Charles Darwin's Theory Of Natural Selection

“One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.” Charles Darwin set the fundamentals to the theory of evolution, which dictates that species are all subjected to a unified law; survival of the fittest. It states that species evolve to cope and adapt to their environment, nature selects the most befitting species to survive, the weaker links to wane and eventually become extinct, hence “natural selection.” This essay will attempt to study to what extent is this notion applicable to the knowledge that we seek to attain, evaluating whether or not knowledge in different areas evolves within the doctrines of Darwinians theory.

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You probably have noticed that your memory has some sort of selectivity encrypted within it, our minds usually filters out irrelevant information and engraves ones that are associated with any kind of emotional arousal, compare your feelings during your first date with the ones you got while buying your grocery, for instance. However, this is not just based on mere speculation, there’s scientific explanation to it, one that matches some of natural selection’s groundwork. In a sense, there’s metaphorical correlations, in which the brain “selects” which information correspond to which of the three types of memories we possess: Immediate, Working, and Long-Term Memory. Briefly defining each; immediate memory is categorized as a short-term memory, one that may only last momentarily. Working memory represents the capacity to withhold such information just long enough for it to be useful. Last but not least, long-term memory, as the name suggests, is the information that becomes deeply incorporated into our memories that one almost unconsciously immediately recollects them, such as your name, and how to smile or frown; in mere milliseconds the brain recalls these

The first sight, any associated scent and/or a certain touch felt by the skin is what’s kept within the brain’s immediate memory. If you chose to pay attention to certain specifications and intertwine the feelings your senses experiences, creating an “event”, it then gets elevated to your working memory. Depending on where you lead your thoughts from hereon, your brain might go through a transitional state between working and long-term memory called “consolidation.” Choosing to rehearse that persons’ facial gestures, perhaps the name as well, the memory is being slowly filtered and getting itched into your brain, any distracting information is then disregarded due to the selective-nature of our memories, similar to natural selection, eventually turns the memory into a lasting one, and as such, a simple day-to-day meeting could’ve been selected into each of ours memory’s