How can we know whether what we are seeing is real or a dream- or if there is a difference between the two? The famous Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi once told a parable of when, after waking from a dream of being a butterfly, he wondered if he were a butterfly dreaming of being a man. With this artwork, I show that reality is relative and that you can never be sure which viewpoint represents reality.
More than 1,500 people worldwide die a day from cancer. My project investigates the idea that in the future we will be able to solve this problem by detecting cancer early. Once we have the sign of the first unregulated cell differentiation, then we can prompt our bodies to intervene and prevent the cancer from metastasizing through biological drug delivery.
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Humans have long since thought of themselves as “masters of the universe.” Along with this ideology, they have come to see animals as instumentalities merely here to serve the needs and desires of humans. However, there may be more to animals and their intellectual capacities than meets the eye.
Since Albert Einstein discovered the Theory of Relativity, modern physics opened itself to a whole new spectrum of reality in which space and time are blended together in a set of madly distorted interactions. Humans once again had to break their own visual limitations, cast doubt on not just what they hear but what they see. We came to realize that everything we had blindly recognized as status quo has always been relative and the truth only came from a multitude of perspectives.
Ever sisnce I was a kid move around from one country to another due to my father’s job. In order to get used to the ever-changing environment around me I learned to keep my personalities and mindset extremely flexible. However, my inconsistent identities I had in each country has left me worrying nowadays which one of those personalities are a part of me or not.
With the increased integration of technology and the human body, people are living longer and active lives. Medical devices have already changed many lives both young and old. Will technology redefine relationships, has it already?
