I am fascinated by everything to do with galaxies, black holes, parallel universes, extraterrestrial life, underwater life, the mysteries of the bowels of the Earth and the mysteries of my own body. I am amazed by the immeasurably large, endless variety of forms and beings that inhabit the most diverse spaces, and I am attracted by the immeasurably small, quarks and all vibrational communication. It’s like I’m admiring God, enchanted by everything I don’t understand, but I accept with rapture.

I recently watched a documentary on the Bone Cave in the Unknown series on Netflix. If you are interested in these topics, I invite you to check it out.

Discover information about Homo naledi, the human ancestral species

In the Rising Start cave system in Gaugeng, South Africa, scientists discovered a species, new in every way, Homo naledi, with a brain no bigger than an orange, who lived about 250,000 years ago, long before we proud Homo sapiens, who buried their dead, knew fire, apparently believed in life after death and manifested a strong spirituality, but they were not human.

I don’t know what to admire more, if the life of the naledi and their long paths through kilometers of underground caves that are almost impossible to pass through while carrying their dead, their respect and love for the life of their fellow human beings, which is manifested in their burying them, or persistence, the patience and knowledge of a researcher without noise. Fundamental question: What does it mean to be human?

The man of the stars

My observations and questions: Naledi could not survive without knowledge transfer. That’s why I find it difficult that copyright is a kind of individual property, because we all learn from each other. Creativity is often the transformation of something we see, hear, feel and then put together, combine and mix in different ways. But it is very difficult to invent something from scratch… it is almost always based on previous knowledge, which allows us to see what we have not seen, do what we have not done, understand what we have not understood, manifest what was hidden but not less real.

We Homo sapiens have made dizzying inventions, but they have also plunged the planet into a sea of ​​blood and fire, inequality, hunger and pain. We break mountains and trace roads, we communicate instantly with any place on the planet and beyond, we invent supersonic airplanes, but we have created many ghettos of neighborhoods, people, cultures, countries. We are further when we are close.

Darwin’s theory of evolution: why it is incorrect to say that we “descended from apes” and 4 more things you may not know about our origins

We haven’t invented much in the social sector. We are far from solving the problem of hunger and justice. We need to make progress in understanding emotions, we have given so much power to quantities and numbers that it seems that feelings, honesty, empathy, respect, are not among the most pressing concerns.

Close to elections, we need social engineers, who build bridges across the chasms that divide us, who prepare the way with justice, equality and security as tools, with the urgency of avoiding the violence that drives us into a corner and the task of creating a present possible and stable future that restores pride and dignity. (OR)