This stuff is so interesting, admittedly I am pretty heavily influenced by Nietzsche here, well a balance between what thoughts he has had on what really is going on with the function of life, blah blah blah - also I think at lot what I will say is pretty intuitive and apparent. So yeah, heres a high train of thought that spontaneously emerged after smoking a bowl of 2 last night
You might notice some ADD and how my thoughts jump all around, hopefully I made some sense
The animal developed its highest mental complexity because of integration with other entities that were similar or that it could form an alliance with. Just how speciation developed early on is hard to really make sense of. But moving forward in the timeline of life emerging from the primordial stew I think it is interesting to examine how the higher intellects were formed and I think the obvious social interactions with amiable entities (namely of the same sort, same DNA) were what caused higher intellects to materialize. Surely we see ourselves much, much, better because of our social interactions giving us more perspective. Communication as a way to know oneself to a point and to appeal to your friends in certain ways.
The sensory systems felt out these interactions of camaraderie or whatever and used them to create networks of thought, neural patterns if you will, of understanding oneself via the trial and error of interaction – with the other. And perhaps even earlier on in the self absorbed body carried baggage of behavior that always were life sustaining, namely it had behaviors of feeding on the other, any other for its own selfish existence. As this neural system was forged (outside forces became more inward and more of a singular possession for the intellect) as the more successful races did what nature does, and that is feed, feed on other life.
But I wonder how much the brain and its makeup is a reflection incarnate that mirrors the forces beyond in a complex and individuated way, at bottom. It seems like the intellect is a microcosm of being at large - as it pertains to survivial. Think about the differences between the will o'wisp of bacterium and the will of the cognitive agent with a treasure chest of electric brain mush to work with. Anyone see what I mean here, its really hard to explain - its pretty much poetic I guess...
So, the best of the best did this and they created mini societies as a unit of hunters. This is a very fundamental aspect that permeates the neural makeup and structure of thought patterns early higher consciousness was featured by – which still is carried on. Then after time we see how languages are introduced as complementing this sense of community with more cohesiveness, as the egos battled the intellect is engineered with a sense of empathy and unity but with the still instinctual will to selfhood preservation. Going back a little bit I think it is key to see how we can always harken these old behaviors of egoness using the senses to decipher datum and react accordingly. On lower social animals like dogs you can present them with stimuli and they will react very regularly. If I poke and bother a dog that is part of my group, that is I live with it, I see how in its ranked and tamed state it recognizes what is going on and will react to my hand in a very characteristic fashion – all of the body presents the intellect in a sense and you can observe and get a feel for it in a sense as you interact. But it will interact with me in what could be called a very rational way, since it is a proper dog it doesn’t bite me like prey, it interacts with me as a comrade. You can switch modes on a lower animal like a dog fairly simply and quite quickly it wills its intellect will switch back to relaxation.
The same thing happens with the human, we just somehow have harnessed the flow of stimulation mainly with our complex representational language – through this our ego can reference and contemplate on itself easier. Thus we see how the human has even more of a director and controlled oriented intellect – one that can sift through brain states with much more ease, is this because we have slowed the reactions of emotion with our words (words, expression, are very much a social feature). Thus the brain state of a human is so easily manipulated; this controller as an intelligent ego can somehow manage to control reactions with its more reflective and rational thought pattern. As we got more and more power we see how our cunning could develop in this way more and more as we had more free time to exercise our intellect in a more playful fashion. Think about how our powers had to be subverted, any social hunter displays this a lot in playfulness, but then we see how that elementary thing was greatly aestheticized by the human. A lot could be said here...
The key remaining is to wonder how the human got that much control over itself, what more could be said? Also as this train of thought takes off in my mind I wonder about how much we can really comprehend of psychology of individuals and collectiveness. Where does sexuality come into play? What sort of forces gave rise to different sexes? Also how do we account for pleasure and delight, is it really as simple as some of science would have us believe? Should we try to think out of the box at some point? How much did the individual will play into pleasure, could we say that the Darwinian explanation only goes so far, well at least it seems in the moment that moves by isn’t there a sliver of freewill for the ego, namely the more liberated human? What can be a good comprehensive account of the behavior of the animated life form? What do the terms passion and freedom of the will really mean? To behave in ways that aren’t so reasonable but just on some whim? Does greater nature always predicate this or is there a degree of freedom for the individual riding on the moment that stems from its ignorance and trial and error behaviors? Perhaps this dice throw was more whimsical in the earliest of life forms on earth. What about the eternal yes saying to existence, it seems that is a force beyond the individual, well at least beyond its ability to really grasp that compels it. Is the so called will to power to be regarded as the ultimate cause, which can account for some of the more “irrational” behaviors of some animals?
I really think the idea of the will to power is very interesting, this sort of idea is almost a transcendent metaphysic - in some ways. Saying that my imagination likes to connect the dot that perhaps being on a whole, substance itself yearned to animate itself and interact with itself in the 1-2 division that is the individual lifeform that swims in the realm of extension - but at what point is this all a jest, all a game? Where did the ego come from and where does it go when we see it "temporally" ????
Soooooo much more can be said and developed, definitely a work in progress for my mixed up brain, this stuff is fun to think about because it really gets my mind moving a million miles per hour - ultimate thoughts aren't meaningless! Insofar as they are entertaining and mindblowing, imo...
Good day folks
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