically we are organisms that function and have the ability to think, move, and converse with one another, because of a series of chemical compositions that elicit life. Knowing that I’m made up of all these things can be quite deep to think about, even at the microscopic cellular level.
2. When I think about the word, quantum mechanics, I think about people like Einstein and Heisenberg, and I know if I will ever come close to such intelligence, it would only be by chance. The definition of chance to most of us means, accidental, or the possibility of something happening, yet it can happen at any given moment. Knowing that I’m here by chance makes me feel like a superstar, but was it for a reason? Or was it because matter was jiggling the right way, and is all based on chance. I once was taught in a science class long ago that energy equals everything, and that energy can’t be created or destroyed, it just changes forms. Which can be a little frightening to understand because that makes me immediately think that if energy changes forms then ghosts probably do exist, and has me wanting to smack myself, just kidding.
3. Science is beautiful, it is so much more than what you, or others can perceive it to be, much like a flower in which can be broken down into smaller components. Even when it comes down to our very own bodies, the science of the human body is quite magical. Our bodies are made up of many types of connective tissues, like our bones and blood, but what I find the most intriguing is that our body has tons of muscles, and tendons that move voluntarily and involuntarily, for example our heart is a hugely important muscle that contracts involuntarily, that is much different from our arms and legs, in which we have voluntary control over and move whenever we please. Think about if we had to constantly tell, or make our heart to beat and it just didn’t happen on its own, we would be exhausted! Our bodies is what I find most beautiful about science, down right to the tiny atoms that jiggle at the base of my heart.
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Post by alectaylorr on Mar 16, 2015 2:24:44 GMT
22-2 Film Exam Question: (Week 3) (1) The conception of living in a multiverse makes me question the way we got here and how we originated and what created everything that we have. Having knowledge of being made up of atoms just makes me further question how we got here and why. (2) The deep understanding of chance would make me understand the actions and results of certain aspects I go through each day, having my consciousness more aware of the probability of situations. I would probably live my life with more knowledge and wisdom. (3) Science broadens my appreciation of life and beauty by giving me more facts and detail about certain objects of my interest . An example of where I have found something out from science that made me appreciate something more would have to be the ever expanding universe and how we are living in a infinite space along with moons and stars and the fact that there is a possibility of life outside earth. sites.google.com/site/ataylor4130/ |
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Post by dhgmustang on Mar 16, 2015 2:46:26 GMT
Week 3 Film Code: 22-2 1. I really have never thought about a multiverse too much until this class and videos. It is very interesting to think there are other universes out there. To think I could be somewhere else right now this second doing maybe the opposite choices I have made or maybe I don’t exist there yet I don’t know. It is very interesting to think about and wrap your mind around but I enjoy it. Knowing I’m made up of atoms doesn’t get me all freaked out or anything, it just makes me wonder how much deeper can science keep going. If you truly think about it how much farther can we get in the next 20 years. 2. Understanding chance in a philosophy way is pretty interesting. The chance of getting to where I am this very second if I think about it was slim to none. Everyday we all have a chance of not making it to the next day. If you also think about applying it to real life you might take chances. Every choice you make there is a chance it can go either way. 3. Science to me makes me see the beauty in life in general. To think the sun is so far away but yet it doesn’t heat up the earth too much to fry us nor does it cause us to freeze up like an ice age. It is pretty awesome to think about once you do. It is not like the sun has a brain to know when to heat up just right. Science to me gives you the beauty of understanding life in a different form then when you once did before. sites.google.com/site/ryansworkhistory/ |
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Post by henry on Mar 16, 2015 3:13:42 GMT
Film Test #3 22-2
1. Knowing that we are just made up of atoms, there could be anything out there throughout the entire universe that we have absolutely no clue about. It makes me feel curious about if there are other living species out there. Also being made up of atoms and other materials, it creates an image of myself that I never imagined of how I could be a reactant in this world. I don't think it changed the conception I had for myself cause we all have our purpose in life, we just don't know what it is yet.
2. A deeper understanding of chance alters only a little bit of my philosophy on life because allowing myself to think that bad things won't happen that often all depends on where I am or what I'm doing and there's millions of different outcomes that my decision could bring. I think as long as I am happy with myself then I don't think I would have a problem unless every single thing in life is based on chance. There are some things that we can control instead of leaving it to chance which allows ourselves to seize the opportunity. People also calculate things in their life so there are some things that are not based on chance but I believe that some part of our life is.
3. Science broadens my appreciation of life and beauty by allowing us to see and understand things that we have not before. When I found out that we necessarily make our body function but chemical reactions within our body does so I appreciated that my body did and does have the reactions to keep me functioning. Also, electricity is something i appreciate because without it then most of the things we have now would not be available and technology wouldn't have made such a big impact as it has now.
