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This article talks about whether language is needed to form thoughts. This article discusses that collection of images can used to describe something rather than use of words. In the article, the author discusses how people might think about dogs using memory of images of dogs. The article also brings up that is necessary to define language. The author brings up the point that sign language communicates thoughts without words; therefore, thoughts can communicated without language depending on your definition.

With last class' discussion in mind, it will be interesting to see how the government shutdown will affect the 2014 elections. Will this poll create knowledge that will lead to Republican losses in Congress?

This article is about the reliability of human intuition and the value of our subconscious decisions vs. logical thinking. This article interestingly brings up the gender gap in intuition and how mothers with there nurturing sense are more drawn to intuition. This article discusses the pros of thin slicing but also the cons of too heavily relying on human intuition.

This article is really interesting, because it discusses how the brain feels or creates physical pain for things such as rejection. It uses an example of a person in a simulation being left out of a group passing balls to each other and shows that that person experiences stimulation in his physical pain part of the brain as well as a emotion of rejection. It also talks about the effects of social pain on changing our actions.

This article discusses the role that trust plays in building and developing more knowledge. People often must rely on those who have established knowledge in the past, in order to expand on and develop more knowledge in any given subject.

These psychological experiments demonstrate the unconscious workings of our minds and what is consequently revealed about human nature. Stanley Milgram's experiment is also discussed in this article, illustrating the lengths that people will go to in order to obey authority figures.

This article discusses the idea that the majority of today's high school students are literalists, not having an appreciation or tolerance for most art. This is a concern in some circles, as many experts believe that exposure to the arts is likely to increase a student's knowledge or sophistication.

I found this article interesting because it discusses how people may perceive things differently (although they may not know it), and ultimately questions the accuracy of sense perception.

An interesting article about knowing when to follow your intuition and when not to. This WOK is part of our most recent class discussions and this article can help me and my classmates better understand controlling intuition and what it really means as a way of knowledge.

This is an interesting article that relates to many of the discussions that have taken place in our TOK class, and relates to some of the readings that we read from Blink.

This article discusses the role that imagination plays as a way of knowing in our lives. Imagination is seen by many as frivolous and of little value, but this article suggests that our imagination actually creates our reality; curiosity and inspiration to learn are essential to making progress in life.

The Golden Rule (usually defined as "One should treat others as one would like to be treated") is attractive to people as a guiding principle for ethical conduct. However I feel that in our diverse, modern world, it is less than ideal.