The main difference, as noted by a great philosopher who is not me, between animals and human beings is that human beings can think about the process of thinking. And then think further more about the thinking process of thinking and all Inception-esque rhetoric that follows thereafter. So you can picture a scene where you are thinking about something. An animal or an insect or even a dolphin, can't do that. Isn't that a mind blowing fact? Most other things that we do, a chimpanzee can imitate - maybe not as soulfully as we do, but they can get the job done - clumsily. They can be trained to speak, beat drums, eat with using expensive china and maybe, even a little bit of cooking (how hard is it to throw a couple of curry leaves in heating oil?). I wouldn't be surprised if they find a chimp that can read. Why not?
Many people aren't keen in trying to train their brain to do something. I am not myself least bit interested to learn advanced calculus or modern history. I would rather watch hours and hours of telly and TV shows on Netflix. Read comics. I am such a data consumer that you would think I know a lot about a lot of things. But I rarely remember an episode 24hrs after I watched it. I just keep processing this data as I consume it, but never really do anything with it. The result is that when you look back on your week, all you have is 40hrs at work and the rest is a blur. Like traveling, cooking, sitting with your laptop and texting your friends. The occasional microblogging and reddit-ing. As if I am Ashton Kutcher of Twitter and Trent Reznor doing an AMA on Reddit. Not to forget, hours and hours of browsing through Facebook feeds. Analyzing the current treding topics by reading feeds from friends and family and trying to comment on that. Such a waste!
The more you engage your brain in an activity, the more it tends to develop itself on those lines. The brain is needlesss to say, a very important organ. Which is why it is protected by your skull. Human beings developed hard skulls because they're so dumb that keep fatally hurting their head all the time. So the human body, much more intelligent than the human brain, evolved in such a way that it has hard skulls to protect it's dumb brain. A chimp's skull isn't so hard. Not that I am suggesting chimps are humans (Although we have the same ancestors). But a chimp doesn't hurt its brain in ways a human does.
This pink thing inside your skull, that is as squishy as animal fat, is responsible for soooo many things. It builds magnanimous structures, nano objects, it has the ability to discover the birth of the universe whilst sitting on a hill with just a telescope and so many other things. Why then, would we use it to kill each other? This is simple. Because we haven't fully evolved from being an animal. There is an animal hidden inside us all. Greed is a very animal thing. Sometimes, even animals don't show as much greed as humans do. There is a quote from "The Rum Diary" in which the protagonist says, "Human beings are the only creatures that believe in a God but they're also the only creatures that act like they don't have one". It's true. We break each and every rule in the book that we have for ourselves. Multiple times.
It is very important that the brain is kept to use. Otherwise, it's as good as an deer's mind. Or an elephant's. People suffer from nerve disorders that can cripple the brain. Some drugs that junkies use are equivalent of taking ice cream scoops out of your brain. It is said that there are 10 billion nerve cells in a man's brain, yet, we hardly use 5% of it on an average. Einstein himself, hadn't used more than 8% or something like that. It goes without saying that it should be used for the good. I mean good for the whole universe. Not just good for you. That'd be greedy. Think about it.Mull on it while waiting to get home in rush hour traffic. Embrace good thoughts. Live a good life. Leave a legacy behind you. Rock your socks off!
Many people aren't keen in trying to train their brain to do something. I am not myself least bit interested to learn advanced calculus or modern history. I would rather watch hours and hours of telly and TV shows on Netflix. Read comics. I am such a data consumer that you would think I know a lot about a lot of things. But I rarely remember an episode 24hrs after I watched it. I just keep processing this data as I consume it, but never really do anything with it. The result is that when you look back on your week, all you have is 40hrs at work and the rest is a blur. Like traveling, cooking, sitting with your laptop and texting your friends. The occasional microblogging and reddit-ing. As if I am Ashton Kutcher of Twitter and Trent Reznor doing an AMA on Reddit. Not to forget, hours and hours of browsing through Facebook feeds. Analyzing the current treding topics by reading feeds from friends and family and trying to comment on that. Such a waste!
The more you engage your brain in an activity, the more it tends to develop itself on those lines. The brain is needlesss to say, a very important organ. Which is why it is protected by your skull. Human beings developed hard skulls because they're so dumb that keep fatally hurting their head all the time. So the human body, much more intelligent than the human brain, evolved in such a way that it has hard skulls to protect it's dumb brain. A chimp's skull isn't so hard. Not that I am suggesting chimps are humans (Although we have the same ancestors). But a chimp doesn't hurt its brain in ways a human does.
This pink thing inside your skull, that is as squishy as animal fat, is responsible for soooo many things. It builds magnanimous structures, nano objects, it has the ability to discover the birth of the universe whilst sitting on a hill with just a telescope and so many other things. Why then, would we use it to kill each other? This is simple. Because we haven't fully evolved from being an animal. There is an animal hidden inside us all. Greed is a very animal thing. Sometimes, even animals don't show as much greed as humans do. There is a quote from "The Rum Diary" in which the protagonist says, "Human beings are the only creatures that believe in a God but they're also the only creatures that act like they don't have one". It's true. We break each and every rule in the book that we have for ourselves. Multiple times.
It is very important that the brain is kept to use. Otherwise, it's as good as an deer's mind. Or an elephant's. People suffer from nerve disorders that can cripple the brain. Some drugs that junkies use are equivalent of taking ice cream scoops out of your brain. It is said that there are 10 billion nerve cells in a man's brain, yet, we hardly use 5% of it on an average. Einstein himself, hadn't used more than 8% or something like that. It goes without saying that it should be used for the good. I mean good for the whole universe. Not just good for you. That'd be greedy. Think about it.Mull on it while waiting to get home in rush hour traffic. Embrace good thoughts. Live a good life. Leave a legacy behind you. Rock your socks off!
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