Thinking lower of the mindless

Today's discussion of what had a mind made me question if the though that less complex animals and organisms are not viewed as equals as humans. They are neglected and tested on as an alternative of the superior human. There was an article that reveals that the FDA releases a guideline for genetically modified animals. This scared me because now the idea of genetically modifying becoming more common and slowly more accepted. The FDA has created a guideline and therefore the idea and possibilities of how to do such this are now more easily accessible. All you got to do is follow the guidelines. Are we neglecting other organisms due to our complexity and intervening into the lives of other organisms who just life off of instinct?

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/36614/title/FDA_releases_guidelines_for_genetically_modified_animals

Knowledge of One's Self

In the "Knowing Our Minds" article by Alex Byrne made me realize just how limited we really are to our perceptive of others and ourselves. When we judge someone else, we use our senses to analyze the situation and hope we are judging the situation on truth. With judging ourselves, we believe that what every we experience throuhg this first-person perspective is truth. How scary is it to think that whatever method we use to judge ourselves is completely different from the way we analize everything else. This conciousness that we use to judge and know ourselves does not have a logical explanation. Are we not just billions of cells interacting wiht one another through chemical interactions ? So where does this concious come from. This concious that gives us this perpective of how to judge things around us and how to judge ourselves. Is it part of a control feature that is secretely imbeded into our brains so that we function a certain way. Is it part of the authorative control or is it a gift from God?

Interviews on Media

In the readings about how the media was controlled, I realized how few interviews the media did with the people of Iraq. Are not they the people that the United States went to war to liberate. Would not we want to know how they are being liberated and their view on how liberation is changing their lives? I understand how sometimes you focus on one side more than another but there is always another side whether one chooses to recognize it. There might as well be another documentation like John Pilger trying to be released to the public where the civilians of where the war is taking place are voicing out their thoughts. This made me think of the tree in a forest method being used by the government to conceal the people's voice: If we do not hear them, are they really yelling for help?

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The idea of how the United States does not realize that their reaction to these terrorist are terrorist attacks is shocking. Everyone know the golden rule of do to one as you would like done to you. Wait so like is this suppose to be like "an eye for an eye," because i though that was Hammurabi's law and not The Constitution. In these cases its more like "an eye" for two entire bodies. It does seem ridiculous that people in America react so dramatically to the such events, when such events occur in other parts of the world daily. This fits in with the living in a cave idea, we just want to stay safe in our safety bubble and look at the pretty refection instead of popping our bubble and revealing the countless suffering and problems with he world. Isn't the governments use of military force to respond to these terrorist attracts over done?