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I really appreciate one of

Submitted by Bingqing on Mon, 11/08/2010 - 5:39pm.
I really appreciate one of the opinions of the author of How Babies Think. “Brain is a kind of computer designed by evolution and programmed by experience.” It is long time evolution that decides human beings to become the creatures born with consciousness and cognition. Then, during people’s whole lives, they change, adapt, and modify due to their experience. I always regard evolution as something that brings about the positive change and it does. In macroscopic range, species on the planet have accomplished the evolving process from aquatic to territorial, from simple to complex, from lower level to higher level. In contrast, according to Thursday’s reading, it seemed that in the personal evolution people are losing some of their abilities and some of people are losing their natural goodness. Does it contradict the evolution in macroscopic scale?

Why do people care the question about babies’ ideology? If we people can finally figure out how babies’ cognition and moral develop, we will find the best period for education and shaping their intelligence and morality. We human beings always wan to have things under our control because we are the creatures born with consciousness. We want to obtain a kind of certainty by erasing the unknown as much as we can.

As our class goes so far, a sentence jumped into my mind that the only unchanging thing is change and the only certain thing is uncertainty.
 

 

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