RE: Atheism and Hope
November 15, 2015 at 7:47 am
(This post was last modified: November 15, 2015 at 7:58 am by Whateverist.)
My dear prmptuscerus,
You might find this amusing. For myself it colors how I conceptualize myself. I see you as identifying only with the 'left brain' as it is defined in this video.
Since you yourself bring up evolution, what if it turns out that the situation is as described here? Then, like most animals at all like ourselves, our consciousness is bifold in order to allow us to exercise peripheral vigilance even while attending narrowly to specific tasks consciously. I think we may be an extreme evolutionary experiment. In us -evolutionarily speaking- the delay between perception and instinctive reaction has been maximized to the point where we can be entirely unaware that there is anything more to us than our own ruminations. There is my personal subjectivity surrounding my deliberations - and nothing else. But that isn't actually true. It is only the extreme separation of consciousness which we embody which makes it seem so.
If this is at all true then it seems important to question what role your conscious deliberations should serve. Why is existentialism even on the table? The only redemption for the alienated conscious mind is to serve the organism from which it was split. Rather than seek your own satisfaction, seek instead the fulfillment of your total organism including the part with which you do not currently identify. The purpose in your creation was never to rule but rather to serve. Accept the demotion and you may yet find true meaning.
https://youtu.be/dFs9WO2B8uI
You can see how religion would facilitate wholeness, make it easier perhaps. But once you understand the issues, there shouldn't be any need for literal belief in anything supernatural. The complexity of the human mind is plenty mysterious, especially when you realize you do not consciously speak for the whole thing.
You might find this amusing. For myself it colors how I conceptualize myself. I see you as identifying only with the 'left brain' as it is defined in this video.
Since you yourself bring up evolution, what if it turns out that the situation is as described here? Then, like most animals at all like ourselves, our consciousness is bifold in order to allow us to exercise peripheral vigilance even while attending narrowly to specific tasks consciously. I think we may be an extreme evolutionary experiment. In us -evolutionarily speaking- the delay between perception and instinctive reaction has been maximized to the point where we can be entirely unaware that there is anything more to us than our own ruminations. There is my personal subjectivity surrounding my deliberations - and nothing else. But that isn't actually true. It is only the extreme separation of consciousness which we embody which makes it seem so.
If this is at all true then it seems important to question what role your conscious deliberations should serve. Why is existentialism even on the table? The only redemption for the alienated conscious mind is to serve the organism from which it was split. Rather than seek your own satisfaction, seek instead the fulfillment of your total organism including the part with which you do not currently identify. The purpose in your creation was never to rule but rather to serve. Accept the demotion and you may yet find true meaning.
https://youtu.be/dFs9WO2B8uI
You can see how religion would facilitate wholeness, make it easier perhaps. But once you understand the issues, there shouldn't be any need for literal belief in anything supernatural. The complexity of the human mind is plenty mysterious, especially when you realize you do not consciously speak for the whole thing.
