Our brains have tripled in size in the last 2 million years. I think we’ve gone from walking on all 4s to being bipedal in the last 7 million years.
But being bipedal causes a lot of problems. A lot of humans have knee and back pain and disability from it. Evolution hasn’t worked out the kinks of walking on two legs.
By the same token, I’d assume our brains tripling in size caused some problems that evolution hasn’t worked out. However the fact that we have some issues doesn’t make us defective. We are the most successful multicellular life form on earth and can live in any environment. We’ve gained mastery over various forms of science.
I read the middle link. The key error in that line of thinking is this sentence:
This is a misunderstanding of evolution. An “evolutionary change” is just a mutation (or “birth defect” if you really want) that improves the ability or likelihood of the organism to reproduce. Evolution is only “slow” because it takes a long time for a mutation that actually does this to occur.
Yeah humans aren’t perfect and some of us are crap, but you can’t look at humans with an understanding of evolution and come away thinking that we’re anything but hugely successful.
I am probably one of the least educated followers on this board and I can tell you with certainty that nearly all of your assertions are just flat wrong, not even a matter of interpretation just false premises.
The middle link? The one posted by someone called The Seer of Forbidden Truth? That talks about “Forbidden Truths” and “The Hive Mind of Universal Illusion”?
Oh absolutely, genetic failure isn’t an excuse. This is PROVEN by the handful of Superior Minds that despite possessing the same genetic defects and suffering and being exposed to the same external abuses and corruptions as the rest of those born human, come to be able to see and identify the Truth of their condition.
I remember when I first looked at Myself within the context of the genetically defective human brain, it was a moment of enlightened feeling, not because it was excusatory or ‘humbling’ or any other rubbish but because it was True and it illuminated My limitations. It’s similar to that thing, you know, how you can’t do anything about a problem until you clearly and correctly see the problem.
Thanks for sharing your experience of bias, I understand that this is very personal and I found it very interesting to consider and to re-re-evaluate My own. I think the most pervasive & damaging bias within the inferior human psyche is a very simple one.
The above was a reply to the whole “essay”.
I did kind of think that the whole thing was just a bunch of baseless assertions with no proof (even when there was “proof” like the links they found a way to twist that to their view). Yet despite that I was wondering if maybe I am wrong and he is just saying something that people don’t want to admit to be true. I mean, people say the truth hurts right?
Chimps also haven’t solved death. Birds? Bears? Bulls? They haven’t solved death, or pain, or hunger. How the heck would it prove some unique birth-defect status of the human brain that we likewise haven’t solved those?
Humans as a species are not defective, even if it is possible to consider a species defective. Children learn much more than a chimpanzee when they imitate adults. One day that child could be making an ape open boxes in scientific experiments, the roles are not going to be reversed. As an intelligent animal it is the monkey that seems defective.
I’m not gonna read the links in the OP either, but I’m going to guess that you’re talking about emulative learning versus imitative learning.
I can get how you’d think, at first blush, that emulative learning is better, but that’s not the case. When you look at knowledge being passed down through multiple generations, imitative learning is clearly better. Over multiple generations, each chimp generation learns more or less from scratch. Humans, on the other hand, are able to “ratchet up” their total knowledge. First they learn imitatively, and then they refine.
