Eegore wrote on 09/02/19 at 21:31:41:


I guess if you are a zombie....you can, however, and Web sorta alluded to this with his mention of love....

Homo sapiens seem to be the creation most capable of having emotions....
These emotions weigh heavily on our discerning abilities, as we can see how emotions have the capacity to cause much hate and grief, when put into overt actions.....
But on the other end of that spectrum, they can create empathy, nurturing, and caring...or love, the opposite of hate.

We use instincts, on deciding many things, without having to use emotions, to reach a understanding, for instance, coming in out of the weather.....
If we were to allow evolution to decide, then it would provide us with gills/scales, or fur.

Another avenue to discernment is accessed through tradition.
What has worked for others, in the past.

I think all things work to find their comfort zone, the path to least resistance, both physically, and spiritually.....and that can indeed be seen in nature, or naturally.....
Reacting in a manner to influences, that come into our lives.
As in, a rain drop finds its way back to the cloud, from which it came.....

Be it running down a mountain side as a stream to the ocean, or back through evaporation before it ever hits the ground.....  

Who knows the cycle of life....???

Not I, that is for sure, I can guess, that is all.
We can weigh possibilities, and depending on who is looking for a answer, can promote their own findings as the best possibility.....

Everything else is just, dust in the wind......nothing new to be ascertained, tho asked by new generations, the answer is unattainable to mankind, no matter how smart he thinks he is            

Eegore wrote on 09/03/19 at 13:49:13:

One would wonder why you thought eels had blood.
Was it a pre-conceived notion?

"One would wonder why you thought eels had blood.
Was it a pre-conceived notion? "

 Again I offer an example that doesn't clearly exemplify my question but that's ok, I am incapable at this time of presenting the question in a way that clarifies that a human without disabilities can be asked a question about a topic they do not know about.

 So by pre-conceived notion you mean any knowledge of a topic at all?

 As in a question about the origin of man has a pre-conceived notion because one is aware that there is time prior to the question and that humans existed in that time?

 I was interpreting pre-conceived notion as having a conceptual idea about a topic without evidence being presented about that topic prior to questioning.

 As in I am aware of eels, I am aware that they may or may not have blood, but am not aware that there is a debate about the way their circulatory system works.

 When I am asked if I think their circulatory system works through Method A, or through Method B, my pre-conceived notion is limited to knowledge that eels exist and nothing more.  I can create a bias based off of my knowledge of other animals, but why "Must" I do so?  And why would I have done that prior to knowledge of the debate to begin with?

 Why would it be a requirement?  Why can I not have an opinion, or a bias prior to questioning and after being questioned say "F uck I don't know" or "Why would I care?"