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Post by sochoa15 on Jun 10, 2015 18:35:18 GMT
Film Test-5 Code: 97654
.“Neuroethical Argument for Vegetarianism” Neuroethical argument for vegetarianism is the belief that animals have central nervous system and that they feel the exact same pain and suffering while being slaughtered. I do agree the argument for vegetarianism, because animals do have central nervous system and they do feel pain, but that does not necessarily mean people will stop eating animals. I believe that people eat animals even though they know they suffer and being tortured because it is a natural way of eating and gaining proteins and all living things have their niche and being cooked and eaten is one of their purpose. Though people are sympathetic about their sufferings, not seeing them being tortured and slaughtered justifies it that it is okay to eat animal, or eat faces.
“Remainder Conjecture”
Remainder conjecture is that belief that everything science can be proved but meanwhile there is no logical or scientific way to resolve a predicament. The way this work is think of puzzling problem and all the possible logical, scientific way of solving this does not fix the problem and we are remain with nothing but unsolved problem that remain thing we do is the remainder conjecture. One example might be the belief of ghost or the UFOs. There are plenty of explanation or possible scientific way to solve this, but there is no definite explanation to this controversy.
“Grain of wild Rice”
It is learned that humans and grain of wild rice are somehow genetically connected from the beginning of our ancestors. This information changes how we see things and how we react to things. The way we will start to look at things is that we are all connected somehow which will lead us to believe that all things work the same exact way. We all grow and we all have purpose in this world.
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Post by sochoa15 on Jun 10, 2015 18:35:40 GMT
Film Test-6 Code: 97ddd
What are the strongest arguments for the universe being a computational simulation?
One of the strongest arguments that the universe is being a computational simulation is how fast our technology is growing. From cell phones, computers, movies etc. There is an incredible amount of technology in the reach of our hands and every day is changing. Technology is becoming so real that it is hard to tell the difference from an illusion or reality. We are starting to depend on it more and more, it seems that the more advanced the technology is we depend on it the most. The way technology is growing and the more dependent we are on it in a near future we will be completely interacting with computers and smart devices.
Do we read more or less today? Why? Explain your generational view on reading books
Today, I would say I read more and when I say I read I do not specifically mean the texts or emails in my phone. I do read books, I do not know if it is because of school, but I do enjoy reading. My generation I feel like they are reading less and less every day. Technology has facilitate the reading to us in smart devices like a tablet, cell phones, laptops pretty much any smart device now allows you to read a book on line. I feel like my generation does not feel the need to pick up a book and read no more because even when school requires reading we think there is Google that has all the answers. My generation read less now because it is way easier to pick up a cell phone and search the answer than pick up a book and read 100 pages to find the answer.
What technology do you use most? Explain your attraction to it.
The technology that I use the most would be my cell phone and laptop. My cell phone I use a lot because I have it with me 24/7, it has all in the reach of my hands, from social media applications to text, emails, pictures and more. My laptop I used it a lot for homework and educational purpose and during the weekends to watch movies. What I would say it attracts me to this devices it the easy access to them, I do not have to struggle in any way to use them and they have become a part of my everyday life.
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Post by sochoa15 on Jun 10, 2015 18:36:07 GMT
Film Test-7 Code:
Why is understanding quantum mechanics and its implications important for understanding how life evolves?
It is important to understand the concept of quantum mechanics and its implications because it plays a big important part on the evolution of life. Quantum mechanics is the theory to understand everything that surrounds us. Quantum mechanics can explain how one thing develops into another one and how they occur. It is important to understand it because it can explain how our life evolutions into different stages, also just comprehending the method itself can help us understand many of the concepts that we come across our daily life and how things develop and work around us. Been able to understand how things are develop can open different ways of thinking and a how we see them as well.
What is the Kirpal Statistic?
Kirpal Statistic is a concept that comes from the guru, Kirpal Singh. It is the concept that people who meditate have the ability to see human figures in their subconscious. It is during the meditation that Kirpal Singh would instruct the group on the yoga techniques to reach their potential in meditation and be able to see the inner light, sound or human figures in their subconscious. These inner experiences are things we create, not supernatural experiences or spirits. The inner experiences that the people experience during their highest point in their meditation are things we create ourselves in our mind, there is different ways of explanation and interpretation to it.
