If you had to create a new artificial language, what would you want this language to express? What linguistic features would your language have and why? Which new words would you create? Which concepts that you currently use in your language(s) would you discard? Are there any interesting new idioms you could think of? Would you have gender, tenses etc?
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Each man in this painting symbolizes one of the five senses. The old man with glasses and a mirror represents Sight. The chitarrone, a type of bass lute, stands for Sound. The blind man is symbolic of the sense of Touch. The jolly man with a glass of wine in his hand portrays Taste, and the elegant young man with a pipe and garlic, Smell. The garlic, wine, music and mirror refer to the fallacy of sensory perception and the transience of life.
If a tree falls in the forest, and there is no one/no animal to hear it, does it make a sound?9/19/2018 Watch the following clip from The Matrix. Would you take the blue pill or the red pill? Why? We have created algorithms so complex that they seem to be able to create a universe that no one really understands. We are at the point that "a new form of algorithm is moving into the world, which has “the capability to rewrite bits of its own code”, at which point it becomes like “a genetic algorithm”." When AI creates knowledge that surpasses human intelligence, what does this imply for knowledge and knowledge production? The following Guardian article raises many interesting TOK issues, ranging from the reliability of reason as a WOK, patterns and knowledge production, human bias and the limitations of human understanding, Have a good read through the article and come up with some observations or discussions that may be relevant to Theory of Knowledge classes. As always, feel free to contradict your peers, but be polite and professional whilst doing so.
Franken-algorithms: the deadly consequences of unpredictable code THE ARTICLE: CLICK HERE If people speak more than one language, is what they know different in each language?
Read the Guardian article on cortical colouring by clicking on this hyperlink. What issues or questions regarding the role of sense perception as a tool to gather knowledge can you raise after having read the article? What does the article make us think about in terms of the limitations of sense perception as a way of knowing? Does this have implications for how we rely on our senses when we want to gather knowledge in different subjects? You should illustrate your answers with further examples from the real world (eg from documentaries, articles, things you have come across in lessons).
In our TOK classes, we looked at different possible definitions and interpretations of knowledge. Remember the knowledge as a map metaphor? The definition of knowledge as justified true belief? Which one do you like best or least and why? How would you define knowledge?
The following quote comes from the May 2016 essay questions: "Without application in the world, the value of knowledge is greatly diminished." We have looked at Mathematics as an area of knowledge. This week, you should consider the quote in the context of Mathematics. You could consider some of the points of the TED ED video (was mathematics discovered or invented) we have seen in class. Please offer concrete, real-life examples to illustrate your points. We have been looking at Indigenous Knowledge systems and how these knowledge systems may differ from the ones we are more familiar with through our (Western) educational models and cognitive paradigms. You should now read Aslessa's article "The Other Way of Knowing" and think of some knowledge questions based on the article.
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