Like what? Dominant, of course. Man as a species dominates this world. The only species that has reached the highest degree of nervous activity is consciousness. A person has learned to pass on his knowledge to subsequent generations and therefore sooner or later will become immortal (in the sense of infinitely long-lived).We are a species that has solved many mysteries, gained power, and placed itself at the top of the food chain. Steady progress is proof of this.
From the point of view of biology, a person is one of the animal species (a family of hominids, an order of primates, and so on), one of the branches of evolution. From this perspective, asking about the role of humans is as pointless as asking about the role of jerboa on Earth. And the fact that we are aware of ourselves (and what seems to make us human) hardly changes anything – it is unlikely that the development of the brain so that it begins to become aware of itself is the ultimate goal of evolution. And in the end, how do we know that the cat napping on the windowsill is not aware of itself? We can only assume this, sincerely hoping that our accumulated knowledge of higher activities is sufficient to say that it is the development of the prefrontal cortex that allows us to make decisions, make plans, and ask questions about the meaning of life on Earth.
If we look at the question more broadly and ask whether evolution has an ultimate goal, then here, too, the answer is unlikely to be positive. At the moment, nature is not considered by the scientific community as something alive and meaningful, rather it is just a material world in which there is, among other things, evolution – a natural process of development of wildlife, unfolding in the direction of increasing adaptation, speciation, and so on. Just as water flows downhill due to gravity, so evolution tends to increase diversity and adaptation, simply because of the existing world order.
Like what? Dominant, of course. Man as a species dominates this world. The only species that has reached the highest degree of nervous activity is consciousness. A person has learned to pass on his knowledge to subsequent generations and therefore sooner or later will become immortal (in the sense of infinitely long-lived).We are a species that has solved many mysteries, gained power, and placed itself at the top of the food chain. Steady progress is proof of this.
From the point of view of biology, a person is one of the animal species (a family of hominids, an order of primates, and so on), one of the branches of evolution. From this perspective, asking about the role of humans is as pointless as asking about the role of jerboa on Earth. And the fact that we are aware of ourselves (and what seems to make us human) hardly changes anything – it is unlikely that the development of the brain so that it begins to become aware of itself is the ultimate goal of evolution. And in the end, how do we know that the cat napping on the windowsill is not aware of itself? We can only assume this, sincerely hoping that our accumulated knowledge of higher activities is sufficient to say that it is the development of the prefrontal cortex that allows us to make decisions, make plans, and ask questions about the meaning of life on Earth.
If we look at the question more broadly and ask whether evolution has an ultimate goal, then here, too, the answer is unlikely to be positive. At the moment, nature is not considered by the scientific community as something alive and meaningful, rather it is just a material world in which there is, among other things, evolution – a natural process of development of wildlife, unfolding in the direction of increasing adaptation, speciation, and so on. Just as water flows downhill due to gravity, so evolution tends to increase diversity and adaptation, simply because of the existing world order.