Theory of Knowledge - Course Companion for Students Marija Uzunova Dang Arvin Singh Uzunov Dang

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an opn hand, and a stan rvaling
showing
and moil lims. Immdiatly to
flxil
woman’s right, xprssd in inary, is th
th
8, twn two lins orrsponding
numr
hr hight. This illustratd that sh was
to
× 21 ntimtrs tall (21 ntimtrs ing
8
wavlngth).
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lins and dashs in th lft half of th
Th
ar our osmi addrss, with our sun
plaqu
th ntr and th lins stiking out radially
in
rlativ distans and dirtions
indiating
known pulsars (rapidly rotating nutron
to
that srv as osmi lighthouss), along
stars
thir priods (th intrvals twn
with
ursts) in inary form. Th
ltromagnti
last signal from the Pioneer 10 spacecraft was
The
on January 22, 2003; NASA reported that the
received
source had depleted. Although the spacecraft can
power
longer speak to us, it presses onward—it now speaks
no
us. As interstellar courier, it bears the accumulated
for
of every human, transcribed in, perhaps, the only
voice
language in all the cosmos. We are but cosmic
common
just learning how to take our rst steps into
toddlers
10 remains more than just a ghost of a ship, and
Pioneer
plaque is more than a shout into the void … .
the
from such a mission—one that spans space,
Born
and perhaps, civilizations—is a new mindset, an
time,
beings were to emerge, we know not their anatomy
If
biology nor psychology, their physical traits, their
nor
qustion of how w an known y
Th
aross tim and spa, is a ommon
anothr,
among humans. Languag
proupation
an ssntial doul funtion as a
prforms
of knowldg as wll as a vhil to
stor
that knowldg. In th as of spokn
transfr
this an ahivd through an
languags,
Oral Tradition. Writtn languag,
unintrruptd
of pulsars hangs ovr tim and so th
priod
ats as a kind of timstamp in th ag
plaqu
th univrs. To larify our addrss furthr,
of
solar systm’s plants ar shown in ordr at
our
ottom of th plaqu, with thir distans
th
th sun in inary. Takn togthr, this
from
ats lik a uniqu osmi thumprint
information
our solar systm aus, apparntly, in th
of
Way, it alon fits ths haratristis
Milky
on th plaqu.
displayd
th vast mptinss of spa, it is xtrmly
Givn
that Pionr 10 will intrptd y
unlikly
alin intllign. Evn if that nvr happns,
an
it was rtainly not a wast of tim or
howvr,
as it profoundly galvanizd our thinking
ffort
languag and idntity.
aout
disposition; more or less, we are blind to every
their
of their species. They could be dierent in every
aspect
ways we have yet to understand or could
way—in
imagine. We make numerous assumptions about
even
life is and what life is not—educated guesses
what
o a sample size of one. But if, in some form or
based
advanced consciousness arises elsewhere in
another,
cosmos, it is possible that those beings will wonder,
the
we did: What are the lights in the sky? Where did the
as
come from? What else is out there? Who else
planets
out there? They may compile a system of knowledge
is
the cosmos and the laws that govern it; we call this
of
About this hypothetical species, we know but
‘science.’
thing: the science they develop—the natural laws
one
discover—if they were to do so, would be exactly
they
same as our own. Science speaks to all of us in a
the
lavs a matrial rord sparat
howvr,
whovr produd it, whih an travl
from
and surviv duraly. Blow, w
distans
th knottd thrads lft hind y
onsidr
Inas, how and whthr ths prform th
th
of languag and what thy man in
funtions
I. Scope
I. Scope
plaqu ommuniats tim as wll, sin th
space, and just learning how to speak to the universe … .
otherworldly perspective. …
way nothing ever has … .
sensory capabilities, their intellectual sophistication,
(Rosenthal 2016)
trms of knowldg.
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