" TRUMAN SYNDROME ", a delusion afflicting people who are convinced that their lives are being played out on a reality TV show. Scientists say that the disorder underscores the influence on mental conditions of a patient. Many patients believe that their every move is being filmed for a TV show.The question is : Is this just a new twist on an old paranoid or grandiose delusion? or is there sort of a perfect storm of the culture we are in,in which fame holds such high value?
A psychiatrist,Dr Joel Gold, says that he encountered five patients with delusion related to the reality TV. Several of them specifically mentioned " The Truman Show " the Oscar-nominated movie stars Jim Carrey as Truman Burbank. He leads a merrily uneventful life until he realizes his friends and family are actors,his seaside town is a TV sound stage and every moment of his life has been broadcast. Dr.Gold and his brother, a psychologist,have started research and present their observations at medical schools since 2006. They have learned of about 50 more people with the similar symptoms and are now working on a scholarly paper.
One of a patient in Austria believed that she had become a walking webcam and according to Austrian patient's psychiatrist, 'Reality Television may help such patients convince themselves their experiences are plausible. That's not to say reality shows make healthy people delusie but the people who become sick are becoming sick quicker and other researchers aren't convinced,but still find the " Truman Syndrome " an interesting example of culture and mental health.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
ARTIFACT 2 : CLONING
Cloning in biology is the process of producing similar populations of genetically identical individuals that occurs in nature when organisms such as bacteria, insects or plants reproduce asexually. Cloning in biotechnology refers to processes used to create copies of DNA fragments (molecular cloning), cells (cell cloning), or organisms. The term also refers to the production of multiple copies of a product such as digital media or software..
In my opinion cloning is an artifical process of reproduction and it can be harmful, because if a human is cloned and if the copy of that person is an evil minded person, it can harm the society or the world.
Cloning of Dolly Sheeps is also done and they are used for consuming meat from them.But these artificially produced Dolly Sheeps and their meat can be harmful for health,because these Sheeps are not born naturally but produced artificially.
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Thursday, October 7, 2010
"Brainstorming about Technology"
Tool..: Anything used as a means of accomplishing a task , purpose or for doing work.
Technology..: The branch of knowledge that deals with the creation and use of technical means and their interrelation with life with engineering, applied science, and pure science.
Cybrog...: A cybrmetic organism , a being with both biological and artificial and artificial parts.
What technologies define your daily life..??
Facebook.: To keep in touch with my friends and family.
Cell Phone..: To make calls, text,web,etc.
Metro Card..: To travel everyday.
Laptop..: To do my Homework.
Camera..: To take pictures of different things and my self.
Electric Shaver..: To shave my Beard..:D
Technology..: The branch of knowledge that deals with the creation and use of technical means and their interrelation with life with engineering, applied science, and pure science.
Cybrog...: A cybrmetic organism , a being with both biological and artificial and artificial parts.
What technologies define your daily life..??
Facebook.: To keep in touch with my friends and family.
Cell Phone..: To make calls, text,web,etc.
Metro Card..: To travel everyday.
Laptop..: To do my Homework.
Camera..: To take pictures of different things and my self.
Electric Shaver..: To shave my Beard..:D
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Blog 4 Revised
Summary of Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave”
In Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave,” Socrates discusses about, How most of the people spend their lives being ignorant and comfortable with that lifestyle is simply a choice.They don’t try to get out of the circle in which they have tied themselves. He explains that, prisoners are tied with chains,facing a wall in a cave so they cannot move.Behind them a fire is blazing at a distance and between the prisoners and the fire there is a road or a passage and they could only see what ever passes through that road it created a shadow on that wall. Men carrying various materials which appeared over the wall as a shadow and the prisoners only recognized one thing in their life are those shadows.Among them a prisoner was released and he went out of the cave and saw the colors of the world and learned new things and came back to the cave again to tell his mates about the outer world of the cave but all the other prisoners thought that he is also the same shadow that they see every day and didn't recognize their mate and never tried to learn what he was trying to teach them.
Write your summary of what goes on, explaining the main points. Check the Summary Evaluation Checklist to make sure you are fulfilling all elements of a summary. Underline Platos’s thesis]
My Place in the Cave
[Please begin with YOUR thesis and underline it].___________________________etc.
In Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave,” Socrates discusses about, How most of the people spend their lives being ignorant and comfortable with that lifestyle is simply a choice.They don’t try to get out of the circle in which they have tied themselves. He explains that, prisoners are tied with chains,facing a wall in a cave so they cannot move.Behind them a fire is blazing at a distance and between the prisoners and the fire there is a road or a passage and they could only see what ever passes through that road it created a shadow on that wall. Men carrying various materials which appeared over the wall as a shadow and the prisoners only recognized one thing in their life are those shadows.Among them a prisoner was released and he went out of the cave and saw the colors of the world and learned new things and came back to the cave again to tell his mates about the outer world of the cave but all the other prisoners thought that he is also the same shadow that they see every day and didn't recognize their mate and never tried to learn what he was trying to teach them.
Write your summary of what goes on, explaining the main points. Check the Summary Evaluation Checklist to make sure you are fulfilling all elements of a summary. Underline Platos’s thesis]
My Place in the Cave
[Please begin with YOUR thesis and underline it].___________________________etc.
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Blog#6 "What are the similarities and differences between The Truman Show and Plato's "The Allegory of the Cave"?"
Most people ,including ourselves, live in a world of relative ignorance. We are even comfortable with that ignorance,because its all we know. But once you go beyond your ignorance you will not ever want to go back to being ignorant.But the people don't want to go beyond and if any one goes beyond and tries to tell other people about the realities of the world they ignore him and live the way they have been living all their life.
The same way in Plato's "Allegory of the Cave". He explains that prisoners are tied with chains,facing a wall in a cave so they cannot move.Behind them, a fire is blazing at a distance. Between the prisoners and the fire there is a road or a passage. They could only see whatever passes through that road. It created a shadow on that wall. Men carrying various materials which appeared over the wall as a shadow and the prisoners only recognized one thing in their life are those shadows.Among them a prisoner was released and he went out of the cave and saw the colors of the world and learned new things and came back to the cave again to tell his mates about the outer world of the cave but all the other prisoners thought that he is also the same shadow that they see every day and didn't recognize their mate and never tried to learn what he was trying to teach them.
In the same way the Truman show is on the same pattern. TO BE CONTINUED.............
The same way in Plato's "Allegory of the Cave". He explains that prisoners are tied with chains,facing a wall in a cave so they cannot move.Behind them, a fire is blazing at a distance. Between the prisoners and the fire there is a road or a passage. They could only see whatever passes through that road. It created a shadow on that wall. Men carrying various materials which appeared over the wall as a shadow and the prisoners only recognized one thing in their life are those shadows.Among them a prisoner was released and he went out of the cave and saw the colors of the world and learned new things and came back to the cave again to tell his mates about the outer world of the cave but all the other prisoners thought that he is also the same shadow that they see every day and didn't recognize their mate and never tried to learn what he was trying to teach them.
In the same way the Truman show is on the same pattern. TO BE CONTINUED.............
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