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Post by sochoa15 on Jun 10, 2015 18:40:08 GMT
Film Test-8 Code:
Provide a critical review of Sam Harris' viewpoint. Do you agree or disagree? Explain your answer.
Sam Harris argues mostly about there being a science side to morality that this idea of human progression which he calls "human-flourishing" is driven by the human desire to reduce suffering and promote life instead. This claim argues that humans should be more empathetic towards other living things in this world. Another point that Sam Harris brings up is that in our society individuals and even cultures care about the less important things because humans experience a reality that is actually constructed from a person’s brain and that culture changes the way the brain thinks and accepts things as natural and important. These are which the points that I agree with in Sam Harris’ argument on TED. This is because we do create moment where we put ourselves or our emotions first, for example eating meat. Sam would argue that we should be more aware and me more empathetic towards the animals and we should not eat them considering we have other alternatives as a human our bran is knows already what it want and what to do.
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Post by chris13255 on Jun 12, 2015 20:35:46 GMT
Christian Villegas
test code: 97dddef
8.1
Understanding quantum mechanic’s implications are important to understanding the evolution of life because it connects to all living and nonliving things and whole universe follows these laws. Being in a city or place where there’s a really big population of people helps me to comprehend how life evolved and why it’s the way it is. If the mechanics of the dinosaurs were different, then they would still exist and we would have a different understanding of why they were still around.
8.2
The Kirpal Statistic is if you tell someone something specific will happen during their meditations, then it will happen to them. If you tell someone that they will hear something or that they will see something or that they will have a vision after initiating a specific place, they what you said will happen will happen. But it’s actually all about the psychological mechanics, not a spiritual one as it was thought. It’s a placebo affect but no one really understands that. That’s why it’s common for people to think that their medicine is working when they’re told how it’s supposed to make them feel.
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Post by chris13255 on Jun 12, 2015 20:49:41 GMT
Response to jvillegasct15
I agree with the method of hearing the whole story and getting all of the information before making a conscious decision. You never know if there is a better option than the one you're given if you don't hear the whole story to something. Sometimes impatience can be our downfall when all we have to do it listen to everything that has to be said to avoid ignorance.
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Post by chris13255 on Jun 12, 2015 21:13:05 GMT
Christian Villegas
test code: 97ddddd
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I agree with Sam Harris’ viewpoint because religion is not just the one and only venue for religion. Religion is meant to be the basis for humanity and people’s ethics of doing the right thing. Science helps us to learn about each other and what we need through, chemistry, biology, and psychology. Psychology holds the most weight because humans and their emotional wants and needs are discovered as well as how evil and wrong it is to take away the right to let others express themselves. An example of this is how gay people are being persecuted by people around the world and if men like men and women like women, then all they want is to be able to express that to the world without the fear of persecution. Basically science provides a moral basis for us through emotional knowledge.
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Post by chris13255 on Jun 12, 2015 21:40:31 GMT
Christian Villegas
test code: 8763
Professor Greene’s reasoning can help us think more realistically about “improbable” events in our own day-to-day lives by simple not just jumping to conclusions or making assumptions. Sometimes things happen for a reason we don’t fully understand and that not all things that look the way the do are really the way they are. People used to go to sages and other people who had “ the power and knowledge” to predict the rest of their lives. Greene talks about how accidents are very occurring and happen quite often.
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Post by chris13255 on Jun 12, 2015 22:05:06 GMT
Phillip Navarro response
extra credit.
I agree with you on the fact that I can't stop eating meat because it's something I've done my whole life. I also agree that killing anything that has feelings is also wrong. I start to think about if I'm a hypocrite or not for feeling this way and going about my actions of eating meat. I believe in empathy which is what makes it so hard for me to live like this.
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Post by Ken on Sept 3, 2015 17:45:53 GMT
In reference to the Star Trek Metaphor for the brain assignment code 11632.
Years ago I was on my way home and nearly there when I received an excited and hysterical call from wife now ex-wife but not important to the story. She claimed my son had had a seizure and stopped breathing and turned blue. I was just down the street so I didn’t panic at the time because I knew my wife was prone to overblowing issues and as I arrived there was my son and the rest of the family, we lived with my Cuban in-laws who were also always over dramatic, and he was breathing and looked just fine. My wife, her mother and her father were all out of control emotionally and yelling let’s go we need to rush to the emergency room. I kept my cool and got everyone in the car and drove them to the hospital where everything checked out just fine. My son had just thrown a fit and cried himself to the point where he couldn’t breath and what appeared like a seizure was just him trying to convulse to get his composure and breathe again pretty common thing for young kids. I was berated by my wife and her mother as to why I wasn’t showing more emotion but logically it didn’t seem anything was wrong and that I just needed to follow through and show them he was OK. My father in law actually gave me a compliment for keeping my composure afterwards. My Spock tale.
