We are living in a hectic and competitive age where humans can turn against each other just to keep up with the pace of the unstoppable phenomena of evolution. Evolution, not as in Charles Darwin’s theory (An ant evolved to and elephant and a rat evolved to a cat…duh…give me a break).Evolution of our thoughts and social behavior which does not come just through coincidence or genetic variations. As a result of our own creative imagination and visionary forecast of the future, our life keeps moving rapidly in all the areas of development, technology and even beyond our own imagination. Evolution of this super human era makes each and everyone one of us so much part of this system that it’s hard to even break apart from it. For a faint eye, the system seems so flawless. Evolution, biologically has its own flaws, so does this system. Everything that evolves, randomly copies errors in genetic material in existing genes that becomes a mutation. The modern evolution era mutations differ from biological genetic mutations. Our behavior and thoughts drift along on a thin line drawn by the mutated minds of our own past. It’s not a genetic drift or a gene flow from one species to another but a mixed up concepts we blindly had followed through out our life. Isaac Newton’s concept of time is part of the fundamental structure of the universe, a dimension in which events occur in sequence, and time itself is something that can be measured. Ralph Waldo Emerson considers time as presentness, where past and future are but our present projections (of our memory, hope, etc.). Writers such as J. M. E. McTaggart in his 1908 The Unreality of Time have argued that time is an illusion. Here we have three concepts that conflicts with each other. What someone believes depends on the concept or concepts which he follows. Just imagine how many concepts you have followed intentionally or unintentionally through your life? We are nothing but prisoners of our own minds.
5 comments:
GREAT ARTICLE!! ;-)
never surprised by what that overthinking mind can spill!
heavy duty stuff, provocative
Surely prisoners of mind we are! But the imprisonment of the mind isn't limited to social constructs and ideas.
The mind is, way before it is influenced by social concepts, a prisoner of the owner's genetic make up that had sculpted the brain. As such, the Mind is limited (or expanded?) by the very process of Evolution which you've brushed aside so diligently. There are pretty interesting books on the topic of Mind, Steven Pinker's the Blank Slate is definitely worth a read.
Modern neuroscience is throwing out pretty interesting discoveries - which has started to shed some light on fundamental human concepts of not only time but space as well. Messing about the temporal lobe does fascinating things the Mind's perception of reality - an intriguing discovery which further serves to blur the distinctions that humanity has made with regard to the Brain and the Mind as independent "entities" in most of the literature of the past :)
Slaves of Genes, Brain and the Mind indeed!
thanx for the great comments paradox, jaa, shanu. Only trying to bring my slanted imaginary ideas to life. Follow the concept of those concepts created by imaginary concepts. :)
Interesting article...lets be open minded to the endless possibilities :)
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