2 minds, 1 body

We watched a video a couple of weeks back about conjoined twins. They each had their own mind...but shared one body. They could each think freely, independent of the other. But they rely on one another to do simple tasks that require two hands like doing their hair, or tying their shoes. What if one of the girls decides she wants to braid her hair, and the other wants to wear it in a pony tail.. They need the other hand to accomplish each goal. They need to agree on everything in order to make life work. If one girl wants to walk left and the other right...they are at a stand still. Their minds are independent of one another but their decisions need to coincide. I would never want to rely on another person in order to do these simple tasks. Life would be so complicated. I give them a lot of credit for being able to work together as such a team and get through each and every day together.

I thought it was pretty cool when we watched a video in Philosophy about the experiment with the monkey and the joystick. The monkey first used its hand to control the joystick in order to make it move. Then after a few attempts the monkey decided to just use its brain to control the joystick. The monkey did not need to use its hand to make it move. The monkey's brain was hooked up to a machine and when the monkey thought, it moved the machine. I thought it was amazing. A monkey being able to direct a machine just by thinking. It is incredible what people come up with for experiments. I would love to be able to see more about this study and if there are any other experiments like this one out there.

Beaming to Mars?

A couple of weeks ago in class we had a discussion on being beamed up onto mars. Would that mean our body replicates and another form of ourself is put on Mars to live...or does our body on earth because erased and we transport to mars...or are we destroyed on eart and recreated on mars? Are we the same person on earth as we are on mars?! I'm not sure what I think. If it were possible to clone yourself and be on Mars I would want to be the same version of myself. But is that possible. Is it possible to be the same EXACT person in two places...I'm not too sure. I've never really thought about being recreated, or replicated. Would we age the same...would be turn into the same person living on two different planets. I do not think I would enjoy being destroyed and then recreated some place else. I would rather just be transported and then brought back to earth when I wanted my trip to be over.

Living Forever

One day in class a long time ago we talked about living forever. I would not want to live forever. I feel as though we should live our lives, and when it is time to die...that's your time. I think you should try and fit everything you want to do in your life into one lifetime. That makes you live your life to the fullest, if you know at one point you are going to die. If you could just live on forever, you would never get anything done. If you know at some point life will end you make the most of it. You accomplish things, you finish tasks you started, you reach for your goals. If I knew I was going to live forever I would just put everything off for the next day, because I knew I would always have tomorrow. I believe that everyone has a time when their life ends. This is necessary for human life to continue to exist as it has forever. You live, you die... end of story. If people just lived on forever we would never need to reproduce, and if we did the world would be over populated and what would be do then? I do not want to live forever and I can't see how anyone else would. Make the most of your life and spend your time wisely, because you only have one shot at it.