Biology TOK Concept – GATTACA

KQ: Under what circumstances might flaws or errors be beneficial to what we know OR how we know?

In the GATTACA, perfection and flaws are emphasized clearly with extreme controversy in Vincent and Aton. Each concept is represented by a protagonist and depicts the impact and consequences of having such traits from the protagonist. At the beginning of the movie, Vincent was born with birth defects to symbolize the concept of flaws in the movie. On the other hand, his brother, Vincent, was born with perfection by genetically modifying the mutated genes which symbolize Vincent as perfection. Nonetheless, as the movie goes on, Anton becomes to gradually overcome the defects and win over his brother who is innately perfect overall. It shows that flaws or errors can be beneficial to what we understand about ourselves and how we interpret life from different perspectives. In life, we usually found flaws by accident. For example, by having color vision deficiency, it is difficult to identify similar colors beside each other which causes some difficulties in life such as the traffic light. It is hard to identify the colors of yellow and red which could cause some panic when driving. However, it allows people to think about other perspectives. People with color vision deficiency begin to observe our world even more carefully. People view the world differently by memorizing the position of each traffic light, the number of seconds waiting across the street. People become even more cautious when driving due to the flaws that people have which not only reduces risk when driving but also showing that flaws actually mean better observation in the society and can result in greater benefits for the individual. It shows that it doesn’t mean having flaws is a bad thing, instead, it is beneficial for individuals to better understand our inferior part in order to strengthen our better parts and this can be observing and really interpreting the world with better senses of connection to society and nature. This RLS specifically connects to the AOK of human science and nature science which creates the relationship behind these two areas from having flaws. It also connects to the WOK of reason which the reasoning can be having the flaws which allow us to think from a different perspective that can be beneficial to what we really are in society. On the other hand, the counterclaim will be that flaws or errors are not beneficial to what we know or how we know. This counterclaim is a common belief in life due to how the majority of flaws end up damaging or decreasing the value of the result of something with a stereotypical overview mindset. Flaws can be a fatal point specifically in scientific experiments. Flaws cause an experiment to be less credible or even signifies the experiment as no credibility. It causes the results of the experiment to be invalid and cannot really be used to prove something true in life, therefore, people often have the mindset to say that flaws are negative impacts to not just science but to our society. In conclusion, flaws can be a dilemma in life, however, it does not mean it has a totally negative impact on our society. It creates a new insight into our individual to be able to discover and find out our nature of life from multiple points of view. 

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