TheoryofKnowledge

Theory of Knowledge help for TOK Essay & Exhibition needs for IB students all over the world. Tweets give examples for ToK Prescribed Essay Titles May 2025.

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Summary reflections on the ToK Prescribed Essay TItles for May 2025... https://t.co/FtsF1e4UPh

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may2025 Q1 Microdosing, mental health & spiritual wellbeing: TWE are scientists ignoring the evidence of the benefits of psychedelic-assisted therapies? https://t.co/Jy8JPBIZ0Y

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may2025 Q5 Boundary conditions & top-down effects: challenging the notion of 'fundamental' in the standard model of physics https://t.co/sASgczneDm

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may2025 Q5 'Plant blindness', sentience & plant behaviour: challenging the standard model that consciousness resides in the neural activity of the brain... https://t.co/pmW9XGOBZp

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may2025 Q2 AI, creativity & impersonal forms of art: how 'uncreative' art doesn't really undermine our most revered knowledge about what makes art 'art'; it redefines the artistic process as 'fluidity, plasticity, malleability'... https://t.co/gJ2YSZEPcb

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may2025 Q3 AI, predictions & Promethean desire: our relentless pursuit of knowledge about the future is limited by its unpredictability rather than our finite resources... https://t.co/9PBHPHIzv1

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may2025 Q1 Bergson, Monty Python & humour: enquiring into the causes of laughter without looking for definitions, experimenting or accepting/ignoring any sort of evidence... https://t.co/BpeGOSrMWo

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may2025 Q3 DUNE, neutrinos & billion dollar experiments: TWE is it justified to use using finite resources to see something that doesn't want to be seen? https://t.co/de6p9nrbQj

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may2025 Q6 Transcendental numbers, math constants and solving problems: how the number 'e' 'has several amazing properties that make it unique among all numbers'. https://t.co/B8wMPbYgKL

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may2025 Q4 Anthropomorphism, human minds & ChatGPT: why, in spite of improved tech, we tend to 'hallucinate' supernatural explanations for things we don't know... https://t.co/UB8g59f0AB

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nov2024 Q6 Storytelling, evidence bases & creativity: how the intersection of an artistic lens can enable us to do good science that has a positive impact on the world... https://t.co/WyAWrlK8t5

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nov2024 Q4 The illusion of selfhood, left brain interpreter & confabulations: the western hypothesis of a controlling 'I' conflicts with the neuroscientific evidence supporting the eastern view that the self is more a fiction than a real thing...https://t.co/eUCETARk1w

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nov2024 Q5 General Relativity, spacetime & Einstein's 'biggest blunder': What would have changed if Einstein had been quicker to dismiss his notion of a 'cosmological constant'? https://t.co/7bn9P0ZSJx

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nov2024 Q1 Moral decline & the psychology of bias: in the context of politics, it's our responsibility to acquire moral knowledge since 'It’s very easy to feel like you know something about the past without actually knowing anything about the past'... https://t.co/8LrmsxSOa6

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nov2024 Q4 Homo naledi, The Cradle of Humankind & burial rituals: new research into the evolutionary history of humans remains speculation until 'vetted by peer review'... https://t.co/XqN8AuoERK

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nov2024 Q1 Egyptian civilisation, the 'Kemet' exhibition & falsification of history: when the artist's and historian's responsibilities to share knowledge clashes with a nation's responsibility to preserve it...https://t.co/e7cJnfClwC

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nov2024 Q6 Space debris, tractor beams & Star Trek: adopting the imaginative lens of science fiction, experts hope to solve the problem of the next space disaster... https://t.co/Dvn7AmRbA4

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nov2024 Q4 The Standard Model, roundness of electrons & EDM: in theoretical physics, the difference between hypothesis & speculation is that the former is linked to experimentation that yields increasingly precise measurements... https://t.co/8umNeALCpV

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nov2024 Q2 Pál Turán, The Brick Factory Problem & math symmetry: even the most math ingenuity can't always prove a theorem with 100% certainty... https://t.co/qZDl3zz8ne

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nov2024 Q1 Diogenes' lamp, forgotten lives & practical ideas: The Cynic philosophy which underlines the responsibility of the knower to be 'the exemplar of his own convictions'... https://t.co/aAzU7CpPIU