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Book Review | Sapiens
By: Salman Maken
Tags: Evolution, Sapiens, History, Book Review, Psychology

In the book “Sapiens”, the writer discusses the history of humans from the very beginning to the present day. Harari discusses different aspects of human history and explores the circumstances that result in making our world as it is today. He highlighted the questions that have not yet been answered, and highlighted theories that other historians and writers usually avoid discussing it. According to him humans were at the time an animal with no significance, now they become the most powerful community. How do they become the most significant creatures on earth?

Harari raised questions like why humans rule the world, are humans the only reasons for the extinction of other species, why men are dominant and rule the world, and why European empires succeeded and others collapsed? From invention of fiction to the discovery of ignorance, Harari writes about the pros and cons of the major historical events. He, according to me, always speaks in favor or speaks against something with evidence and logical reasons. However he never prove that any certain happening was good or bad for humanity rather left for readers to decide for themselves

I like and recommend this book to anyone who is interested in history as well as biology and psychology. Sometimes I feel like it’s less about human history and more about biology and psychology. Other than biology and psychology, Harari discusses lives of humans in times such as in agricultural revolution, where people live and settling down in villages and other topics like capitalism, emergence of science and imperialism in Europe etc. The writer explains whether the events happening in the past were beneficial for humankind or proved harmful and have lasting effects on human population. With every passing time human beings continuously inventing and improving technology to make their lives more better and easy but they never remain satisfied, no matter how much they progressed.
A Life Looking Back
By: Anthony Halliwell
Tags: Evolution, Climate Change, Climate, Future, Fiction

A Life Looking Back

Photo by Kasper Rasmussen on Unsplash

I grew up in a village in Gujarat, India. When I was born, in 2020, a deadly virus swept the world. My parents would tell me later how scared people were, for their lives, for the future.

At eighteen I left to study in Europe. Many people had deserted my village or were hoping to. Monsoons and cyclones made the place almost uninhabitable.

Yet this was a time when the world began to change for the better.

The world’s population was rising steeply, along with temperatures and sea levels; dependence on fossil fuels and zero-sum geopolitics had led to dire predictions for our future.

I’m now an old man. I’ve watched power dynamics collapse; new structures forming. In 2120, nation-states are coevolving, developing, and sharing technology to reduce emissions and battle poverty; gradually growing together.

As US preeminence waned, ceding to China and India, necessity pushed leading economies to strive with one purpose — survival.

The next generation has new challenges. As cities expanded, due to migration, people lost contact with nature. The countryside, and much wildlife, has nearly disappeared.

My village, like others, is gone. But I’m more hopeful for my children’s future than my parents could be.
Another Mask Season
By: Zane Dickens
Tags: Flash Fiction, Evolution, Short Story, Coronavirus, Fiction

Another Mask Season

Photo by Elias Arias on Unsplash

“Come in, let the door close — dirty airs getting in.”

Marco shuffled in, the door shut with a hydraulic hiss.

“Canna sit, boss?”

“Sure, grab the remote — turn off the box.”

Marco flicked off the static-filled stream of today’s headlines. Bad reception underground.

“Another season izit?”

“Yah.”

“ How long?”

“A quarter maybe two. Pharma’s gotta synth a new vacc — bad mutation.”

“And our shipments —more eyes now?”

“The usual precautions.”

“Got me thinking though.”

“Dangerous business thinking.”

“For sure, but they saying this virus evolved, right?”

“You think someone made it?” he said, smiling as he pulled a cigarette from the battered box in his shirt pocket.

“Nah, I’m not one of those. I’m thinking if it evolved, changed you know, to grab a chance in the environment. Did we create that chance?”

“How so?” he said, lit match halfway to his mouth.

“We keep pushing, moving into new territory, digging deeper, slashing jungles, burning, killing.”

“Go on.”

“Maybe we left a space, for it to crawl into. A blindspot, for it to sharpen it’s knives you know. Like them Yakuza boys, we dealt with.”

The boss swore as the unwatched flame licked his finger.

“Marco, you might be wasted in packaging.”
The conditions for building a better, sustainable Human society
By: Zsolt Hermann
Tags: Humanity, Evolution, Nature, Education, Integration

Opinion from the Internet:

“If we could somehow collectively decide that we would live in a more feudal way, it might be better. Minus any class system of course. The disparity we see today is due to driving an individualistic mentality in each of us by everything we see in the media.”

In order to find the right solution we have to put the cause and effect process in the right order.

For example how today’s society is built, how the media is working is the result of the egocentric, individualistic, self-serving, ruthlessly competition Human ego that had been growing, intensifying through history.

Which means that we can’t rewind the movie, development, progress, evolution relentlessly moves on.

Thus we need to find a way of learning how to balance, harness the ever growing, irrepressible ego which will continue to grow. We can’t suppress, erase the ego, our insatiable desire for existence, for selfish fulfillment, as we have nothing else, it is our life-force, engine.

