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RE: What A Cake Can Teach Us About Nurture Vs Nature
...And like the michelin 5 star chef, mother nature is a master at baking, she needs no recipe to follow to create perfection from several ingredients, we are the product of millions of years of tweaking a recipe, we are the expression of mother nature herself. What is our purpose? Our purpose is to be conscious, our purpose is to protect her at all costs, if we don't fulfill that purpose she wont be happy with her creation and she'll start from scratch with a new recipe, one that will be better than its predecessor, and will be fit for purpose.
Thanks @kyriacos , I can see you back to your intelligent philosophical self, don't let your little sister ever blog on this account again! :P (jokes)
look forward to your next entry.
Mother Nature doesn't care either way about her cake creations. She cooks for her own pleasure. She might as well throw them out of the window once they are done.
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I offer variety. It is good to disagree in some topics. Run away from those whom you find to agree on everything.
See I interpreted your post a completely different way, looking around to see all of mother natures creations you can deduce that she does care, there is beauty in all of her creations, there's symmetry and there's a natural symbiosis that wouldn't exist without careful consideration and care, we are conscious beings because she cares and wants us to know she cares, it's us who don't care trying to undo the millions of years hard work she's put in. You dont want to be alive the days that mother nature decides to stop caring my friend, and those days are fast approaching if we don't right the wrongs our species has committed.
The personification of "Mother Mature" has always freaked me out :p It's something that started from a sensationalized metaphor and came to be given god-like properties. Does mother nature care or does it not care? Well, we know that each individual organism cares for its own survival. We also know that there are so many contributors that if you mess up with their balance you can set off a chain reaction. Natural symbiosis exists because what didn't compromise became extinct. Basically, you only get to know what works and what is more efficient. Also, there are endless combinations of genes and environmental factors so some will obviously get better results than others. I believe that suggesting a conscious entity that cares for her own pleasure, or cares about us, or takes revenge, is misleading. I know I sound like not much fun and @kyriacos I certainly enjoyed your article and your humorous parallelism. I'm mostly referring to debates in a more serious tone on mother nature's intents. It just doesn't make sense to me.
I think one of my disadvantages in conversations like these is my understanding of the universe itself, i was using the term "mother nature" in its metaphorical sense in reality i do believe the universe itself is concious, maybe not always but the universe as we know it, And just as our conscious selves try to use science and technology to try make sense of who we are and why we are here, the universe has been trying to do that ever since its gained conciousness, we are a result of that, we are part of the universe, the evolutionary expression of conciousness, its our job to make sense of all of this and science is the way we do that, but science is not finite so to believe in science is to be open minded enough to accept all possibilities even those that have yet to be understood. Yes I accept the possoblility that natural symbiosis exists because what didn't compromise became extinct and at the same time I accept the possibility that we are the product of a universe which is trying to understand itself, and personally I fond comfort in believing the latter :) thanks for your comment @elemenya