Not many would think that a Pilobolus and Humanity are common yet Loren Eiseley persuades the idea that the two are comparable and gives one a negative characterization. In the Spore Bearers by Loren Eiseley, we are presented with multiple anecdotes that propose that humanity has prospered through instincts. On the other hand, Eiseley claims that a Pilobolus has prospered as humanity has but it has done so with a greater success. Each roaming the world in their own unique way has allowed them to be alive for so long. A Pilobolus, which happens to be one of the fastest living things alive, which allows them to travel and start their cycle of life. Humanity is a civilization that has prospered for many years and, according to Eiseley, ‘maybe’ …show more content…
many years to come. In this situation Eiseley argues that humanity has dwelled with the idea of advancing their technology rather than nurturing their resources. Therefore, humanity in general has the opportunity to advance as an individual but have not really advanced as a whole; on the other hand, Pilobolus advances as a whole every time they sprout from their fungi. Individual accomplishment may be humanity's instinct and group accomplishment may be Pilobolus way of succeeding. Yet, they each reach a peak in which the two succeed and prosper. Eiseley comparison between humanity and a Pilobolus may be considered an opinion yet would there ever be anyone to follow this ideology. Therefore, the way two living things live can be the same but the way they reach that point can be completely different. Pilobolus basically grows from cow feces and projects capsule of spores within the Pilobolus in order to locate a new living space. Each spore that is projected carries approximately 1,000 Pilobolus cells to its new home. Eiseley views that a Pilobolus succeeds in its life cycle far greater than humanity has just because they have the same capability of a human, which is to settle, down and start their own civilization. Eiseley states; ‘I have suggested that man-machines and finally pure intelligent machines—the product of a biology and a computerized machine technology beyond anything this century will posses-- might be launched by man and dispersed as his final spore flight through the galaxies.’ (Page #3) In other words, Eiseley is comparing our launch to space similar to the way spores are launched from the Pilobolus fungi towards its destination. Eiseley feels strongly about having to understand the why of what human wish to achieve with going to outer space. For instance, he agrees with the idea that the human race last resource would be to launch ourselves towards a new planet. While inferring that Pilobolus have succeeding in transporting thousands of living things from one place to another at a speed far greater than what we could travel at. Eiseley doubts that humans would understand the complexity in which traveling at the speed of light with multiple people would be capable. Humanity is a representation of science, evolving from apes is basically the start of success.
Us humans can only achieve a greater success if we continue to advance. Knowledge is a finite resource that we understand after every new accomplishment is reached. Even Eiseley states, “Moreover the whole invisible pyramid is itself the incidental product of a primitive seed capsule, the human brain, whose motivations alter with time and circumstance.”(Page #9) In other words, Eiseley doesn’t disagree with the fact that humans can succeed depending on the circumstance presented to them. For instance, if humanity advances technologically there could be a point in which they use that advancement to better the lifestyle of civilization. When Eiseley says ‘the human brain, whose motivations alter with time and circumstances.’ You can infer that he believes that the brain’s knowledge, so basically humanity’s knowledge, can be used to change people’s motivation on the presence of life. For instance, finding another planet similar to Earth isn’t impossible, and when the time comes humanities motivation would be driven and contempt due to the possibility of finding a place in which we could prosper for more decades, centuries to …show more content…
come. An anecdote that Eiseley uses in other to give us an understanding of what advancement has brought to a civilization is the story of the Olmec’s disappearing.
(Page #8) They discovered much advancement and could be considered a Golden Age- An age in which success and many academic achievements are achieved-but one day to another they disappeared leaving behind most of their academic finding. Eiseley states, “ Each was self-contained. Each, with the limited amount of wealth and energy at its disposal, placed its greatest emphasis upon some human dream, some lost philosophy, some inner beyond the satisfaction of the needs of the body. Each, in turn, vanished.” (Page #8) In other words, Eiseley is trying to infer that many past civilizations have achieved success but nobody knows what happen to them afterwards because they all disappeared. For instance, the Olmec achieved success and disappeared. The same thing happened to the Mayans, a civilization that also achieved success. On the other hand, Is Eiseley foreshadowing that if we reach our golden age we would also vanish? He could be thinking that the Pilobolus fungi might achieve success as us one day. Yet he still feels strong about Pilobolus being a far better species than mankind. Not, in the sense that they have achieved great technological advancement. In a way that they could understand a complexity which humanity still hasn’t unmasked. The complexity being that they could travel to another exterior with a far greater
number and at a greater speed.
He is saying that, theoretically, the growth of reason would come with knowledge. People would be less inclined to have a lot of children because they would no longer be afraid of losing them to unnatural things. People would then be more inclined to focus on their happiness and expanding their
years ” (Quimby 2), since this epoch involved the fundamental evolution of mankind to the present. It is important to
Mark Twain is one of the best-known writers of all time, writing things that are most commonly known for being humorous and relaxed. In “The Lowest Animal”, Twain discusses his final outcome after completing a series of experiments he undertook at the London Zoological Gardens. His end result is Charles Darwin’s theory that man evolved from earlier ancestors, but flipped completely upside down. This theory is widely known, but Twain argues a different one. In this essay, he uses affective reasoning and facts from his experiments to back up his claim, all while using Aristotle’s appeals and logical fallacies.
