Dr Stone The Mind Summary

From the depths of an atom to the far reaches of space mankind continues to evolve and expand their intelligence. What is intelligence? It is one’s ability to obtain, comprehend, and apply knowledge. Humans commit their entire lives trying to gain or improve their intelligence. This is because intelligence has become a requirement for almost everything in society. Popular culture has embraced intelligence into a necessary skill for happiness and prosperity in today’s world. However, the threat of intelligence is never considered when generations emphasize the importance of being intelligent person. With intelligence comes responsibility; however humans sometimes lack rationality to consider the negative effects of their intellectual creations.
Stone emphasizes the uselessness of the brain itself, and how the primary objective of the mind was to outwit others. Stone understood human intelligence was in itself similar to a virus or parasite which would kill its host, humans, and move on. In the poem “The Mind” the speaker similar in perspective to Dr.Stone also questions human intelligences and it usefulness which correlates with the poem in the lines “With an infinite mind with no laws .We tend to reach above the stars. I should have known we would cause .The elimination of what we are.”(Rajaraman, “The Mind”)There are no restrictions to human intelligence there are no limits to what it can accomplish. Although this may seem like a magnificent idea, the dangerous are unimaginable. The capabilities of the human mind may seem limitless, but nature always has a limiting factor in the case of the novel and poem it meant the extinction of the mankind. Even though the extinction was prevented in the novel it was only because a natural genetic mutation of the virus which became harmless to humans in the
From grade school to universities the most intelligent people are the most respected. Intelligence is taught as a skill that everyone must obtain to survive in today’s society. Intelligence also contains its flaws and errors. Humans because of our humane qualities can very irrational. Irrationality is a major flaw of intelligence; humans want to always maximize everything to its highest potential, but doing so has major consequences. Our creativity and curiosity allows humans to create magnificent and amazing inventions, but the flaw of irrationality negates such creation because they lack control. The possibility of an accident is increased when there is no control. The Andromeda Strain in which scientists struggle to use their intelligence find a cure for a virus. The novel represents all the flaws and errors of human intelligence in context to the plot. Errors of human intelligence are also explicitly explained in poem “The Mind” in which humans causes their own destruction in pursuit of power. Humans cause a threat to the destruction of mankind and life as they knew it. The mind has the potential for amazing creation, but also so complete obliteration of