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Essay 2, On The Emergent Properties of Flatulance

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Essay 2, On The Emergent Properties of Flatulance
  1. The Most Morally Ethically Ubermenschen TOK Essay Ever Meditated Upon
    1. By Aryan Sharma
      1. “Knowledge within a discipline develops according to the principles of natural selection.”
        1. Knowledge Question: To what extent can the principle of "natural selection" in knowledge assist in understanding the changing nature of peoples volition
          1. How useful is this metaphor?
            1. In what way do we define "use"
              1. How do people "use" knowledge
                1. Objectivity
                  1. Evolution of use in a Darwinian sense
                    1. Tools like those used by Homo Erectus
                      1. Versus computers that we use today
                    2. Subjectiviy
                      1. What about the "use" of how we use mathematical conceps
                        1. Architectural beauties that we create
                          1. Paintings that use specific proportion or space
                    3. Is usefulness, "Real" world application
                      1. What is "real"?
                        1. How do we know something is "real"?
                          1. Truth tests?
                            1. Does Correspondence define "Real"?
                              1. Does Coherence define "Real"?
                      2. Natural selection...
                        1. How does temporality affect the development of knowledge?
                          1. What is the role of evolution in epistemology... EVOLUTIONARY EPISTEMOLOGY
                            1. Is knowledge statically constant or evolving over time?
                              1. WHAT ABOUT PARADIGM SHIFTS?
                                1. STRUCTURE OF SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS
                                  1. Does that show the evolving nature of knowledge
                        2. Ways of Knowing
                          1. Reason
                            1. I will be exploring how reasoning used by people changes over time as what is coherently important to them changes
                            2. Sense Perception
                              1. In a literal sense, can the way that people perceive "truth" also change over time?
                                1. Today, we are easily fooled by simple illusions, will we someday, "evolve" so as to transcend in understanding
                            3. Real Life Situation
                              1. Schumpeterian "Evolutionary Economics"
                              2. Area of Knowledge
                                1. Human Sciences
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