To John Ruksin, Why apes?

To John Ruksin, Why apes?    

By Dr. Sohail Ansari

Conceived and worded by DR Sohail Ansari (originality of concepts and originality of words).

He believes that there can never be a zero scope for improvement and appreciates criticism if it is not for the sake of criticism.

·        Converging lines of investigation are always differently directed; therefore we can only have the point of convergence if the divergent lines of investigation are similarly directed. By this logic, the only thing we cannot have is the point of convergence.  

To John Ruksin

·        John Ruksin says: ‘The hardest reward for a man’s toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it’. I became jobless because my all reward for my toil my boss got and he simply fired me as mere nuisance clamoring for reward of work. The hardest reward for my toil was not what I got (no acknowledgment) but what I became (jobless).

Why are there still apes?

·        Those who believe that people evolved from apes must believe as well that somewhere in history something happened that stopped apes from evolving into human, if they do not want to confront the question: why there are still apes.   

Points to ponder

·        Cognitive development starts from a simple base of perceptual primitives grouped together by similarity and then it is guided by domain-specific explanatory expectations those function in adult reasoning and categorization. True if fundamental assumptions (about the nature of the universe and society) those are constitutive of paradigm are the right ways of ordering the perceptual world’s stunning complexity.  

·        Great knowing is knowing that you do not know as it opens the door for further knowing.

·        Things need to be psychologically not logically convincing to be convincing because of our own vested interest.