COMPLEXITY OF THE HUMAN BEING (COMPLEXITÉ MOINS LES HUMAIN ÊTRE)

 Human beings are one of the most complex organisms ever to exist. Advances in science have been made greatly with advent of genetic engineering but there has been no success in creating an artificial human being. Take time to think on how man has turned to nature to seek answers to some of the most challenges and has ended imitating it in trying to solve some of those problems facing him. The aeroplane is just an imitation of the bird while the car is an imitation of the donkey or even the horse. Wondering about the ship and your next thought rests with the fish. The house can be the development of the nest that houses the birds. From the above instances one is able to see how the human being is smart in terms of innovation: from aeroplane to jets, houses to storey building while from boats to ships. You realize that had human beings been simple then no advances could have been in terms of technological advancements. This is a small illustration of the complexity of human beings though.

Take a moment to think of the following questions about our functionality? How much amount of air do we inhale at one inhalation? What is 21% of that air? That is what we use as oxygen in our bodies. How many seconds does the air stay in our bodies before we exhale it? We use blood right, food gives us the energy also; are we able to precisely know the amount of energy we get per meal and account for it with each work we do with them? These are among the few questions that you can ask yourself and realize we are very complex in nature. No living organism has a very high order in their living as does the human being. The human being of all the primates has the highest brain capacity and that is why we are able to be called ‘human’ for otherwise we could be animals. We again have what can be purely described as a living soul and lightly though, I tend to think that what other animals do is just exist. We can imagine, right? Yes we do, do animals imagine?

Religion and human complexity

“And God said, let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth,” Genesis 1:26 (KJV). According to this verse, God said let US make man which is the only part in the Biblical creation story where us has been used. The other days God just said, let there be… and things could happen. Next take a keen interest in how ONLY man has been given mandate to be over all other creation to rule and have dominion over them; this shows perfectly how human beings are not merely any creation. It is not hard to explain then why there has been no success in creating an artificial human beings and why only robots have been successfully manufactured. A robot is not a human being remember, it is an imitation of human beings which means creation is a very powerful form of explaining the complexity of human beings. We are restricting ourselves to human beings only and not the whole creation of which theologians can use deeply to successfully support the existence of a supreme being; God.

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Human beings have been able to develop very great technologies that have been able to advance our form of living. They have simply simplified our form of living. All these advances have been successful due to our high ability to react fast to stimuli. A cow for instance cannot mind to continue grazing up to midnight or even in raining conditions because it reacts slowly to stimuli and can never think of making itself a shed unless a human being can think on their behalf. The forest where animals live is the same all year round and the animal behavior the same, but think of a human setting and you realize there are advances every now and again and most of these behaviors have been hard to justify why they happen so. Lack of enough justification in a factual manner is what tells you that ours is not an easy science. Reasons are given as speculations in most researches and cases.

Human anatomy has been a very widely studied field and new advances are made daily in line with various developments taking place. Think for once why diseases keep changing in humans and new once keep coming, why our health challenges cannot be given in a statistical way for long periods of time. Our social behaviors are dependent on many factors and hence changes now and again just like the diseases and human anatomy. If we were not complex, we could retain most aspects for long periods of time and they could be defined precisely and with very high accuracy whether spiritual, social, biological or economic. As a matter of fact our form is very complex and will be complex for as long we exist.

Geoffrey Ndege Copyright@2015

Geoffrey Ndege

Geoffrey Ndege

Geoffrey Ndege is the Editor and topical contributor for the Daily Focus. He writes in the areas of Science, Manufacturing, Technology, Innovation, Governance, Management and International Emerging Issues. For featuring, promotions or support, reach out to us at info@dailyfocus.co.ke
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