A summary of the week from Brins


Alright, it's time to summarise the week again. Let's get started.

First and foremost, it was an average week. Excluding the sponsored walk (excellent conditions for that, very sunny), not a lot's been going on. The odd test/test results here and there, but nothing out of the ordinary. Speaking of the sponsored walk, it was quite a let down, actually. It's the last one I'll ever see, and my year really didn't make it go out with a bang. It brings me back to last year's 118 cameo...

...more on that story later...

But I know what you all want to hear, and that's the philosophy club, isn't it? Alright, alright, you'll get it. This time we were studying famous Scottish philosopher David Hume and his theory about nothing existing. He took Locke and Berkeley's theories as far as the bit about everything existing as a sensation in our minds, but then took it on to consider that everything is volatile, in that we can only prove things using the grounds that they have occured a certain way in the past. As it is impossible to have experienced something in the future, it is impossible to conclude that the results will be the same in the future. It's deeper than that, but to sum it up: we can't prove anything exists. Going one step above Descartes, we can't prove we exist either. So there.

Interesting thing I found out, though. Scientists acknowledge that none of science is proven. Everything, from gravity to force, is 'theory'. There is no official scientific fact. I just never knew that before, that's all. All the current theories could be completely wrong, thus rendering my physics advanced higher all for nought.

I'm afraid that's all I have for you, gang. Work is continuing on Operation Embarrass 2, but aside from that, I'm signing off for now.

Have a nice weekend


  ¶ 6:37 pm