Who would have known that we could learn such an insightful life lesson from a scientific theory about a cat? Not just any house cat but Schrodinger’s cat to be exact. A cat in a box with something that could kill it, cannot be determined dead or alive until we open it – therefore it is both dead and alive at the same time until observed. Mind you, the fact that we learned of such a scientific theory is a perfect example of Moran’s Interdisciplinarity (conversation between multiple disciplines that can advance our knowledge as individuals) but the main focus of this post is that because of this interdisciplinary-based lesson in class, my knowledge in regards to perspective and observation will be forever changed.
Similar to Schrodinger’s cat theory, literature (art of any form) has more to do with your position and perspective in the world than it does with anything else. For example, Alice Walker has in a sense placed her book in a box (the world), and it inhabits it’s own ideas but the ideas that have been placed into this book cannot be determined until we as readers (from our own perspective) decide to pick up the book and read it ourselves. Until we pick up the book ourselves, the book remains in the box, unopened and undeveloped by our own perspectives. In relation to Meridian, Meridian (the character) is both a mother and not one at the same time, depending on the perspective in which people are observing her from.
Of course we as individuals are aware of our differences in perspectives but we hardly ever take the time to realize our effects our perspectives have on the objects in which we are observing. In the same instance we were pondering about our effect on space versus space’s effect on us, we don’t actually process what it is we are doing, we just automatically do. Thanks to this class, and the many other disciplines that surround me, I am given the ability to think deeper about space and perspective.