Journal+Entries

Each Week you will have a journal entry posting due. Check the Discussion page link above.





You are required to keep an online journal for this course, keeping track of your personal responses to the materials studied and/or the ideas raised by in-class discussion. The intended purpose for journaling is to help you prepare for your ToK essay. The rubric for your journals is posted below.150 Words minimum, with frequent integration of Knowledge issues, to include WOK and AOK. **The title of your wiki will be: Journal #1 The Cave and Truman** ** Sample Journal Entry from Nicholas Alchin ** ** Journal #1 The Matrix (your entry will read: Journal #1 The Cave and Truman) ** After seeing previews of the movie ‘The Matrix’ I have been doing a lot of thinking and an uncontrollable burst of uncertainty has taken over me. What would really happen if we were all living in a computer programme and this world wasn’t really what we though it was? There is no way we can say for certain that it is all impossible and not so at all. But that means that the ‘real’ world (that we don’t know, and maybe can’t know) might also be ‘unreal’…. And so on. That seems ridiculous, but we can never prove it isn’t like that. I suppose we can just live our lives without worrying; if the illusion is so good that we can’t tell the difference between illusion/reality then maybe it isn’t really an illusion at all – it is our reality’. Why bother worrying? On the other hand, it is pretty worrying! I don’t want to live my life inside a computer vat! But I can’t quite explain why it should matter, it I can’t tell the difference….



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