Post by ggonzalez170 on Jul 13, 2015 7:07:52 GMT
WEEK THREE: Biological Philosophy and Evolutionary Thinking
TWO REQUIRED ESSAY QUESTIONS:
1. Why is the theory of evolution so important in understanding how human beings behave?
Evolution is important because it is the continuation of ancestors. The ones that survive are not the strongest or the best but the person that have better conditions. In the movie “The Magic of Evolution : “Daniel Dennett’s Card Trick Analogy” Professor Daniel Dennett says: “Natural selection automatically conserves whatever has worked up to know”. It is important that we understand that we are here because our ancestors survived and continued the reproduction. While watching another movie I learned that natural selection is still going on in present time. In present time I have seen that humans are eliminated in present times. They can be killed during a natural disaster like earthquakes, or viruses like HIV. In the video “The Genius of Charles Darwin Part 1 Life, Darwin and everything” by The Science Foundation I saw a woman that is immune to HIV. Salome Simon is a woman that works as a prostitute in Nairobi, Kenya who has survived many friends that have died because they acquired HIV and AIDS. It seems that this woman is immune to the virus and she must have received this immunity due to her genes. In the video there are discussions that these women will eventually pass this on to their children. I would have never imagined that there are people in the world that have immunity to HIV. In this case I think that eventually the people that will survive in Kenya will be the people with the immunity to HIV. Natural selection will be the survivors to the HIV and the AIDS that is often seen in Nairobi, Kenya. In the book I read “The DNA of Consciousness A Brief Introduction to Evolutionary Philosophy” Professor Andrea Diem-Lane, Ph.D. Says: “All of this competition has led to a natural “editing” of what we see today”(7). I understand that the people that are here today have survived and are the edited version of their ancestors. They are the new and improved edition to the ancestors before them. If humans improve the conditions that they live in and have an improved version to what ancestor lived they will most likely survive and keep on procreating and their family will survive. Human beings are reproducing and are passing on their genes to their children. Humans find a partner they mate and reproduce. In the year 1963 a connection with pheromones was made in humans. These are the hormones that humans have and are in a sense responsible for attraction between humans. Professor Andrea Diem-Lane, Ph.D. says: “Furthermore, Wilson explores the link between genetic evolution and cultural evolution, from genes to neural, mental development to mind to culture” (59). I think that humans act and behave the way that they behave because of their surroundings and the way the way they were brought up. Our story will continue as it was said in the beginning of the book we are a book with a story and our children will become the new versions. Hopefully we will pass on the genes to create people that behave and think much better than we did.
2. Which questions do you think evolutionary theory cannot answer?
I don’t think that evolution can answer how morality, ethics and religion will become in the future. People have a belief that god is responsible for many things that are going on in a person’s life. Like I mentioned in the previous question with Salome Simon even though she lives in a place that has a lot of poverty and people that are ill, she still believed that god had been good to her because she was immune to HIV. The evolutionary theory cannot answer the beliefs people will have. People have emotions with other life and love to live people want to be involved with others but we don’t know if the same involvement will exist in the future.
TWO REQUIRED ESSAY QUESTIONS:
1. Why is the theory of evolution so important in understanding how human beings behave?
Evolution is important because it is the continuation of ancestors. The ones that survive are not the strongest or the best but the person that have better conditions. In the movie “The Magic of Evolution : “Daniel Dennett’s Card Trick Analogy” Professor Daniel Dennett says: “Natural selection automatically conserves whatever has worked up to know”. It is important that we understand that we are here because our ancestors survived and continued the reproduction. While watching another movie I learned that natural selection is still going on in present time. In present time I have seen that humans are eliminated in present times. They can be killed during a natural disaster like earthquakes, or viruses like HIV. In the video “The Genius of Charles Darwin Part 1 Life, Darwin and everything” by The Science Foundation I saw a woman that is immune to HIV. Salome Simon is a woman that works as a prostitute in Nairobi, Kenya who has survived many friends that have died because they acquired HIV and AIDS. It seems that this woman is immune to the virus and she must have received this immunity due to her genes. In the video there are discussions that these women will eventually pass this on to their children. I would have never imagined that there are people in the world that have immunity to HIV. In this case I think that eventually the people that will survive in Kenya will be the people with the immunity to HIV. Natural selection will be the survivors to the HIV and the AIDS that is often seen in Nairobi, Kenya. In the book I read “The DNA of Consciousness A Brief Introduction to Evolutionary Philosophy” Professor Andrea Diem-Lane, Ph.D. Says: “All of this competition has led to a natural “editing” of what we see today”(7). I understand that the people that are here today have survived and are the edited version of their ancestors. They are the new and improved edition to the ancestors before them. If humans improve the conditions that they live in and have an improved version to what ancestor lived they will most likely survive and keep on procreating and their family will survive. Human beings are reproducing and are passing on their genes to their children. Humans find a partner they mate and reproduce. In the year 1963 a connection with pheromones was made in humans. These are the hormones that humans have and are in a sense responsible for attraction between humans. Professor Andrea Diem-Lane, Ph.D. says: “Furthermore, Wilson explores the link between genetic evolution and cultural evolution, from genes to neural, mental development to mind to culture” (59). I think that humans act and behave the way that they behave because of their surroundings and the way the way they were brought up. Our story will continue as it was said in the beginning of the book we are a book with a story and our children will become the new versions. Hopefully we will pass on the genes to create people that behave and think much better than we did.
2. Which questions do you think evolutionary theory cannot answer?
I don’t think that evolution can answer how morality, ethics and religion will become in the future. People have a belief that god is responsible for many things that are going on in a person’s life. Like I mentioned in the previous question with Salome Simon even though she lives in a place that has a lot of poverty and people that are ill, she still believed that god had been good to her because she was immune to HIV. The evolutionary theory cannot answer the beliefs people will have. People have emotions with other life and love to live people want to be involved with others but we don’t know if the same involvement will exist in the future.