| I have this image of the human body in mind. As we are comprised of individual cells, all serving a function to make the body complete, a working, biological machine, so I view the universe. The cosmos as the body and energy/matter as its cells.
Now ponder this: What do you call the cell that loses its function, appears to acquire identity and spreads uncontrollable inside your body?
Finally, to answer your question: I view intelligence as a curse, an inherent imbalance of allowable or possible knowledge and knowledge acquired. I view the search for answers like an addiction, a thirst for understanding something from the inside. I view awareness as the oddity in this universe, a universe that is full of energies, matter, evolution, all involved in a seemingly eternal struggle against entropy. This struggle feels more like an orchestrated dance, with rules and regulations, with compliant participants willingly waltzing into death.
Viewing the human spirit within the context of total history, seeing the brief time we have occupied this realm, trying to understand it all, one can not help but conclude, that this brain, this sentience, is an aberration of the machine, a failure of intent, an evolutionary dead end. 13.7 billion or so years and only 10,000 years of human conscience  |