Dear Benoit,

 

With the internet, you have at your disposal a volume of information that my grandfather could never have dreamed of. This beautiful invention, like many others, was contaminated by human nature. The result is beautiful pearls in a lot of garbage. Don’t expect the internet to be like a dictionary where every information has been carefully checked. Treat it as raw material. It has the best and the worst. Question everything and everybody.  Don’t let anybody do your thinking for you.

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I collected some examples for you:

- You will be told that the electrical current results from electrons moving along the wires. Show me how electrons can jump over a transformer! When I watch a piece of wood floating in the middle of the ocean I can see it moving up and down and sideways but it does not get carried away by the waves. Are you sure that your electrons in the wires do not move like my piece of wood in the waves? They could vibrate but remain in place. For more details you can look at "The big misconception about electricity" on You Tube.

 

- At the other extreme, in the infinitely big, you will be told that there are “Black holes” in the sky. Those holes are filled with very dense matter. It is so dense that even light cannot escape it. That does not sound like a hole to me. To the contrary. It could be the only place in the universe where there is no room for a hole! And where does the color “black” come from? How can you tell the color of something that you cannot see? They don’t differentiate between a color and the absence of color.

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- You will be told that humans can use their thinking while animals can only use their instinct. What do you think happens when a virus is fighting for its survival and makes variants. Is it using thinking? Instinct?

I think that it is an example of a fight for survival. It is not the virus that is fighting. It is "life" fighting to maintain one of its implementations in the material world.

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- There is a lot of thinking necessary to our life that we are not conscious of. Look at the food in your plate. Which part of it should be used to make hair? Heat? Nails? Mechanical energy? Memory? Blood? What can you do to compensate for a lack of some vitamins? What in your food is going to be used and what will be rejected? What should be stored in your fat for later use? That’s only the beginning. You also have to make antibodies to protect yourself against microbes, viruses, bacteria… It’s a lot of work that requires a lot of thinking. It must be done three times a day (at least) and we are not even conscious of it. All we have to do is to take a sweater when it is getting cold and avoid the bad mushrooms! Some people prey before a meal. It started as a way to acknowledge that the same law of nature that is going to make this food part of our body is also making our body part of the world.

At the other end we have planet earth keeping her many hosts alive. Without her rain we would starve. What do you think planet earth is using? Thinking? Instinct? We need a better answer and you will not find it in your schoolbooks.