“We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the
world. We give little thought to the machinery that generates the
sunlight that makes life possible, to the gravity that glues us to an
Earth that would otherwise send us spinning off into space, or to the
atoms of which we are made and on whose stability we fundamentally
depend. Except for children (who don’t know enough not to ask the
important questions), few of us spend much time wondering why nature is
the way it is; where the cosmos came from, or whether it is always
here; if time will one day flow backward and effects precede causes; or
whether there are ultimate limits to what humans can know.”
-Carl Sagan from an introduction to A Brief History of Time By Stephen Hawking
After
hearing and reading your peer's reactions during class about the listed
quotation, what new insight can you add to this quotation analysis?
Please respond during your first class on Thur., Nov. 5th or Fri., Nov. 6th.
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
Metacognition?
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i think that mythologies and religions come from somewhere, we're born knowing nothing of the world but contrarily to the authors notes, i believe we come to gain our own sense of reality. Does this mean that our reality is the only one? definitely not! but a common thought may in some way evolve to be a fraction of reality. I think that there's a reason religions are formed and a reason why all of them have some version of the same god or gods and i think thats pretty cool! I find its really neat that we all grow up to think the same thing as at least one other person in some way! :)
- erin holland-long
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