Life is process
through which a person learns and develops. Learning and development is
something that could be done through reading books, interacting with others
(talking, arguing, fighting, etc.) and experiences that could be rich or poor
and from which we can learn things that we should and those that we shouldn't.
This is why life is a series of experiences, a series of things happening
inside one's mind.
There is one particular thing that I needed to learn
since a long long time. The ideas, the way of thinking inside others and all of
those things that make up a personality, a mentality, are greatly affected by
one's psychology and this in turn is affected by one's biology. These things
vary greatly from person to another and in the same person as his/her mood
changes. If I knew this very complicated fact, my social life would've been
much easier and I would've been able to get along with people better.
One of my friends once pointed out to something that I
think has been all along in me, which is that I don't get emotional. Things
that upset most people are totally irrelevant to me and unfortunately I find
myself unable to detect them. People think I'm just afraid or too shy, but I
wasn't even capable of detecting a stimulant to respond to. This also made it
difficult for me to know when I'm making people scared, frustrated, freaked out
or whatever.
I used to indulge myself with the idea that human
beings don't need to evolve anymore since they've got everything that they need
to achieve anything. Anything. We have minds, high-level thinking and ambition.
We're aware of our limitations and building solutions for those problems. For
example, we don't need to evolve our brains in a way that is able to
effectively retrieve all information in the world; we can just use information
management systems on our fast computers, which is a tool we built. This idea
might be true for some, but is certainly not true for most. I think that most
people are too attached to their body, their primitive impulses and emotions
and rarely characterized by profound thinking and a desire to discover, invent,
change the world and progress.
In my mind that changed, we didn't need to evolve.
Human beings as a species reached something so great, I thought. We reached the
point where we have complete control (at least intellectually, mentally and not
necessarily physically) over the world. We just need more time to discover more
and invent solutions that would show how great we are.
Those people whose minds are less attached to their
bodies and their primitive biological impulses are evolutionarily more advanced
than those who are. This is why I think that human beings aren't really one
single species. I'm not a biologist nor am I a geneticist so I might be
crossing the line here but this is just a thought. What I'm trying to say is
that if two persons have a human body and are capable of doing the basic things
that we consider a typical human being should be capable of doing; we are
inclined to consider them as belonging to the same species. I think this view
is too physical. Evolution isn't necessarily a 100% change in all genetic
make-up and isn't necessarily a physical thing. In today's world, some people
are evolutionary better than others; we're already split into more than one
species. Nationalities, geographical and ethnic boundaries are irrelevant here.
Maybe it is more accurate to attribute all differences
between the members of the human species to developmental and environmental
factors rather than genetic. This is a safer option given the fact that human
beings kill each other (violence would be much easier when those 'people' don't
belong to the same species). But this also raises questions regarding how we
could solve problems on earth if the issue isn't about genes that need to be
upgraded. The abstract solution is easily stated: give people a chance to
experience things that develop them in a way that serves humanity. Carrying out
this simple thing is hard given all the selfishness that is somehow embedded in
our bodies (or that is engraved in our heads as we live life).
We need to think about solving problems. We need to
have free and independent thinking. We need more ideas and more projects. We
need to keep thinking about the world because we're part of it, and the problems
of the world are our fault. So before your emotions take over to shush someone
who's saying something useful or trying to make a contribution, defer the
biological and primitive emotions to the mind and be in control of yourself.
