Week 5- Expert Lecture- Edward O. Wilson and Consilience

Wilson's thoughts in Consilience is that a common body of inherentprinciples underlies the entire human endeavor. He says that hebelieves that the scientists in the 17th and 18th century got it rightfrom the beginning. Basically saying that we live in a material worldwhich the knowledge we have comes from science and humanities. He saysthat we are in this world to be able to explain everything and complywith the natural laws. That this world acts in two ways. The first oneis that it is organized by the laws of physics and that it goes off ofthe basic theory of evolution. That everything must change in order toadapt to the constantly changing world. Wilson talks about the socialinstutions and what it means to man kind. Without social instutions wewould be lost souls and would not know what we should follow and whatwe should avoid. Wilson has a unique perspective which helps you torealize that without human thought, we would not be able to see howeverything is connected.