I was listening to a lecture done by a class lead by Mark Pesce and while i found that it had some very good introductory thoughts i felt that they largely exaggerated the importance of the topic by using such suffixes such as osis on the end of rather menial words. While i don't lay claim to any greater intellectual capability i was struck by just how amusing it was that someone with such caliber of intelligence would resort to something so... be-musing. However so far it seems that at least the important things i have learned through hardship were given to you in an introductory lesson, though in my opinion a bit superficial rather then being blunt. Collaboratively it was still a rather condensed yet enlightening beginning to what i'm sure will be eight more wonderful lessons. I found the lecture#3 by Mark Pesce, fairly thought provoking, and while a fair many of the ideas are common sense, I had honestly not considered the many levels of boundaries that our conscious self experiences. The top two levels of course, that in which we are not equipped physically to understand and that in which that we do not understand to comprehend. Marc Pesce used intriguing terms such as "social insects" and "pheromones" in relation to what we output to each other; speech, actions, thoughts,and artwork. The pheromones of course fits perfectly into the idea that there are in fact many actions and words that we say that appear as nothing but sounds to the uninformed. It's because of this that they appear invisible to the mass. While i find the word pheromone fairly inappropriate because it doesn't force anyone to do something, it is appropriate as well because anything we say do think, is simply done with the intent to impress something upon another. He implies that people who do inappropriate actions are not functional sentient beings but are for lack of better words existent and without motive. The are brought and spawned into genesis, however because they have no motivation, no determination, no meaning, they simply live to die. Perhaps the most interesting part was when humans are related to machines, that the most difficult aspect of human beings would indeed be to stay human. We are constantly producing items to help us live longer, yet are we not losing ourselves by doing this? We are downloading and uploading information inside our bodies constantly through speech, through movement through digestion and excreting the very information that we receive. We are slowly becoming the machines, the designs the software/hardware that we use. This man is obviously very brilliant, however it's 3:15 am and i am finding myself unable to keep up with is linguistics at this point... the context seems a bit too deep for me as it's really only bordering on the lecture's apex. Regardless, the lecture was well worth the listen as it seemed to be a hybrid of information to be processed and disregarded.
- Rory Williams
