MULTIPLE WORLDS REFLECTION - ETHAN
QUANTITATIVE - ETHAN DAYA
Do I still need to be quantitative still...am I still thinking in numbers...or do I get the chance to be analytical and look at the broad spectrum of what we have accomplished. Im going to guess the latter and if I’m wrong then blame it on the transdisciplinary model and its effect of my work ethic and processes.
This was without a single doubt in my interdisciplinary mind the most out there and alternative project I have ever worked on in my entire life. It was a very interesting style of assignment with equally as interesting and frustrating content. However this did definitely push me a long way out of my comfort zone.
This assignment was all about maintaining our disciplinary positions whilst working in an inter/trans/multi/intra disciplinary framework. This in reality is a near impossible process as our understanding are all formed by the use of all the types of knowledge we discussed. This is probably what the intention of this assignment was; to show us that the greatest results were not seen in the individual closed work but in the trans elements in which we are completely mixed and immersed in multiple disciplines.
The qualitative role I was assigned was ten times more difficult than I’d imagined. I struggled to find real resources to back up the theories and ideas proposed by my fellow team members. I really had to rely on them to point me in a different direction and give me ideas from their research to look for new facts. This meant that the more I tried to maintain my position the more isolated and difficult to work with I became.
Our best definitely arose out of collaborations; this was evident in the discussions we had together in the latter stage of our work as Hayden, Tim and I drummed out our knowledge and how they worked together, Kryten and I discussed the effects of dreams and our emotional influence. Without this collaboration and evolution from multi to intra / trans we would have never been able to come up with the ideas we did.
I think what we did well as a group was the contributions to each other and the latter development. It was evident to me very early on that the original idea of everyone researching on their own was a very bad idea because it meant we were all spiralling off in random directions and weren't actually trying to legitimise a point...which was our problem.
Our final idea of testing people to prove what reality they were in seems kinda cool and I was quite pleased with the highly simple logic and black and white facts I could use to back it up. But realistically its highly theoretical and there’s no proof or a hive coexistent mind, other temporal dimensions or dream states...its all theoretical.
As I’ve said before in the land of quantitative this would be a solid fail. But it isn't just about me; marginalizing our positions isn't necessarily done by working or learning about other ideas. Maybe its the reverse but the more knowledge we observe in order to help us understand our own hat or knowledge goal would be highly beneficial.
I did enjoy this project especially the way we transferred from one field or way of collaboration. We began as mulit, transformed to intro and finished in the creation of a single trans outcome with input from each team member to form what we believe in some ways to be true.