AoK 2 - Natural Sciences: Cole Pamuk

AoK 2 - Natural Sciences: Cole Pamuk

“Everything you have learned as ‘obvious’ becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe.”

I think the meaning of this quote is to understand that when we were young, we learn the basic skills we need to know to survive and as we begin to understand things more as we grow, we understand that they are no so simple as there is very important reasons behind what goes on.

I agree with this quote because I feel that as we begin to get older and understand things more, we realize that they go into much more depth than we may think. For example, With sense percieption when we begin to see sweat on someone, we can logically understand with personal experience and knowledge that when you sweat, you are hot, this is to say that we sweat when we get hot or are working. This is simple, and this is what we understand when we are young from experiences, but as futher research and understanding into this field shows us that it is infact not so simple as to why we sweat but it seems so simple, we get hot and a watery salty substance appears on our bodies, but how does this get through our skin? and how does our body know to do this or how does our body know that this will cool us down? With this we understand what is obvious becomes not so obvious because we do not know the reasoning behind it, this is why we understand things more easily from personal experience and we think that it is simple because it has happened to us, but behind the scenes something very complex is going on to make these things happen, how is the world round? are you kidding? its flat....look im walking straight along it and into the distance we can see that it remains flat and unchanged? How romantic, the stars are out tonight? What is that white thing in the sky? Its just a star... We think that it is just a star, but, it is very complex to understand what it really is and why it is there.

In conclusion, Personal Experience contributes to what we think we know quite vastly, but as we get older and realize why things happen and why things are there, we begin to understand it is a very complex cycle as to why things happen and nothing, nothing at all, is quite so obvious once you have fully understood it.