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Post by saifnisar on Mar 16, 2015 4:30:37 GMT
Saif Nisar
Philosophy 5
Professor David Lane
15 March 2015
Code 22-2
Film Test 3
Question 1)
The concept of a multiverse makes me feel lesser, but not in a bad way. It makes me feel lesser in sense that the more we know or find out about us or the world, the less we actually know about ourselves or the world we live in. An example of how I feel would be, say you’re playing a video game. You are really good at that video game, so you go on to YouTube and you search new strategies about the game. The more and more you do research you find out there is so much you didn’t know about the game, so out of curiosity you do even more research and you find out you know even less, so you keep searching and it just becomes an endless cycle of endless possibilities, and that is how I feel and I’m sure most philosophers feel about this world. “Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.” Most people forget that second part.
Question 2)
Chance and probability is what drives us to do the things that we do. If there is a chance that there is an afterlife, it’s better to be safer than sorry.
Question 3)
My mother always says, “I kept you in my stomach for 9 months…” Yadah yadah yadah. But isn’t that science. Feynman describes the flower as being beautiful through cells and the structure. Same thing for me, when I look at my mother I realize how much she went through just for me. She had to physically carry me in her stomach for 9 months, feeding me, and letting me kick her, and I could only imagine the pain of her pregnancy. But people should not just love their mothers because they are simply their mothers, but they should appreciate everything they have gone through and done for them.
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Post by lindareyna17 on Mar 16, 2015 5:01:20 GMT
22-2
1.The conception of multiverse makes me feel like I’m just another part of the universe. It means that at some level I am no more important than other living begins. Knowing that what we consider to be “reality” as in how the universe works isn’t true everywhere. We all have the basic understanding that in our ‘reality” gravity pulls things down, no matter where you are on earth or in another galaxy and this has always been true in those parts and always will be true but “outside” of what we consider to be “everywhere” maybe gravity pushes you up instead of down.
2. While Quantum Mechanics is based on probability and unpredictability, it also states that unpredictability is predictably unpredictable. The natural state of things is to have no form. For example, your personality, when you are talking with someone you have a personality. Maybe you’ll talk to someone and have a certain personality like being nice, and then the next day that same person will talk to you and your personality might be different. Personality can be altered when talking to someone, a person can go from being nice to being mean. As long as that person is talking to you they can predict when you’ll become mean because they can feel you getting meaner Although if they talk to you and you’re nice and then they go away they won't know for sure how you’ll be next time because they don't know what happened to you in between. In that case, what if you’re completely alone? What is your personality? Well Quantum Mechanics states you don’t have one. When you’re in isolation, you have no “form’, your “form” only exists when it has to and what it will be is predictably unpredictable.
3. Relating to “Freyman’s Flower”, I have learned a lot of new things from this class that have made me appreciate certain subjects and theories of life. For example, when professor Lane discussed about how we don’t really know anything to its core. When we look out into space and see the stars, we see the stars as how they use to be, not as how they are at the moment. Our eyes receive information through waves that have are bounced around surrounding objects to then reach our eyes and then go through the process of our brain retrieving the information and thus finally seeing to initial object. This sort of sparked my curiosity of how our universe functions and all of the hidden layers and secrets to it.
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Post by kdot22 on Mar 16, 2015 5:09:47 GMT
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1) Knowing the fact that we live in a multiverse is in fact something amazing because we don't know where we are exactly in the steam of universes. We can be at the top of the multiverse latter or we can be at the bottom or in the middle of it. Also the fact that everything consist of matter is also amazing because what if our matter is different in the other universe. What if I myself am a world record holder in surfing but yet I don't know anything about surfing. I feel that it is interesting that one does not know exactly how we are in different universes.
2) Quantum mechanics has changed my philosophy on life by not thinking everything has a set plan but rather having the chance to change. I myself have noticed that we have the same atoms but we are not all exactly the same. The fact that we all have similarities but we are different by chance, which i mean that the possibility of one of us to be exactly the same is very little to none even with twins.
3) Science is a beauty that is always getting pushed away because it is misunderstood. If you look at a star you will just think it is a bright spot in the night sky. The thing is that if you being to understand the star and the fact that some spit out a stream of hot gas from the middle is amazing. This just makes you wonder what how long can it burn of gas or the colors it makes by the different mixture of gases.
