domingo, 12 de septiembre de 2010

Descartes Blog

1. I agree with Descartes' statement because I believe that we cannot believe something unless we actually see it with our own eyes. If a person just believes it, then there is a big chance that they might be tricked and that it is not true.

2. I can connect this idea with History. In my opinion, most of things that happened in history, especially those that happened LONG ago are hard to believe. Some ideas of how and why they happened might exist, but for some on them, not even photographs are provided. It is hard to believe something that has no proof, especially something that you did not witness with your own eyes.
Also, this philosophy can be connected to Natural Sciences. While doing experiments and research, it is important to always see what is happening by yourself. For example, while testing something, it is important to always see what is happening and what the effects of what you are testing are with your own eyes. In order to do an accurate lab report, accurate and reliable information must be placed, involving you as an individual looking personally at what is happening and recording it, otherwise, the lab is not reliable.

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For example, dinosaurs. There is no video or photograph that dinosaurs existed. Yes there are fossils of their bone structure, but it is impossible to know it they are really in appearance as they are showed in movies and documental. With this video, we can see you there creatures have been computerized and animated so people can have an IDEA of what they might have looked like and how their environment was, but there will never be a way to find out how this creatures looked liked and how they acted. So you cannot really believe something, unless you really see it.



By this we can see the cycle on which a person observes, and what the responses to the stimulus are. This means that it is very important to observe, especially in professional lab activity, for example working on developing a new medicine. It is very important to observe how this is done and what the effects are clearly in order to re do it, or to repair what has been done badly.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixhIeF9_y-g
http://space.mit.edu/~roland/hans/F16_Observation_F.jpg

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