Evolution of The Mind

“The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it does not know how to use”
Arthur Koestler quotes


Life to me is not an aimless point of evolution for humanity. Ever since I was a little boy I wanted to be an astronomer. Look into the sky, try to understand the unknown. I have always been curious about my existence. Why am I/we here? Theories would come and go. My struggle with religion would come and go. Is there a God? Is the bible legit? There is alot of basic questions you need to answer before you can consciously pick a path in life. At the age of (sike!) I am beginning to choose my path, and the path I lead is then transformed into the path that my seed will begin on. If you agree with that statement, you must agree that the path one generation of people lead is thus transformed into the path the next generation starts on. As it has been for some time now, the next generation has to right the wrongs of the previous generation. Almost like a cosmic spell checker... but its a life checker.

I like the quote above alot because it subtly shows life's purpose...to me at least. The brains ability and what we actually know that we can do leaves room for an excessive amount of potential. Potential to do unfathomable things (I believe). Both good and bad. The only thing is that the bad unfathomable will only allow us to live but so long. It will only allow us to grasp the negative potential so far before we destroy our beings, our natural way of life, and drift so far from love that hell might as well be its name. On the flip side, the positive unfathomable is endless. Imagination is endless. Love is endless.

Revolutions most always start in the mind. Revolutions seem quite necessary in a detailed aspect in the story of the human being. I believe that the next evolution will be of the mind? Dictionary.com defines the Mind as:

1. (in a human or other conscious being) the element, part, substance, or process that reasons, thinks, feels, wills, perceives, judges, etc.: the processes of the human mind.
2. Psychology . the totality of conscious and unconscious mental processes and activities.
3. intellect or understanding, as distinguished from the faculties of feeling and willing; intelligence.

If a one year old is playing with her toy and has no clue that the square block goes in the square hole, the learning aspect of this toy only exist as potential. Until one day she accidentally puts the ball through the circle opening. It wasn't purposefully done but in realizing the ball went through the circle hole an understanding she was not use to has now started a revolution in her mind about this toy, it changed the way she perceives this toy. Now in order for her to master this toy an evolution of her mind must occur, creating a thought process that was not known to her before. Now after mastering her toy, the road to looking at life's experience as practical and logical has begun for little bonquiqui (sorry I had to). As I said before revolutions seem necessary in the detailed aspect in the story the Human Being; but let's pull back and take a more holistic view of this story. Revolutions are like first few attempts at starting a lawn mower, where the actual starting of the mower is evolution. once the evolution of the mind starts, once we begin to understand logical perceptions that we had no understandings of before, will we begin to understand our brains and reduce its potential. If you believe in evolution, if you believe in continual progression, the reduction of potential is necessary. Thus making revolutions humanities way of subconsciously understanding the potential of the mind,and its attempts at evolution.


"The brain is the tool and the mind is the application of its potential" Eteeks Sivad