There is a question I ask myself over and over…… are we mere puppets in the big pictures……small cogs essential to the working of the big machine but totally insignificant on their own. Today I was just watching a pair of geckos in my private jungle (my garden…back home…Dad pretends it’s the safari or sometimes at its worst it resembles something like the equatorial forests….)…life is so simple for them and yet in the raw its not so easy. Man’s intellect and his superior skills have equipped him over generations of evolution to deal with the eternal question of survival.
It is said that the brain of a shark is as small as a pea. So its powers or recognition aren’t that great which accounts for the number of attacks. a poor hapless creature turned into a jaw snapping monster overnight. A perfectly normal action of feeding itself turned into a vicious streak. Similarly the wolf…maligned and bludgeoned into near extinction, just because we happen to encroach onto its territory and make scare its supplies of natural food (game).no wonder the poor hapless creature will look to hunting more accessible food like livestock or perhaps sometimes humans.
The question is are we actually so evolved that we can control the existence or non existence of species or are we just manipulated into being the promoters of change? The drives we have are just as common as that of the gecko I saw in the garden.living, feeding, mating, breeding…protecting the specie etc.each species tries its best to ensure the continuity of its species. Just like the lioness protects her cubs…and eliminates the hyenas before they can harm her offspring, so do we protect our children against all harm that may befall them. Both these instincts are mapped in the genes…programmed into our very own cells…something we cannot but feel.
What happened to free will? If motherhood and all the feelings that are associated with it are a part of our gene make up where do we get our individuality from? Or are we actually individual in the major activities that are such an important part of our lives. What we call the development of our intellect and mind and “soul” might just be aberrations in the makeup of humans, the result of continuous evolution and maybe a gradual refinement of the human mind which is still not complete or perfect. Have we ever considered those terms like innovation, creativity etc are just fancy words to cover an unstable state of the human mind undergoing continuous evolution?
And if it’s all the game of genetics and evolution…much as I would like to curse Darwin, I can’t help but think that we aren’t much different from other species…and our special status of being the most “evolved” is but hog wash. We are still at the mercies of our genetic code. And shall do all that it tells us…unless of course till we break the code…but then breaking the code will be yet another genetic disequilibria that glorified can be called "evolution".
confused??? yeah so i am ....i guess my genetic code cannot take this kind of convoluted processing of the mind........
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