Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Beyond the world
After reading The Cosmic Perspective by Neil Degrasse Tyson, I felt tiny, due to the fact that there is so much more around the world than we know. Not just people in the world, but even beyond that. I know first hand, sometimes... maybe all of the time, I can feel as if the world is circling around me, but I remind myself that I'm one person in a world that consists of seven billion people. I understand Tyson is trying to express his thoughts on evolution and how humans can often forget about the process of life and how science works. It really opened my eyes when he brought up chimpanzees and how our brains own so much more knowledge than their species does. I mean, just think about if another species did exist that was much more intelligent then humans, how would we feel? How would life be? Although this is not the case, it is still something to open your mind about and it gives us a sense of imagination and curiosity as to what life would actually be like. He made some key points when he also added how humans don't help our cause when it comes to taking care of the world we live in and the world that will be home to our future relatives down the road. Getting knowledge over these things really can make us better people, because it opens our eyes on issues we usually don't think about on a daily basis.
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I agree with mostly everything your saying except for the part where you say "humans don't help our cause when it comes to taking care of the world we live in" what do you mean that humans don't take care of the world? Humans do help when it comes to taking care of the world because without humans are a major part in cleaning the world. For example when you go to the beach and you see all the trash and filth out there on the sand you think damn this beach is dirty, but the next time you go to the beach do you think the beach just got magically cleaned? No humans who care take time out of their day to go and clean it. We can see from this example that without humans people would go to beach and every day it would be dirty.
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ReplyDeleteGood point Jalon, but who do you think dirtied the beach in the first place?
ReplyDeleteI think you missed the author's point to showing us how significant we really are in this expansive universe. Your view on the universe, as far as how you're expressing it, is what the author would consider "immature." We would not have this much knowledge about it if it wasn't for "the three-pound human brain [that] enabled us to figure out our place in the universe," (1072). The mere fact that we are able to understand the vastness of the cosmos and our place in them is an expansive view that holds us above ignorant beings. He goes on to illustrate to us how the microscopic organisms in our bodies are the ones that elaborately create who we are and keep us running as a system. If these cells weren't important, we wouldn't be the functioning, intelligent creatures we are today.
ReplyDeleteWhile I do understand that this limitless universe could in fact make someone feel as if they were tiny, the author's cosmic perspective is to show us that we aren't. There is so much more to us as we are the microscopic organisms to this universe. We are the ones who are able to grasp the concept and continue to learn about it, live in it, and explore it.