Howdy.
For this week, we had a handful of readings (too many, maybe?) that all seemed somehow linked to medicine. “Slow Ideas” was specifically an interesting one because, for me, because it was so deeply rooted to a human truth. As technology advances and new fancy, sleek, glimmering pieces get released people seem to forget that they all relate to some specific human truth, and those products who fail are the ones that lose their path along the way and end up focused on something superficial. For “Slow Ideas” that truth was connection and human contact.
For the Whitman reading, it was all about how we are all parts of a bigger whole (within ourselves). He was fixated on the fact that mind and body are one, while all these other scientists kept running around measuring foreheads and deciding whether or not you were an idiot–I have a feeling I would’ve reacted the same way as Whitman did, but who knows.
In “The Elusive Theory of Everything” it’s all about our perception of reality. A human truth for sure, but an individual one. How will I ever know if my reality is the same as someone else’s?
All very interesting and somewhat enlightening. I struggle to see the relationship to our projects though… did I miss something or was this just to get us to thinking about different things and different perspectives? Maybe it does relate after all.
Your blog posts are very redolent of your personality – Paula – really thoughtful and honest. I like reading them.
No – not too many readings! Ok – maybe I assign a lot to read but I want you to be exposed to a variety of ways of looking at the world and then hopefully migrate some of them into the work you do in this class (and hopefully next to and beyond it). You landed on the takeaway from each – which in its most reductive form – illuminates the value of filtering your ideas through myriad lenses in order to build more layers and substance into your idea.
You have good instincts – as evidenced by your trajectory of methane to CAFO’s – now the key is shifting the topic even more into a territory that is unique – both to you and the subject matter at large.
Nice work.