I can't stop thinking about being an observer...

I think it's because although we had a TOK day this week, I'm feeling a little lost without my regular Thursday fix of TOKkyness.  So I've been searching the internet for the name of a book I used as an example in the break out session to illustrate some of the more complex ideas Mr. Fletcher brought up in the lecture.  The book I mentioned is called Quarantine.  I don't expect you all to rush out and buy or run to the library to get this book (we have one copy in our school library though if you wish to give it a go). 

Its all about the idea of us controlling the universe as observers, until one day someone stops us...with an impenetrable shield.  Human observations of the universe were reducing its diversity and potentiality (for instance, by rendering it uninhabitable to beings that relied on stars being something other than the enormous nuclear fusion-powered furnaces human astronomers have observed them to be).   Hence it is suggested that the shield was constructed to prevent humanity from wreaking massive destruction on the rest of the universe through the process of mere observation.


So if the stars go out someday...we know what caused it :-)  See you all next week.