Feb 03, 2010 13:56
You can't stop these things or even know when they are coming. Its like a seizure, one moment your normal then you start to feel kind of funny and then, before you realize its happened, its happened. I'm talking about thought and writing. I think its more of just thought and I link it to writing for me since that is my medium of choice when it comes to expression.
This morning in Literature to Film we were talking about logic and how one can only learn logic if they believe that logic is its own thing separate from the human mind. I of course believe in logic and believe in humans capability to think logically. Its existence i'm convinced of. if you want to see it as i do and want to ponder if logic is real then wonder why we are here. I have a theory to why humans are here, why we are the way we are and were created. We are here to perceive and understand the world around us. now i am not th first to think of this so please do not label it as my original thought. that said, yes i believe that we evolved to a intelligent species because nature was attempting to understand itself. we are nature, we are its mind. nature created us to be in more control. we are the controllers. now if you think that it is possible we were created to understand the world, than the belief in logic is unquestionable. Logic is our purpose, we are a species evolved to have logic. Therefore logic must exist, or else we would have never evolved to what we are. I do not think we are the ultimate evolution attempt of a perfect being in our environment. I think we were made to be smart.... so instead of an alien, we are a predator (in relation to the movies). Our bodies are not perfect, we aren't the best predators on our planet, we aren't the thing at the top of the food chain throughout the history of our planet. We don;t have armor skin and 360 sight. We are the perceivers, the intelluctualizers.
so what i begin to wonder is what happens when one begins to complete intellectualize the world. Take a poet for example, they take a normal situation and can turn it into something that means everything, that comment about the world etc etc. but when one begin to intellectualize so much they become to self aware and bad things usually happen to the psyche, things like depression and psychosis. So if we are made to intellectualize why would we become unbalanced when we do so. I believe there are a few explanations which could all be right or all be wrong. First, we could still be evolving. Are brains could not be perfected t completely understand the complex world we live in, the complex relationships we create, the complexity of everything might still be too much information for our brain to sort through. I believe this. Second, we are looking at the wrong thing. We were created to understand the universe, the earth more particularly. Yet we spend all of our times worrying about ourselves. Now I understand why this is necessary yet I think it causes problems. I think nature didn't anticipate what creating an intelligent species might do. what it does is makes a intelligent world, an intelligent society, a curious mind that will not just do what it is made to do. If we were made to comprehend the world around us we cannot just do that because we need to comprehend ourselves. Yet for a thing to actually make the conscious effort to understand itself is a tricky business. We are trying to do something that is beyond us at this point. We think ourselves into the ground, we are thinking about our thinking, it is much too complex yet something we cannt help to do bc we were created to understand.
no, i do not think nature anticipated this. but nature will fix this i am positive, bc we are nature. we are natures mind, its ability to logically think and understand. and we have the capabilities to fix this. to broaden our mind. i know this because we are already trying to do this. watch the science channel, we can do it.
my condolences to my typos.