A cancer-cell is not evil, but it lost control of its growth, it has lost its integration with the rest of the body, this is why it starts growing, consuming in a random, haphazard, destructive manner.

This is exactly how Humans live, exist, as we don’t feel our obligatory integration in Human society, and we don’t feel Humanity’s obligatory integration, intrinsic role in Nature. We are born with that sense of integration, as we feel only ourselves against a seemingly hostile world.

Thus no external solutions can work, no political ideology, economic system, social arrangement can work until we help people to understand and actually feel the mutual integration, interdependence. We need to achieve this unprecedented sense of integration, interdependence through the right education, upbringing.

And then through that — as we reach at least a partial similarity with Nature — we will start to feel Nature’s system, its laws from within, and we will understand our predetermined individual and collective role in it.

Then we will be able to rebuild Human system according to Nature’s template, we will know how to channel, harness the Ego towards mutually responsible, positive, constructive development.

https://youtu.be/NcC0FkidPj0
It is Nature’s evolution that “created" us, and determines our ongoing development
By: Zsolt Hermann
Tags: Evolution, Nature, Ego, Education, Development

Question from the Internet:

“Why did humans develop a concept of intelligence? Why do we need it?”

First of all we need to recognize that we didn’t, don’t develop anything about ourselves.

We were “created" by Nature’s evolution, and the deterministic, purposeful evolutionary plan, process still drives our development without our consent — and so far without it awareness.

Nature’s evolution created us very different from other animals, even compared to other developed primates. We were given a seemingly destructive, selfish, exploitative ego which made us enemies with each other and with Nature, running on a cancer-like path consuming, destroying everything we touch as we progress.

It is neither sinful nor evil as we never had any free choice about this egotistic software that drives us.

And Nature’s evolution also gave us a unique Human intellect, a mind that is capable of critical self-assessment, so at some point — which point we reached in our generation — a critical mass of Humanity would recognize that by blindly, instinctively following our cancer-like ego we will inevitably self-destruct.

All this in order to give us the conscious, free ability to take our Human development into our own hands, and to purposefully, methodically use Nature’s evolutionary forces to awaken a so far dormant, Natural, altruistic upgrade in ourselves that can balance, control and harness the force of the ego.

Then by “holding two reins in our hands" we can use our all-powerful egotistic driving force towards positive, constructive, collective goals, purposes.

This is the unprecedented, conscious developmental process that is starting, unfolding now!

https://youtu.be/SirVA4vq_eU
Grow.
By: Jane Snowdown
Tags: Evolution, Sentir, Resilience, Love, Growth

Everyone is in a battle.
‎‎ Battlefield camouflage: an eye pattern won’t help — the crows have eaten them.
By: Where Angels Fear
Tags: Evolution, Butterfly, Camouflage, War, Death

There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live and too rare to die.
Thoughts on Darwinian View of Looking at the World and English Obsessions with Genealogy
By: Charles Lincon
Tags: Thought, Evolution, Darwin, Charles, Genealogy

It’s interesting to note that there isn’t really a way to conceive of the modern worlds in an academic rigorous way or even a casual way without referencing Darwin or science. I just wonder if it’s possible to regain some of the scientific curiosity of imagining the world what it was like before Darwin in interpreting things without a Darwinian perspective of dissent with modification and genealogies of that nature. I’m sure that you could look at it from a Lamarckian perspective if you were going exactly chronologically. But I don’t think even in that case that you were looking at it Darwinian style.

Charles Darwin, c. 1854, when he was preparing On the Origin of Species for publication (Source and description from Wikipedia. I claim no ownership of the image or description).

I think there’s also something to be said about the English obsession throughout history with genealogical charts. A lot of English royal disputes were based on English genealogical charts and a large focus of English law was on property rights. So perhaps that was really present in the mind of many English people perhaps much more so than in other parts of the world because they didn’t use a civil law system meaning that judges could sort of come up with a law in some sense of the word. So perhaps that creative approach to identifying genealogies was part of the tradition and thus expecting a theory of evolution coming from a culture obsessed with genealogy at least in the upper class was to be expected.

© Charles Edward Andrew Lincoln IV
C 5 — Really virtual — A Journey Of Mobile Phones
By: Sanika Newaskar
Tags: Apple, Nokia, Evolution, Mobile Phones

Evolution of mobile phones

It won’t be surprising to know if human anatomy soon takes a new course and makes human palms more adaptable to grasp the most inseparable commodity of our times — mobile phones! Such is the dependence of this generation on mobiles phones. The first mobile was invented on April 3, 1973. With this came a new era in the history of technological innovation. Every mobile phone emerging in the market, thus contributes in making a dynamic virtual space, coexisting with the reality.

