A Greek philosopher named Heraclitus (b. 535 BC) was arguably one of the most important thinkers in history. According to both Plato and Aristotle, “Heraclitus had very extreme views but they soon led to logical incoherence” (Graham, “Heraclitus”). He is best known for his doctrines that things are constantly changing otherwise known as fluxes. This is the view that no object retains all of its component parts, or all of its qualities and/or characteristics, from one moment to the next (Cohen, “Heraclitus lecture”). There are two types of fluxes that Heraclitus described. One is a radical flux (also known as extreme flux), where everything is changing so rapidly that our minds cannot compute and our brains basically give up on understanding that certain thing because there is no way that we could handle how rapidly it is changing. The other type of flux is called a moderate flux. A moderate flux is where things change at different rates and some changes are slow enough that we can understand what is happening. Differentiating the…show more content… Well, it relates to a radical flux because when the ride is moving at its highest peak, from the inside, you are only able to see colors. If you have have even been on the amusement ride, when it first starts spinning, you can gradually see the riders forming into this giant circle of color. Your mind can’t properly distinguish what is happening and therefore seeing colors is all that you can fully understand. This video clip demonstrates what I am talking about (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYNgs6QhTbY) starting from 1:17. Everything around the guy in the video is going to fast for him to understand so he continues to look straight. If he is lucky, he could maybe distinguish a person from the actual ride itself but it is doubtful. Everything just looks like a collage of colors formed without restrictions (without there being a distinction between different the various
