Descartes

Descartes believes he can persuade anyone who "attentively considers the nature of time." If I understand this correctly, it seems to be one thing for the parts of time itself to be independent, and another for the temporal stages of things that exist in time to be independent. He is trying to explain that time itself can be independent but so can the stages of things. They do not have to relate to one another. While people believe that we have to have a cause at a certain part of the day to produce an outcome. 

"The natural light does not establish that the concept of an efficient cause requires that is be prior in time to its effect. On the contrary, the concept of a cause is strictly speaking applicable only for so long as the cause is producing the effect, and so it is not prior to it. " (Descartes)

What he is trying to get across is that the natural light does not cause the person do it something, it is the cause that makes the person do it producing the effect. 

"Now I regard the divisions of time as being separable from each other, so the fact that I now exist does not imply that I shall continue to exist unless there is a cause which creates me afresh, as it were, at each moment of time."

Descartes is saying that he is exists but unless there is a cause he does not need to exist. This would create the moment of time. Not time creating the cause and the production.


This Helped Me!



Philosophy is hard...

Got Three Ideas...but Only One is Related to Technology...

Heeeeellllpppppp.


1) Get a bunch of old computers keyboards and wire. Then have the wire all connected to the computers/phones and then have the wires be in my mouth. This would represent our use of technology to talk and not be able to talk in person. I would set up somewhere on campus and just video tape people looking at me.

2) Drawing a massive mandala. I would get paper like 12 ft x 12 ft and set up and use my body to draw a mandala. Somewhere in public. Not sure how I would relate this to technology. Yes. That is right, I will be talking to you about this!

3) Last idea would be to set up a mini kitchen up in plant park, dress up as a 50s housewife, and make sandwiches. Just to see people's reaction to the view of women belong in the kitchen.

No Idea

I really have no idea what to do for this performing art piece.

I got no idea.

None.

I've been thinking about it all weekend still nothing.

Bauhaus Inspired Photocopier Work

"Designing is not a profession but an attitude. Design has many connotations. It is the organization of materials and processes in the most productive way, in a harmonious balance of all elements necessary for a certain function."  -  Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Walt in Skittles Completed

Triumph of the Nerds

Just finished watching the documentary. Though they spend a lot of focus on Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Paul Allen and Bill Gates, as they are the four most widely known individuals in the personal computer field. However, a great deal of time is also spent in explaining the role of others, which was great. I didn't know how many people were involved in the development of the computer. 
Though it sucks that the inventors of the spreadsheet did receive the amount of money they deserve, I'm glad to learn they are some what happy still. Don't think I would be able to look pass missing out on millions of dollars.
I love the fact (though I already knew it from reading books on Steve Jobs) that Steve Jobs and Bill Gates have been  taking ideas from others and turning them into billion dollar products. While Gates keeps his intensity under wraps in public, not so with Steve Jobs. Towards the end of the video, he describes his feelings towards Microsoft. 

LOVED IT.