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What history is made of

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Nature + Purpose = Evolution.
Evolution + Free Will = History

Online Education is Off

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The only Online Education that educates is the one that provides real social interaction (watching and been watched). If not, it’s only a collection of educational materials, a book with bells and whistles.

Evolution for humans is over

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Life = evolution; except for humans in the future. Why? Darwinian evolution = random mutation + natural selection. But, after the appearance of the human mind, no mutation has enough power to influence the survival of this specie. Freedom is now determining the progress or decadence of humankind. For humans, evolution has turned into History

Birth is nothing

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Females, of any specie, give birth when it is energetically better to raise their offsprings out of their body. Birth is not an event. Fetilization is.

Big is over

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The age of big corporations and big governments (and lifetime employment) that begun with the industrial revolution, is over.

Wealth is organizing matter

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Wealth is organizing matter Creating wealth is to overcome entropy by organizing things. This process always requires the consumption of energy.

Wars of religion never existed

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Wars of religion never existed Wars of religion are wars of politics where the label to differentiate the parties is religious.

Man against human specie

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Ways the man can go against its own specie: warfare; destroying his environment; choosing not to reproduce

Should we look for knowledge or certainty

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Deduction (steping on previous truths and making an inference) is the only way to be certain of a proposition. But certainty is not the same as knowledge.
Induction, on the other hand, is the proposal of a general principle, based on the regularity of a some observations.
Deduction (the use of logic) makes me very certain, but adds very little knowledge to me: the deducted truth is already into the previous ones (the premises).
Induction let me jump on completely new truths. But, who can guarantee that “swans are white” just because all that I have seen, happen to be white? Induction gives me joy of novelty, but, seldom, the comfort of certainty.
The moral of this story is: knowledge, as any human growth operation (like love, or virtue) can on be achieved “dialectically”, zigzaging between opposites. Forget about finding an optimun.