30 Random Searches on Wikipedia

As you know, Wikipedia is our very good friend and we like to ask Wiki lots of questions and learn about lots of cool stuff.

In my favorites bar-menu thing I have a folder called "Wikipedia Search Results". I'm not kidding. Ask my cat.

Here are some stuff that I had once been interested in knowing:

Viruses come like the plague: Intentional virus? Are you kidding me?

Chicken disease
Cow disease
Ebola
Now the Zika virus

First let me throw this out...uhm...I'm not a scientist so I don't know how viruses come into this world... *silently blames everything on climate change* but I do know how crazy this sounds:

THIS

I just wanted to know what a baby with Zika virus looked like. NYTimes articles were saying babies were born with no forehead and I had no idea what that would look like so I went to look it up and found this religious blog.

Now I know that everyone has their own beliefs when it comes to science.

I also know that there are some people out there who don't believe in science.

I also, also know that those people who don't believe in science also believe in certain types of religion.

Just genuinely, I just genuinely don't understand how someone does not believe in science. It is reality and they are able to turn a blind eye to it. Well, perhaps their reality involves God and their religious beliefs.

But really I don't understand how someone cannot see the reality.

I mean that blog, sorry whoever Angel 4 Light is but I don't think its so very nice to say that someone made babies heads shrink on purpose.

Disclaimer: I'm not trying to correct Angel 4 Light's beliefs. I'm just saying what I think so that people who don't know so very much wouldn't think that there is only one opinion about these matters.

Let's put this Zika virus in perspective here.

So, it has appeared in Brazil. Here's what I would think. It's probably got to do with the climate and some sort of mutant gene in the mosquito. Genes aren't always gonna be perfect. Viruses can also be dormant for a number of years and then decide to spring up at you suddenly when effected by some kind of climate change or other factors that are different from the normal everyday ones.

Am I making sense?

I hope so.

I just really don't think it's nice to say the Zika virus was intentional and bring Bill Gates out of nowhere and accuse him of creating a vaccine.

Vaccines can't be created in a night just as Rome wasn't built in a day (I really wanted to say that Rome saying :P )

When Ebola came out, people worked hard and quick to get a vaccine but it still wasn't created in a night. I think it took at least a few weeks maybe a month?

And the wordpress article is also saying to not vaccinate your children basically.

That became a problem in California or somewhere like that because everyone was scared and all the children got sick.

Either suffer or build a shield.

I would rather build a shield.

What da heck Angel 4 Light. I'm Christian and I believe in science because it is the reality and reality is my middle name.

But as I always say and will say again, you can believe whatever you want. I don't care. We should be entitled to our own opinions...to an extent.

See ya later, alligators.

What da heck is "Consciousness"?

One of the unresolved questions from "65 Deep Philosophical Questions" was;

When does consciousness begin?

Let's try to first identify what da heck it is and then answer when it begins, okay? :)

Here's what Wiki says;

"Consciousness is the state or quality of awareness, or, of being aware of an external object or something within oneself. It has been defined as: sentience, awareness, subjectivity, the ability to experience or to feel, wakefulness, having a sense of selfhood, and the executive control system of the mind. Despite the difficulty in definition, many philosophers believe that there is a broadly shared underlying intuition about what consciousness is. As Max Velmans and Susan Schneider wrote in The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness: "Anything that we are aware of at a given moment forms part of our consciousness, making conscious experience at once the most familiar and most mysterious aspect of our lives.''" (Wikipedia: Consciousness).


Basically it's about being aware or it's about the ability to experience.


Here's what Wiki says about awareness;


"Awareness is a relative concept. An animal may be partially aware, may be subconsciously aware, or may be acutely unaware of an event. Awareness may be focused on an internal state, such as a visceral feeling, or on external events by way of sensory perception. Awareness provides the raw material from which animals develop qualia, or subjective ideas about their experience. Insects have awareness that you are trying to swat them or chase after them. But insects do not have consciousness in the usual sense, because they lack the brain capacity for thought and understanding." (Wikipedia: Awareness).


So basically insects have awareness but not consciousness. Consciousness seems to be a deeper version of awareness.


Here's what Wiki says about sentience (the ability to experience);

"Sentience is the capacity to feel, perceive, or experience subjectively" (Wikipedia: Sentience).


So if we are able to experience and feel from our own perspective, we have sentience. Consciousness is like a deeper level of sentience, a deeper level of awareness. Basically almost every creature can be aware or have sentience but when it comes to the deeper level, we human beings top all of them.

Okay so consciousness is a human trait. I could be wrong but let's go with that for now.


Now then, where exactly is our consciousness?

What is Good and Evil?

So one of the unresolved question from "65 Deep Philosophical Questions" was "Who defines good and evil?"

Of course, it's always just easy to look it up using our good friend Wikipedia.

...and we'll keep it that way.

I started to look up in Christianity about what good and evil is and I realized...my blog doesn't want to go in that direction.

I mean,

I don't wanna be biased or sound like I'm saying bad things about one religion or the other. And, right now, religion is a pretty touchy subject in our world :/

I try to stay out of that mess and not get involved, you know?

Sorry guys, if you're really curious, you can read Wiki and do you own research. I'll just go and answer the other unresolved questions :/

List of Questions I Promised to Revisit from "Answers to '65 Deep Philosophical Questions' "

This is mostly for me to keep track which questions I said I would talk about more later.


16. Who defines good and evil?

Answer: Some people will want me to say that the bible of God does. So there, I said it. But I think that cultural norms define good and evil. Wait, not good and bad? Evil???? Evil is a really strong word. What is evil in this world? War lords? People who have no feelings when they kill other people? Before we answer this question, we need to know what da heck evil is. So, maybe I'll talk about this question as its own post...moving on! :D


44. When does consciousness begin?

Answer: I need to answer this in a non-serious way because it's too deep and might require another you know, post and research and...all that good delicious effort :)

So here's my answer:

Consciousness begins when it wants to.

There you go :D


47. How did the universe begin?