This blog post explores various scenarios concerning humanity’s end and how scientific and technological progress could threaten our future. How long can humans live? We always live with death close at hand. In daily life, we can meet death for various reasons: tripping and falling, driving a car incorrectly, or contracting cancer. However, threats facing all of humanity, beyond...
This blog post examines Adler’s teleology and approach to pursuing happiness through ‘The Courage to Be Disliked’, discussing the importance of self-acceptance and task separation. Understanding Teleology: It’s Not About Causes or Starting Points! The most distinctive feature of this book is its reflection of Alfred Adler’s philosophy, a somewhat unfamiliar name. The...
This blog post critically examines whether Kuhn’s paradigm theory can be validly applied to biology through examples from genetics and evolutionary theory. In everyday life, the term ‘paradigm’ is a very commonly used word. When the way we explain a situation undergoes a major shift, people generally say the paradigm has changed. The starting point for the term ‘paradigm’ becoming...
In this blog post, we explore Seth Lloyd’s fascinating argument, presented in his book ‘Programming Universe’, that views the universe as a single quantum computer. Anyone who has waited knows Is there anything in the world as heart-wrenching as waiting? At the place where you were supposed to come, here where I arrived first Every person who opens the door and enters Was you Was...
In this blog post, we examine the protagonists’ lives of submission to fate through ‘Never Let Me Go’ and explore whether that choice was truly freedom. The story’s protagonist and narrator, Kathy, is a 31-year-old “carer.” She has spent over 11 years caring for “donors,” among whom are her former classmates Tommy and Ruth. Kathy, Tommy, and Ruth all attended Hailsham, the...
In this blog post, we examine Darwin’s theory of survival of the fittest through ‘On the Origin of Species’ and discuss whether evolution remains a valid principle for life’s evolution. ‘On the Origin of Species’ is the book containing Darwin’s theory that all living things evolve according to the principle of survival of the fittest. The publication of this book, which...
This blog post explores the artistic power of literature and the social messages it contains through Augusto Monterosso’s ‘The Black Sheep and Other Fables’. Literature is art. We are moved when we read a good literary work, watch a film, attend a concert, or appreciate a work of art. This is because art possesses the power to stir the human heart. What distinguishes literature from...
This blog post examines Kuhn’s argument, presented in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, that science develops through revolution, not accumulation. A New Perspective on Scientific Research Gained Through the History of Science ‘The Structure of Scientific Revolutions’ has exerted considerable influence on the scientific and philosophical communities for nearly 50 years since...
This blog post examines the differences in Eastern and Western thinking styles discussed in “The Geography of Thought” and analyzes how these differences have influenced modern society’s culture and problem-solving approaches. On October 1, 2017, a tragic incident occurred in Las Vegas, USA. A heinous crime took place where a gunman opened fire from a high-rise building into a crowd...
This blog post explores the ethical issues of genetic engineering and its impact on human nature through Michael Sandel’s ‘The Case Against Perfection’. In the 1998 film ‘Gattaca’ directed by Andrew Niccol, the protagonist possesses tall stature, handsome looks, exceptional knowledge and cold-bloodedness in space science, and perfect superiority genes. Thus, one goal of genetic...