Would it have been better to have had zero conceptual knowledge of reality? Animals seem to thrive pretty well without conceptual knowledge. Animals and non-sentient nature tends to thrive in a state of being unaware or unconscious of what is happening in reality. Nature seemingly is at peace with the mystery of existence, nature itself never demands answers to questions in the way humans do. But then humans are also part of nature, so it does seem as though nature is on a quest here to seek for answers...but why? surely if life and reality is a mystery, then it will always remain a mystery.
Human capacity to think about life has only enlarged wider the huge gaping gap that is this not-knowing mystery of reality. There is a longing to fill this black hole with endless questions, even though all our answers are unavailable. Yet, we still try to unravel the mystery, we never give up the quest for self knowledge.
Personally, I do not believe the mystery of life will ever be knowable. I also believe that 'Religion' was an idea used by humans to assuage the aching longing of never being able to know the origins of their own existence. Or of any other things origin of existence.
Are we animals that just happened to learn to communicate with each other using conceptual language,because nature just happened to endow the human with a bigger brain in comparison to other animals, and is why we were able to spin off a sense of self and otherness, with what we know as our personal conceptual story, forming the idea we are the author of our own sense of identity?
Human capacity to think about life has only enlarged wider the huge gaping gap that is this not-knowing mystery of reality. There is a longing to fill this black hole with endless questions, even though all our answers are unavailable. Yet, we still try to unravel the mystery, we never give up the quest for self knowledge.
Personally, I do not believe the mystery of life will ever be knowable. I also believe that 'Religion' was an idea used by humans to assuage the aching longing of never being able to know the origins of their own existence. Or of any other things origin of existence.
Are we animals that just happened to learn to communicate with each other using conceptual language,because nature just happened to endow the human with a bigger brain in comparison to other animals, and is why we were able to spin off a sense of self and otherness, with what we know as our personal conceptual story, forming the idea we are the author of our own sense of identity?
