(no subject)
Human brain does not mete reward unto itself on the basis of any grounds in reality the meanings that it constructs for itself might hold. Instead, it appears to be so that the human brain will be satisfied with merely going through the motions of meaning. This creates a superficial shell of meaning to which culture can adhere and grow. This shell-structuring mechanism is at the core of the social human animal's operative code.
The world's vast and unsymmetrical variety of cultures, beliefs, and societies easily fit into the model offered by this description. The only things constant between these cultures and peoples are the cultural artifacts that represent the consistency of human neural hardware, such as a godlike figure to take the place of a pack alpha, especially when man is at the top of the foodchain and no physical manifestation of this alpha reflex can be found. It is my own opined prediction that given a completely dominating (aka, godlike) animal, such as the hypothetical King Kong, the animal would act as a god.
As humanity progresses towards a dysteleological end at the prow of the current technological revolution, will the animal human brain adapt to this destruction of purpose? Will it be forcefully, physically changed by man itself, too impatient to wait for natural mutations to relieve it of the alpha reflex, and other sapient idiosyncracies? What kinds of frontiers can be smelted from man's knowledge of itself?
Where will our thoughts go with new neural hardware? And liberated from their animal intent, to what end will they expedite? What fancies await a non-animal human?
The world's vast and unsymmetrical variety of cultures, beliefs, and societies easily fit into the model offered by this description. The only things constant between these cultures and peoples are the cultural artifacts that represent the consistency of human neural hardware, such as a godlike figure to take the place of a pack alpha, especially when man is at the top of the foodchain and no physical manifestation of this alpha reflex can be found. It is my own opined prediction that given a completely dominating (aka, godlike) animal, such as the hypothetical King Kong, the animal would act as a god.
As humanity progresses towards a dysteleological end at the prow of the current technological revolution, will the animal human brain adapt to this destruction of purpose? Will it be forcefully, physically changed by man itself, too impatient to wait for natural mutations to relieve it of the alpha reflex, and other sapient idiosyncracies? What kinds of frontiers can be smelted from man's knowledge of itself?
Where will our thoughts go with new neural hardware? And liberated from their animal intent, to what end will they expedite? What fancies await a non-animal human?