Week 3&4- Assigned Reading- Physics and Philosophy

Plato's idea that prisoners in a cave can only look in one directionis very truthful. He is not able to see shadows in the cave becuasethere is no sun, that when he leaves that cave he will now be able toexperience "the light of truth". What I love about being able to findout the truth is that we are than able to make our own judgementsbased on our own experience. We can hear stories or try to believethings but human nature better understands things that happen to themon first hand. So saying all this, by humans being able to understandscience better and take different angles at it, we are now able tohave a better understanding of the world and what is around us. I alsolike Descartes fundamental principle that we attempt fundamentalknowledge. The understanding of mind and body is one of the firstthings that we need to be able to grasp to have a better understandingof things. The he talks about the relationship between I and theworld. This is important becusae sometimes I think that the world isonly a direct relationship between us and no one else that we may livein different time periods. I mean where were you 1 year prior to yourbirth, I mean your parents were living yet we can't recall anything.Time has relativity.