The lines between virtuality and reality are blurring to a large extent. The easy access to this virtual space has given a lot of physical comforts to human beings. People mostly access social media through their phones, and create alternate identities of themselves in this virtual world. People find solace in online friends, even sometimes more than they can find in the ones existing physically. They use such platforms to influence the world by being vocal on media platforms, and also in turn, get influenced.

Apart from networking, mobiles are now used in conducting online transactions, shopping desirables, clicking pictures, listening to music, recording videos, playing games, booking cabs and in many other entertaining, as well as, resourceful purposes. It gives humans immense powers to feel that they run the world through a tap on a screen.

Stratification is an inevitable phenomenon which takes place in every era. In this era, mobiles are the leading factors in creating a class divide. A person owning a phone of higher brand value, automatically gets a privileged position in front of the other ordinary phone users. Mobiles have become the new status symbol. This has given rise to an unhealthy capitalist environment. Also, it has weakened physical interactions. People get so engrossed in their screen, that they start losing their touch from reality. Heath issues like obesity are on the rise as children too prefer playing online games, rather than playing games in playgrounds with their peers. Mobiles also weaken eyesights and our ability to think clearly.

Thus, according to me, it is the imbalance between virtuality and reality, that makes one ponder over the disadvantages of this phenomenal innovation. No innovation is worthy enough to cause one their mental or physical well being. Hence, we must build an equilibrium in order to reap the sweet boon of this technological boon.
Knight’s Teaching Nuggets # 2: Apply the Red Queen Hypothesis
By: James Knight
Tags: Evolution, Short Form, Science, Alice In Wonderland, Literature

Knight’s Teaching Nuggets # 2: Apply the Red Queen Hypothesis

The Red Queen is a fictional character from Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass. The Red Queen explains to Alice that her world works differently: “Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!”

The Red Queen hypothesis was coined in evolutionary biology to explain that a species must adapt and evolve not just for reproductive advantage, but also for survival because competing organisms also are evolving.

Exemplary teachers must be able to engage young minds with an artfully distributed diet of intellectual gems in both old and new modalities. In teaching, just like in life, we must accept that change is inevitable. Then prepare for it and embrace it with gusto!
Different philosophical perspective: Machines above Mankind
By: Ruslan Kotvytskyi
Tags: Evolution, Mankind, Engineering, Life, Philosophy

Different philosophical perspective: Machines above Mankind

Humanity. Progress. Machines. A person feels a pleasant confidence that although he is not the center of the Universe, at least he is the king of nature here on our planet. But what if to change a view perspective?

Here is the first likeness of a man took a stick and tied a stone to it. Didn’t we disappear at once? Maybe. Because the Machine appeared. And that’s it, there is no more man, he is not present in nature.

There is a Machine and there is a semi-liquid body that has taken root with it.

And now the Machine is evolving instead of a human. Evolution is underway and man is only a means of this evolution. Mutagenic factor. The machine deliberately selects people for itself. Here’s an example from history: it needed people with well-developed hands — they were selected and gave birth, the rest disappeared. Does it need people with brains? Let’s say, in case of any crisis situations. Here you are. A person has a brain that is a hundred times larger than the one he needs on a daily basis.

The main thing is to understand that the Machine does not subjugate people. It selects them and develops them in accordance with her needs. Needs that exist today. The stone ax did not know that it would become bronze, then iron, and then even a chainsaw. It seems that there is no purpose in evolution. More precisely, no one knows her: neither the Machine, nor, moreover, the man.

A designer who creates a rocket knows about the result of his work no more than a cosmic particle that generates an egg.

A machine is a collection of all machines and mechanisms in the world now.

Layers grow, bizarre forms of the Machine are acquired, moreover, the old ones do not die by themselves — the new ones strangle them. As a result, a conflict arises.

And the borders of states can be imagined, for example, as cell membranes. They create a difference in potential for development. And when this difference exceeds the critical one, the boundaries are broken.

The Machine will always need people. The machine is not God. Perhaps this is her goal — to become God. Then a person needs to be not a simple lubricant for gears, but rise to its greatness. Omnipotence as a goal. But if it is achieved and becomes a means — what will happen next? A new round?

P.S. Just thoughts. Just different view.
You’ve been added a writer — our latest prompt is below — deadline is this Thursday 7PM CEST. https://medium.com/microcosm/evolution-427dd5b1610b Looking forward to your story!
By: Zane Dickens
Tags: Short Read, Flash Fiction, Evolution, Short Story, Writing Prompts

Welcome to Microcosm

You’ve been added a writer — our latest prompt is below — deadline is this Thursday 7PM CEST.

Looking forward to your story!
What If You’re The Problem — Not Them?
By: Bambzi Ellis
Tags: Self Improvement, Accountability, Evolution, Relationships, Friendship

1. You Are Controlling

Photo by Felix Mittermeier on Unsplash

I’m someone that’s very picky about friendships. You should be picky with the company you keep. I just make it more complicated than it needs to be.

