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Qs people asked me on science and my replies to them - part 213
Well, the insect (like bee or some insects like it) might be useful in pollination which might bring you food to your plate by producing seeds, fruits and vegetables after teh process. Just bear the pain and wait for the food. Doesn’t that make sense?
And ants control pests naturally. Like ladybeetles, green lacewings, and other beneficial bugs, ants often help control pests (they actually support some pests, too ) by eating their eggs and young or disturbing them during feeding.
Ants are such an effective biological control agent, in fact, that some growers introduce them on purpose as part of an Integrated Pest Management strategy.
So leave that ant alone even if it stings you - it helps you in reality. Even if a friend fights with you and hits you, don’t you forgive him for the sake of friendship?
Does that make sense?
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But 'you should help/forgive the one who helps you' isn't coming from science, I think. It's coming from somewhere else.
I am not a behavioural biologist but i am told by life science - friends that many species tend to kill/eat their friends/mates. Am I right on this one?
Krishna: *But 'you should help/forgive the one who helps you' isn't coming from science, I think. It's coming from somewhere else.*
Science shows you that bees and ants are friends with evidence. That fact influences your thought process.
‘Kill mates’, yes. That includes human beings too but for other reasons!
But when nature made them that way it has a reason too. Like some animals eat their mates after fertilization - as the reproduction process is completed and so the males are consumed by the females to get more food and energy for the growing progeny or whatever name you give them.
VKJ:
*…but for other reasons!* Interesting! Would love to know the reasons.
*…influences your thought process.* True. That's why many people are motivated to do science. But here's the tricky part. How it influences (how you allowe it to influence) your thought process, your decisions, goals, morals/ ethics… doesn't seem to be something that science reveals to us. It's very subjective and it's difficult, many times, to tell who's right in extracting out the values from these facts.
I am afraid that the fact of some females, in animal kingdom, consuming the males after fertilization can change the thought process of some hardcore feminists and they start a social trend of #KillDownYourManWhenThePurposeIsOver
Lol. That's a stupid exaggeration. But the point is, scientific facts alone are directionless, we need ‘something more' that can facilitate the 'appropriate’ or ‘positive' change in our thought process, actions, goals, desires and what not. It's perhaps that something more that determines what kind of technology we develop after some discovery, what new experiments we dare to do etc etc etc. I don't know to what extent we can change that 'something more' and what it really is.
I am an MSc physics student. I don't know about life sciences, but with physical sciences that seems to be the case. Dr Sabine puts it in a different way:
Krishna:
Right. science doesn’t say directly, do this or do that. . But if you are a person of science, the knowledge you know would definitely influences your thought process.
I noticed several times, people who don’t have the knowledge I have think and behave differently. I think their thought process becomes lame without scientific knowledge. Again ,there are people, even among scientists, who don’t use their knowledge in their thinking process. They have conditioned minds and their science training ‘s so inadequate that they ‘re unable to come out of this conditioning and do Critical Thinking. There will be all sorts of people in this world.
Is Dr. Sabine an authority on these things? Anyway opinions have no place in science and we don’t care about anybody’s opinions, even if they are Einsteins and Newtons.
But for me atleast my science training is good and I can use it perfectly in my life. It’s guidance in my life is absolute!
If some people cannot do what I do, their science training might not be as good as mine.
Yes, without basic scientific knowledge people tend to believe in pseudoscientific explanations & claims in the name of faith or perhaps just to feel proud of themselves or their culture/history; which, I see, is happening a lot around me. And it's very difficult for them to ever realise their biases.
Thanks for the articles. I came to know about many new biochemical & chemical processes happening right here in my body every moment.
*…because their brain chemistry is not under the same influence of hormones your body is producing.*
What governs this production of hormones in my body such a unique way, resulting into a unique experience for 'me' at that moment? Is it just direct consequence of the biochemical reactions happening in my body? Or can 'i' interfere somewhere in these processes to create the kind of experience I aspire for?
I don't know if I have put it correctly.)
Krishna:
The release of hormones can be triggered by changes in the blood , by the actions of other hormones, or by neurological stimuli.
Yes, you can control the process by controlling the background stimuli.
VKJ:
Dhanyawad Krishna ma'am for all the answers and such valuable articles.
Your endeavours in science communication and SCI-ART are inspiring.
Shubhkamnaye .
Krishan: Thanks!
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Q: Where can we say " science doesn't work in this universe?
Krishna: Nowhere in this universe!
Alright some people have raised some Qs here and said science doesn't work with regard to such Qs. This is not understanding the word science properly.
Science has two aspects:
One: The principles with which this universe came into existence and run by it.
Two: The process with which we study this universe.
If you take the first aspect into account, you will not find any place in our universe where scientific principles don't work and are not responsible for things existing and things happening. Without these principles this universe doesn't work and collapses and becomes non-existent. The very fact that it is working so well is evidence enough that science is working everywhere in this universe and running it wonderfully.
Right, if you come to the second aspect, i.e., the process with which we study and try to understand our universe, it is not science that is not working. It 's human mind's inadequacy to understand things in our 'scientific universe' responsible for that, not science.
Why do you try to shift your inadequacies to science and say science cannot do this or science cannot do that? Science, the thing this universe is run by, can be tackled only by science. If you cannot use your tool properly and blame science for it, it is like a bad worker blaming his tools for his lack of efficiency.
Now show me with genuine evidence a place in this universe where science doesn't work. Mere logic and argument won't do.
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