Morning Muffin

yes i know philosophy and TOK (theory of knowledge) are technically very different subjects but sometimes things we say in TOK often stray into my philosophical musings. And so i put to you this question:
Is Understanding fundamental to enjoyment?
For example i dont understand cricket and the rules of cricket and therefore i dont enjoy watching it because i havent a clue whats going on, however i can look at a piece of art and enjoy looking at it but have no clue what the meaning behind it is. But yes understanding the piece of art does often help me enjoy it more (though sometimes understanding it completely ruins the illusion). Many dont understand how their morning muffin is cooked but they definitely enjoy it!!
I havent yet worked out my answer for this question but i just thought i would put it out there and see if it makes you think ....

Smarties

While looking at the open university philosophy section I came across a video lecture by Professoor Russel Stannard. He was discussing the question of whether we ever have free will in any of our decision making processes and he was demonstrating this through smarties (yes the title does have some relevance, im not just food obsessed!) And that got me thinking can we ever independantly make a free decision. When faced with a bowl of smarties I will always automatically choose the blue smarties, not because I particularly like blue smarties, but because in the back of my mind blue smarties will always be the ones with the chemicals in which make you go hyper and therefore they are fobidden. Surely that is marketing (the famous blue smartie adverts) effecting my judgement and meaning that my decision to choose a blue smartie is not my own. So next time i go to pick a smartie i am going to choose a colour and then deliberately eat a different one to attempt to outsmart my brain and therefore think for myself!!

Would you risk it for a chocolae biscuit?

This is my first ever blog so its all very new and exciting and not being technologically minded i fear has set me back already in the competitive blogging world. However this blog has been set as my homework for an IB course which will take me the best part of two years and cost me my social life and sanity. The idea is I write everything that i see that i might associate with philosophy and as you may be able to tell from my title philosophy can be found in everything (though i'm not entirely sure my IB course see's the importance of a chocolae biscuit as a prominent subject). Anyway here we go ............