Is evolution/religion/everything a self fulfilling prophecy?
What separates us from the rest of species? Recognition of self
right? Some will want to argue that there are other species that
can recognize self. But then you need to ask well do they
recognize self do to our experiments and what we have defined as
self recognition or is it innately in them? So is it that we
recognize self because of them through evolution or do they
recognize self do to us? A bird called the magpie is self aware
using the mirror test. It’s easy now to look in a mirror and say
yep that’s me, but it’s a million times harder to say that this
is just a visual representation of trillions of moving, living,
self-replicating entities. This is the principles that I would
like to use in defining self fulfilling prophecy: Robert
Merton's concept of the self-fulfilling prophecy stems from the
Thomas theorem, which states that "If men define situations as
real, they are real in their consequences." According to Thomas,
people react not only