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I found that The Language of the Cell chapter was much easier to read and understand than the previous chapters in the Field. I found that the experiments that Benvenist and his lab seemed to be easy to follow by anyone. I understood what he was saying that cells could communicate with each other. For example if you would step in some mud you could see the impression of your shoe. When you first step in the mud you can see all the details of the sole of your shoe. As time passes on there is less and less detail present. Eventually you wouldn’t see any details of the sole but you could see the outline. I think that could help explain Benvenist’s experiment. Because from what I could understand he took and extremely diluted solution that had no presence of the allergen but the blood cells still reacted. When I think of cells communicating I believe it is just trace chemicals left behind in the solution. (In the experiment) When I relate it to the body I think that it is how our body reacts to the chemicals. I don’t think that it is and auditory for of communication rather a chemical form of communication.


I think that the chapter resonating with the world is very odd and primitive in many ways. I understand that Lashley is trying to find out where memories are stored in the brain but some of the experiments were very odd. I think that some of the experiments with vision are difficult to understand. I think that the experiments lacked control. (Like did all the animals get the same treatment during and after the experiment?) For example there wasn’t really any consistency with his experiments. I really think that Lashley was ahead of his time with his experiments. I don’t think that most of his experiments couldn’t achieve the desired results with the technology that he had at that time.


The creative observer is another confusing chapter that has to do with some quantum physics. Personally I think it could be possible to communicate to someone without using words or sounds. Like in the chapter it states that it is possible to transmit information by using cards or symbols. You could possibly expand this to body language. I think it would be more difficult to do this between cultures. Because different cultures may have different ideas about what the symbols mean. Later in the chapter it talks about how the mind is its own thing and that it is separate. I agree that this contradicts Descartes’ idea that the mind is isolated and distinct from the body.