There were two presentations in particular that I found very interesting. The first was Julie's, and the second was Natalie's; though I liked them for different reasons.
I was thinking a lot about Julies, not because I found it terribly fascinating in and of itself, but I'm very intrigued as to why so many people reacted so strongly to it. After awhile of contemplating it, I think I've come up with a possible answer; there are two different ways of interpreting the concept of knowing everything. One is the way that Julie took it, and is hard to argue with; this is the literal way, that argues that it is impossible to know everything there is to know, because it will never be possible to know the facts of every individual person, let alone every individual creature. This is a strong argument, and not really possible to refute.
However, knowing everything can be taken in a different way, and this is the way that descarte though of it; he broke it down into systems rather then individuals. He believed that if he could understand the system by which people thought and functioned, it wouldn't be necessary to know the individual person, because people all functioned the same way.
I think half the class was in one pool of thought, and half the class in the other, and neither could understand the perspective of the other.
Natalie's I loved because it was almost spot on to my way of thinking, and my views on the subject were very similar. I think it was beautifully presented and though provoking. There is of course much more that could be argued and taken into consideration on the subject, but that would have taken all day. I thought it fit the assignment perfectly.
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