Genuine Inspiration.
posted by Connor | September 19, 2010
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IcerocketSo I've thought of a question. I'm not looking for someone to answer it necessarily, unless you have the answer of course ha. So anyway there is a part of our brain, I wanna say it's the neocortex but that could be a crazy thing on it's own, which makes us slightly different from the animals of the earth. I'm not saying we are created by a God and we are different from the environment we live in. That's one of the biggest things religion does to the mind. It makes you believe you are different from the earth instead of a part of it. So anyway this part of the brain, gives us the ability to create, to imagine genuine inspiration! Like just by day dreaming or thinking of how an event can play out just by thinking the way u do every day, your using a phenomena known as genuine Inspiration. Animals don't have this. So my question is, say if evolution is how we think it is. People are being born without wisdom teeth and appendixes more and more frequently now. Then what would trigger us to develop this phenomena. They say animals are more memory based, but we can somehow imagine and create. Like literally create thought! What is thought? So if our brains were less developed, then how could we comprehend the consciousness to evolve our consciousness or what factor triggered us to adapt? I mean you could say we just evolved. But my main question of this topic is why? I suck at putting my ideas into words but i hope I conveyed this well enough to trigger some thoughts :]
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Why? I think you answered
— Sep 20, 2010
Why? I think you answered your own question. I feel that genuine inspiration leaves the "why" open for answering, if you know what I mean.
Yeah true I didn't think of
— Sep 20, 2010
Yeah true I didn't think of it that way ha! And E. Sam what I meant is that religion sort of makes us think we are different when we are really a part of a living organism. =P
Rite. lol That's also what I
— Sep 20, 2010
Rite. lol That's also what I was referring to. We are a part of a living organism in a sense, not an alien being sent here to kill the planet.
Hey man I have often had
— Sep 20, 2010
Hey man I have often had similar contemplations that keep me up at night, the truth is is that we, as human beings, living in a default world that has been far long corruptive and blinded by materialism, simply cannot fathom such an answer, it is like trying to answer "who" or "what" created the earth, the stars, and the universe around us, or what there was before any of this was here, our mis-enveloped and ego driven minds aren't capable of such thought, just as easily as you could say when man was first in existence that they could automatically fathom the earth or the stats for what they were, in fact it took hundreds of years into society, and still in some case hasn't fully adapted, to take to respect the idea that the earth is only a planet, the sun only a star, the Milky Way only a galaxy among a perhaps infinite number of others in an infinite universe. As for the location of the consciousness itself, it is still unknown. To many it lies in the "heart", mostly to a metaphorical representation as "the heart as is to the emotion, and emotion to consciousness", but even to the ancient Egyptians they accepted the physical heart as the center of the "being", the center of all thought, and would preserve it for the dead to take with them to the afterlife, and discard of the brain. Now that we know the brain is actually the organ that is housed in between our skull and our head, and that the heart is only what pumps everything with blood, keeps it all alive,it's commonly accepted that perhaps the brain is the center of the conscience. If you have the time, do some research on the "pineal gland" on wikipedia, it is quite interesting. The pineal gland is located in the absolute center of the brain, and is responsible for a number of things, and perhaps also, the human consciousness itself. But consciousness, my friend, is only experienced life, individual experience. Consciousness shapes experience, as well as the Universe.
Feel free to ask any questions you might have and i will do my best to provide you with an easily understood answer, i hope this helped you out a bit, stay true brother
-A.
Yeah I think in a sense we
— Sep 20, 2010
Yeah I think in a sense we always think of us evolving from cavemen and we are still pursuing knowledgeby creating technology etc. but I think that whether evolution or a God created us, once we reached our state we are in now, we were able to understand the universe but are slowly downgrading our minds.
The neocortex developed in
— Sep 22, 2010
The neocortex developed in early mammals who had superior smell capabilities, if you look at how our higher brain functions work they are actually modeled off the characteristics of the olfactory system and its organization.
Read the book, "Big Brain" I forget authors its been a while but it traces the development of the evolution of the brain across many species of hominid and also makes some predictions for whats to come.
