If you search in net, a big list of endangered species can be found (Examples from Wikipedia: African penguin, giant panda, Goliath frog, tiger, ...). They are considered as facing high risk of extinction in near future. I am not sure if it is optimism or mistake to exclude one obvious species from the list. Name of that species is Homo Sapience.
If you have heard about Theory of Evolution, you will be tempted to explain anything in the world with that. Often I feels that Theory of Evolution can be simplified as "whatever can survive will survive" and is actually applied to patterns. Stars, galaxies, constellations, black-holes, or even universe are patterns of energy and matter. Every pattern struggles to survive by adapting to its environment. In fact, the environment itself is another pattern and that struggles in another environment and so on. In another words, there exists a hierarchy of patterns. In my limited knowledge, Universe is the topmost pattern in the hierarchy and Quarks are the lowest. Let us skip many levels in the hierarchy and come down to the pattern called Earth. If we consider Earth as a software, Nature is the software written on it. So I will use the terms Earth and Nature interchangeably. Nature composed of various living and nonliving patterns. A particular type of living pattern is called a particular Species. Now, let us apply Theory of Evolution to patterns. A pattern continuously evolve by competing with its sibling patterns to become the best suited for its environment pattern. The only way for a pattern to evolve to a better pattern is by altering its component patterns. But, if a component pattern is very strong and resist to change, the entire environment pattern will perish. In most cases, even if the component pattern is strong, it cannot survive independent of its environment. In case of a Species, it will survive only if it is helping Nature to survive. In other words, nature doesn't care about our list of endangered species or even us. A species which is not suitable for the Nature will perish either by itself or along with Nature.
Brain is a component pattern in a Species. Human behaviors like Greed, Pleasure, Altruism, etc. are component patterns in Brain. They all are so strong that they became integral part of a Species. Initially Brain helped in short-term survival of a Species. It helped to overcome immediate dangers instead of evolving resistance to dangers. Because of this, further development of brain actually retarded other functionalists of a Species. To overcome this, Brain evolved the ability to think. We can now foresee the results of our actions and do (or not do) things for long term survival of us or even Nature. But some of the Human behaviors evolved to shadow this quality. Human being is the only animal who kills for pleasure. Is it because pleasure at this intensity exist only in us? Greed is the other behavior which has been evolved to destruct entire Humanity. Not just the big stories of Bribe popularize by media. Greediness in each one of us need to be analyzed. Bus conductor says "No Change" and allows you to travel by paying less amount without ticket and both are happy. In MNCs everyone is encouraged to work more than eight hours when many Jobless qualified people are starving. Many of us dislike this only if remuneration is insufficient. Think about this and you can identify many such things. Change need to come from each one of us.
Thanks to those whose behaviors are not yet evolved like ours and work for every ones well-being. Do we know how to produce something to eat provided a fertile land? Even if someone produce raw-material for food, do we know how to prepare that? After ten years, even if someone prepare the food for us we may not know how to eat. Why we are considering production of food is so low esteem profession? We consider our-self great for our capability to adapt to changes. How many of us can adapt to the living conditions of twenty five years back? Adapting to a more comfortable condition is not difficult. Have you ever thought what will happen if every farmer "adapts" to the modern conditions? There should be a healthy balance and every Job supposed to be respected. Balance is an important thing in evolution. Every behavior is needed for survival. In other words, any behavior that survives is needed for us. But cancerous growth of any behavior leads to destruction. We will not be able to evolve any new traits in our behavior to overcome current problems. Evolution for us is almost stopped because of highly developed brain. For example, we will never develop thick skin, as we learned how to use clothes. So we need to use our brain itself to find solutions for our problems.
Happy brainstorming !
If you have heard about Theory of Evolution, you will be tempted to explain anything in the world with that. Often I feels that Theory of Evolution can be simplified as "whatever can survive will survive" and is actually applied to patterns. Stars, galaxies, constellations, black-holes, or even universe are patterns of energy and matter. Every pattern struggles to survive by adapting to its environment. In fact, the environment itself is another pattern and that struggles in another environment and so on. In another words, there exists a hierarchy of patterns. In my limited knowledge, Universe is the topmost pattern in the hierarchy and Quarks are the lowest. Let us skip many levels in the hierarchy and come down to the pattern called Earth. If we consider Earth as a software, Nature is the software written on it. So I will use the terms Earth and Nature interchangeably. Nature composed of various living and nonliving patterns. A particular type of living pattern is called a particular Species. Now, let us apply Theory of Evolution to patterns. A pattern continuously evolve by competing with its sibling patterns to become the best suited for its environment pattern. The only way for a pattern to evolve to a better pattern is by altering its component patterns. But, if a component pattern is very strong and resist to change, the entire environment pattern will perish. In most cases, even if the component pattern is strong, it cannot survive independent of its environment. In case of a Species, it will survive only if it is helping Nature to survive. In other words, nature doesn't care about our list of endangered species or even us. A species which is not suitable for the Nature will perish either by itself or along with Nature.
Brain is a component pattern in a Species. Human behaviors like Greed, Pleasure, Altruism, etc. are component patterns in Brain. They all are so strong that they became integral part of a Species. Initially Brain helped in short-term survival of a Species. It helped to overcome immediate dangers instead of evolving resistance to dangers. Because of this, further development of brain actually retarded other functionalists of a Species. To overcome this, Brain evolved the ability to think. We can now foresee the results of our actions and do (or not do) things for long term survival of us or even Nature. But some of the Human behaviors evolved to shadow this quality. Human being is the only animal who kills for pleasure. Is it because pleasure at this intensity exist only in us? Greed is the other behavior which has been evolved to destruct entire Humanity. Not just the big stories of Bribe popularize by media. Greediness in each one of us need to be analyzed. Bus conductor says "No Change" and allows you to travel by paying less amount without ticket and both are happy. In MNCs everyone is encouraged to work more than eight hours when many Jobless qualified people are starving. Many of us dislike this only if remuneration is insufficient. Think about this and you can identify many such things. Change need to come from each one of us.
Thanks to those whose behaviors are not yet evolved like ours and work for every ones well-being. Do we know how to produce something to eat provided a fertile land? Even if someone produce raw-material for food, do we know how to prepare that? After ten years, even if someone prepare the food for us we may not know how to eat. Why we are considering production of food is so low esteem profession? We consider our-self great for our capability to adapt to changes. How many of us can adapt to the living conditions of twenty five years back? Adapting to a more comfortable condition is not difficult. Have you ever thought what will happen if every farmer "adapts" to the modern conditions? There should be a healthy balance and every Job supposed to be respected. Balance is an important thing in evolution. Every behavior is needed for survival. In other words, any behavior that survives is needed for us. But cancerous growth of any behavior leads to destruction. We will not be able to evolve any new traits in our behavior to overcome current problems. Evolution for us is almost stopped because of highly developed brain. For example, we will never develop thick skin, as we learned how to use clothes. So we need to use our brain itself to find solutions for our problems.
Happy brainstorming !