It means don’t approach me, let me approach you.

I’m like a turtle that snatches back in its shell when someone tries talking to me first. I can’t explain it. I found my friendships last longer if I was the one that executed the initial approach. I’ve also been able to sense someone’s energy and if our energy’s clash, it’s not going to last.

As a result, my circle of friends consist of very few people. And we’re still friends to this day. And they don’t know this is why I chose them which makes it fun. It also, unfortunately, makes me sound creepy and pathetic. I swear I’m not a creeper. Honest to God, I wasn’t always this way and life experiences made this sound more appealing. No friendship has failed this method. I’m being myself, approaching someone and with the fire of anxiety on high, I still pursue the friendship. I’m proud of myself every time.

It’s the romantic relationships I have been failing horribly.

I used to be the type of girl that would express my interest first in a guy. That is something I steer away from nowadays. Thinking about my days transitioning from teenager to new adult trying to seem mature and not care about gender roles in the dating realm is cringe. What I believed was okay came off desperate and in my honest opinion, annoying.

I’ve never been desperate for companionship ever, but when I became interested in someone it was a disaster. I would always find myself rejected, hurt, and confused by the result. This has also caused me to be cold as ice and completely dismiss a pass made at me in later situations. This is cruel, I’m aware of this because who you meet in the future is not responsible for who hurt you in the past. I had to learn the hard way that there is only so much I can control.

2. You Overthink

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The next reason you could be sabotaging a lot of your relationships is because you overthink. Who doesn’t overthink a situation on occasion? Overthinking is something even the most confident person in the room can relate to. I’ve been juggling this quote in my head since I decided I would write this article:

Overthinking can ruin you. It confuses the situation, twists things around, forces you to worry, and often makes things far worse than it actually is — marcandangel

Overthinking comes from one of two things: Your intuition or your anxiety. It’s a 50–50 chance of you being right about your friends or romantic partners. Ive had many episodes where I felt my friends didn’t like me, were annoyed with me, or couldn’t wait for me to leave the room. I would imagine sometimes that they would talk so low about me, call me everything but a child of God. I know it’s ridiculous and I don’t bring it up because my friends are real to me twenty four seven. If they have something to say about me they’d say it to me.
Our Blombos Cave
By: Bradley J Nordell
Tags: Abstract, Evolution, Origins, Poetry, Stream Of Consciousness

Our Blombos Cave

Photo by Christian Holzinger on Unsplash

There’s a hollow bone echo

carving its way

into the fabric of my being

a baseline isomorphism

Boom ba boom ba dada da…

Swaying mystery without an edge

and yet there it was all along

in our paintings and songs

blazing stars of the primary fire,

drawn in the blood of the first hunt

Within my bellowing soul,

I am but a beast

with hindsight and epiphanies

yet the galaxies don’t seem to stay put

and the seashore is filled

with skulls brought in by the tide

Do I run or do I hide?

In the chambers of the neocortex

for fortitude reaching forth

the fall entangled always with pride

and yet, how do I decide?

To rise from my tattered casket

and cry out my whiskey prophecies

finally, unleashed to the realms of man?

Yet was this always the plan?

Was I as delicate as that octopus

that watched us fall apart

collecting that final

gold timepiece in its den.

And I wonder,

is there even a moment left to pass,

when disorder is maximized at last.

Have we grown tired of the flame?

The remnants of a mortician’s

weathered hands, as the reaper naps nearby

have we forgotten the face on the moon?

It was always a grin,

a revolting wild howl,

as tragedy played itself out,

on a stage that never stopped

and a playwright that went mad.

Yet how do we decide to live,

among the dead, to love

each other among the vile,

to find wholeness among the fractured

and peace amongst depravity?

Will we ever start again?

I wonder,

listening to the drumbeat of sorrow

break

the chords to chance and fate.

Boom ba boom ba …

dada da…

Boom ba.
Without a Nature-like mutual guarantee, integration in Nature we feel miserable
By: Zsolt Hermann
Tags: Humanity, Evolution, Nature, Connection, Integration

Question from the Internet:

“Why in comparison to animals many human beings seem miserable, it seems that many humans are very wretched and do not benefit from their lives and that only a minority live their lives fully without restriction?”

Contentment, happiness means being in balance, homeostasis with one’s environment.

Animals — as well other parts, elements of Nature — are instinctively integrated, compatible with Nature’s overall balance, they are all automatically parts of the perfect “circle of life" of the Natural system.

This is so much so, that for animals leaving the mother’s womb through birth doesn’t make any difference.

They feel themselves in the same protective, caring environment as within the womb. They all instinctively feel their roles and even when the prey is hunted, eaten by the predator, they subconsciously know they are fulfilling their role for the whole system which they all feel integral part of.

