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Oct 14, 2004 21:19

"Why humans are wired to pay attention to the "reality" of the outside world...

Once there were two australopithicenes sitting on the savanna. The first one said, with a sigh,

"Ah, my friend, all this world is illusion - this baking heat, the lions in the distance, these pangs of hunger and thirst. In truth this is not reality, for reality is unknowable."

His friend said, "Wow, that's really deep. And, if you posit all perception is illusion, there is no way I can use evidence to refute you."

"Indeed," said the first australopithicene, "the only truth is Cogito, ergo sum. I will, therefore, struggle no more across this arid plain but instead I will sit beneath this Bo tree and meditate upon futility."

"Fine," said his friend. "But I'm getting hungry so I'm going to catch some locusts. And can I have your wife as soon as you're dead?"

Of course you know who survived to have offspring..."
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