Friday, May 13, 2016
Synthesizing but not balancing the hierarchy of human drives
Are reason, science, nurture, and mind,
more important than tradition, religion, intuition, and the material
body in nature? I think tradition, religion, intuition, and the
natural material body lead reason, science, nurture, and the mind.
We developed reason to enhance the
natural drives, to refine the natural drives of survival and
reproductive success, not to lead them, but also to refine the deeper
drive of the activation of material life to evolve in the material
world to supermaterial Godhood.
Rather than “balancing” these
drives, it seems more illuminating to describe a hierarchy of drives. We do need all of the traits we
evolved, but tradition, religion, intuition, and the material body
are more important, and rate a bit higher, than reason, science,
nurture, and the mind, which were developed to enhance or refine
material evolution.
Too often we thinkers get lost in the weeds of the mind.
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