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The causes of life's history [cannot] resolve the riddle of life's meaning. - Stephen Jay Gould
" "The causes of life's history [cannot] resolve the riddle of life's meaning.
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About Stephen Jay Gould
Stephen Jay Gould (September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002) was an American geologist, paleontologist, evolutionary biologist and popular-science author, who spent most of his career teaching at Harvard University and working at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. He was one of the most influential and widely read writers of popular science of his generation.
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El mundo está repleto de señales que no percibimos. Las criaturas diminutas viven en un mundo diferente de fuerzas poco familiares. Muchos animales “de nuestra escala exceden en mucho el alcance de nuestra percepción de sensaciones familiares. Los murciélagos esquivan los obstáculos haciendo rebotar en ellos ondas sonoras de frecuencia que yo no alcanzo a oír, aunque algunas personas sí pueden hacerlo. Muchos insectos ven el ultravioleta y siguen las invisibles «guías» del néctar de las flores hasta lo que para ellos es una fuente de alimentos y de polen que acarrearán hasta la siguiente flor para su fecundación (las flores crean estas trazas orientadoras de color en su propio beneficio, no en el de los insectos).
¡Qué seres tan poco perceptivos somos! Rodeados de tantas cosas fascinantes y reales que no vemos (oímos, olemos, tocamos, saboreamos) en la naturaleza, y, no obstante, tan crédulos y predispuestos a la aceptación de nuevos poderes que confundimos los trucos de magos mediocres con percepciones de un mundo psíquico más allá del nuestro. Lo paranormal puede ser una fantasía; desde luego es un refugio para muchos charlatanes. Pero los poderes de percepción «parahumana» están a nuestro alrededor en las aves, las abejas y las bacterias.
In what other world is myth so harmless? Great battles kill and maim; great homers and no-hitters are pure joy or deep tragedy without practical consequence […]. Life is inherently ambiguous; baseball games pit pure good against abject evil. Even Saddam Hussein must have committed one act of kindness in his life, but what iota of good could possibly be said for aluminum bats or the designated hitter rule?
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The universe was here for whatever reason (if any) and we fit in much later. It seems the height of antiquated hubris to claim that the universe carried on as it did for billions of years in order to form a comfortable abode for us…Sure we fit. We wouldn’t be here if we didn’t. But the world wasn’t made for us and it will endure without us.
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