A MIND MADE FOR MATING! by @JasonSilva
The Human Brain is essentially a sexual Ornament, a “courtship device”, so that it’s extraordinary capacities for art, language, poetry, are but human versions of the peacock feather, used to capture and manage the attention of potential mates. And with the advent of culture, we still employ these extraordinary capacities, these “technologies of rhetoric” to ‘capture the attention’ of others, except no longer to spread our genes but to spread our MEMES, a new replicator, born from the primordial soup human culture.. one that leaps and spreads… All of this is still perfectly natural, we’ve just swapped sperm for the currency of digital information– but as Dawkins said, biological life has been an information technology all along: “If you want to understand life, do not think of throbbing gels or oozing liquids, think about information technology”
“What lies at the heart of every living thing is not a fire, not warm breath, not a ‘spark of life.’ It is information, words, instructions,” – Richard Dawkins
“The human mind’s most impressive abilities are like the peacock’s tail: they are courtship tools, evolved to attract and entertain sexual partners.”
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Jan 12, 2013 @ 13:48:03
jammed packed good info in less than 2 minutes – wow!
Jan 14, 2013 @ 06:23:22
Yes! Exceptional. I believe this one quick post will change how I teach my piano students… not that I will mention sex to the little ones – but it really rings very true. Thanks for posting!
Feb 13, 2013 @ 19:20:23
and when you are old, what is left? why not die after you mate and you make kids? I've heard that cancer is mostly common among people who have reproduces their genes (or memes through genes)…