Pinnacle of evolution: Existence comprehending itself. [trollville]
every breath, every drink, even my poop are of nature itself; our everything.
Mankind became capable of conscious awareness of itself and words/symbols/articulation was born to natures body.
Mankind could identify itself as an "I" to represent an opinion.
Words are mankinds creations, agreed?
math, being the universal language............. yes no?!?
mankind is describing itself, yes?
and to perfectly 'name' existence itself would be to define it, perhaps? Ie.... to articulate 'its' processes, a label? a name?
in which language?
If you 'are' it and have that universal 'want', is it to know, to understand?
How about every conscious life ever born, do ya tink dey wanted to know at some point in their life?
Will the next generations want to know? What is our duty as capable human beings, NOW; to the next generations?
If you were to identify the pinnacle of evolution, could you comprehend the reality of a life, knowing itself, within its environment, capable of creating and enabling life, by choice and not only know it is doing it, but live in them contributions to existence/nature by choice?
Meaning; if you were given the magic wand of enabling life ever lasting, would you want to know how it works? (fuch the magic, cuz to comprehend then you can teach your children and theirs the same)
what's the pinnacle of evolution?
If Existence only operates one way, is the math the name to know?
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i said, existence comprehending itself, is the pinnacle of evolution.
is it, or is it not?
why?
I answered before. Evolution has no pinnacles. None. Nada. Zip. The question is meaningless. Therefore, the question has no meaningful answer.
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Very well. According to Kelvin's figures it took 99,968,000 years to prepare the world for man, impatient as the Creator doubtless was to see him and admire him. But a large enterprise like this has to be conducted warily, painstakingly, logically. It was foreseen that man would have to have the oyster. Therefore the first preparation was made for the oyster. Very well, you cannot make an oyster out of whole cloth, you must make the oyster's ancestor first. This is not done in a day. You must make a vast variety of invertebrates, to start with -- belemnites, trilobites, jebusites, amalekites, and that sort of fry, and put them to soak in a primary sea, and wait and see what will happen. Some will be a disappointments - the belemnites, the ammonites and such; they will be failures, they will die out and become extinct, in the course of the 19,000,000 years covered by the experiment, but all is not lost, for the amalekites will fetch the home-stake; they will develop gradually into encrinites, and stalactites, and blatherskites, and one thing and another as the mighty ages creep on and the Archaean and the Cambrian Periods pile their lofty crags in the primordial seas, and at last the first grand stage in the preparation of the world for man stands completed, the Oyster is done. An oyster has hardly any more reasoning power than a scientist has; and so it is reasonably certain that this one jumped to the conclusion that the nineteen-million years was a preparation for him; but that would be just like an oyster, which is the most conceited animal there is, except man. And anyway, this one could not know, at that early date, that he was only an incident in a scheme, and that there was some more to the scheme, yet.
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The environment is the benchmark against which competing mutated (evolved) organisms are tested against. If they are better adapted to the environment, they will prevail and out-breed the original organism, conversely, they will die out.
I agree with you on this point Bishadi, but you still have yet to answer my post.
Evolutionary changes, as I see it, don't change to suit an environment. Generally they are random type changes that either allow better survival in the environment or not. The random changes do not happen because of the environment although environmental factors such as radiation, mutagenic plants and so on may cause genetic mutation. If the environment directed evolution versus random mutation then there would have been no reason for marine animals to ever "evolve" to walk on land.
You made my point Ktulu with your post but credited Bishadi with it. I'm sure my confusing point by point addressing didn't help the thread read smoothly.
At least I think we are looking at evolution the same?
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Peto Verum wrote:The environment doesn't cause evolution. My children are decendant of me and my ex-wife and if our biological reproduction is without DNA replication error [/b]
that was enough stupid for me
Evolution is RANDOM. If DNA replication was perfect AND no RANDOM errors with the DNA strand then there would be no evolution as I'm referring to it. The error I see with your refuting this is that you see evolution as determined. Rewind the geological clock and set it to run forward from the Cambrian era and you may find that totally different animals evolve because there would have been different RANDOM errors.
