RE: Processing our mortality
July 7, 2017 at 12:31 pm
(This post was last modified: July 7, 2017 at 12:39 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Personally, I think that life that -doesn't- possess consciousness, or possess relatively diminished consciousness got the cruel end of the evolutionary stick. Ever notice that how poorly something goes between two creatures very often toes the line with which of them has greater mental faculties?
There's a reason fish keep getting stuck on hooks. A reason that the fastest deer keep getting shot.
Perhaps, had they the ability to more thoroughly contemplate their own mortality (I'm pretty sure every sentient creature is familiar with the fear of death) they wouldn't end up being the victim of it with such alarming frequency. In the meanwhile (as in, between now and whenever we all invariably bite that bullet), while our mental faculties do cause us anguish I feel that this feature (not a bug) of the system is vastly outweighed by the amount of joy the same apparatus brings us. The idea of it's loss is, after all, what's causing you grief in this case. If life and death were all doom and gloom we'd find ourselves rushing towards it headlong - but we don't.
There's a reason fish keep getting stuck on hooks. A reason that the fastest deer keep getting shot.
Perhaps, had they the ability to more thoroughly contemplate their own mortality (I'm pretty sure every sentient creature is familiar with the fear of death) they wouldn't end up being the victim of it with such alarming frequency. In the meanwhile (as in, between now and whenever we all invariably bite that bullet), while our mental faculties do cause us anguish I feel that this feature (not a bug) of the system is vastly outweighed by the amount of joy the same apparatus brings us. The idea of it's loss is, after all, what's causing you grief in this case. If life and death were all doom and gloom we'd find ourselves rushing towards it headlong - but we don't.
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