1. What is the World State's Motto?
"Community, Identity, Stability."
2. Please describe Bokanovsky's Process. Why does The Director call it the "major instrument of social stability?"
An egg which has undergone the Bokanovsky Process, will "bud, proliferate, divide." The eggs are x-rayed for 8 minutes, and if they survive, they divide, multiplying by two, with each bud. The Director calls it "the major instrument of social stability" because they are able to produce ninety-six people, where only one was before, and everyone is so standard and average, that no one is ostracized or hurt for being different, and so there would be no hate crimes, because everyone is pretty much the same.
3. Why did the Director wish to keep the Epsilon "embryo below par?"
The Director wished to keep the Epsilon "embryo below par" because an Epsilon embryo "must have an Epsilon environment as well as an Epsilon heredity." This means that they decided that they cannot have simply one or two Epsilons, but just as many as Alphas, Betas, Gammas, etc., again, so that there is a place for everyone, and no one is isolated.
4. What does Mr. Foster mean when he says: "We condition them to thrive in heat...that is the secret of happiness of virtue - liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny."? How does this connect to what is happening in Rack 10?
The Director means that the fate of embryos they are creating and conditioning prepares them for what they will have to face in their lives. They make them happy to do what they need to do. They hate being cold, so they are happy when thy are warm, and are so happy to do their jobs. Each embryo they create is classified differently and will have a different social destiny, but they can be prepared, before their lives begin, to love whatever job they may have been created or classified to do.
This is connected to what is happening in Rack 10 because the embryos in Rack 10 are being conditioned to be able to handle toxins like lead, and chlorine, so that they can be chemical workers, as well as being separately conditioned to have a different sense of balance because they are "only truly happy when they're standing on their heads," so that they can handle rocket repairs in mid-air.
Monday, October 26, 2009
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Kali
Kali is the fearful and ferocious form of the mother goddess. She assumed the form of a powerful goddess and became popular with the composition of the Devi Mahatmya, a text of the 5th - 6th century AD. Here she is depicted as having born from the brow of Goddess Durga during one of her battles with the evil forces. As the legend goes, in the battle, Kali was so much involved in the killing spree that she got carried away and began destroying everything in sight. To stop her, Lord Shiva threw himself under her feet. Shocked at this sight, Kali stuck out her tongue in astonishment, and put an end to her homicidal rampage. Hence the common image of Kali shows her in her mêlée mood, standing with one foot on Shiva's chest, with her enormous tongue stuck out.http://hinduism.about.com/od/hindugoddesses/a/makali.htm
http://freethoughtpedia.com/images/Hindu-kali.JPG
Monday, October 5, 2009
Plato Notes
Book I:
Pg 21.
343b
Justice/Injustice
Injustice rules the just
“The just man everywhere has less than the unjust man.” The unjust man has no morals, no limits.
Juvenal
“What I want-I take- let my will take the place of reasoned argument.”
Justice: virtue, prudent, good, knowledge, wise, happy
- the soul’s virture is to purse the good
Injustice: vice, thoughtless, bad, lack of knowledge, ignorant, wretched
Book II:
Pg. 35
City→follow justice→Must be led by guardians
The Guardians:
- Swift
- Strong
- Philosophical king
Speech=Logic/Reason
Most important subjects for the young:
o Gym for the body
o Music for the soul
Censorship is good, because you can’t have kids believing gods are not perfect. We want the guardians to emulate the gods, so we do not want them to emulate something that is not good.
377c
378d
379d
382d→”we’ll not let the teachers use them for the education of the young, if our guardians are going to be go-revering and divine insofar as a human can possibly be.”
Book III
Pg93
Guardians: Gold
Auxliaries/Soldiers: Silver
Farmers/Merchants: Bronze and Iron
If a “gold” has a “bronze” or “iron” child or vice-versa, they must be separated, so as not to contaminate the “gold.”
Keep the metals separate.
Hitler used this idea of “gold”→ as being better than others.
P95 416d→Stalin used this idea of sharing→”Communism”
BookIV
p.97
p.106, 428a
Nature not nurture.
Guardians→Gold→Wisdom→smallest %
You cannot make a gold out of someone who was once bronze. Even if you have converted to Catholisicm, even if you only had a jewsih grandparent, you are still a Jew (Hitler ideal)
428c
Auxiliaries/Soldiers→Silver→Courage
429e-430a
“Don’t think we devised all that for any other purpose than that—persuaded by us—they should receive their laws from us in the finest possible way like a dye, so that their opinion about what is terrible and about everything else would be colorfast because they had the proper nature and rearing, and their dye could not be washed out by those lyes so terribly effective at scouring, pleasure—more terribly effective for this many than any Chalestrean soda and alkali;”
Farmers/Merchants→Bronze/Iron→Moderation.
With these three working together, you have a “Just City.”
Encouraging segregation
p.119
Thinks that all three things are found in everyone’s soul.
439d
“So we won’t be irrational…” to “…replenishments and pleasures.”
Three-part soul:
- Calculating (Reason)→Gold→Super ego, taught to you
- Loves, Hungers, Thirsts ([irrational] Desire)→Silver→ID
- Spirit→Bronze/Iron→ego, who you are
p.121
Have harmony of the three components in both the soul and in the Just City.
Book VII
p.193
allegory of the cave
Pg 21.
343b
Justice/Injustice
Injustice rules the just
“The just man everywhere has less than the unjust man.” The unjust man has no morals, no limits.
Juvenal
“What I want-I take- let my will take the place of reasoned argument.”
