{"id":66123,"date":"2023-11-12T15:06:50","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T20:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=66123"},"modified":"2023-11-12T15:06:50","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T20:06:50","slug":"the-entanglement-hypothesis-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=66123","title":{"rendered":"The Entanglement Hypothesis Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/howtosavetheworld.ca\/2023\/11\/11\/the-entanglement-hypothesis-revisited\/\">The Entanglement Hypothesis Revisited<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-12069 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/howtosavetheworld.ca\/images\/woman-brain-2.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/howtosavetheworld.ca\/images\/woman-brain-2.png 480w, https:\/\/howtosavetheworld.ca\/images\/woman-brain-2-300x200.png 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" \/><br \/>\n<em>image adapted from Pixabay, CC0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think human consciousness is a tragic misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware, nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself, we are creatures that should not exist by natural law. We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self; an accretion of sensory experience and feeling, programmed with total assurance that we are each somebody, when in fact everybody is nobody. Maybe the honorable thing for our species to do is deny our programming, stop reproducing, walk hand in hand into extinction, one last midnight \u2013 brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal.\u201d\u00a0 \u2014 Rust Cohle \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.discovermagazine.com\/health\/the-most-depressing-things-true-detective-says-about-the-self-are-true\">character in the TV series True Detective<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Three years ago, I added a third \u2018law\u2019 to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/howtosavetheworld.ca\/2020\/11\/22\/pollards-laws\/\">small set of \u2018important things I\u2019ve learned over the years\u2019<\/a>\u00a0and codified on this blog. The three laws are:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Pollard\u2019s Law of Human Behaviour:<\/em>\u00a0Humans have evolved to do what\u2019s personally urgent for them (the unavoidable imperatives of the moment), then to do what\u2019s easy, and then to do what\u2019s fun. There is never time left for things that are seen as merely important. Social, political and economic change happens only when the old generation dies and a new generation with different entrained beliefs and imperatives fills the power vacuum. We have evolved to be a collaborative and caring species, and we are all doing our best \u2014 we cannot do otherwise. We have no free will \u2014 our behaviour is entirely the product of our biological and cultural conditioning, given the ever-changing and unpredictable circumstances of each moment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Entanglement Hypothesis Revisited image adapted from Pixabay, CC0 \u201cI think human consciousness is a tragic misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware, nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself, we are creatures that should not exist by natural law. We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self; an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[32260,33995],"class_list":["post-66123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-dave-pollard","tag-how-to-save-the-word"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66124,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66123\/revisions\/66124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}