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This is my first attempt at ever writing anything remotely deep and meaningful, so forgive me if I go off on one here.
Most of your actions happen because of your brain. The brain dictates what your body does - as you read this, you are doing so because your brain is telling your eyes to scan each word. The brain then interprets all these lines and squiggles, and processes them.
'I' is the word we use to refer to ourselves. When you kick a football, you say ‘I kicked a football’. In reality, you didn’t kick the football, a mass of skin, bone, and flesh that is connected to your nervous system and thus your brain, kicked it, under command from your brain.
But say you kicked a wall or something, and it caused pain. Why would you have an unpleasant feeling, just because something connected to your nervous system slammed into something else at speed? Why could this not be interpreted by your brain as a pleasant feeling, instead of a ‘bad’ one?
What I’m trying to say in a long, drawn out way, is the question - why is pain bad?
Surely it would be better for the brain to consider everything as pleasant? That way you would never be unhappy, you would never be in pain, because pain wouldn’t exist.
You could say that our brains have evolved to associate pain with weakness, and thus death. I reckon this would be the answer that most people, having thought about it for a while, would come up with. It’s the same reason we consider that some smells are ‘bad’ – they’re associated with death. So, basically, the brain wards the body off going and running into walls by giving the body a ‘bad’ feeling when it does something self-destructive.
I wouldn’t say that, though. I, being a fairly peculiar (One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest) chap, think that the reason we still feel pain in this day and age where the only threat to our species dominance is ourselves is because we have not yet evolved far enough to consider pain as something that does not indicate danger.
Perhaps that’s why you can’t feel pain when you’ve got cannabis in your system. Maybe it dulls the survival instinct in the brain, and so pain is not registered as something bad. Speaking of drugs, maybe the human race will eventually become immune to alcohol, just because the instinct to stay alert as possible will have been used so much through the drunken generations that it will become very powerful.
If I don’t make sense to you… go and start a thread about the notable elections. We could really do with another one dontcha think?
Most of your actions happen because of your brain. The brain dictates what your body does - as you read this, you are doing so because your brain is telling your eyes to scan each word. The brain then interprets all these lines and squiggles, and processes them.
'I' is the word we use to refer to ourselves. When you kick a football, you say ‘I kicked a football’. In reality, you didn’t kick the football, a mass of skin, bone, and flesh that is connected to your nervous system and thus your brain, kicked it, under command from your brain.
But say you kicked a wall or something, and it caused pain. Why would you have an unpleasant feeling, just because something connected to your nervous system slammed into something else at speed? Why could this not be interpreted by your brain as a pleasant feeling, instead of a ‘bad’ one?
What I’m trying to say in a long, drawn out way, is the question - why is pain bad?
Surely it would be better for the brain to consider everything as pleasant? That way you would never be unhappy, you would never be in pain, because pain wouldn’t exist.
You could say that our brains have evolved to associate pain with weakness, and thus death. I reckon this would be the answer that most people, having thought about it for a while, would come up with. It’s the same reason we consider that some smells are ‘bad’ – they’re associated with death. So, basically, the brain wards the body off going and running into walls by giving the body a ‘bad’ feeling when it does something self-destructive.
I wouldn’t say that, though. I, being a fairly peculiar (One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest) chap, think that the reason we still feel pain in this day and age where the only threat to our species dominance is ourselves is because we have not yet evolved far enough to consider pain as something that does not indicate danger.
Perhaps that’s why you can’t feel pain when you’ve got cannabis in your system. Maybe it dulls the survival instinct in the brain, and so pain is not registered as something bad. Speaking of drugs, maybe the human race will eventually become immune to alcohol, just because the instinct to stay alert as possible will have been used so much through the drunken generations that it will become very powerful.
If I don’t make sense to you… go and start a thread about the notable elections. We could really do with another one dontcha think?
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This is my first attempt at ever writing anything remotely deep and meaningful, so forgive me if I go off on one here.
Most of your actions happen because of your brain. The brain dictates what your body does - as you read this, you are doing so because your brain is telling your eyes to scan each word. The brain then interprets all these lines and squiggles, and processes them.
'I' is the word we use to refer to ourselves. When you kick a football, you say ‘I kicked a football’. In reality, you didn’t kick the football, a mass of skin, bone, and flesh that is connected to your nervous system and thus your brain, kicked it, under command from your brain.
But say you kicked a wall or something, and it caused pain. Why would you have an unpleasant feeling, just because something connected to your nervous system slammed into something else at speed? Why could this not be interpreted by your brain as a pleasant feeling, instead of a ‘bad’ one?
What I’m trying to say in a long, drawn out way, is the question - why is pain bad?
Surely it would be better for the brain to consider everything as pleasant? That way you would never be unhappy, you would never be in pain, because pain wouldn’t exist.
You could say that our brains have evolved to associate pain with weakness, and thus death. I reckon this would be the answer that most people, having thought about it for a while, would come up with. It’s the same reason we consider that some smells are ‘bad’ – they’re associated with death. So, basically, the brain wards the body off going and running into walls by giving the body a ‘bad’ feeling when it does something self-destructive.
I wouldn’t say that, though. I, being a fairly peculiar (One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest) chap, think that the reason we still feel pain in this day and age where the only threat to our species dominance is ourselves is because we have not yet evolved far enough to consider pain as something that does not indicate danger.
Perhaps that’s why you can’t feel pain when you’ve got cannabis in your system. Maybe it dulls the survival instinct in the brain, and so pain is not registered as something bad. Speaking of drugs, maybe the human race will eventually become immune to alcohol, just because the instinct to stay alert as possible will have been used so much through the drunken generations that it will become very powerful.
If I don’t make sense to you… go and start a thread about the notable elections. We could really do with another one dontcha think?
Most of your actions happen because of your brain. The brain dictates what your body does - as you read this, you are doing so because your brain is telling your eyes to scan each word. The brain then interprets all these lines and squiggles, and processes them.
'I' is the word we use to refer to ourselves. When you kick a football, you say ‘I kicked a football’. In reality, you didn’t kick the football, a mass of skin, bone, and flesh that is connected to your nervous system and thus your brain, kicked it, under command from your brain.
But say you kicked a wall or something, and it caused pain. Why would you have an unpleasant feeling, just because something connected to your nervous system slammed into something else at speed? Why could this not be interpreted by your brain as a pleasant feeling, instead of a ‘bad’ one?
What I’m trying to say in a long, drawn out way, is the question - why is pain bad?
Surely it would be better for the brain to consider everything as pleasant? That way you would never be unhappy, you would never be in pain, because pain wouldn’t exist.
You could say that our brains have evolved to associate pain with weakness, and thus death. I reckon this would be the answer that most people, having thought about it for a while, would come up with. It’s the same reason we consider that some smells are ‘bad’ – they’re associated with death. So, basically, the brain wards the body off going and running into walls by giving the body a ‘bad’ feeling when it does something self-destructive.
I wouldn’t say that, though. I, being a fairly peculiar (One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest) chap, think that the reason we still feel pain in this day and age where the only threat to our species dominance is ourselves is because we have not yet evolved far enough to consider pain as something that does not indicate danger.
Perhaps that’s why you can’t feel pain when you’ve got cannabis in your system. Maybe it dulls the survival instinct in the brain, and so pain is not registered as something bad. Speaking of drugs, maybe the human race will eventually become immune to alcohol, just because the instinct to stay alert as possible will have been used so much through the drunken generations that it will become very powerful.
If I don’t make sense to you… go and start a thread about the notable elections. We could really do with another one dontcha think?
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