{"id":39004,"date":"2018-10-11T09:47:31","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T14:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39004"},"modified":"2018-10-11T09:47:31","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T14:47:31","slug":"on-biology-brains-and-human-suffering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39004","title":{"rendered":"On Biology, Brains, And Human Suffering"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Biology, Brains, And Human Suffering<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Once upon a time, the first microorganisms appeared in our planet\u2019s water, and then eventually got around to evolving into complex life forms. Those life forms ate each other and had sex with each other in a frenzied orgy of chaos, eventually schlepping their way out of the ocean and onto land so they could eat each other and have sex with each other on dry dirt.<\/p>\n

The organisms became more and more complex as they figured out better and better ways to eat each other and have sex with each other in the frenzied cacophony. Some of them said \u201cscrew this\u201d and schlepped their way back into the ocean, and they got really big and evolved blowholes on the tops of their heads. Others evolved opposable thumbs for climbing up trees and, eventually, brains so large that they needed to be born while still completely helpless due to the massive size of their heads. Those brains are the most complex objects in the known universe to this day.<\/p>\n

That frantic explosion of biting and swallowing and ejaculating and birthing is where homo sapiens arrived on the scene. Running away from sharp teeth, trying to use those massive brains to figure out how to not get devoured by bigger, stronger organisms, sharpening sticks to poke at toothy monsters that tried to make food out of them, then poking each other with the sticks to try and steal each other\u2019s food when times were lean, running, stabbing, biting, chewing, ejaculating, birthing,\u00a0running stabbing biting chewing ejaculating birthing\u00a0running stabbing biting chewing ejaculating birthing\u00a0running stabbing biting chewing ejaculating birthing\u00a0running stabbing biting chewing ejaculating birthing\u00a0running stabbing biting chewing ejaculating birthing runningstabbingbitingchewingejaculatingbirthing, and then all of a sudden here we are in houses with cars trying to figure out why we can\u2019t relax and enjoy the weekend.<\/p>\n

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