Class On Wednesday: What Is Color? & Friday: What is Identity?

There are two topics one of which is the lecture about color and really struck me to be very interesting. It started to make me think about all of the things that we have around us and it is like we are just programed not to really question what a number is or what color is. I still do not completely understand the whole concept of what makes a table a table and all the particles that it is made up of, but anything can be a table if it has the same essence? This class was really the introduction I needed to philosophy and that there are questions to everything, we are just to blind to ask. Philosophy will be a challenge because I really just accept everything around me and I don't ask how or why its around me, I just take it in. When Dr. Layne presented the class with the question about what we actually are and our identities, I thought it would be an easy question to answer, but it wasn't. The reason it is so hard to answer is because anything I would say would be in a physical sense and the question goes much further than the physical aspect of a persons identity.