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The Top 7 Things Missing From the Human Brain

Monday, May 17, 2010 16:06

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The human brain is responsible for the greatest and the worst of humanity. Here is my list of the top 7 reasons why we are in a bunch of hot water as a race of humans.

1. The brain lacks the ability to naturally think critically.

As it turns out, our brains do not naturally know how to evaluate life critically. To the brain, no matter how outrageous the thought or belief, it’s all true - or at least possible. This is a big problem. From the brain’s perspective, the second coming of Jesus is evaluated exactly the same way as the bill that’s due at the end of the month.

2. The brain lacks the ability to determine inside from outside.

So many of the problems we have in life come directly from our inability to realize that just because we have a thought or a vision, doesn’t mean it’s true. Because the brain lacks the ability to determine inside from outside, so many of the thoughts and visions that we have appear to be coming from outside. The reason for this has to do with the way the brain works. Much of the brain tissue is devoted to processing the external inputs. We use the same tissues to process inside and outside. So here’s the key; it all feels like it’s coming from outside. It’s not.

3. The brain is awful at determining causation.

We lack the ability to logically follow and clearly determine causation. Most of religion and religious thinking revolves around this incredible lack of ability. I was recently speaking with a friend about the Annunaki – a completely fictional story about aliens that bread us to be a slave race. He uses this story to explain our accelerated brain development. There are tens of thousands of variations on this theme. Life can’t be the way it is; there must be some other external causation.

4. Just because it feels real doesn’t mean that it is. The brain believes feelings are reality.

Our feelings make us very susceptible to being duped by our own brains. We feel something strongly so we believe that it must be true. If we learn to evaluate our feelings critically, we would find that our feelings are wrong most of the time.

5. The brain is endlessly susceptible to hypnosis.

The brain goes in and out of trance states all day long. Reading this, you are in an altered state of consciousness. You are susceptible to having your ideas altered. In trance, access to the unconscious mind is direct and unfettered. It makes is super easy to manipulate your perceptions.

6. The brain lacks the ability to notice the shift from one part of the brain to another

The brain seamlessly moves from one function to another without our conscious awareness. We may become conscious of a psychological change after the fact. This is bad for us. The shift from the prefrontal cortex, for example, to the limbic system is seamless. It happens instantaneously, but we consciously have no idea. We just experience the after effects. The brain can shift instantaneously, but we become conscious long after the fact. This is not good.

7. The brain believes in absolute truth. We lack the ability to understand shades of grey.

By believing in absolute truths, we lack the ability to recognize that there are none. There is no absolute truth because we are constantly changing. As soon as we think we can stick a flag in it, life has changed. Life is a continual evolutionary process. There is no absolute anything. However, our brain lacks the ability to handle this reality. Therefore we believe that our beliefs are the true beliefs, the right beliefs, the only beliefs. By believing in absolute truth, we have to bend others to our beliefs. The brain’s belief in absolute truth is responsible for most of the wars on the planet – but it is absolutely incorrect.

Unfortunately for us, my list could go on and on. We have a long way to go yet in our neuro-evolution.

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Anonymous

Hunting, fishing, growing a little food, gathering good, living simply with the earth, and being friends is pretty much all people ever needed to know. Go beyond that & this world is headed toward’s it’s end faster than it knows. Life is not a continual evolutionary process. Life is a continual process of ignorant people like yourself thinking your intelligent.

May 17, 2010, 6:30 pm 0 Reply
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3. Stating the “Annunaki – a completely fictional story” is a pretty dogmatic statement. That seems like your number 7 – an absolute. Do you view all historical records as fiction? Perhaps the Annunaki are fictional but how do you prove that?

4. Feelings are wrong? How can a feeling be wrong? A feeling is a feeling. Is feeling happy wrong? Is feeling tired wrong? Is feeling content wrong? If I say, “It feels like it’s going to rain” is that a feeling that is wrong?

May 22, 2010, 6:17 pm 0 Reply

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