Why Our Brains Can't Process the Gravest Threats To Humanity

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @08:22AM from the forest-through-the-trees dept.

merbs writes: Our brains are unfathomably complex, powerful organs that grant us motor skills, logic, and abstract thought. Brains have bequeathed unto we humans just about every cognitive advantage, it seems, except for one little omission: the ability to adequately process the need for the whole species' long-term survival. They're miracle workers for the short-term survival of individuals, but the scientific evidence suggests that the human brain flails when it comes to navigating wide-lens, slowly-unfurling crises like climate change.

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Re:Not shared by everyone by HornWumpus · 2015-06-10 09:12 · Score: 4, Funny

You really should buy a gun. Other than that you sound like a sense-able sort.

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Re:I can't say I fully agree by PopeRatzo · 2015-06-10 09:48 · Score: 3, Funny

Highly evolved animals such as humans have a pretty impressive track record when it comes to seeing into the future.
That's why so many people win the lottery.

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