Smita Pani: [World Malayali Club] Mutation Forecasting

Monday, 26 October 2015

[World Malayali Club] Mutation Forecasting

Mutation Forecasting

"At first sight, it would seem that intelligence is a good thing and animals could never have too much of it. But brains are very expensive to run. The human brain seethes with the activity of billions of tightly packed nerve cells, which are constantly hungry and, astonishingly perhaps, use up energy as fast as do hard working muscles. So energy sapping is the human brain that although it accounts for only about a fiftieth of the body's weight, it burns up about a fifth of the oxygen taken in by the lungs. Being conscious is actually very hard work."

"The expense of the brain is an important point. Once we appreciate that our brains are burning up so much of our energy to create consciousness, the common assumption that the mind is somehow effortlessly produced by the brain is destroyed and it becomes easier to accept that the mind is not some ghostly resident in the head. We are also made to realize how difficult it must have been for evolution to justify giving us such a hungry organ. Evolution could never afford to waste energy on human intellect unless it paid off on the bottom line---success at breeding---which it obviously did."(Page 17, The Ape that Spoke by John Mccrone).

Prior to the takeover of the human organism by this very expensive organ, the organism actually could distinguish among 10,000 different smells to perceive, react and interact decisively, understanding directly from nature. It did not need conceptualizations to connect to analyze, categorise and understand or get confused.

The organism smelt the same smells like the other human organisms and so understanding did not need any wordy explanation. They smelt understanding itself. They understood in the same way, there was no misunderstanding. There were no wars or manipulations of nature, damaging the nature.

Today can anyone of us distinguishes among 10,000 different situations as indicated by the 10,000 different smells and react immediately and decisively? The analytical cortex has become a fetter creating hesitation and indecision, robbing us of what we praise most—courage. Correct perception immediately has become impossible. We suffer from indecision; we debate, quarrel and fight.

As we cannot depend on our brain we have become dependent on computers. There is a machine to perform the work of each organ. We are happy that we know so many things because of the brain. No sir, it is the computers that are perceiving and telling us. With the loss of perception by smell, we have lost the Holistic feeling and lost in analysis,mathematics,equations,computers,self redundance, and now attempting to adopt the observer status, that is become a spectator of and not part of nature. All feelings are to be jettisoned. We are trying to become the unbiased machines!!!

We fail to understand that our languages are based on our partial vision of the visible spectrum which is less than one per cent of the total electromagnetic spectrum. This particular partial vision was not there when smell was perception.

What is going to be the next mutation of the homo insapien (listless)? Will it be cyborgs with partly biological and partly mechanical parts, the newly born baby being dependent on various machines to be attached, to become the complete baby? Where is technology and the progressive redundancy of organs taking our new yet to be born babies? After all it has to live in a poisoned environment, as industrialization is polluting land, water and air and littering the lithosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere and the troposphere with industrial wastes.

Whenever I come across the blow hot and blow cold indecisive people who assert and contradict immediately, I wonder what they are portending in terms of our next mutation in the evolution.