If i was sophie 2

Im going to start when Sophie is at the cabin. The book was completely realistic up until now. Or it still is, i don't know. All i know is, if i looked in the mirror and watched myself blink, i would have told somebody about and bing bang boop, i would be at therapy or in a ward being prepared to get labotomized. If i was Sophie i would not have come to the conclusion so quickly that the girl in the mirror winked. As i type, im freaking myself out, its like a whole new dimension inside the mirror, maybe like an evil twin. Like in that movie, mirrors, what ever the person does in the mirror, you do, so it could try to kill her. but maybe the new dimension is like, where every decision is the opposite. Done rambling. So i would have convinced myself in the next 30 seconds that i forgot that i winked and thought i saw it. Your mind can play tricks on you all the time and Sophie has been reading philosophers talking about how your senses are not reliable all the time. But maybe since she had just finished her Aristotle bender, she was hyped up on everything is reality and we believe everything we perceive with our senses. I do see that the author is relating Sophie's unexplainable experiences with how the Philosophers must have felt when they tried to explain their ideas to the people of the time. But seeing myself wink would be pushing it for me.

connection 2

Recently i re-watched the first and 2nd matrix movies. i left out the 3rd because unlike the lord of the rings trilogy, these movies declined in creative quality as they progressed in the saga. The matrix has basically a similar view as Plato, but an opposite view of Aristotle. Aristotle believed that there was no reality beyond what we could perceive. The matrix is saying, that what if the reality that we are perceiving, is not reality at all. But the matrix leaves questions. Is the reality in the machine the real reality, or is the outside world reality. You could be dreaming the matrix though it is unlikely. So i will go on the basis that the Matrix is just a program, and reality is unplugged. Aristotle said that all things had their limitations based on their physical form. The matrix basically was written to challenge Aristotle's views. The Matrix challenges that are only limitations are our minds. In the fake reality, we think we can't do things because people have said we could not and based on previous experience, we can't. Or maybe, in the unplugged reality, since you have the limitations we know, your body incorporates those into the machine. So Aristotle's reality and world around him is actually the unplugged area. But the Matrix is the exact opposite. boom. connected. mind explosion. education outside of class.

Reflection 1

If i was sophie, i would probably call the postal service. I know that they are not responsible for the delivery of the letters, but i would try to get a hold of someone. First i would try to figure out who the messenger was. Send a letter back with the dog, or follow the dog back. or leave a letter in the mailbox in hopes of him or her getting it. Also, i would change what i did with the letters. I would start opening them originally because it was a letter to me but when i first saw the "who are you? or who am i?" i would have been a little freaked out. I would not have thought about it phylosophically, would have taken it as like something calling you and saying "who is this". If i was more open to receiving them, i would have shared it with someone. The difference with most philosophers and Sophie, is that she keeps it a secret and then acts condescending when people don't know what she is talking about. YOU DONT SPEAK TO YOUR MOTHER THAT WAY. if she wanted her mother to see that she was acting more numb to the world, she would have showed her some of the philosophies like the analogy with the rabbit and magician. Anyways, if i was her i would try harder to contact the anonymous mailer, tell some friends, and do my own research if i was that interested so i did not have to wait for the letters.

sophie's world connection 1

Recently i have been "borrowing" my friends Netflix account from him with permission. I have started the TV show Futurama from episode 1. Almost every episode has some sort of philosopy in it because they deal with alternate universes, change, and time travel. One episode that i realized was basically directly out of Sophie's World was titled "The Infosphere".

The Infoshpere was about an invention called the forward time machine. It played on the phylosphy of what would happen if the universe ended and do things actually change. The problem occuring in the episode is that 3 of the main characters can't get back to their time because whenever they travel forward to find a time machine, they always make a mistake and move too far. Eventually after 21 minutes, they have traveled through the end of the universe and seen another big bang, creating the exact same universe and they stop at their time, landing and killing themselves of this new Universe.

This is a lot like what Democritus thought in Sophie's world. He thought nothing changed and the atoms just separated. The universe was gone but still intact because it just had to have another big boom. The only problem was that the time travelers had themselves in the new universe so that was the only change. Or maybe it never happened because the new universe shouold have traveled forward if it was exactly the same.....