Monday, April 12, 2010
The Reality Tests
“Do we create what we observe through the act of our observations?” (Roebke, 230). My parents always told me "don't judge a book by it's cover." Just because you do not see something does not mean it does not exist. For example, we only see the moon at night but it is invisible during the day because the sun and moon are overlapping. It is like questioning whether or not the Earth is "flat". I did not take physics, but I do know there are scientific or historical reasoning behind how something is created or observed by scientists. When we read a book, we cannot just read the surface of the book, we have to interpret or find the meaning behind the meaning. It is like finding the underlining theme of Twelfth Night in each sonnet. We need to pick important key words that may mean something because it could be relevant to why we think the way we do.
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We do have to realize that science goes so much further than what our eye can see. Tell us more about your earth isn't flat metaphor because I think it would really work if you could relate it a little more to the text. How we analyze literature such as The Twelfth Night completely relates to how we have to research and look deeper into things we see because not everything is as simple as the simplicity of what we can see with our eyes.
ReplyDeleteSome things just are. Just because we cannot see or explain something does not mean it does not exist. This I agree with. People are always searching and looking for the deeper meaning behind things. "Testing reality" I feel is the peak of science. Scientists are testing whether or not reality is real or if what we think is real is a reality we have created. The latter implies that our reality has been invented more or less. In this case I feel that the "scientific conclusion" is that if our reality is unreal then the TRUE reality is that our reality is made up. Confusing isn't it?!
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