Awareness

Knowing what's right from wrong, is that what we call awareness? Having cognitive thinking, is that awareness? Humans are supposed to be aware because we actually need this awareness to survive. This week, in sociology class, we were talking about children who've been neglected by their parents, and ended off being feral children. From what I've learn from this week is that, humans are very vurnerable their first years in life because that's when we develop our brains . It's the stage of nurturing, and learning how to function in our socially constructed society. Having no human interaction in that time period will cause children to stay an infant no matter what age they may be. Although there are given circumstances where in children have been exposed to the wild like this child that we watched who were raised by dogs, so she acts and even pants like a dog because that's what she saw, and the only interaction she had with any living thing. This unit really reminds me of my favorite childhood movie Tarzan. The movie is about a boy who was raised by gorillas, and was fortunate enough to have survive to his adult years in the care of Apes. Soon enough, humans came to the island, and he learned how to speak and understand the Human language knowing that he's one of them, and not of his gorilla family. An awesome movie, but would that be possible in real life to comprehend human language when one is raised like a monkey?