Process of Knowing

From my point of view, I think that this statements do not describe the same process of knowing. If we look at each of the examples that are on the sheet, we can notice that we will not be able to know or perform each of this activities or facts, just by learning only one process of knowledge.

 

First off if we look at the example which states that 2 plus 2 is 4, we know that we would not be able to know this before studying mathematical concepts, develop mathematical skills and learn mathematical rules.

 

 Furthermore, the example which says I know that today is such day, has totally a different process of knowing, one person knows the day in which he or she lives because he or she learnt how the calendar, the hours, and time work through experience.

 

 

We can say the same things for more statements, how to ride a bicycle is a process which requires falling so many times, learning to coordinate well our equilibrium while knowing that our parents love us or that God loves us requires one more time a different process of knowing, since what will determine it is the way in that our parents behave with us or our own opinion about what God means for us.

 

Besides of this to know the statements which are scientific, based on scientific knowledge, like that the hydrogen atoms in neutral form have only one electron, we need to study chemical properties and behave of the molecules, which implies reading many hours and remembering information, but, if we compare this kind of processing of knowledge to the process of knowledge that is used for learning to ride a bicycle is totally different.

 

 

So as a conclusion, I would say that this different statements effectively describe different process of knowing because the skills, the facts, or the factors which are required to know them are completely different.

 

Understanding of time reflection

Time is a super common thing which is present all the time in our lives. Dictionaries define it as the indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole, but in my own words I would define it as the thing that passes while we live. Even though we count every single day that passes, and we know the date of each day that we live, we do not notice how fast time goes.

 

Mankind has always wanted to control the time, to know how the time works and how we can measure it, besides of this calendars were also created so long ago. There is evidence which has demonstrated that artifacts were used to reckon time in the Paleolithic, 6,000 years ago, by looking at the position of the moon. The first calendars also appeared in the Paleolithic, called lunar calendar, using the position of the moon as reference as well. And after that many other people tried to figure out a way in which time could be organized, like for example when in 45 BC Julius Cesar arranged the Roman World in the solar calendar, or when the Pope Gregory XIII introduced a correction in 1582. It is important to mention this points because they can be used as a proof to demonstrate that human beings have always wanted to control time, even at an early stage as Paleolithic.

 

Furthermore, the calendar that we know today and the way in which we count the ours is more  precise that the methods which were used in the Paleolithic, but if we think on it, the time always remains the same even though some people counts it in some way or another people counts it in a different way. Overall, time is an abstract thing, we cannot see it or touch it, it is a concept created by the humans.

Memory Blog Post

I think that there were differences in the way we recall the situation and the atmosphere, because each person has his own way to perceive the information that surrounds him or her, some people will pay attention to some events taking place in that moment, while other people would pay more attention to different events. For example, in my picture my family and I were taking a walk, while I recall the situation as a moment in which I was mainly focused in reach the end of the park with my bicycle, my father only remembers that in that moment he was relaxed, taking a walk, and he had to pay attention to me because those were the days in which I recently learnt to ride a bike, so he was concerned, because he did not want me to fall off the bike. We both remember that we were taking a walk and just enjoying Malaga’s sunny summer, but the way in which we remember it is different. I think that our memories of that picture were different because we had our minds focused on different things.

 

Memory is basically one the most important part of us, without having memory we would not recall anything of our daily life, our name, our family, our friends. We cannot life without storing all the information that we receive in our memory. Memory is what allows us to recognize a person unconsciously, once we have been introduced to a person, the information that we already know that person is stored in our memory, without memory we would not be able to know that we already know that person, and not only this, even basic things like knowing our name or the way we look would not remain in our mind. So as a conclusion I would say that without memory life would be really different, we would not be able to recognize our parents, friends ,siblings, or basic information that the memory stores at early age.

Intuition Blog Response

Intuition as we have studied is when we know or understand something without having to think on it, by using our instincts, and the atmosphere that surrounds us, we perceive that we have to do something in a certain way, or we respond to a certain situation unconsciously. Besides of this in my opinion it can be described as a moment when we feel that something is not right and we have to do something about it.

 

There are several kinds of intuition, intuition sometimes can appear in dreams, where an unconscious voice tell us some sort of information that could be important. Intuitive seeing is another kind of intuition,depending on what we can see at some point seeing a specific object or person can remind us an important think, and therefore respond to that by doing something that we instinctively think that must be done. Intuitive hearing must be also considered intuition, in some situations, hearing a specific sound or, a specific word can produce in us the unconscious feeling that we have to do something, for example, one time my father was driving while suddenly we randomly stopped the car and a small child appeared from nowhere, and crossed the street, after that he told us that he had the feeling that he had to stop, and that is what he did.

 

Based on my personal experience I would say that intuition most of the time is reliable, but it is not perfect though. Deciding whether to trust or not trust our intuition, would depend on the consequences of the mistake. If I had to take a really important decision and an unconscious thought crosses my mind, telling me the answer I would not base my decision on that unconscious thought.

 

Besides of this I think that there are individuals who use more their intuition that other individuals, so that they got used to believe what their intuition tells them, but we cannot say that there is an individual with more reliable intuition than others' intuition, basically because every person has his own intuition for certain things, and since every intuition is different, every person sees a situation in his own different way, so we cannot know if the intuition of a person is right or wrong.