theory he is trying to say about human motivation is that the we are lazy and
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He applies his findings to examples throughout history and makes the point that we do not learn from our mistakes. Wright claims that “as cultures grow more elaborate, and technologies more powerful, they themselves may become ponderous specializations – vulnerable and, in extreme cases, deadly.” Humanity progresses too fast and ends up doing more damage than good. In the Stone Age humans went from killing 2 mammoths to 200, we went from the arrow to the bullet in a number of decades. These advancements are called “progress traps”, and inevitably threaten our whole species with extinction. Humanity has reached a point where we must slow down our advancements and look at what is really necessary. All of these advancements are bringing up more problems than they are solving. We have to start reversing our current problems, and prepare for the future. We are coming to a point of no return from the consequences to our actions and as Wright says “if we fail – if we blow up or degrade the biosphere so it can no longer sustain us – nature will merely shrug and conclude that letting apes run the laboratory was fun for a while but in the end a bad
The author Dr. Irwin Edman opens his 1920 book Human Traits and Their Significance by noting that throughout civilization “two factors have remained constant” (ix). One of these factors is “the physical order of the universe”—or Nature—and the other is “the native biological equipment of man”—or human nature (ix). Together these two ideals have formed modern civilization—as Dr. Edman puts it “there is nothing new under the sun. Matter and men remain the same” (ix). Since the beginning of time there have been essential human traits—inborn distinguishing qualities--common to every society and time period. This commonality is shown in no better way than through characters in literature. Literature has the ability to mirror the society that it was written in, and by surveying this literature readers are able to discover universal human traits displayed by the characters.
And so, Edutopia, my utopia, solidified in my mind. Its first and foremost priority was that of an education, and not merely of a high school or undergraduate level. Students of Edutopia would have every opportunity to follow whatever educational pursuits they desired, on Mars. I set out to build a society that respected intellect. And throughout the next trimester, I did.
This earth has so many wonderful things to offer, including what is still unknown. The responsibility to keep this earth safe lands in the hands of mankind. Humanity may not exist if the responsibility is ignored.. In the chapter “For the Love of Life,” published in the non fiction book The Future of Life (2002), naturalist and Pulitzer Prize winning author Edward O. Wilson discusses the effects the nature, including what is still unknown, has on the prosperity of mankind and argues that humanity has an obligation to preserve nature because of its genetic unity. Wilson supports his claim by justifying the reasons for conserving and preserving nature including how technology can never fully replace it, describing habitat preferences as a component of biophilia - which is explains human’s predisposition to love
“The scientific study of how humans developed did not begin until the 1800s in Europe. Until that time, people relied on religious explanations of how humans came into existence. Starting in the 1500s a scientific revolution began to sweep Europe. Thinkers started using scientific methods and experiments to try to better understand the world and the creatures living in it. Eventually these methods were turned to the question of human origins” (The Nature Of Human Origins, 1). Earth made it possible for species to change over time because Ancient Earth provides ability to plenty of time.The Homo Sapien a is very complex creature. The species started off very simple by living in caves and surviving with little food and then later evolved into a species that were able to do many more complex things. The first species was Sahelanthropus tchadensis They were one of the most simple humans in that time period and on. They had very small skulls compared to Homo Sapiens today and their motor skills were just the same. We have evolved and changed for the better both mentally and physically. The Evolution of Homo Sapiens started off simple, such as the Neanderthals, and now we are the most advanced species to ever walk the planet so far.
In Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s book This Earth of Mankind, the depiction of the Natives in this novel permits the author to expose the effects of colonization by the Europeans in Indonesia. Throughout this novel, the Natives are consistently portrayed as the social group, who are deemed inferior in comparison to the Europeans, which contributes to their oppression. The two characters that represent this attribute are Nyai Ontosoroh and Minke.
Bradbury may inflict fear among the reader but he also forces the to think about what humanity could become. He brings forth the idea that humanity has not reached it’s full mental capacity. The idea of mental telepathy being possible is shown in this book. It makes the reader consider possibilities that would otherwise be easily dismissed (Grimsley). Advancing in human mental capacity does not only mean creating new technology though, it includes understanding when advancement needs to take a break. "Because I've seen that what these Martians had was just as good as anything we'll ever hope to have. They stopped where we should have stopped a hundred years ago." (Bradbury 212) The astronauts that had the privilege of going to Mars realized
In the book “The Time Machine” written by H.G Wells, the author examined a social influence called Social Darwinism, a theory that explains how a different environment influences specie’s survival and evaluation,
Morgan thought these stages were pervasive throughout humanity and all society’s went through the same stages in the same order. This is what is meant within the term unilineal evolution. By this he meant that all societies travel through these stages, though at different rates. Morgan theorized all societies could be discussed in this way and that all societies were operating at different rates of evolutionary complexity. This idea of unilinearity is another aspect refuted soon after by Franz Boas. Important however, was the link Morgan identified between social progress and technological progress. Despite the reality that these ideas are generally obsolete in today’s world, it is realizations such a this link between social and technological progress that mark Morgan’s importance (Hersey 1993,
“We have learned things which are not in the scripts.”(Page 36) Education is a very vital part of having a healthy and well working society. A higher knowledge will provide more complex jobs which helps produce a better society. The law of no man should be alone would be forgotten due to the fact that discovering new things and learning is sometimes best when it is on your own. The ability to be allowed to research unknown things and further your education through discovering new things will increase the knowledge of unknown things. Also having the medical knowledge will expand the life span of the people in the society. Having the intelligence to keep people healthy will help them live longer and better the