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Why Our Brains Can't Process the Gravest Threats To Humanity
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.
Like it or not, agree with it or not, believe it or not, but the gravest threat to any of us is the one to our mortal soul. That we should be able to understand very easily, but there are still millions of humans in danger of losing theirs.
What is today or a few years compared with eternity?
Where do you stand? Think about it before you answer. It's not a matter of believing or not believing. Belief won't get you anywhere. It's a matter of choosing which path you'll take.
I know I may be modded down, but it's important enough to me to tell you anyway.
Humans are no more evolved than any other living creature on the planet.
Like all pain, suffering is a signal that something isn't right