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I’m going to be honest with you all: when I was studying the IB (not too long ago I’ll have you know…), I would often moan to my friends about TOK. It wasn’t that I found TOK boring, far from it actually— I loved the full-blown arguments that would always ensue in a TOK class—
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A pretty nice video on the subject of why definitions are both worthless and very important. I don't agree with all the points expressed, but it's food for thought. Apparently, the creator of this video has a blog here.
TOK
A knowledge issue is like a hufflepuff. They are both particularly good finders, and none of us know what they do 95% of the time.
(special credit to myiblife for giving me the idea)
The break in Physics
I was thinking about physics today, and how it relates to our ways of knowing. A knowledge issue came up while I was thinking about it:
If two theories, both confirmed using Rationalism and Empiricism or any two other subsets of Reason or any other Way of Knowing, seem to contradict each other, which takes precedence?
The example that came to mind was Quantum Mechanics and Special Theory of Relativity. Both have been confirmed by mathematics and experience, but quantum entanglement and separation breaks the special theory of relativity. In fact relativity and QM seem to contradict each other often.
Another Knowledge issue that arises with Quantum Mechanics is in the many worlds theory. Pretty much, every time we make a measurement, another universe is "created" in which the measurement turned out differently. This brings up the issue of how do we know which is the "real" person.
More generally, "What defines humanity and humans?" Or "How do we define humanity and humans" or "What makes us human"
Hidden Realities
Recently, I've been reading Hidden Realities by Brian Greene which explains the physical rules allowing multiple universes while trying to simplify the math. It's a very interesting book, but also bring up many knowledge issues. The largest I noticed was this. There is a principle called the Anthological Principle. THe basis of this is that any astrophysical discovery we make must move us more and more toward averageness. Basically, we should and cannot be unique. The knowledge issue this brought up is Why must scientific discoveries prove humanity is average and not unique?
The book itself discusses how, most likely, we can never truly prove that multiverses exist, just that they are very likely or unlikely.
Finally, I'm currently reading about less is more in physics. If given the location of every atom, scientists do not know what it makes up. However, give him the basic shape of a lion, and the scientist knows its a lion. This brings up, "Is there a limit to the amount of information Humanity should attempt to unearth?"
Later, it is going to talk about artificial universes, but I'm not there yet. I'm just starting holographic universes.
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Fibonacci Numbers and Architecture
I was hearing about Fibonacci numbers and how people use them in architecture because they are aesthetically pleasing. I thought about whether we can truly know whether they are naturally pleasing, or we have interpreted and taught people that they are. I also wondered why they may be pleasing naturally if they are, and whether it is an evolutionary trait.
Time to start this paper...
Talking about knowledge issues IDGAF about. yay.
