1. What impact have the natural sciences had on the way you understand yourself?
2. How has technology affected the form and content of your personal knowledge?
3. How has your study of your group 4 subject affected the knowledge you employ in your day-to- day dealings with the world?
The natural sciences have helped me build an understanding of myself and my life in many different ways. Over the years learning biology has aided in my comprehension of my physical self which has allowed me to adapt certain forms of my lifestyle to fit the human biology and more specifically my body. This basis of knowledge has to lead to certain actions that might take place in response to some things due to the knowledge that I hold. My education in biology allows me to understand the fundamentals of what my body needs to grow and be well so I have shaped my life around that so I can be physically well which helps in being mentally well and fit to undergo tasks. A mixture of biology, chemistry and physics has extended my assessment of dangerous situation caused by external factors which heighten my fight or flight reflexes in certain fields. Constant developments within these fields change my way of life in either small ways or big ones as the more you understand then the more you can change or manipulate something.
Technology, in my opinion, has had the biggest impact on our personal knowledge within our lives. It is such a massive platform which can easily mould or influence your personal knowledge based on the things you are exposed to or the things you use. Social media or internet platforms have the ability to completely form your personal knowledge due to the websites you join, the articles you read or the opinions you are exposed to. With its connective behaviour, it allows people to grow perspectives and become extremely open-minded but due to its variety, there is the possibility of the opposite to occur. It is versatile allowing the user to observe what they want while publishing what they want, this publishing can be a record of your growth of personal knowledge while shape this knowledge as well. Your publishing is your personal knowledge and getting it our there may cause it to change or for it to be reformed by the public response.
Studying group 4 has made me assess thing differently, it has extended the importance that correlation does not equal causations. The Paradigm reading was the most important to me as it showed me how our societal or scientific paradigms allow us the question or dismiss ideas that are false but also have the ability to restrict our knowledge. If something goes against the paradigm of our society we tend to immediately think it is wrong or criticise which could be dangerous or ignorant when developing.
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