Message
Recommended Post : 【Biology】 Biology Index
♠︎ Message to Share ♠︎
I started collecting biological information for the first time in 2009. I began gathering interesting biological knowledge that I acquired while reading books because I didn’t want to lose it.
As I continued, I encountered similar information from different sources. Some information was incorrect, while others were exactly the same. There were also cases where one piece of information was a subset of another. The more I organized the pile of knowledge, the more I encountered these situations, and if the categories were poorly organized, information from different sources would cause trouble. That’s when I realized the importance of categories. I kept refining and improving the categories, and they gradually converged into their current form. Now, even with a flood of new information, the categories are securely maintained.
I believe that these mature categories are related to the collective human intellectual process of dealing with biology. Currently, we understand biology in the order of molecules → cells → tissues → organs → populations → communities → ecosystems → evolution, and we accept the emergence of phenomena that were not predicted in the previous stage when transitioning to the next stage as a principle. In addition, I think that the categories set at each stage are a universally valid sequence necessary for us to understand the concept.
I think that what we call knowledge and truth is like a bundle of thread, and if you follow just one thread, you can reach the abyss. I hope that the biological categories I have created from fragmentary biological knowledge gathered from various sources have reached the abyss of the collective human intellect.
[Additional Information]
The book cover depicts a space-faring caterpillar. I found caterpillars to be the most interesting microorganisms for several reasons: 1) They can survive even during dehydration using trehalose, 2) They can survive in outer space without their bodies inflating, and 3) They are one of the very few microorganisms that have already reached outer space along with humanity’s moon landing.
♠︎ Author Introduction ♠︎
Author ‘Park Jungbin’ has completed both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Seoul National University and is currently employed at a startup. He has been selected as a prospective scholarship student by the Higher Education Foundation and is preparing to study abroad.
Input : September 12, 2022, 23:17