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The last class was really interesting with the conducted experiments drove everybody crazy. One experiment drew mu attention. The pictures can be really different when the size of the picture was shown in different scale. The interpretation can be really diverged. This also reminds me of another brain storm we did in the bio lab class. I was supposed to write down three word first popped out in your mind when think of the given word. I wrote down spontaneous, pattern and unconscious for the word chaos. I think everything happens for certain reason. Everything has its meaning to exist on this planet. Personally, I do believe that everything happens for reasons. For some cases we can solve it with the experience we have or the knowledge we learn during growth. For the others, which we considered random and seem to be a mess at first look, I still think there should be explanations for those phenomena. However, we are not able to reason them at this point. It also is possible that there are some things beyond our abilities. Also, the random could be some pieces of unconsciousness that as Sigmund Freud described as “the underwater part of the iceberg” coming up unexpectedly. The random talking of somebody could be spontaneous reactions in certain situations. In a bigger scale, some observations in nature we consider chaos could be the spontaneous outcomes from the accumulations of different factors in those situations. Chaos can be a kind of expression of the unconscious state.

One point Paul made during his demonstration on Thursday is the constant conversation between consciousness and unconsciousness. Our unconsciousness tries to make up the missing pieces or the make the incomplete parts right with our existent concepts. Our unconsciousness is always trying to fix the incompleteness.

There are still a lot skepticisms for me about the conversations between consciousness and unconsciousness. For example, as I mentioned above, the scale or the level of our observation will affect out interpretation about the observation we make. Make it’s the perspective we look at the things rather than the conversations going on in the brain.