For Humans being born, being rejected from the mother’s womb is the greatest tragedy.

Even if we are cared for by beautiful, doting parents, even if we can live a privileged life, our fulfilment, balance is not guaranteed, and we all feel ourselves in a hostile world where we have to constantly compete, fight for survival and resources and we all succeed — knowingly, unknowingly — at each other’s expense, especially in today’s globally integrated, interdependent world.

This is why we are miserable, the more pleasures, resources we hoard, accumulate the more unhappy we become, as we don’t feel the balance and homeostasis that comes from “Nature-like" integration, mutual guarantee, mutually complementing cooperation.

This is all purposeful from Nature’s evolution. Humanity has a unique, unparalleled part to play in the system, to become Nature’s only conscious, independent observers, witnesses.

This is why we had to be born and develop outside of Nature’s “circle of life", forced to live an individualistic, selfish, egocentric life until we realize the urging, unavoidable need to achieve mutual integration with each other, and integration with Nature.

By achieving this integration consciously, purposefully, through our own efforts, we acquire the above mentioned unique, Human evolutionary role. Since we become part of Nature’s circle of life by ourselves, even after integrating we don’t disappear, dissolve in the system like animals.

Our unique, independent viewpoint remains and thus we become the system’s only conscious, insider observers.

https://youtu.be/3vkLOtMyYPs
Detached Observer..
Tags: Witness, Evolution, Conscience, Brahman, Atma

Photo by Malik Earnest on Unsplash

Brahman, in saMskrt means expansion or growth. Universe is Brahman, which means it is ever expanding or growing.

Brhadharanyaka Upanishad says this Brahman or expansion does ati-sRshti, an extreme creation, in which mortal matter and beings produce more immortal forms. Like particles that decay in nano-seconds evolve to particles that decay in micro-seconds, which evolve to protons and atoms whose decay time is as large as universe’s life-time. Same way beings with a specific level of consciousness keep evolving to higher levels of consciousness leading to more impactful, more immortal lives. Thus Brahman is same as what we call as evolution.

Atman is simply At-man, the extreme, detached form of ‘manas’. It is the witness in us, the conscience, the manas-sAksi. How..?

Manas is like an operating system, whose impact is on every peripheral. It is the ‘set of thoughts’ that arise on consciousness (prajna) which operates the body. On this Manas, arises the ‘ahamkAra’, the property of self or the self-identity as well as ‘buddhi’, the knowledge.

The detached form of this manas in us is the At-manas. It is the detached observer that we cultivate in our manas, that dis-passionately looks at our body as equal to others bodies, that helps the manas to assimilate all perspectives.

At-manas, the detached form of this manas, is the observer of the manas, is the witness or sAksi of the manas, as it only observes the manas and helps manas to broaden its perspectives. Because it broadens our perspectives, it helps to evolve our intellect or buddhi. We can say the information content or knowledge or ‘entropy’ increases due to this observer in us.

The detached self or the Atmanas is a manifestation of that ‘puruSa’ or ‘sAksi’, the Universal observer that guides the evolution in every domain.
Our real, truly Human development starts only now!
By: Zsolt Hermann
Tags: Humanity, Evolution, Nature, Education, Development

Question from the Internet:

“If we are a part of this planet, why don’t we have a natural instinct to protect it?”

Because evolution assigned a higher role to Human beings.

This unique evolutionary role requires us to achieve integration, partnership with Nature consciously, proactively, by our own efforts contrary to other animals that are blindly, instinctively integrated into Nature’s system.

We have to become Nature’s fully conscious, independent observers, witnesses, partners. This means that we need to have a special, unparalleled duality, being outsiders in relation to Nature on one hand, while being integrated into Nature on the other hand.

We are born “outside" of Nature — from our inherently egocentric, self-serving, self-justifying, individualistic point of view. This is why we behave a against Nature’s laws that sustain the balance and homeostasis life, optimal development depends on.

When we reach a clear recognition, that by blindly following our unnatural, cancer-like instincts were self-destruct, we can start a new, conscious phase of Human development towards acquiring integration, compatibility with Nature.

Then between the original, egocentric, subjective, destructive state and the new, selfless, altruistic, “Nature-like" state we finally acquire the duality that is necessary for our evolutionary Human role.

This unique transition starts in our time, when more and more people recognize our harmful original program, the danger of imminent self-destruction. We also have the necessary, purposeful and practical educational method that can help those who are already sensitive, willing and ready to start changing, upgrading, fine-tuning themselves.

Thus who we are, who we have been, how Humanity developed up to this point was nothing else but a prelude, preparation for our truly Human, conscious development which starts now!

https://youtu.be/P1mY0hV5tRo
Why Don’t We Like the Taste of Vegetables?
By: Sam Westreich
Tags: Food, Evolution, Diet, Science, Health

There is a simple truth that any eight-year-old can tell you, even if adults have managed to convince themselves to accept the lie: vegetables are gross.

