04/09/2016
This is my first blog post, there is no specific direction for this post but let me start off by saying that the subject "theory of knowledge" equally intrigues me and makes me hate it. I absolutely love questioning everything as it unravels life as we know it but it also kills me every time I hear "How do we know?" It's simply something I have to get used to, get accustomed to and learn to love.
Let's begin with the quotation "The map is not the territory," by Alfred Korzybski and this seems quite basic to me but you never know I might be wrong, To me, it's conveying how no matter how hard you try to make a map as accurate as possible it simply will not be the real thing. So if you tried to map out the same place as many times as you wanted to get it perfect, the image will simply never be the territory. For you, to understand the image and the place you must physically go to it and see it with your own eyes. This expresses the main portion of this subject as we as people may think we know something perfectly but we can never be a hundred percent sure until we have concrete evidence. Magritte, Rene's metaphor is also an example of this, we may think that what presented is a pipe but it's not. We respond ti the image but it's exactly that, an image, it's a canvas showing us a pipe but it is far from a pipe. Do I want to answer this question, "What other "maps" (concepts) from your life can you now question the certainty of? Does this mean that they are less helpful than you once thought?" because has made me question everything. I guess, images is now a big part of this but we also do this to ourselves with animation.
Most aspects of Theory of knowledge can be translated to the other subjects we take in the DP. Especially Maths and Science are those are two "factual subjects when if you look back further enough or look at the theories there is no concrete evidence to supports its teachings. As for History, it's based on others memories and these memories could have a personal biased or perspective. These things could all exaggerated or simply made up because we are going off others teachings, we are placing our trust in people who do not know what they are talking about. While in Art, we are being taught about a visual representation that is interpreted differently by every single person. It's as if you were to teach a language in which everyone would understand differently but somehow can communicate slightly.
I think that's enough deep thinking for the end of the night, so we will discuss more later.
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