J. DeVore

Discuss the implications of acknowledging our limitations in knowledge for personal growth and intellectual development.

I think that when it comes to personal growth and intellectual development there is power and weakness. There is power because knowledge is power because it lets us know the world that we are then affecting. There is weakness in knowledge because it can cloud your gudgement of the world and what you have learned so far about the world. Acknowledging your limitations you are saying that you are ready for correction and making progress toward your personal growth. The limitations that we set upon ourselves help us with our personal growth through the seeing of mystery in life. By stating that we know little we are saying that we want to know more and that makes us want to learn more. The fact that we are wanting to figure out why we don’t know things is the reason that we want to learn more. Knowing the world's limits is knowing the knowledge that we have learned in the world. Even by making our brain more advanced we still have limits to certain imits in the world. Having limits are beneficial because they push our brains to grow and develop more with diffrent and new things to learn by using different technology.

Analyze the relationship between the scientific and the mystical as presented in the text. Do you agree with the author's perspective? Why or why not?

I agree with the author’s perspective. I agree because the relationship between scientific and mystical is a part of the world and the knowledge that we have learned. Mystical is related to science because in science if we don’t know something then there is a feeling of mystery. When we don’t know something it is like we are a part of a mystery in the world. No matter how much mystery is solved by science there will always be mystical things in the world. Having mystical things in the world is always going to be a mystery. For example we have no idea what matter is but we have thought of what matter is like: we don’t really know what it is made up of even though we have concepts like protons, neutrons, and electrons. Even though scientific questions about matter exist we still have mystical questions in the world. The part of us that thinks is not always conscious of the matter that is in the world and the mystical part of the world. Reality is a mystery and even the scientist who studies this mystical field does not know it. No matter how much a scientist learns they keep coming back to a mystery.

Analyze the author's argument against invoking quantum physics to explain coincidences. Do you agree with his assessment? Why or why not?

I think that quantum physics can have a part in coincidences because why not? Quantum physics can have a part of coincidenses because quantum physics is a part of the universe. Quantum physics says that a particle can both be in a place and not be in the same place at the same time: therefore quantum physics allows consciousness to decide where things end up. Therefore cosciousnesses can make coinicidences happen. The author agrues that we do not need quantum physics because math and statistics state that coincidences will happen every month or so. The reason behind this argument is that because math and statistics will measure coincidences in the world and find that a person will experience a coincidence every thirty five days out of the year. This means that coincidences really happen around the world naturally.  But just because math and statistics say that coincidences can happen does not mean that quantum physics can’t also make coincidences happen in the world. Maybe some coincidences just naturally happen but other coincidences happen because the mind makes them happen. This is why I don’t agree with the author about his statement and why quantum physics can maybe bring coincidences. It's a mystery.