Are you already thinking about your comment on this article, how you’ll defend vegetables? “Oh, they’re okay if you sauté them with butter and garlic!” “Have you tried oven-roasted endive with Gruyère cheese and breadcrumbs?” “A potato is a vegetable, and french fries are delicious!”

Listen to yourselves! You’re delusional! You can’t argue that a vegetable is tasty only after the addition of fat and salt. If you offer the most basic, average person a choice between a salad or a bucket of fried chicken, they’re going for the bucket.

But why? If vegetables are so good for us, why don’t we crave them? Why do we need to hide zucchini in chocolate cake to make it delicious?

It turns out that evolution has some thoughts on the subject, and it comes down to the difference between being healthy versus being alive.

Or, to put it another way, evolution has not caught up to the technology that our big ol’ brains have allowed us to create.

Cavemen Craved Crispy, Crunchy Calories

In evolutionary terms, obesity is a very recent phenomenon.

Think about nature documentaries, or any time you’ve spent out in nature looking at wildlife. It’s very rare to see an overweight or obese animal, with only a couple of exceptions:

Animals that hibernate will bulk up before they slumber, although they will shed most of that weight by the time that they emerge. Animals that are in disrupted areas, such as bears that live near human settlements, may be able to take advantage of garbage or other changes to the environment to scrounge excess calories.

Most of the time, however, animals in the wild tend to be thin, rather than bulging out of their pants. Food is a limiting resource, and animals will eat all they can because there may not be enough later.

Because of this, we’ve evolved to seek out calorie-dense foods. Our bodies constantly fear that we may have an extended period of scarcity in the future, so we grab all the calories that we can at the present. We need to prepare for the lean times that may lay ahead!

This is why things that are calorie-dense, namely things that are meaty, fatty, or sweet, taste so good. Our body knows that fat and sugar are chock-full of dense calories, so they taste amazing to us.
Our seemingly inevitable self-destruction is not set in stone yet…
By: Zsolt Hermann
Tags: Humanity, Evolution, Education, Integration, Development

Opinion from the Internet about Human development in Nature:

Humans have always lived outside of nature I call it ecto ecological, ever since we used tools.

Societies need to grow.

Technology has been a very useful tool to help us grow.

We don’t have ”instinct" to protect anything.

We’re far better at exploiting things than protecting them.

There is no trajectory of human endeavor that has sustainability.

There’s a 99% chance that no humans will walk the Earth by the year 2100.

We will be extinct.

Evolution has no special role for humans. It doesn’t care about direction. It only cares about outcomes and the outcome is if you survive the environment you’re a leftover you’re not a pinnacle…

You are correctly describing Humanity’s development so far as “ecto-ecological”, outside of, most of the time against Nature’s otherwise closed, fully integrated system, which system is governed by strict, unbending laws that sustain the balance and homeostasis life depends on.

You are also correct in saying that by now our incompatibility with Nature’s system has reached a critical threshold, where we have become self-destructive so much so, that an irreversible global meltdown could be triggered - from multiple causes, from multiple locations - even in our own generation.

But I wouldn’t call Nature, evolution “direction-less”.

Even on Earth we can clearly observe a direction towards developing ever more complex life-forms on one hand — from inanimate substances to plants, then to animals and the Human degree, from very basic single-cellular organisms to highly complex, intelligent multi-cellular organisms — while driving the whole system towards ever increasing integration, cooperation, communication.

While from our own point of view Human development has no obvious direction except ever increasing consumption, egotistic self-fullfilment at all cost, from Nature’s point of view Humanity has a clear role to play in the system.

But even if we ignore that role for the time being, our imminent survival depends on learning, and finally applying Nature’s laws of integration to Human society,as without it we have no right to survive in Nature, being a cancerous foreign body in it.

Our seemingly inevitable self-destruction — which is a certainty if we don’t change course — is not set in stone yet.

We have the unique Human mind capable of critical self-assessment, initiating self-change which can help us. We can still purposefully, methodically adjust, “upgrade" ourselves towards consciously achieved compatibility, integration with Nature.

Then this conscious adaptation will take us closer to our evolutionary Human role, but for the time being we need to start learning how to adjust, change ourselves in order to survive first of all.

This is within our ability with the right, purposeful and practical educational method.

https://youtu.be/BT-vrvY89vE
15 Great Quotes from “Sapiens”
By: Salman Maken
Tags: Evolution, Sapiens, Humans, History, Quotes

Discovery of Ignorance

“The greatest scientific discovery was the discovery of ignorance. Once humans realized how little they knew about the world, they suddenly had a very good reason to seek new knowledge, which opened up the scientific road to progress.”