When my daughter was born she had trauma at birth with the umbilical chord was wrapped around her neck and she wasn’t breathing and needed to be resuscitated after she arrived. That ultimately was a contributing factor to what the doctors finally described as her nervous system was overdeveloped for her body. All of this however was not known for months, about 4 to 6 months old my daughter had a seizure, her head went limp like a bobble head and her eyes rolled back and she literally turned blue. I witnessed this. My wife being a teacher knew CPR and performed this on her and she started breathing again. We called the paramedics and they rushed her to the nearest hospital performing all sorts of tests on her, needles in her back, IV’s, etc. I felt very helpless and emotional and all of my focus was on how much I cared for and loved this little girl and wanted to see her not hurting or suffering. My emotion was in control (Captain Kirk) I felt at that moment that I wanted nothing more than to see her OK. Ultimately she was released without any diagnosis because they couldn’t find anything, they claimed it might have been febrile seizures but they weren’t sure and she wasn’t sick at the time. Of course my emotions persisted we would watch her very carefully and not take our eyes of her after that. Just a week later she had another one and again we rushed to emergency room and then another a month later. Which brings me to the fight or flight portion Scotty.
My daughter had another seizure and we had been in emergency rooms on and off for 3 months now and yes you guessed it I had enough of doctors telling me that they didn’t know what were wrong. So after being in the waiting room for two hours and speaking with the nurse who was about to send us back out to the waiting room because they were overwhelmed with patients we both simultaneously lost it and started screaming at the nurse that we weren’t going back out there and we wanted to see a doctor right now and we weren’t leaving until we had an answer and a cure. Well after they called security and we still didn’t exit, we stood outside her station in protest in a way I suppose; they got us in to see the doctor but again nothing new. They did flag our file in a way that contributed to the next encounters happenings getting us to where we needed to be. I took my daughter to the follow up visit with her primary care physician from that ER visit and again the doctor wanted to do a quick visit and say nothing was wrong, but I had many questions, and when he said “I really don’t have time for all this” I just lost it again and stormed out, my emotions had me on edge I was going to sue the hospital, I was on the phone within minutes of getting to my car calling an attorney crying to them that something had to be and no matter what it was going to be done if I had to will it to happen. By the way as I left the doctor’s office I told the nurse what my plans were and how rude the doctor had been. When I got home I thought I was going to be rewarded for my heroism but I started getting chewed out by my wife asking why did I leave the doctor’s office like that and so on. The doctor and his supervisor had called and apologized to my wife for the incident and were referring my daughter to the head neurologist at the Sunset Kaiser. I’m not sure why my wife was upset at the time but my aggressive action led us to receive help from a doctor whose best diagnosis was our daughters nervous system was overdeveloped for her body and usually kids grow out of it by age two, but we would need to keep her on medication until age two to limit the seizures. She had a few more seizures usually when sick during that time. She did stop having seizures and taking the medication at age two and had not had another seizure.
Now looking at this in hind sight I can see that perception plays a big role in how these are interpreted. I didn’t see my son’s incident and therefore was not as hysterical as everyone else and more logical in looking at him to see what was wrong. I witnessed the seizures that happened to my daughter and was very emotional every time it occurred. With the addition of outside forces in the form of the doctors and nurses who I perceived as incompetent and hurting my daughter I became aggressive and went on the attack so to speak looking to save her from suffering. Also my wife who did not witness the incident with the doctor did not see why I was emotional about it in a similar manner, not exactly the same because she’s always emotional, that I didn’t see my sons incident and was not as reactionary.
