Brave New World Chapter 2

1. How do babies sent to the Neo-Pavlovian Conditioning Rooms develop an "instinctive hatred of books and flowers?" Why were Deltas exposed to such treatment?

Babies develop a hatred of flowers and books through shock and horror treatments. The doctor would bring the babies into the room with flowers and books, the babies would go to the flowers and books and the operator to press a lever which would set of sirens and cause the babies to cry and become scared and confused. After crying they would then continue and electrically shock the babies. Therefore when they turned the shocking off and the books and flowers re-appeared, the babies would not go towards them because of they were scared and did not want to go through what they had already previously.

2. What is a State Conditioning Center? Does it remind you of anything from Plato's Republic?

"Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre." Conditioning in this term basically means brainwashing babies to believe things that are false and not believe in the truth. This is connected to Plato's republic because in the cave they were their believed truths, the shadows, were not the truth and the only reason they thought it was the truth was because they did not know any better. The conditioning is basically the same thing because they are brainwashing the babies to believe that flowers and books are bad and associated with terror and shock.

3. What is hypnopaedia? Why wasn't it used for Science? What was it used for? Does it remind you of anything from Plato's Republic?

Hypnopedia is the principle of sleep teaching. It was not used for science because after the experiment with Tommy it was proven that it could not be used as an instrument of intellectual education. It was proven false because although they forced the phrase about the nile river into Tommy's head, he could not use any intellect from. He could repeat the phrase over and over again if someone hinted at it but he could not deduce information from it. For example when he was asked "what is longest river in Africa" he replied, "I don't know." even though the sentence that was brainwashed into his head clearly states the answer. Plato's Republic plays into this because the shadows on the wall were representations of everyday objects and if asked what they were the person could say anything but if they were asked about the things on the walls they could describe them in perfect detail.

4. How does the Caste system work in the World State? What are the similarities and differences between this

and the Hindu Caste system?

Alpha (work the hardest and wear grey)
Beta (work hard)
Gammas (stupid and wear green)
Delta (wear khaki)
Epilson (stupidest)

Hindu Caste System:

Brahmins (priests)
Kasatrayas (landowners/warriors)
Vaisyas (merchants)
Sudras (farmers)
Hrijan (untouchables)

They both have the "higher ups" and the lowest class.
In Hinduism, if you have good dharma and fulfill your civic duty in society you can move up in the caste system but in Brave New World, you are stuck as what you were made and there is no escaping it.

5. What does the Director mean when he says, "Not so much like drops of water....rather, drops of liquid sealing wax."?

He is talking about a child's mind and the adult mind. In this conditioning centre they are teaching the babies how to live, not only in childhood but also as an adult. They are teaching them not to mix with others and to stay with their caste of people who were created like them. In the hatchery, the different caste's do not mix with one another and that is not only in the centre. That is how the rest of their lives will be because that is how they have been taught, they will remain with their caste and that is the way it will be because they do not know of anything else.

Brave New World Chapter 1

1. What is the World State's Motto?

Community, Identity, Stability

2. Please describe Bokanovsky's Process. Why does The Director call it the "major instrument of social stability?"

1. Bokanovskified egg will bud and divide
2. 8 buds to 96 buds
3. Bud will grow into a perfect embryo
4. Series of arrested development: check the normal growth and then the egg buds
5. Responds by budding

"The major instruments of social stability:" The factory could have one egg and all the embryo's would bud from it. The stability of the factory would depend on the work being all done the same way.

3. Why did the doctor wish to keep the Epsilon "embryo below par?"

He lowers the oxygen and causes them to stay under par so that they do not bud and create more.

4. What does Mr. Foster mean when he says: "We condition them to thrive in heat...that is the secret of happiness of virtue - liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny."? How does this connect to what is happening in Rack 10?

The director means that they train the embryos to thrive and live in things that are miserable and unhappy so when they experience the real world, they will always be happy because they have been through worse and are able to tolerate it. This connects to what is happening in rack 10 because in rack 10 they are training the embryo's to tolerate lead, caustic soda and tar-chlorine so that they can work as the next generation chemical workers and not be unhappy with their lives.

The Republic of Plato

The Republic of Plato

Chapter 1

Chapter 2- Introducing the idea of a “city” (pg. 45-46; 369a, b)

“Guardian”- How will they be reared* and educated*?

o Philosopher King

o Spirited

o Swift

o Strong

*Educated: Teach Music and Gym (Health) – Logos/ (Speech) Logic

-Creates a Just City: Just Soul-

Guardians- Super Ego

· Gold

· Wisdom

· Calculating

Auxiliaries/ Soldiers- Id

· Silver

· Courage

· Irrationals: Led by Desire

Farmers- Ego

· Iron and Bronze

· Moderation

· Spirit

Brahma- One of the Three main Gods
Vishnu- Recreates the world after it is destroyed by Shiva. One of the Three main Gods
Shiva- "The Destroyer"- Natural Evolutionary Process. Snakes. One of the Three main Gods
Dota
Krishna-
Ganesh- Shiva's Son- Removal of Obstacles- Art God. Elephant Head. Lots of Sweets and Candy.
Parvati-
Saraswati-
Kali- God of Time and Death. Destruction in order to Recreate. Drinks the blood of demons in order to prevent the creation of more demons. One drop of demon blood makes 1000 more demons.
Hanuman- God of the Monkeys; famous for the Army of Monkey to help Ram and Sita
Ram- Tribal Chief- Follower of Shiva; Lived by Darma; Exiled for 14 years and rescued his wife
Sita- Ideal Women Figure and Morals
Lakshmi
Maya- God of Illusion, the "Shadows on the Wall"
Garuda- Half bird half man. Symbol of Speed.
Saraswati

Hindu Gods and Goddess

Maya or Mayasura

Litteral translation: Illusion, veiling power of illuision is able to create the difference between "me" and "mine" or "thee" and "thine."

Maya creates the ingnorance of individual self.

Group 4 Reflection

What was your Hypothesis?
To examine the pH of the soil and compare it to that of the denisty of the crap life living there.

Explain your experience in gaining and testing evidence. Any issues? -Samples? -Equipment?
We got to work together and had to collaborte with our group members in order to succed in gaining information retaining to our Group 4 project.

How was working in a group? What went well? What did not?
It was interesting because each of us had a fair amount of knowlegde in each of our science fields and some of us had more than one area of knowlegde about a science, e.i. took two sciences. Thus the project went fairly well and we were done collecting our data rather quickly and accurately.

How do you KNOW that you gained Scientific Knowledge?
I cannot say that thus I truely don't know...