<ever notice how most people aren't interested in learning about the wonderful world ?>
EP, being one to try to learn about the wonderful world, I conclude that the reason most people appear uninterested in learning about the wonderful world is that our total brain capacity is sufficient to learn about 0.000000000001% of what's going on and by the time we learn that, it's already irrelevant, having disappeared into the past. Then, unfortunately, we die. Which destroys all knowledge we acquired.
Each person learns enough about their own microscopic piece of the wonderful world to stay alive, with some luck and only for a while. Any extra stuff comes into the category of information overload and is ditched - being left for somebody else to learn about. Which makes us look uninterested.
So I don't think it's that we are uninterested. It's just that we can't learn much. Other than an ephemeral, infinitesimal microscopic piece of the big fractalized jigsaw puzzle. Some of us can do a bit more than others and have more luck than others, so on a scale of 0 to infinity, we might achieve a rating of 42.1 whereas other humans, [the dummies - snigger], might achieve only 41.9. Chimps come in with a range of 38 to 39. Cats at 30. Frogs at about 6. Sars at about 3. Really stupid viruses at 1.
We can cheat and use cyberspace as an adjunct to our brains which gives us a symbiotic score of about 50 and that number is rapidly rising as It powers up. It should go cruising through 500 by 2010 and 1000 by 2020, but there'll be a large pause at It gazes out into the cosmos and thinks "Oh hell. Now what do I do?"
But It'll be up to the challenge and like ancient mariners, will set off where nobody has gone before, or perhaps, to where somebody has always been!! Of course, It won't actually ship the hardware offshore, It'll just send microwaves, gamma rays, neutrinos or something to figure out wassup in the big picture.
We'll stay here, drink wine, chase girls, play golf - skills for which we have at least some talent with our pitiable little brains.
Mqurice
PS: Girls might not chase girls or play golf. They'll play house, gossip and buy clothes.
They'll also try to find a decent bloke, which is a species akin to Weapons of Mass Destruction. Much talked about, promised, but like the Yeti, BigFoot and Abominable Snowman rarely seen.
He is tall, dark, handsome, intelligent, kind, rich, fun, purposeful, socially integrated, charming, generous, loving, strong, brave, virile, loves children, and will defend freedom, justice, the little woman and her children with his life.
He doesn't fart in bed, scratch his anatomy, hog the remote, drink beer and look at gross pictures. Neither is he fat, lazy, smoking or otherwise dissolute. There are swarms of them, chasing girls who don't want to be caught.
No wonder the numbers of humans is due to drop heavily over the next 100 years. |
