Friday, March 6, 2009
Sex Analogy and Nature's Control
After reading Morgan Brown's post about the analogy between sex and nature's control, I decided I wanted to write a more in depth response. The action of having sex leads to the creation of a child, and nature controls the biological process of the child actually being created. It is true that human's experience uncontrolled chemical reactions, creating desire and etc by instinct. However, I do believe we as humans have the ability to initiate these chemical reactions in others by our actions and behaviors, and it is not completely up to nature, and chance. Humans are instinctively a tribal species. By aligning ourselves with others, it increases our chances of surviving, and replicating, the two ultimate goals of life. Thus, it is not a surprise that when selecting a potential mate, we look for someone with a high survival and replication value. Males tend to have the highest survival values, and females, the highest replication value. As humans, we have the ability to live our lives in ways that portray us as having high S and R values, or low S and R's. The path we choose to take is by choice, which acts as an example for the control we have over nature, and the natural process of reproduction. I think this demonstrates that we are not just pawns in a game nature is playing. I also would argue this shows why we are considered the dominate species. We have a control over something in ways no other animals do, making us superior?
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I thought it was an interesting point you brought up about how having a control in the natural process of reproduction leads to humans become the dominant species. That defintely seems to make sense about how we align ourselves with others thus increasing our rate of survival. Originally I thought it was only the human species that had this ability to choose their mates but I soon realized that many other species choose their mates through various ways. In several types of animals, the males fight and whoever wins often is rewarded by the female choosing them. Also many male birds display ornate feathers in hopes that a female will pick them to mate with.
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