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Post by alex perez on Sept 4, 2015 18:26:51 GMT
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Post by alex perez on Sept 4, 2015 18:28:14 GMT
11632
1) It was a gloomy weekday when I came home from school, I wasn’t supposed to be home but I had missed the bus for my ROP class. The night before incidence had happen where we had to leave my home to live with my aunt. When I had gotten home I went to the couch and my mother had asked why I wasn’t in class and I told her that I had missed the bus and that’s when I had lost it. I was angry, sad, and depressed nothing was really going right for me that whole day it was one thing bad after another. Tears rushed down my face I was feeling all these emotions all at once. It was the worst emotion I had ever felt in my entire life time. Did you ever at one point in time in your life where something “supernatural” happens to you? I have but it turned out not to be, what had happened was I was home alone one night and I could hear noised in the house. My brain thought of things that would be more rational and be able to explain these things that we find supernatural when we see things on TV our brain likes to grab the information and try to trick us at any possible time it can. Like in my case I was home alone at night where the supernatural things come out. My mind thought like that but immediately snapped out of it and gave me a logical explanation to my dilemma. We’ve all had that one incidence where our flight or fight kicked in, that incidence came to me quickly when someone was threating someone in my family. When it comes to the family most humans use their fight instinct to defend what they feel is most precious to them. That happened to me when someone wanted to tell me I came from a dumb family and I wasn’t going to accomplish anything in life and they said that my mom and dad weren’t nothing and I would never be anything. So my fight instinct came in and I defended my family because in my mind that is what I thought was best to prove that I will succeed. I know that wasn’t the best thing to do but at the time it made sense to me.
2) Two coincidences I had made up for one big memory that will last with me for a life time. When I was younger in elementary school I was the shy girl I wasn’t really out going, a girl that was in my class befriended me and that’s when my whole personality changed. I was more of a friendly person I would talk to everyone and make a lot of friends. I went to school with her for a while and we became the best of friends. Then one day when we were all leaving for high school she was moving. It was the worst day of my life, as time went on we were still close but lost contact. I went to the mall near my house and I was thinking of her and all the amazing times we had. When I looked up we had bumped into each other and we were both astatic and we were both thinking the same thing as we crossed each other’s paths. I wasn’t originally going to go to the mall but something was telling me that I had to. I’m glad that I went with my gut, because I was reunite with the one person who changed me for the better and help me grow as a person.
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Post by krazyalex95 on Sept 4, 2015 22:54:35 GMT
Alex Vargas
9/4/15
Phil 8
David Lane
Test#11632
1. Drawing from the Star Trek metaphor, and using your own life as a template, describe three or more incidents from you life where you reacted as “Spock,” “Kirk,” and “Scotty.” Feel free to tell it in story form.
One time me and some friends had gone fishing to a secret fishing spot we have in Chino. we decided to park our cars at a local gun range becuase it was the nearest parking lot we could leave all our cars in so we wouldnt have to park off the side of the road and possibly be geting a citation. Everything was cool we went fishing for a few hours but when we returned back to the gun range the whole parking lot was locked shut and chained closed with our three cars sitting right where we had left them and all the staff from the range was gone for the weekend. We tried calling the range office to see if we could get a hold of someone but had no luck...After about and hour of not getting anywhere i finally mustered up the courage to jump the fence and go walking around the range to try and find a way to get the cars out of the dirt lot. the scariest moment was when i went up to a parked RV to knock and find out if anyone had been inside and right as i knocked i hear a loud growl from a dog that was inside. my whole body literally was frozen. I reacted a spock in that moment cause i ran back to safety and told the guys that im sorry but that we were just going to have to wait it oiut till the next day and have to leave the cars there. Then I began to react as Captain Kirk, my emotions started to get to me. I started to think about what my parents were going to wonder about me where i was at. Why wasnt I home? Is he ok? Acting out of fear and stuopidity i immediately started to look for any open gateways or holes in the fence that we could either make or widen so we could get our cars out and we could safely make it home that night. After searching we had found a section in the fence that looked like it had a previous hole in it and was wired shut. So the scotty in me came out and i started to use my survival skills. I went into the trunk of my car and retrieved some pliers i kept back there in case if i ever needed them for mycar if i ever were to break down. With those pliers i began to remove the wire that was interlaced in between the links of the fence holding it shut again. Once the fence was seperated and it had the hole in it again we started to dig out the fence post and open the gap even wider. We finally got the gap wide enough where two of us would hold the fence back while the other would drive their vehicle through. Moral of the story, always know where your parking and what time that parking lot closes.
2. Drawing from the film, Surfing Matrix, and using our own life as a template, describe two or more incidents from your own life where you experienced an unusual coincidence. How would Bertrand Russell or a skeptic explain it rationally?
