1) The first one i did was called "The Game of Life". It gave you a bunch of circles in a block and you just had to click on these circles and make weird shapes with it. So i made a design in the circles and then you can click on either, 1 time step or 10 time step and it will change. Totally didn't make sense.
2) The second one i did was called "Hofstadter's Road Sign". All you had to do was insert these bars and it just explained to you what you were suppose to see when you looked at this thing. It showed you some spots on a black back round. And these dots blinked, moved and changed colors. It has something to do with perception.
3) The third one i did was "Ambiguous Figures". This one was kind of cool. Its like one of those posters where you look at it and you obviously see one thing, and then you keep looking at it but sort of look at it in a different direction, and you see something else. Its kind of neat when you think about it. Its like a 2 in one artwork.
4) The fourth one i did was called "The Prisoner's Dilemma" It was sort of fun. You could choose to either compete or cooperate. And its like you are playing against somebody and flipping these coins. I don't know exactly how, but i won i guess.
These activities were really no fun. They were really hard to understand. Or maybe its just because it makes you use your brain. Who knows.
I didn't really learn anything from these activities. It was more in the directions and how to do it that gets you to think about what you can actually learn from it. But you can use them in everyday life because they can really give you different morals.
This doesn't really change the way i see things in the world. But some people i guess may notice that it makes the way you look at things differently. Or see things in a new prospective. There are ways that you have to think when you do these activities that would help you use your mind in a way that you normally don't.
One thing that i learned in this chapter is that there are different parts of your brain that do differnt things. And its not all one part. There are different parts that all interact and work together to acomplish one thing. Another thing i learned is that one part of the brain, the thalamus is the part of your brain that works with the senses that you have such as smell, hearing, and taste. The third thing that i learned is that i didn't know that the brain was connected to the vertebre. The last thing i learned is that the brain has two parts, two differnt hemispheres. I thought that was interesting.
The way that i learned the brain works by reading this chapter is alot differnt than the way i looked at it before just because of the way it works. How there is so many differnt parts of it that all have different functions and jobs. And now i see that the way you percive information is different than i had thought before reading this chapter.
I haven't read the articale about the man with 2 brains or watched the video yet, so i suppose i will have a different blog about that. Sounds very interesting without even watching it yet. 2 brains? What? How weird.
I played Prisoner's Dilemma too. I didn't really understand the whole point of the activity but found it interesting. I won without really trying. After awhile I could somewhat anticipate whether Serendip was going to cooperate or compete. I guess it is kind of like our interactions with others we never know quite what to expect.
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