Liberating from suffering

“Suffering arises from craving; the only way to be fully liberated from suffering is to be fully liberated from craving; and the only way to be liberated from craving is to train the mind to experience reality as it is.”

System of money

“Money is the most universal and most efficient system of mutual trust ever devised.”

The essence of the Agricultural Revolution

“This is the essence of the Agricultural Revolution: the ability to keep more people alive under worse conditions.”

Biology…

“Biology enables, Culture forbids.”

History

“History is something that very few people have been doing while everyone else was ploughing fields and carrying water buckets.”

College Graduates

“How many young college graduates have taken demanding jobs in high-powered firms, vowing that they will work hard to earn money that will enable them to retire and pursue their real interests when they are thirty-five? But by the time they reach that age, they have large mortgages, children to school, houses in the suburbs that necessitate at least two cars per family, and a sense that life is not worth living without really good wine and expensive holidays abroad. What are they supposed to do, go back to digging up roots? No, they double their efforts and keep slaving away.”

Imagined Order

“How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order is imagined.”

Never convince a monkey

“You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.”

Natural Rights

“Voltaire said about God that ‘there is no God, but don’t tell that to my servant, lest he murder me at night’. Hammurabi would have said the same about his principle of hierarchy, and Thomas Jefferson about human rights. Homo sapiens has no natural rights, just as spiders, hyenas and chimpanzees have no natural rights. But don’t tell that to our servants, lest they murder us at night.”

Amount spend

“Each year the US population spends more money on diets than the amount needed to feed all the hungry people in the rest of the world.”

Alternative imagined order

“In order to change an existing imagined order, we must first believe in an alternative imagined order.”

Evolution

“Evolution has made Homo sapiens, like other social mammals, a xenophobic creature. Sapiens instinctively divide humanity into two parts, ‘we’ and ‘they’.”

Meaningful life

“A meaningful life can be extremely satisfying even in the midst of hardship, whereas a meaningless life is a terrible ordeal no matter how comfortable it is.”

Happiness begins within
Twitter is rigged against the left. The algorithm is under Gaslightocracy control.
By: Matt Stratton
Tags: Evolution, Left Wing, Gaslighting, Politics, Democracy

Twitter is rigged against the left. The algorithm is under Gaslightocracy control.

We need somewhere to strategise, internationally.

The tool they use to control, Gaslighting, is the key to their undoing.
20 Things I learned in 2020
By: Seethal Jayasankar
Tags: 2020, Evolution, New Year, Learnings Of Life, Growth

Image by Sasin Tipchai from Pixabay

Needless to say, 2020 has been a weird year for everyone.

It has brought about unexpected changes. For me, this year was about massive transformation. This year helped me reflect on my inner self and helped me make some monumental choices that I hesitated for quite some time.

The silence and isolation gave me enough time to think about what I really wanted from my Life.

This was also the year of letting go. No matter how hard it was, I needed to surrender, stay in silence, and let Life do its work.

Below are the top 20 things I learned this year. Please note that these are my personal learnings and have nothing to do with the generalized perception of what might be “right” or “wrong.” Some of the learnings have been profound for me, and hence written in bold:
Would you believe if i tell you copying has been the primary source of human progress?
By: Abishek Babu
Tags: Skills, Evolution, Science, Art, Business

On the other hand, copying is wonderful, wait there; please let me explain why it’s wonderful, it’s actually easy but it needs a special mindset to imitate carefully and intelligently. I won’t say it’s intelligent but rather a beauty of it’s own. Cause it made you save a enormous hours of experimentation and effort.

Let’s think in a different perspective for a moment;

Tell me why are we using templates? Why Canva/freepik exist? Why medium exist? Why can’t i spend some days to build my own blog? oh wait. My blog would be on the internet, why don’t we spend some years trying to build our own internet and then deploy our own blog? Why are we reading books? Think what we observe when we read a book. I learnt 85 years of Benjamin Franklin by reading his biography; a splendid work indeed by Walter Isaacson.

But let’s go back for a moment, i learnt an enormous amount of wisdom in 30 days but it took 85 years for our Benjamin, is it fair?

Obviously, it’s never equal to the first hand experience by Benjamin, but damn, i learnt at-least the best 30% of this prodigy in 30 days, now i have an unfair advantage over him, ain’t i?

Why are we making dosas instead of inventing a new dish everyday?

Copying is beautiful on it’s own cause it saves you enormous time the mankind has spent on and gives you an additional advantage for you to play with your creativity (Dosa -> Masala Dosa).

I’d say, people who successfully copy a thing are so damn smart, we all know iPhone was not the first smart phone neither google ain’t the first search engine and Tesla was never the first e-vehicle manufactured.

Yes, they all did copy. But can you copy today and overcome them? No, cause copying alone won’t guarantee you success. It takes a bit of creativity too. As i started this blog with the sentence that

Copying is a multi-variable problem; you have to set everything aligned identical except one which is your personality.

