Thrisha’s TOK Blog

During TOK we had a debate based on creators and whether or not they're responsible for their creations. I started wondering whether they should be held responsible for the externalities caused by their creations. The question I'll be addressing is "are scientists morally responsible for the application of their discoveries?" The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the most well-known illustration of this problem. Shouldn't the scientists have known better than to work on the bomb's development? This subject is addressed in Frederic Brown's "The Weapon" published in 1951.  It ends with the line, “Only a madman would give a loaded gun to an idiot.” Is Brown's proposal correct? Should scientists be on a higher level than the general public and be the first to predict the catastrophic consequences of the atomic bomb? The scientists were well aware that the atomic bomb would be the ultimate weapon, and they carried out test runs with it...

 "What is good music?" Everyone has different preferences for music, whether if it is a genre, an artist, a specific emotion etc. But how do we know what is good music? In order to define ‘good’ music, we must first have a clear definition of what music is. Music is ‘a combination of sounds, melodies and rhythms’, but this definition will also require defining the words ‘melody’, because we will probably explain what a rhythm and sound is similarly’. Elements of music also includes harmony, tonality, rhythm, structure and many more. There are notes which sounds good together, some notes sound ‘okay’ together, while others is painful to hear them together. When two notes sound like they go together, they merge into one note, but when they sound they play together sounds awful, we couldn’t wait the sound to be over. But is how ‘good’ the music sound to us able to be calculated? Is the the ration between certain notes? Or the timing between the notes? Studies have found that a p...