Hmmm. So I'm an IB ToK teacher and I'm reading this essay on "can a machine know" and I think, hmm, this kid's arguments sound a bit more precisely constructed than what I see from him typically. Lo and behold I find two of his paragraphs right here! Fancy that!
Guys, you need to do your own thinking. Fine, bounce ideas off others to cohere your own. But the point here is to develop your own thoughts. Stop depending so much on others to do your thinking for you. That's not the point of ToK. Find your own point of view. Do some work on your own part. Do your own knowing, knowers. It has to go through your own mind and come out the other end. Nobody eats a plate of barfed food. And that's what essays are when they're copied.
If you think your teachers can't tell when your ideas aren't yours, and if you think that we too don't have access to these message boards ourselves, you are incredibly naive. IB is worldwide. So is the Internet. So is this website.
Hate to prompt the......
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