Perhaps our greatest tragedy is that we've created for ourselves a world we did not evolve for.
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal
Your concept of evolution is too static. We are a species in continuous evolution. Likewise meaning is in motion.
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Replying to @philosophicweb
I agree that evolution is constant. But it seems at the moment we're in a painful transitional stage, hence the depression epidemic.
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal
Depression comes from more time on our hands due to technology helping us stop having to do it all by hand. Well, that's a part of it anyway
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Replying to @philosophicweb
Yes, I think this is because for most of our evo history we've always been preoccupied looking for food or avoiding being food.
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal @philosophicweb
Whereas in our current state we have our basic needs met, so spend excess time in idle contemplation, which our brains aren't designed for.
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal @philosophicweb
The idleness engenders a feeling of purposelessness, which leads one to question one's place in the world, resulting in anxiety & depression
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal
All true, especially if religion no longer fills the spaces. So how to find awe these days? By exploring how nature works. How old it is.
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Replying to @philosophicweb @G_S_Bhogal
I disagree that the brain is not supposed to contemplate. It is how we can connect so deeply that all sense of meaninglessness vanishes
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What I mean is that the brain evolved for survival and reproduction rather than for comprehension of abstracts like purpose and identity.
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal
I think that those abstracts have been present throughout our evolution but moving ever more into consciousness.
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Replying to @philosophicweb @G_S_Bhogal
Purpose, identity questions tend to be associated with youth. Not always of course. So the anxiety, depressions lift as one becomes creative
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