Changes: Black box

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The black box is the flight data recorder that was allegedly retrieved from the staged wreckage of Oceanic Flight 815. It was "procured" by Charles Widmore, who gave it to Captain Gault of the Kahana. Showing this recorder to Sayid and Desmond, Gault implicated Ben Linus in a plot to fake the wreckage and questioned how anyone could come up with 324 dead bodies to plant in it, implying that Ben was the culprit. ("Ji Yeon") The recorder was lost or destroyed when the Kahana exploded. ("There's No Place Like Home, Part 2")

In Season 1, Shannon had mentioned that since there was a black box on the plane, she was certain that they'd be found soon. ("Pilot, Part 1")

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-Black box has another common usage in philosophy and science: Kant had two famous black boxes. One was called God; the other was the mind. A black box to many philosophers is an entity which exists and has specific functions. But the mechanism of those functions are not understood. Desmond is a black box. We know what Desmond does but not how he does it. In biology there are many black boxes. Figuring out  how these boxes function is what physiology is all about. For example, people have known that the kidneys form urine for thousands of years.  Physiology has revealed how urine is extracted from the blood. The sun was another black box: fusion explains its radiation of energy.
-Man tends to try to explain these black boxes. the operative word is not "why" but "how".
-We can speculate about "why" Xbox or Ybox functions the way it does, but we never can fully explain the reason why the human kidney functions the way it does. However, we can know with certainty how the kidney functions.
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