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Post by jesspark on Mar 16, 2015 5:19:00 GMT
Film Test 22-2
Question 1
There is a book called “Gods” written by Bernard Werber, a French novelist. This book is about people fighting to become gods. The protagonist consistently questions about the gods and himself. At the very end of the book, the protagonist realizes that everything he knew about was just a part of a book and he is just nothing more than a dot that makes up a word. This maybe a little out of context but when I read this book, which I was 14 years old, my mind was blown away. I imagined how it would feel when you found that you were nothing more but a character in a story and there are in fact different universes that operated differently from our universe. Actually, the multiverse theory does explain a lot of why some things cannot be explained by anything; not even science. It is reasonable to think there are limits to all knowledge. Math and Physics have proven themselves to not be perfect and there are limitations to their knowledge. However it might be a possibility that the fifth dimension or the sixth dimension or any other dimension might be able to explain things that we cannot understand. I do not understand about myself; more specifically about my body. I do not understand why we are composed with cells rather than something stronger or what my chromosomes have that make me unique to others. However, the idea of the multiverse, makes my imagination go wild thinking our universe that we know may just actually be part of something bigger than we can imagine; maybe a part of another specie’s atom.
Question 2
My philosophy of life is “Anything is possible. Have an open heart and you will gain more.” The deeper understanding of quantum mechanics just gave me better knowledge about the world that we live in; everything is based on a chance.
Question 3
To me, science showed how precious everything is because there were one in a billion chances of us being present. For example, when I found out about the possibility of life not being present by the position of the earth, I was amazed of how the earth was in harmony when in actuality this might not have happened at all. I was also amazed by air; about how fascinating it was to carry exactly what we needed to survive and how because air was present, everything existed. If there was no air, there would be no life, or cycle of water, or anything in fact. The place where I am sitting to write this would be nothing more than just space in the universe.
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Post by Perrywinkle on Mar 16, 2015 5:23:04 GMT
Code 22-2
Question 1
This is oddly similar to the question previously that encouraged us to consider Nietzsche's myth of eternal recurrence. My answer will be very similar as well. The concept of a multiverse does not really make me feel differently than I normally do. Of course, such a theory is quite interesting, and it would be nice to learn of it what I can understand. However, it has no effect on my life directly right now, so I am ambivalent towards it.
Keeping in mind that I am made of atoms and material things, I feel rather pleased. Being made of things that can be studied means that I can understand myself scientifically.
Question 2
Life consists of quite a bit of chance. Of course, what is sometimes called chance on the macroscopic level is usually merely ignorance. I do not mean that with a negative connotation. Suppose you are driving past an intersection, and a car from the cross street runs the red light and rams into you. You may wonder to yourself, "What bad luck I have to be the driver that got hit!" But that situation is not chance. That situation could have been observed and possibly predicted. If someone were to be spying on you and that driver that day, perhaps he could have seen the circumstances leading up to the accident. Maybe the two of you left your houses at the same time. Maybe you pass by each other on that intersection (legally) every day on your daily routines. But today he was in a hurry, was trying to phone his boss about tardiness, and thus failed to pay attention to the red light. Thus it could have been predicted to some degree. Chance may be an basic and essential part of the atoms that make us, but it has rather less effect in general life.
Question 3
When I was a child, I used to wonder at a bucket full of water and small pail. I would turn the pail upside down and push it into the bucket of water. I would hold it down until it hit the bottom, then release it. The pail would shoot up somewhat explosively, and the water seemed to collapse in on itself to fill the hole of air the pail created. I never did appreciate the buoyant force more.
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Post by joselynhernandez on Mar 16, 2015 6:16:47 GMT
Question 1.
Although I find the theory of the multiverse quite fascinating, I can't say that It particularly makes me feel any different because I don't believe it directly affects me in THIS universe. Knowing I'm made up of atoms and material stuff only furthers my belief that this body we live in is purely temporary and what we truly are isn't something psychical.
Question 2.
When you have a deep understanding of chance you would have no choice but to look at life as a game, much like the slots in vegas or a game of cards where someone is gambling money. Although this doesn't mean that anything that COULD happen, WILL. It's still up to you to make choices which will affect the outcome. Take for an example a pair of dice. Once you throw that pair of dice it could land on any of the six sides, but you're still the one who threw the dice. I think this question so interestingly coincides with the first question, because one outcome here could be the complete opposite in a different universe. So it's like no matter what every possible scenario and outcome will take its course but the question is in what universe.
question 3.
we aren't asked to be born, but it happens. But the science of how we get here is something quite beautiful. Out of the billions of sperm, only ONE makes it to the egg and from that a new life comes into existence. Its funny how this question also goes hand in hand with the previous question, because what are the chances that the one little sperm that made it to the egg was the one that created you. It's all just random chance. We're all here by chance.
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