Week 7 - Alyssa Vang

Alyssa Vang - ASA 189B - Week 7 - Fear of Reality

If I were to be honest, I got kind of scared reading the American Scholar by Robert Lanza about the New Theory of the Universe. The way I think about life isn't much through the lens of a scientist; I'm not a huge science nerd but I do know the basics of how the earth came about and how humans were created. Lanza talked a lot about how we're so hooked onto concepts/theory that make everything around us that we don't think about reality enough. He also talks about life and how the study of life 'biology' should be a topic that is the first and last study of science. I do agree with this as I am taking a heredity class because I feel like learning about life is one of the most important information humans should know as we are living on earth and how it made us. But imagine if life now use to be how it was thousands of years ago. What if we never had such thing as science? What if we never thought about how we came on earth or how we label things in order to continue with our day? What if we didn't have names? Have you ever wonder what the earth was like if we weren't so focused on figuring things out and how they became about? I feel like if we were to see life in a different perspective we wouldn't have such a hurtful world. If science and other ideas of physics were unknown maybe there will be less tension between the arts (coming from my perspective). Another idea that made me think so much was about how he said what if we were just imagining things around us and it wasn't real. In a paragraph he talked about how things can just disappear -

                "The trees and snow evaporate when we’re sleeping. The kitchen disappears when we’re in the bathroom. When you turn from one room to the next, when your animal senses no longer perceive the sounds of the dishwasher, the ticking clock, the smell of a chicken roasting—the kitchen and all its seemingly discrete bits dissolve into nothingness—or into waves of probability. The universe bursts into existence from life, not the other way around as we have been taught. For each life there is a universe, its own universe. We generate spheres of reality, individual bubbles of existence. Our planet is comprised of billions of spheres of reality, generated by each individual human and perhaps even by each animal."

Earth and the conceptual ideas of earth only exists because we humans try to make it exits in our lives.