Serendip Activities

The activities that I completed were: Seeing more than your Eye Does, The Free will Problem, Voyage to Serendip, and Prisoner's Dilemma.

I learned that our eyes have blind spots; I never realized how big the blind spots were until I completed the Seeing more than your Eye Does activity. I also learned that there are two or more ways to look at a situation and our perspective is usually based off former experiences. I didn't really notice that there were two sets of arrows until I read the description and looked at the picture from a different perspective. Hopefully that is a transferable skill; so that I look at various situations from both perspectives before making judgements. I will also be checking my blind spots more often while driving. I wouldn't say that this changes the way I view the world or my outlook on life. I think hopefully I will just be more aware of my surroundings.

Miscellaneous things that I learned in this chapter was that there are parts in the brain that control our emotions, thoughts, actions, and interactions with people. I knew that our brain controlled these to an extent but I never realized how big of a role it played until I read this chapter. I definately learned more about the central nervous system, the left and right hemispheres of the brain, and the advantages and disadvantages to "handedness". Overall this was a very interesting chapter.