So ive been with my girlfriend for 3 years now...Just a couple months ago we found out that my aunt and her grandma both live on the same street as eachother. They live only 2 houses apart from eachother...Before i was with her my dad would always tell me, "hey i saw your friend vanessa at the corner house by your aunt Cecis house." I wouldnt believe and would just think that my dad was just seeing someone who he believed looked like her so iwould just brush it off. Then me and my girlfriend started talking and she invited me over to her grandmas and when i looked up the address i realized that it was the house right next door to my aunts house. Ever since then whenever i go over to either one of the houses i always go next door and visit
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Post by Chris Quinto on Sept 5, 2015 0:52:14 GMT
Arthur Christopher Quinto
Code 11632
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Once upon a time, my roommates threw a party at our apartment. This party started at around 9 pm on a Friday. Because I had work the next day at 5:30 am this week and I knew that we have a party practically every weekend, I decided to head to bed. This is an example of Spock because I could have easily stayed up most of the night and have gone to work the next day incredibly hung over with no sleep (and we all know what that’s like), but I decided to take the logical option by waiting until next week. We ended up partying the next weekend.
Once upon a time, I was at work relaxing during my break with co-workers 1, 2, and 3. As I sat there minding my own business, co-worker 1 started talking trash about co-worker 4 who wasn’t presently there. Co-worker 4 has a history of being lazy and making other people do most of his work load, especially when I’m working with him. I knew from past conversations with my co- workers that they all like to gossip and nothing stays a secret. Despite knowing this, I couldn’t control my emotions so I joined in and started talking negatively about co-worker 4. Unsurprisingly, word got around to co-worker 4 about what I said about him. The next day that I was scheduled to work with him, he gave me a dirty look the whole day and made my job even more difficult. This is an example of Kirk because I acted out of pure emotion. If I would have acted logically, I would have held my tongue and avoided co-worker 4’s wrath. He still tortures me to this day.
Once upon a time, many years ago, I was sleeping when suddenly an earthquake struck and I instinctively ran down the stairs and into my back yard. I was always told that the best thing to do during an earthquake is to stand under a door frame. This is an example of Scotty because all previous knowledge went out the window and my reptilian brain willed me run outside where I perceived survival.
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One sunny day, I decided to walk to the mall to eat at a burger joint. As I was walking through the mall, I saw an outlet that sold posters. Curiously, I walked into the poster store and examined the merchandise. Everything that I ran my eyes over failed to appeal to my taste until I went to the back of the outlet and saw the most amazing Led Zeppelin poster that I have ever laid my eyes on. I immediately proceeded to grab a copy and purchase it. As soon as I opened my wallet my heart sank deep into my stomach as I realized that I had just enough money for a combo meal at the burger joint. As if I was blessed by the gods, I saw one of my close friends walking through the mall and I immediately ran to him and asked to borrow some money for my glorious poster. He gave me the money and I bought the poster. Immediately afterwards, I looked up at the ceiling and thanked whatever supernatural forces were at play that lead to my euphoric moment. Being the skeptic that I am, I later realized that even though the chances of this happening are relatively slim, I can’t deny that the possibility of it happening exists and I just so happened to get it by chance without any divine intervention at play. None of this takes away from my euphoria-inducing poster. I dramatized the situation just a tiny bit to help illustrate why I originally felt that supernatural forces were at play.
On my first day of sophomore year in high school, as I was walking from one class to the next, I randomly recalled all my friends that moved away over the years that i haven’t kept in contact with. I was thinking about one friend in particular, I’ll call him Will Ferrell for the sake of privacy. I walked into my next class and took a seat in the closest seat to me. At the start of every school year I always fool myself into thinking that I’m going to pay full attention and not let anyone or anything distract me. The whole class I had my eyes fixed on my teacher and didn’t bother to acknowledge anyone else in the class. The teacher soon proceeded to do one of those lame “ice breaker” games to help everyone familiarize themselves with one another. Coincidentally, Will Ferrell happened to be in the class. I didn’t believe it at first because he looked so different, but it was him. Initially, I believed that my thoughts had the ability to manipulate my reality but upon a later analysis of the situation I realized that once again, it was all chance. Will Ferrell and I went on to become good friends again.
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Post by Chris Quinto on Sept 5, 2015 0:56:53 GMT
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