Is earthworm wisdom?This question Darwin is also very confused

For the vast majority of people, earthworms are no longer familiar to animals, and even some people still don't like them. They have no teeth, deaf and blind. They do not resist the body of foreign enemies, and they will only dig a hole in mind. Some people may question:

Just kidding, can earthworms have wisdom?

You actually coincide with Aristotle.

In fact, about the issue of animal cognition, philosophers have argued for centuries!

At that time, philosophers in ancient Greece and ancient Rome thought that animals would have various skills and could make choices, indicating that animals were rational.

But Aristotle is skeptical about this. He believes that he can master the truth and truth can be called wisdom. Animals do not have it. Obviously they are very different from others.

This view of Aristotle has been recognized for several centuries. No one opposed him. Until the 18th century, a British philosopher named David Hume proposed in "Humanity Theory" that animals, like humans, have ideological as human beings. And rational.

So, who should we hear?

Charles Darwin has come to calm the embarrassing debate.

Darwin proved in "Origin of Species" that all species are the result of natural selection. He believes that the difference between people and dogs, such as dogs, is not essentially in nature, but only. But when the "low" animals involved in earthworms, Darwin was confused ...

With this confusion, Mr. Darwin, who is persistent, has been working hard to study until his last period of life. During this time, he would bring iron, lamps, and whistles to the garden day after day, that is, he hopes to prove that earthworms are much smarter than they look.

When people see that he is digging the soil, or yelling at the entrance of the earthworm with his greatest volume, he is very confused:

This time, Mr. Darwin lost?

not at all.

Through a long and large scientific observation, Darwin proved that earthworms were wise, and he was stunned by the wisdom showed by earthworms! He wrote all of this into his important book "The Genesis of Erotic Earth and Earthworms" in his later years.

However, this book not only failed to attract everyone's attention, but was evaluated as:

Very boring and boring.

Because the object described in this book is the equally boring earthworm.

It may be to like Mr. Darwin who is persistent, or it may be to make you who like to fish no longer treat earthworms as bait of small fish. A Italian writer named Noomi Walla wrote a book like this. The title of the book is "Poor Earthworm Life: A very interesting history of earthworms".

How interesting? Once the book was launched, a number of international awards, including the Bosonia Best Children's Book Award, the Special Nomination Award and the Chen Bowbiao International Children's Literature Award Annual Picture Book Award, were evaluated as "full of humor and wisdom".

Noomi Walla also carried out a long -term scientific observation of earthworms. The conclusion was the same as Darwin. It was a little different. She was not only stunned by earthworms, but she was obsessed with them. Essence

But it's not because she discovered what kind of extraordinary wisdom has earthworms, but it--

Earthworms are not only wisdom, but they are just like people.

why? Please see Noomi's research conclusion:

First of all, the earth can be seen everywhere on the earth. There are more than 7,000 kinds of together, and they have many outstanding stars in their own world.

They are common, compared with the outstanding organization and division of labor and ants, the earthworms seem nothing, because they can only dig holes.

Earthworms use most of their time on digging, but they don't know what it is for, so they live on "eating soil" every day.

Earthworms' life is flat, and it is a small bug, and it is still a small bug when he dies. In their lives, I did not experience the feeling of becoming a butterfly.

Earthworms do not have the tip of the enemy, and do not have any self -protection equipment.

Although they don't like group residence, they also have their own good friends. Earthworms and its tails live on the ground most of the time. When it encounters rainy days, it will come to the ground. This can avoid being drowned by rain in the ground because the earthworms are breathing by the skin.

Earthworms and tail shadows are inseparable and help each other. Of course, they also have no opinion.

When earthworms encounter adversity, setbacks or blows, it will be painful, sad, confused, or even doubting themselves. For example, on a rainy day, the earthworms who had to come to the ground to avoid the rain were chopped by lightning, causing it to lose its tail.

At this time, earthworms will be sad and start to question yourself.

Even deny yourself.

But in the end, it can still get out of the haze strongly!

Earthworms decide to change yourself. It becomes a candle to illuminate this bad night.

Break through yourself and shouted bravely in front of everyone!

Affirmation of self, persistence of self, and finally recovering yourself.

It decides to return to yourself, reconcile with yourself, and accept your imperfections.

Earthworms do not know what they want, but the only thing it is determined is that it likes to dig holes -this is a dream that it is not worth mentioning.

From this book, we seem to see that earthworms not only have similar wisdom as humans, but they also perceive ordinary lives like us.

Maybe someone will be amazed:

Isn't this the life we ​​are going now?

The earthworms in Noomi's pen are like us.

Faced with an uncertain future, we cannot predict what will happen on the next road, but we still don't hesitate to step forward.

Lu Yao wrote in "Ordinary World": "In fact, each of us's life is a world, even the most ordinary people want to fight for the world he lives."

The path of life is exactly the same. But anyway, although we don't know where the future is and where we are, but the only thing we can determine is what we love to do, what we like to do is our dream, although this dream may not be worth mentioning.

Be brave to yourself in adversity.

Thanks to Normy for bringing us:

Ordinary, warm, courage, hope and dream.

"Poor Earthworm Life: A very interesting history of earthworms"

Noomi Walla painted

About the author: Noomi Walla, born in 1993, Italian writer and illustrator. Her work "The Life of Poor Worm Earthworms" won the 2021 Chen Bowbiao International Children's Literature Award Annual Picture Book Award and 2022 Bologna International Children's Book Fair Cross -Media Award Special Nomination Award. "A bear that can't be dropped" won the Book Festival Award in Italy in 2018. In 2019, the book was selected as the "100 Most Outstanding Global Pixels" selected by the Frankfurt Book Fair by DPICTUS. In 2017, "Terminator" won the Cerpa International Picture Book Award. In 2019 and 2022, she was selected as "Illustration Show" in the Bologna International Children's Book Fair.

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