evolving from a dark recess

i have been under depression for the past week. But now i am coming over the hill. it's a strange one. I can't recall the last time i was under such a dark cloud. After my travels i came back with a kind of attitude and will that i haven't had for years. The kind of vision that may come every few years if one is open to them. You can call them an epiphany if you like. Whatever it was, it was a gift. And then i nose dived sharply.

We can live under the strains of survival whether it would be something that happens to us or something we have gotten into. If we can, we can transcend, we can live through them through our choices, through the decisions we make. In this modern age we are constantly asking what we want or ourselves, what we want for others, who we are and where our meaning lies. Questions beckon more but what we need to know is ourselves and the desire to do better. With the haemorronging information of media and modern society, it is difficult to find peace and our own voices in the spectrum of life.

What are you, about?

We are not our blogs or our MySpace. They are only a fraction of us, if that. The human brain is only 11% active. It is out of my conception what would we be as the other percentages make themselves available. Telekinesis may be 13%. But i wouldn't know. But when you think about it it's really not that difficult. Everything is made up of atoms, including our brains. If we can tell our hands to type, why cannot we move other things that are around us. We are only separated my more atoms after all. Telepathy is another 'mystery'. Higher brain functions lay dormant. Plastic surgery may be a medival practice once we can shape shift by thought alone. Though i have doubts if we will ever get there.

And no i haven't been sniffing glue. I am just having random thoughts on the evolution of man. Now i must quote someone who probably does have slightly higher brain fuctions than i do, or at least, has the ability to organize the information better...


Priorities and Prospects.

A few years ago, one of the greatest figures of contemporary biology, Ernst Mayr, published some reflections on the liklihood of success in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. He considered the prospects very low. His reasoning had to do with the adaptive value of what we call "higher intelligence", meaning the particular human form of intellectual organization. Mayr estimated the number of species since the origin of life at about fifty billion, only one of which "achieved the kind of intelligence needed to establish a civilization". It did so very recently, perhaps about 100,000 years ago. It is generally assumed that only one small breeding group survived, of which we are all ascendents.
Mayr speculated that the human form of intellectual organization may not be favoured by selection. The history of life on Earth, he wrote, refutes the claim that "it is better to be smart than to be stupid," at least judging by biological success: beetles and bacteria, for example, are vastly more successful than humans in terms of survival. He also made the rather sombre observation that "the average life expectantcy of a species is about 100,000 years".
We are entering a period of human history that may provide the answer to the question of whether it is better to be smart than stupid. The most hopeful prospect is that the question will not be answered: if it recieves a definate answer, that answer can only be that humans were a kind of "biological error," using their allotted time of 100,000 years to destroy themselves and. in the process, much else.
The species has surely developed the capacity to do just that, and a hypothetical extraterrestrial observer might well conclude that humans have demonstrated that the capacity throughout their history, dramatically in the past few hundred years, with an assault on the environment that sustains life, on the diversity of more complex organisms, and with cold and calculated savagery, on each other as well.

Hegemony or Survival.
Noam Chomsky, 2003.


Noam Chomsky also wrote that humans are not like other species on this planet. Humans are more like a virus. Every other species on the planet finds a way to co inhabit an environment. Humans throughout history have instead taken as mush space they can aquire, raped the resourses around them and colonized alien bodies.

I'm pretty sure Noam doesn't sniff glue either.

He is not talking about some species from another time or planet, he is talking about us. And i am sure we can do better.

- J