Because if you align everything so identical, it will never sell. You can’t just outright copy a thing and expect people to buy; Copying is an art by itself, it needs you to commit yourself to understand why a new and emerging product is growing like wildfire. You might also have to think what you can do to beat existing players in your current market segment/discovered players to directly reach the users.

Imagine it like an incredible equation; a beauty; it’s a multi variable equation where you might need to tweak the right variable at the right time to focus it on the market. Just one little thing, and that thing which made people to tweak a product, that one little thing is what made evolution possible.

iPhone 11-> iPhone 11 pro -> iPhone 11 Pro Max -> ? Pani puri -> Dahi puri -> Bhel Puri -> Chola Puri ->?

You can see a simple tweak in the equation can completely serve an entirely different segment of the market.
What is varna dharma..?
Tags: Varna, Dharma, Evolution, Yuga

Photo by Guillermo Ferla on Unsplash

Varna and jAti are different. jAti is a hereditary based system whose implementation impeded knowledge progression by removing natural selection processes and gridlocked the sub-continent into thousands of years of darkness, out of which it is yet to evolve.

Varna dharma is a law. It’s a law of professions, which is eternal and applicable to any social grouping, be it the Universe or a human society.

Varna dharma says there are four eternal professions. Knowledge providers, Service providers, Material providers and that remains physical labor. In any evolution, knowledge providers /Brahmanas lead first (entropy), service providers/kSatriyas lead next (energy), material providers /Vaizyas lead next (mass), physical labor/Zudras lead next (matter forms). This is a cycle of evolution, which will keep cyclically running one after another, raising the level of evolution from Universe as a society to human society.

The Yugas appear in this order. Where Brahmanas/entropy leads it is satya yuga, where ksatriyas/energy leads it is treta yuga, where vaizyas/mass leads it is dva-apara yuga, where zudras/matter forms lead it is kali yuga.

For eg. in the Universe, entropy or micro-states appear first even without addition of energy, then energy expansion happens, then mass manifests, then matter forms arise.

In human beings, people who provide knowledge take lead, then people who use that knowledge to provide service takes lead, then people who use that knowledge and service to provide materials/goods lead, then people who just remain physical labor lead the society through their sheer numbers, simply because the scientific advancements/economic systems do not keep pace with each other, throwing out a lot of people as labor who have to develop new skillsets.

This is how any society will work and that is an eternal law. A society which ensures that people who are thrown out as physical labor due to mismatch between scientific advancements and economic systems, learn new skills/knowledge and produce the next set of knowledge providers/brahmanas will evolve. A satya yuga has to evolve out of kali yuga. If this evolution does not happen, the society will perish.

If the society evolves and out of this physical labor, if it produces knowledge providers using the huge brain power available with these people, then a new knowledge revolution starts. Again the evolutionary cycle repeats.
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Tags: Change, Organizational Change, Evolution, Rendanheyi

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Did you know?
By: Kyle Dring
Tags: Humanity, Evolution, Intresting, Brain, Facts

Inside the cortex of the brain are billions of tiny nerve cells, called neurons. When you learn new things, these tiny connections in the brain actually get stronger. The more you challenge your mind to learn, the more your brain grows!

So if you keep learning new things all the time, the more your excellent brain will grow.

But it most certainly shocked me to the core!

Here’s another interesting thing.

This information in a physics paper that was recently released pointing out the similarities between the brain and the observable universe:

Does the human brain resemble the Universe?
Once Upon a Time Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth … And Then They Didn’t
By: Terry Mansfield
Tags: Evolution, Dinosaurs, Extinction, Writing, Earth

Once Upon a Time Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth … And Then They Didn’t

Once upon a time, dinosaurs ruled the Earth. But suddenly they all died when a massive asteroid hit the planet, which killed off 75% or more of all species.

This extinction event marked the end of dinosaurs — except for descendants such as avians, ground and waterfowl who evolved into all modern species of bird, Teleost fish, and perhaps lizards.
Nature’s Movements
By: Randy Shingler
Tags: Evolution, Blue Insights, Nature, Seasons, Poetry

Observing nature moving on its course

Seasonal changes, different temperatures

Days and nights of varying lengths,

Life evolves sparking changing scenes

Adaptability birthed in human condition.

Walking through old primeval forest

As sun moves ever higher overhead

Brown leaves strewn upon the ground

Trees almost bare in stark winter’s cold

No wildlife hovering around foliage today.

Watching fast creek flows over rocks

Listening to musical melodic sounds

Finding creek peacefully mesmerizing,

Two hawks circling high overhead

Sole signs of animal life here today.

Moving up gradual inclining hill

Cooler air as elevation increases

Looking down upon forest and creek,

Nature continues moving on its course.