Sorry you found my comment stupid. Now you know how I feel about your thread.
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Bishadi wrote:every breath, every drink, even my poop are of nature itself; our everything.
Everything about us is part of the natural world, of course - so??
Quote:Mankind became capable of conscious awareness of itself and words/symbols/articulation was born to natures body.
Assuming we are the only, or the first, self-aware beings with a language.
perhaps 'our' (mankinds) language/descriptions aint the first...................... i can leave that open. Fair
Mankind could identify itself as an "I" to represent an opinion.
Words are mankinds creations, agreed?
Human words are our creation, of course.
another easy one
Quote:math, being the universal language............. yes no?!?
No.
can you explain your point?
Quote:mankind is describing itself, yes?
and to perfectly 'name' existence itself would be to define it, perhaps? Ie.... to articulate 'its' processes, a label? a name?
No 'perfectly' involved.
Naming something only creates a label for it, and defines nothing more than that label, nothing else about what that label refers to.
perfect is a huge word, i can see that part. Even if i know it qualifies, you may not know that just yet, so OK.
naming existence can be as simple as 'nature' or the universe, etc..... but to define it, in which 'we' as human beings can call upon a action, then defining the measure is absolutely important.
for example: moving mountains, mankind can do it because we know how to use iron (of nature), which temp to smelt, forming, production of equipment and so forth...... labeling nature is what we do just for the phenomena in all her forms (gravity as ex).
i can see you point of not wanting to box in something with a stupid label. A fine trait of the objective nature.
And again, i apologize for being so upfront with these premises (math; universal language and 'naming' existence) but if you were to sit back and YOU required a defining of how existence operates, how would you think it must be completed?
be fair
Quote:We are NOT 'existence, only a small part of it. Scientific, empirical study is how we attempt to satisfy our desire to understand,If you 'are' it and have that universal 'want', is it to know, to understand?
Quote:How about every conscious life ever born, do ya tink dey wanted to know at some point in their life?
Not necessarily, in fact, mostly NO.
if you deny that, then i will call that a fib
ie... what th hell are you on the forum for?
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If you were to identify the pinnacle of evolution, could you comprehend the reality of a life, knowing itself, within its environment, capable of creating and enabling life, by choice and not only know it is doing it, but live in them contributions to existence/nature by choice?
The "pinnacle of evolution" is largely meaningless and certainly subjective. Irrelevant.
i see it that just about every conscious life ever to walk has wanted to know what the fuch it is.
and knowledge has been evolving over time to define
these are facts
Quote:Meaning; if you were given the magic wand of enabling life ever lasting, would you want to know how it works? (fuch the magic, cuz to comprehend then you can teach your children and theirs the same)
If we found a way to indefinitely extend our life-span, that would be nice. You are just confusing the issue by talking about 'magic'.
to comprehend the 'life' that you are, is how to extend yours........ ah dah.
that is what the whole concept enables; conscious life to live longer by choice, an know it!
Quote:what's the pinnacle of evolution?
A poorly defined concept. Do you mean "What is the most advanced life-form on Earth?". Probably Homo Sapiens, at least right now, but there is plenty of room for improvement.
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sorry..... the problem is not the concept, it is that people, like even you, have never looked at it this way.
hence the 'paradigm shift
If Existence only operates one way, is the math the name to know?
Everything about us is part of the natural world, of course - so??
Assuming we are the only, or the first, self-aware beings with a language.
Human words are our creation, of course.
No.
No 'perfectly' involved.
Naming something only creates a label for it, and defines nothing more than that label, nothing else about what that label refers to.
Not necessarily, in fact, mostly NO.
Some in the next generations will want to know, so it would be nice to do what we can to help that happen.
The "pinnacle of evolution" is largely meaningless and certainly subjective. Irrelevant.
If we found a way to indefinitely extend our life-span, that would be nice. You are just confusing the issue by talking about 'magic'.
A poorly defined concept. Do you mean "What is the most advanced life-form on Earth?". Probably Homo Sapiens, at least right now, but there is plenty of room for improvement.
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