SCIENCE AS A WAY OF KNOWING

Today in class we saw a video from Ted talks, talking about how useful is Science as a way of knowing. The guy doing the presentation though that science could be successfully as a way of thinking because of what we know about emotions and the brain. This made me think that maybe some day we would be able to know for sore what is morally good and what is not. This might happen because we know which parts of the brain relate to which emotion. There are electronics devices that can tell us which part of the brain reacts according different situations.  However I think that this is impossible; yes we are all equal physically, but not mentally. All of us have being through different situations that might have change our way of feeling and seeing life.

 I think there is not an actual way to prove that all humans react the same to different stations. I personally believe that even though science works as a way of knowing in many aspects, it helps us understand the tangible things of world, moral and feelings, in the other hand cant be determined by it. 

We are too much humans in this world, we all live in different ecosystems, and have to interact with different people, this sometimes causes diseases or alterations of the human body that make us different to others. If these alterations occur in our body, why cant it happen in our mind and in the way we react to emotions as well.

Here we have an article about a scientist called Edward Teller. The article talks about how science can be used as way of knowing, giving proves that morality, even though it seams impossible, might be easier than we think.

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/280/5367/1200.full

PERSUASION AND PROPAGANDA

We started our last tok lesson by talking about what is a propaganda and how is it used, and how persuasion is used in propaganda. We defined persuasion as to induce someone to do or believe something thorough reasoning arguments. Propaganda was defined as information used to promote political cause or point of view.

This lesson had me thinking that in our daily life we see propagandas everyday, all day and sometimes we are not even aware of it. I got scared when I started thinking that maybe I think the way I do because somebody wanted me to, somebody induce me to do it. It is true that we think the way we do because or parents taught us to do it, but they were induced by propaganda too. Our last tok class made me think a lot of weather the decisions that we make are truly our own or someone choose them for us. Deciding to have babes, deciding what food to eat, what cloths to wear, everything is influenced by either someone else or organizations such as the government. This made me realize that propaganda is not only used to advertise products or politic views, it made me realize that even we are creating our own propagandas all the time. We share our ideas and our ways of being with the world all the time. This ideas and ways of being might influence someones actions of decisions as well creating a chain reaction.

There is propaganda in the music we listen, schools, the books we read, movies, articles, everything, but who decides what to make public and what should people keep for themselves? But then who controls this? is the government actually controlling everything? or is it just part of human interaction?.

Here is an article that i found about human persuasion. This article teaches how to persuade people into thinking or believing in what you want them to believe. The writer gives advices that according to him will lead you to success.

Human persuasion leads to success


If techniques like this are using day by day by massive organizations human rights are being violated. Me might not be as free as we think we are.