Is adaptive evolution?
Human have over come so much more. From single cell life form to what we are today. I had no doubt that we are evolving quite nicely, that is until now. Am I really evolving? Sure, I’ve adapted my surroundings so that I can feel comfortable. We find ways to solve our problems and curved what is suppose to be straight. To what end?
Just couple of hundreds years ago, we were still living peacefully with the nature and we are like grasshopper now a days. Consume, explore, consume. You could say we recreate too, but it is no where near the speed of our consuming.
So I ask, are we really evolving?
Maybe we ought to devolve a little bit, become dumber. Maybe then, we’ll live happier. Free of worries and trouble. Maybe single cell was not the beginning but the goal. Fulfill the basic needs and be done with it. Maybe that is real happiness.
20 September, 1:01 am
I don’t like your maybes. Evolution is a natural process that improves our capabilities. Consumption and our impact on nature aren’t the result of evolution. As with every tool, good and bad aren’t inherent to it, but to the use we give them. The same way we have came up with solutions to many of our problems, we can start coming with new solutions that address the issue of sustainability. But in the meantime, I will always prefer the hard reality of our path through the world, than to fall in the purposeless happiness of ignorance.
22 September, 9:04 pm
I am just trying to thinking human being from a non human being perspective. You said that it’s a natural process that we improve our capabilities. Question is how do you define capabilities? With single cell organism, it can probably suffice itself better than what we can now. Use a better example, the wounds in your mouth heals better than wounds on your other part of body. I believe there’s something that in the mouth that help healing fast, possibly saliva. Which might mimic our single cell self. So we can’t really say which way is evolution can we?