GMU:BioGames/Angelica Sohn: Difference between revisions

Jakob von Uexkull's Unwelt theory of microcosms and macrocosms sheds light an important factor: communication. As a tick has its own spatial and visual worlds, we too have our own ''Umwelt,'' in which our senses of sound, sight, touch, and time are defined independently of those around us. I am interested in exploring the microcosms and macrocosms of our own unique universe, in which it is not our behaviors that define us, but the brain. The brain is responsible for everything we do and feel, and the microcosm in our head ultimately decides the macrocosm we live and cultivate. When neurons communicate with each other, they are in their own unique worlds with equal completeness as our own outer manifestations. By comparing the way neurons communicate with each other - thereby affecting our external manifestations - and the way we communicate with others, we can begin to explore and investigate the different worlds we are part of. How do our microcosms affect our macrocosms?