In class we watched a short video called the Inventory of the invisible. It went over sense perception. It was easier to gain knowledge when there was a visual, it was also easier to understand. I was able to infer that, it is harder to understand things we cannot see, for example gravity. The video makes to Ignosticism is the idea that the question of the existence of God is meaningless, because the term "god" has no unambiguous definition. Ignosticism requires a good, non-controversial definition of god before arguing on its existence.
"The more light there is, the less you can see,"this was a very interesting quote I picked up from the video. When John Lloyd made a reference to the stars in the sky. Another thing we cannot see is time, I find it interesting that Lloyd brings up such a significant aspect of someones life - time, no one really understands it. That really opened my eyes in the sense that, I really did not understand much! Yet day by day, we accept some "laws" like gravity or genomes in Biology. Can we really accept these facts until they are fully proven to us? Apparently a grain of rice has about 18,000 more genomes than a human. When scientists delved into studying genome they guessed that we humans have about 100,000, and each time they significantly decrease that number.
The video continues to make reference to common things we "pretend"to understand like electricity. I found it really funny as many things we pretend to know and learn are based on assumptions that no one can fully prove. The two main questions we ask: "Why are we here?" and "What should we do about it while we are?" These were thought provoking questions made me think a lot about everything around us. What is the purpose of life? Are our lives going to continue like this forever? Or will we ever find a purpose or a meaning to this life.
Overall, the video makes many references to the importance of sense perception and the flaws in it as a WOK. It shows us the limitations and how it can help us understand and better gain knowledge. It also made me think of the numerous laws and theories that we believe yet we do not truly know or understand it, like electricity and gravity.
Lloyd, John. "Transcript of "An Inventory of the Invisible"" John Lloyd: An Inventory of the Invisible. Ted Talks. Web. 18 Jan. 2016.
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