January 6th 2016
As far as I know (because I came in a little late sorry) We started our discussion with this video, which explains Plato's allegory of the cave:
Our discussion there on after was a bit all over the place.
Someone proposed that fear could be defined by the acronym False Evidence Appearing Real. When we fear things it's often because we have a negative and false idea of them. This was related to single stories, for example, many people defend their discriminatory behavior towards others with false evidence (propaganda, stereotypes, second hand information that sheds that group in a bad light). That evidence allows their idea of these people to appear true and legitimate.
We also talked a bit about epistemology: Plato proposes that to know something it must be something that is true, that one believes, and that one has justification for believing - Which was countered by the Gettier problem
Cool Things:
Immortal Jellyfish (Turritopsis dohrnii)
Is Anything Real?
Movie Recomendations:
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Lucy
(I didn't remember much else from the discussion, so I apologize for the lack of detail here but feel free to add your ideas in the comments)
Honestly this was a really awesome discussion and I missed you guys - hope to see you all next week!
