Week 3 - Expert Lecture Posting
The lecture I am going to retort on is the interview of Edward O. Wilson and his discussion of Consilience, Religion, and the Human Mind. The interview started off with the discussion of the human mind and what exactly Consilience means. Consilience is the breaking down of complex problems into simpler problems and comparing these problems with the laws of physics, this is usually referred to as Reductionism (or Reductionist Projects). The interview progressed to speaking about the human mind and how the human mind works in regard to solving problems.
The last portion of the interview was about religion and Edward O. Wilson doesn't believe that God oversaw the evolution of man, and how he believes that man will be able to duplicate evolution in the lab in a few years. He also went over the idea that an eternity of bliss to the human mind would be boring and that he is comfortable with the fact that he will cease to exist when he dies, I agree with this idea, as I can't imagine what an eternity of anything would be like, and to compare it with what I have seen I think I would at least like something else for variety.
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