How do we identify intelligence? Does free will exist at all? Doesn’t Man behave according to the laws of nature as well? The sun is void of intelligence because it works by natural laws in such a way that we can predict its behaviour. But doesn’t that also apply to Mankind in general?
-The earth always goes round the sun giving us seasons
-Man always seeks food for nutrition. You might decide what time you will eat but the fact is you will eventually eat lest you die! Isn’t this a natural law which you always obey all your life?
- The earth always rotates round its own axis
- Man always sleeps and wakes up. You might decide what time you will sleep but the fact is you will eventually sleep lest you die! Isn’t this a natural law which you always obey all your life?
What if the same natural occurrences predictable by natural laws are behaviours by nature for its own physical survival? What if the earth seeks its own food by havin to always go round the sun? what's ur opinion?
2007-04-08 00:38:14 · 9 answers · asked by Makaveli007 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
The criterion of being "alive" is the ability to self-replicate in such away that mutations arise and are subject to natural selection and evolution is possible. Higher organisms remain alive after their potential fertility in the sense that they may interact with other living things and this support/competition is a determinant of natural selction.
The earth's matter was formed following the end of a star and has no ability to reproduce itself - it will eventually be consumed by the sun and its matter changed beyond recognition. Therefore it is not alive.
Stars on the other hand may by their nature go through fairly consistent rebirth patterns - say of nova and nebula - although the new star may be unrecognisable from the previous one. It is not certain if such changes have any evolutionary benefit as stars do not interact and there would not appear to be any natural selction.
Intelligence and free will are phenomena arising from self-conciousness (the brain including itself in its data processing) and do not define being alive. Nor does any regular pattern like sleep.
2007-04-08 07:01:22 · answer #1 · answered by Andrew H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, when I see a crow fly, I say crow flies because it wants to. When I see a river flow, I say the river flows, just flows, there is no self. (English isn't good sometimes for my communication needs - I could have probably written this sentence in my mother tongue better than this).
Intelliegence or life is about being active. Actions that happen in crow's life are active. In the case of a river, it is passive.
Earth exists. Humans live. That's just my opinion.
2007-04-08 01:12:13 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes Mother Earth is alive as we are. She can suffer diseases as we do. We're killing her. We are like her disease. We destroy her and she fights back. Like an immune system fights a virus (in the form of natural disasters that wipe some of us out).
We must care for the earth since she sustains it. To kill her is inevitably to kill ourselves. She has lived a long time but may not live forever.
2007-04-08 00:45:40 · answer #3 · answered by amp 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i think that yes, there are natural laws, that both humans and the earth function (live) by,,, then in the case of humans, we also have self-made and society made laws,,,,, while the natural part of humans is major, it also pretty much is driven by biology,,,,, we dont think about it much, unless we develop a problem, such as not sleeping, weight problems,,,,,,, we spend most of our time thinking about the man-made parts of life,,,, and the human parts, such as emotions
2007-04-08 00:49:02 · answer #4 · answered by dlin333 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The confused see them selves as separate and distinct from the world around them.
We are part and parcel of the universe that we live in.
Separation is a delusion.
Love and blessings Don
2007-04-08 02:16:23 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If earth had intelligence and man is the destructive force that has been asserted, the earth would have killed man off a long time ago.
2007-04-08 01:51:49 · answer #6 · answered by Kevin C 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
my opinion is you think too far
try thinking a bit nearly so to see things get better
2007-04-08 00:55:40 · answer #7 · answered by kimht 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have no opinion - you've already said everything I would have said had I been given the chance ! ! !
2007-04-08 00:49:05 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nice question, and thanks for giving us the answer!
2007-04-08 00:45:10 · answer #9 · answered by artleyb 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