Week 7- Tony Tran

Men are scared of a halt in progress (particularly in science). So they go forward with something I’d like to call as “skewed progress”. They will halt progress in another field or regress to solely progress science. Such an example is my man Trump who progresses wealthy businesses and corporations while the middle/lower class are to help themselves or goes backward. Another example of our skewed perception of progress is how the US society deals with education. Aside from colleges (public or private) that are becoming commercialized and have the extra funding to keep developing and innovating, public lower educational systems are teaching the exact same things for decades. With progression of modern society, the educational system needs to change as well; instead, it is synonymous to being in the Dark Ages. This is because the government, congress, and senate all have a stake in businesses, wealth, and status that they need to uphold. These people that hold the foundations of US society have no personal drive/need to fix things like the educational system.

Another interesting notion this week’s article poses is the idea of time. I agree that the existence of time is more of a human’s representation of a comparison of events. I feel that time itself can be different for all people and organisms. For example, time flies by when we sleep although that was indeed a period of many hours. Flies, bees, and other flying critters can do things in a shorter span of time compared to humans, making them difficult to catch. Last of all, I’d like to pose the concept of absolute zero. We know that absolute zero is a thing, where something is so frozen to the point of no movement at all. I have always pondered the idea that when humans achieve the ability to create a space with absolute zero, then we have stopped time, for there is not a single motion from the initial point of time to the end. However, for now, that is not possible and we get to the point that we are like 0.00001% away from it.

One last thing I’d like to accept is that consciousness lives and dies with that individual. It is our own individual brain that has created its own intricate development of thoughts and decisions that cannot be completely replicated by anything or anyone.

Question: I believe that people that believe in spirits think that spirits from the past or even future come to visit/haunt the present. Do they think that the spirit is a remnant consciousness of an individual? Thinking back to a reading earlier in the quarter, I believe we pondered the idea that spirits reside in another dimension that can be felt in rare occasions. Does that realm have spirits with a conscious or do they have only strands of thoughts or a single imperative that invades the realm of reality and by chance affects people?

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