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To compete in the automobile market, Tesla must make many strategic decisions such as whether to introduce a new car model, how to sell and service its cars, and where to advertise. At Tesla's Fremont, California plant, managers must decide on the monthly production quantities of their S and X model...

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Sierra 1 Diego Sierra ENGL 1301 Composition and Rhetoric I Professor Elizabeth Bennet October 9, 2021 Why do we question our life? “What is that?” the litle boy asked his mother… As humans, we question everything that happens around us. We have been endowed with this rational intelligence that allows us to question everything we can. This questioning of everything is not something new, proof of it can be religions.(rephrase sentence to: This consistent questioning is nothing new and its proof can be found within religion. Religions have existed since the beginning of our race and have always served as an answer of things we can’t explain. Examples of this can be seen all around the world in ancient civilizations. On early Hinduism, which is the oldest religion in the world (History Editors), when people did not understand how rain happened, they created Indra who acts as the god that brings rain to the people (Doniger). Analogous questions are now easily understood by most of us, but one that has not been answered yet is “why are we here?”. Despite all the technological advancements we have made, we still ask ourselves the most basic existential interrogations. Many believe that we simply do it because we are curious creatures, we ask questions about everything until we reach ourselves. “What is my purpose?”, “Why do we exist?” are examples of questions we have all asked. We can answer them ourselves, by seeking faith from a religion or giving our life a meaning.

Sierra 2 Humans strive to believe our life is meaningful, making us grasp to the idea that we are much more than conscious meat sacks. We want to feel important by leaving a legacy behind that transcends our lifetime, therefore (thus) giving us the opportunity to feel immortal. For humans, it really is important to feel meaningful. The terror management theory –(add comma instead of dash) a dual defense model that explains how people protect themselves against concerns about death (Cash 756) put citation at the end of the sentence –add comma instead of dash explains how we are motivated to live, but since we are intelligent enough to realize that death is inevitable, we need to manage this “terror” in some way. The ways people deal with this terror vary, but studies have found that when people are exposed to their mortality, they feel the need to do things that give their life meaning, and provide a way to transcend from it, such as having children, or increased religious belief (Greenberg and Kosloff). Another theory that gives our life a meaning is biocentrism. Biocentrism proposes a unifying “theory of everything” and approaches life from a cosmological standpoint, where consciousness creates reality and life is not an end-product but a force that is key to understanding the universe (Cabrol). In other words, we are not just a part of reality, instead, we are the reality itself. Just as the first principle of biocentrism states, what we perceive as reality is a process that involves our consciousness (Lanza 23), you are reading this essay, you will later scroll through social media and all the time you are processing everything that you are seeing, you are that process. The double-slit experiment allows us to see how the simple act of monitoring something changes the way reality behaves: In the experiment, single particles pass one at a time through a screen containing two slits. If either path is monitored, a photon seemingly passes through one slit or the other, and no interference will be seen. Conversely, if

Sierra 3 neither is checked, a photon will appear to have passed through both slits simultaneously before interfering with itself, acting like a wave (Wogan). This theory positions us as members of a universal symbiosis and changes the questions to “how can I connect to the universe?”, or “How can I exchange information with the universe?”. But again, even with the reposition the theory has made, from being a mere observer to being one with reality, we ask even remove even more and more questions. Any theory can be created or modified and humans would still ask similar existential questions about themselves. Therefore, Thus proving that the questioning everything is in our nature. When we ask questions we consider, remove comma when we consider we understand. Our existence seems to revolve around asking questions and seeking answers. The greatest inventions, all of what we currently know about the universe, every piece of knowledge we have gained once started with a simple question. But even questioning can vary, it can be superficial or deep, going from “what’s or dinner?” to “what’s the meaning of my life?”. And all of this comes because the mere process of being able to question causes many questions about our ourselves and how we can understand the world around us. But the problem of being able to question is that people assume all their interrogations have an answer. Some questions may not be answered because there isn’t enough information yet, and others because we cannot get that information. Looking for answers is not always the point of asking questions, because even when you find answers often more questions spark. Despite the simplicity the questions can have, they are always meant to transfer information in one way or another. Questions give us the opportunity to truly be humans, to embrace our nature and be that kid who always asks “why?” despite our age. They sometimes give us

Sierra 4 answers, but they always give us more than that in many ways, whether they inspire you or simply give you the opportunity to learn. Questions always give you a bit more than what (remove what) you originally expected. Now I ask you: What do you question?(revise second person question)

Note: interesting essay topic, really like the pulls from religion and physics. You could put in additional research from neuroscience about the questioning processes in the brain but all in all a good read.

Sierra 5 Works Cited: remove colon Doniger, Wendy. "Indra". Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Feb. 2018, htps://www.britannica.com/topic/Indra. Accessed 9 October 2021. History.com Editors. “Hinduism”. History, 6 Oct. 2017, https://www.history.com/topics/religion/hinduism. Accessed 9 October 2021.

Encyclopedia of Body Image and Human Appearance, edited by Thomas Cash, vol. 2, Academic Press, Apr. 11 2012, pp. 756. Doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-384925-0.00122-X Greenberg, Jeff, and Kosloff, Spee, Terror Management Theory: Implications for Understanding Prejudice, Stereotyping, Intergroup Conflict, and Political Attitudes, Social and Personality Psychology Compass, vol. 2, no. 5, Sept. 20 2008, pp. 1881-1894, Web Online Library, doi: 10.1111/j.1751-9004.2008.00144.x Cabrol, Nathalie. The Quantum of Life, Scientific American, Sept. 5 2019, htps://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/the-quantum-of-life/. Accessed 9 October 2021. Lanza, Robert, Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe. BenBella Books, 2009 Wogan, Tim. Do atoms going through a double slit ‘know’ if they are being observed? Physics World, May 26 2015, htps://physicsworld.com/a/do-atoms-going-through-a-double-slit-knowif-they-are-being-observed/....