RE: What A Cake Can Teach Us About Nurture Vs Nature
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