For a moment, let’s put aside the ‘why’ of creation. Let’s ignore religion, forget about evolution, and focus on a single idea.
The human machine.
We like to see ourselves as more than a sum of our parts. That our thinking, that the source of our creativity, is somehow housed in a place external from the physical working parts of our body. And perhaps they are, perhaps there is a soul, an ephemeral fabric woven in the pattern of our personalities, an immortal tapestry that is the source of joy and muse to our genius. But regardless of whether we evolved into having souls, or our souls are what allowed us to evolve – the two are, for our lives, inseparable.
I want to focus on the machine itself.
Our brains, the connections it makes, the facts it’s learned, the practiced patterns of behavior burned into it’s synapses, the animal instincts that push us to procreate and create safe havens, the higher-level urges that aspire for greatness beyond basic necessities – these are what we are.
The simplest tasks, such as buying groceries, are the product of an intricate machine at work.
And that’s the beauty of it.
Have you read Pain Healer’s recent post about our Reptilian Brain and D/s? It’s very intriguing.
Not only is it an intricate machine, it is a machine that we still don’t totally understand exactly how it works.
The beauty of that is that we don’t have to understand, it still works anyway!
Where do I find Pain Healer? I want to read that post but can’t find it with Google.
Thanks
Pain Healer is here: http://painhealer.blogspot.com/
If we are intricate machines, do we have free will or only intricate reactions to stimuli?