That’s the thing about general-purpose intelligence. Once you develop it for a certain set of tasks, you find you can do many other things with it.
Really, human intelligence is amazing. I also call people dumb often but I think the reality is that they are lazy when they can be. And that’s just good old fashioned resource conservation.
Sometimes it’s not lazy, as I see it, it’s just the fear of being wrong. Somewhere, somehow, the processing stops when confronted with just the notion that something one builds their life upon might be wrong. For instance the people that wonder what’s stopping atheists from raping and murdering. Perhaps that’s because they based their notion of good and evil on some supposedly unbreakable laws (lest you suffer eternal torment) versus just pondering about why those laws were set to begin with.
So I suppose it can track back to lazyness, after all. Nevermind, then.
Resource conservation be damned. My grandma used to say don’t mess with an idiot, 'cause his mind is fully rested.
LOL that’s a funny one, gran! Yes once you realize that thinking is actually resource intensive hard work, it makes more sense. People will avoid hard thinking even more than hard physical labor. And having to rethink your whole life… that’s serious work!
And paradoxically, the more you can admit that, the more free you are.
But yeah, 99.99% of our species is ignorant. And the .01% of us who aren’t realized holding onto impermanent stuff (and it’s all impermanent stuff) is the exact irrational behavior keeping us in chains. So they’re not the ones in power anyway.
Jumping into a volcano might do it. I know the scientologists have something to do with valcanos. Maybe they’re on to something. I think they thought their God alien thing came from a volcano though, so…
Too many assume humans are rational creatures, with free will.
We are not.
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That’s the thing about general-purpose intelligence. Once you develop it for a certain set of tasks, you find you can do many other things with it.
Really, human intelligence is amazing. I also call people dumb often but I think the reality is that they are lazy when they can be. And that’s just good old fashioned resource conservation.
Sometimes it’s not lazy, as I see it, it’s just the fear of being wrong. Somewhere, somehow, the processing stops when confronted with just the notion that something one builds their life upon might be wrong. For instance the people that wonder what’s stopping atheists from raping and murdering. Perhaps that’s because they based their notion of good and evil on some supposedly unbreakable laws (lest you suffer eternal torment) versus just pondering about why those laws were set to begin with.
So I suppose it can track back to lazyness, after all. Nevermind, then.
Resource conservation be damned. My grandma used to say don’t mess with an idiot, 'cause his mind is fully rested.
LOL that’s a funny one, gran! Yes once you realize that thinking is actually resource intensive hard work, it makes more sense. People will avoid hard thinking even more than hard physical labor. And having to rethink your whole life… that’s serious work!
That MF who big brained himself 100k years ago doomed us all
And paradoxically, the more you can admit that, the more free you are.
But yeah, 99.99% of our species is ignorant. And the .01% of us who aren’t realized holding onto impermanent stuff (and it’s all impermanent stuff) is the exact irrational behavior keeping us in chains. So they’re not the ones in power anyway.
How do I become a cloud?
Jumping into a volcano might do it. I know the scientologists have something to do with valcanos. Maybe they’re on to something. I think they thought their God alien thing came from a volcano though, so…
You were a cloud before and will be a cloud again.
Perhaps when you were a cloud before you asked yourself, how do I become a human? :)
I dunno, the other night I dreamed I was a butterfly and that was pretty bitchin.