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    Our course has gone to the next step!

    I really enjoyed last week's discussion. I felt the whole course is closer and closer to the scientific perspective of looking at the universe. Paul told us last week that the revolution is really actually just a random process, and we discussed with Anne about wether it is the force of nature that made us to be the way we are now. I believed that the way creatures evolving does have a pattern. Though Darwin and other scientists wouldn't agree with me, I do believe that desire plays a role, a quite important rule in the past billions of years. Look at us, we seem to be using all of our organs pretty much every day. Why doesn't the nature just give us another pair of eyes or one less hand? We are good as what we are now. If we are just a "random product", why are we "ruling" the world now? We can accomplish much more tasks by the magnificent tools that we invented-not assembled by the earth itself, than any other species on this planet. Why is that? It has always bothers me to think about the concept of being a human and self. Even the question that why am I even thinking about this kind of abstract things. What is "me"? After taking off our names, who are we? Is each one of us unique? What about after life? Can I still feel "myself"? There are so many questions in my mind. I hope to discuss them with you and hear your opinions later on.

    Also, hope you guys have some more interesting questions for us to talk about! :)