☆☆☆ Are we using our mind intelligently?
Now here’s food for thought: would you try to develop little flying machines whose job would be to pollinate flowers? This question is not a result of a terrible hung over, but is actually currently in the consciousness of some very ambitious men (and women?, do women actually think like this?).
So why is this being proposed? As I read in an article the proposition has resulted from the problem that there is a continual decline in the population of bees. And as we all know — bees are kind of important. In fact, they pollinate most of our foods. Without them our supermarkets (at least the veggie isles) would look pretty empty. So it’s to no debate that pollination is important. However, the key question is this: should we let nature do it’s magic or should we intervene?
The inquiry into this matter is perhaps a bit more subtle than it would first appear. This is because it has to do with the nature and the role of thought. Yes thought — the thing that is writing these words, the thing that is reading these words, the thing that we as humans is basically all we know (and actually as it kind of turns out we don’t know). This is because it permeates all of our actions and deeds; it is literally our operating system. While this in itself is an interesting insight, there lies another thing to be discovered. And that is what we don’t know about thought.
You see, it would appear that we don’t really know very much about thought at all. We use it in our lives like we would use an OS when browsing through the sheer endless web. We aren’t really aware of it (except of course when it crashes). And it wouldn’t really be much of a problem if it would work flawlessly. But does it?
There is a good case to make that it doesn’t actually work quite too well. Take a look outside the window or sharpen your ears a bit and you will become confronted with all of the little as well as rather large problems that we as humans have. There isn’t really any denying of it. We live in a pretty big mess. Yet we have seem to have gotten used to it rather well, right to the point of us not noticing it anymore or rather accepting it for what it is.
But if thought would be flawless in the way that it operates, would this not mean the abolishment of all of our problems and neurotic actions? It seems like a question worth pondering about. But wait — what tool are you using to ponder that question? Yes! It is thought.
So we are using thought to try to solve the problems brought up by thought? This seems like rather a problem in itself. So we should ask if thought is the right tool for solving our problems (what? there are other tools?) and we should also ask if there is such a thing as intelligent thought.
What do you say? Is there a realm beyond thought? Or is this some nonsensical metaphysical idea (which of course is based on thought)?
Perhaps we can find out if we start looking at the nature of insight. What is insight? And what is its relationship to thought?
TobeTada 2017