/sci/ - Science & Math

The beauty from the senses, the beauty from the mystery, the beauty from patterns and orders, the beauty from empathy... All of them are one and the same.

There is no way for you to distinguish them, that is a false idea that is perpetuated by the fear of losing our most beloved trait. I mean, if you consider yourself to be rational at your core, you'd fear numbness and madness. You don't want to stop being rational or reasonable, so you cut everything which is not rational in itself and claim them as invalid. You cut your emotions because they might get in the way, you cut your hopes, your instincts, all the other perspectives of life.

I see a big lack of confidence as the cause of this, in that one is not able to embrace all these other sides in fear of losing oneself. It's a way to be conservative.

The scientist is much like the poet, the monk, the thinker, the artist in that he wants not only to fit in, but to earn his place in the world, to be in touch with reality and engulfed by it. Science is merely the name of his tool of preference, not a flag.

Would it be true to say, that due to the nature of Darwinist evolution, the final creature that would exist on this earth would have to be as small and as subtle as the first?

I came to this conclusion after contemplating the nature of the earth. Nature (according to our currently accepted theories) bends toward the destruction of the lesser, and the survival of the fittest. If this is the case, then over the course of millions of years of evolution and the slow degradation of conditions for sustaining life on earth, we would begin to see life reverting back toward its initial point. single cells.

In accordance with this idea, humans would die out, then the trees, the oceans would begin to die. The Earth would become too hot, and the seas would no longer sustain life. In the end, after all of evolutions attempts to adjust to this environment, in millions of years time, life on earth would end - rather poetically - not as a cacophony of animals, but as the original hot gloop that first spawned life.