This blog post explores how cyborg engineering could transform human identity and what impact it might have on humanity’s future. Yuval Harari’s “Sapiens” includes this passage: “Attempts to improve us are doomed to fail, because even if the whole could be improved, our minds remain untouchable.” Interpreting this, it implies that if our minds could be altered, our entire being...
Is Rape in War an Instinct or Psychological Warfare?
This blog post explores whether the surge in rape during wartime is an expression of evolutionary instinct or a means of strategic violence. Rape is one of the most heinous crimes, regardless of country or era. Therefore, efforts to understand its causes—both from humanities and social science perspectives and through scientific inquiry—are underway to find ways to prevent it. One such...
Is rape an evolutionary outcome or a flawed mutation?
This blog post examines the perspective that rape is not an evolutionary adaptation but rather the manifestation of distorted desires and may be a biological error. The theme of the section I read in the book ‘Darwin’s Table’ is ‘Is rape an adaptation?’ Anyone with normal ethical standards would naturally oppose the idea that rape is an adaptation. However, the term ‘adaptation’ used...
Book Review – What Makes a True Doctor?
This blog post reflects on the meaning of being a true doctor through the story of a physician who cared not only for his patients’ bodies but also their hearts, living his life with faith and love. I was recommended and read the book ‘That Young Foolish Doctor’. This book contains the deeply moving story of a young doctor who lived his life sincerely loving people. He was a person...
Is Rape an Evolutionary Adaptation for Reproduction?
In this blog post, we explore whether the act of rape is an evolutionary adaptation or part of a gene propagation strategy. Rape and Evolution Some organisms developed gills to adapt to aquatic environments, while certain plants evolved nectar glands to attract insects. In this way, all organisms existing on Earth today have continuously evolved to keep pace with an ever-changing...
Could the advancement of science and technology bring about humanity’s extinction?
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...
The Courage to Be Disliked (Adler’s Teleology and the Pursuit of Happiness)
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...
Can Thomas Kuhn’s paradigm theory be applied to biology?
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...
Programming Universe (Computing the Universe)
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...
Never Let Me Go (A Life of Submission to Fate—Is That Truly Our Choice?)
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...