It's said that if monkeys hack long enough on a typewriter, than they will inexorably end up writing something that makes sense.
Let's see if this is also true for scientists...



Sunday 1 March 2009

Convulsive intelligence II

Is the major part of our mind solely devoted to finding remedies to problems our mind itself causes? By inflating our brain beyond reason, our species also inflated our emotions beyond reason. More than any other organism, we love, we hate, we envy, we miss, we regret, we stress, we fear, we are bored, especially on a Sunday, and oh well, and we want more, much more. Homo drama queeniens. As a result we need law, police, the military to regulate, we need science, medicin and psychology to cure from stress, accidents, wars, polution, and we need entertainment. And if nothing helps and we are still unhappy, then we need religion, we need yoga, to calm our mind, and we need drugs. All sorts of drugs.
No other species needs so much fuzz to live and survive happily in big societies. And we're not even particularly happy! Because the more we get the more we need, that's simply how our sensory organs are conceived; only changes are sensed, and only increase is success, keeping the same level means regression. That's how our senses work, and that's how our happiness, our economy and stock exchange fail to work, at least at the moment. No other animal is as much fooled by it's own emotions as we are; but we still think we're more advanced than everybody else. Ask ants if they want our brain -
Ok, I need some holiday!

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