Justice: virtue, prudent, good, knowledge, wise, happy
- the soul’s virture is to purse the good
Injustice: vice, thoughtless, bad, lack of knowledge, ignorant, wretched
Book II:
Pg. 35
City→follow justice→Must be led by guardians
The Guardians:
- Swift
- Strong
- Philosophical king
Speech=Logic/Reason
Most important subjects for the young:
o Gym for the body
o Music for the soul
Censorship is good, because you can’t have kids believing gods are not perfect. We want the guardians to emulate the gods, so we do not want them to emulate something that is not good.
377c
378d
379d
382d→”we’ll not let the teachers use them for the education of the young, if our guardians are going to be go-revering and divine insofar as a human can possibly be.”
Book III
Pg93
Guardians: Gold
Auxliaries/Soldiers: Silver
Farmers/Merchants: Bronze and Iron
If a “gold” has a “bronze” or “iron” child or vice-versa, they must be separated, so as not to contaminate the “gold.”
Keep the metals separate.
Hitler used this idea of “gold”→ as being better than others.
P95 416d→Stalin used this idea of sharing→”Communism”
BookIV
p.97
p.106, 428a
Nature not nurture.
Guardians→Gold→Wisdom→smallest %
You cannot make a gold out of someone who was once bronze. Even if you have converted to Catholisicm, even if you only had a jewsih grandparent, you are still a Jew (Hitler ideal)
428c
Auxiliaries/Soldiers→Silver→Courage
429e-430a
“Don’t think we devised all that for any other purpose than that—persuaded by us—they should receive their laws from us in the finest possible way like a dye, so that their opinion about what is terrible and about everything else would be colorfast because they had the proper nature and rearing, and their dye could not be washed out by those lyes so terribly effective at scouring, pleasure—more terribly effective for this many than any Chalestrean soda and alkali;”
Farmers/Merchants→Bronze/Iron→Moderation.
With these three working together, you have a “Just City.”
Encouraging segregation
p.119
Thinks that all three things are found in everyone’s soul.
439d
“So we won’t be irrational…” to “…replenishments and pleasures.”
Three-part soul:
- Calculating (Reason)→Gold→Super ego, taught to you
- Loves, Hungers, Thirsts ([irrational] Desire)→Silver→ID
- Spirit→Bronze/Iron→ego, who you are
p.121
Have harmony of the three components in both the soul and in the Just City.
Book VII
p.193
allegory of the cave
Group 4 Reflection
1. What was your hypothesis?
Our question was: "How does the soil and the water from two sections in an estuary affect the organisms living in those sections?" We thought that the salinity and pH of both the soil and the water would affect the organisms in the each area, so we tested both from five different areas, in each section (the ocean and the creek).
2. Explain your experiences in gaining and testing evidence.
Any issues, with samples or equipment?
It was sometimes difficult and somtimes it was easy to get samples. It was more difficult the deeper in the water we had to go, especially because we didn't really plan for how cold the water would be. We also didn't expect to have to go as deep into the wate as we had to, in order to get the samples we needed. There wasn't really any problem with the equipment. Those in the group who were trained to use the labquest, did so, and using the core probe was not difficult nor complicated, so there weren't any real issues with equipment.
3. How was working in a group? What went well? What didn't?
Working in a group mostly went well. While we were at the estuary, we helped each other a lot. One of us would go to get samples while another tested. My ankle was really sore, and one of my group members helped me balance on the slippery mud, while I tried to get a sample from deeper in the water. Each person in our group contributed to the experiemnet in the field. However, our group sort of seems to be having problems coming together to meet. One person does not want to seem to cooperate by sacrificing some time or an activity, that others of us are, in order to meet. As a result of this, we will have to get more done in less time, as a group, and it seems like we will have to have some meetings where not everyone is present.
4. How do you know that you gained scientific knowledge? Was your data good?
I know that we gained scientific knowledge through Empiricism, because I saw the color differences in the soil from just one section we tested, so I know that the these different samples will yield results that may answer our question. I know through Knowledge by Authority that the instruments were accurate because Ms. Gallo, explained that they were. Our group will research our results and compare them to the measurements and other resluts posted by reliable sources (such as universities and scienetifi communties). I am not sure if our data is "good" yet, as our group has not analyzed it yet.
Our question was: "How does the soil and the water from two sections in an estuary affect the organisms living in those sections?" We thought that the salinity and pH of both the soil and the water would affect the organisms in the each area, so we tested both from five different areas, in each section (the ocean and the creek).
2. Explain your experiences in gaining and testing evidence.
Any issues, with samples or equipment?
It was sometimes difficult and somtimes it was easy to get samples. It was more difficult the deeper in the water we had to go, especially because we didn't really plan for how cold the water would be. We also didn't expect to have to go as deep into the wate as we had to, in order to get the samples we needed. There wasn't really any problem with the equipment. Those in the group who were trained to use the labquest, did so, and using the core probe was not difficult nor complicated, so there weren't any real issues with equipment.
3. How was working in a group? What went well? What didn't?
Working in a group mostly went well. While we were at the estuary, we helped each other a lot. One of us would go to get samples while another tested. My ankle was really sore, and one of my group members helped me balance on the slippery mud, while I tried to get a sample from deeper in the water. Each person in our group contributed to the experiemnet in the field. However, our group sort of seems to be having problems coming together to meet. One person does not want to seem to cooperate by sacrificing some time or an activity, that others of us are, in order to meet. As a result of this, we will have to get more done in less time, as a group, and it seems like we will have to have some meetings where not everyone is present.
4. How do you know that you gained scientific knowledge? Was your data good?
I know that we gained scientific knowledge through Empiricism, because I saw the color differences in the soil from just one section we tested, so I know that the these different samples will yield results that may answer our question. I know through Knowledge by Authority that the instruments were accurate because Ms. Gallo, explained that they were. Our group will research our results and compare them to the measurements and other resluts posted by reliable sources (such as universities and scienetifi communties). I am not sure if our data is "good" yet, as our group has not analyzed it yet.
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