New Foxxinnia
15-01-2006, 18:42
According to me, being alive is essentially a combination of consciousness and intelligence. Consciousness being the desire to love, have fun, explore, create, and all that other good stuff. Intelligence is the ability to learn, memorize, invent, but it also comes along with the knowledge of mortality, time, and the insignificancy of the individual and the race as a whole.
'How do these work?' you may ask. Well, nearly (99.99999%) everyone has these two fundamental ideas wired into them, not hard-wired mind you. Some people have more conscious than other, some more intelligence. That's not a problem however. The problem is when one disappears.
Conscious can only be lost for only periods of time. This can be caused by a sense of impending doom or deep depression. When a person looses all consciousness he is left with only intelligence. He becomes overwhelmed by time and mortality. This nearly always results in suicide. If the person is aggressive however they would also turn their frustration on others.
Loss of intelligence is normally completely permanent. This can be caused by accidents (in and out of the womb) or simply faulty genes. Loss of intelligence is essentially retardation. It is blissful knowledge of knowing nothing is wrong, which in itself is wrong. A foster intelligence can be nurtured but it is purely memorization. The concept of death and time enables these people to be happy until death.
All creatures other then humans may have some sort of pre-consciousness and pre-intelligence, but nothing on terms with humans.
So there you go! Go impress your friends.
'How do these work?' you may ask. Well, nearly (99.99999%) everyone has these two fundamental ideas wired into them, not hard-wired mind you. Some people have more conscious than other, some more intelligence. That's not a problem however. The problem is when one disappears.
Conscious can only be lost for only periods of time. This can be caused by a sense of impending doom or deep depression. When a person looses all consciousness he is left with only intelligence. He becomes overwhelmed by time and mortality. This nearly always results in suicide. If the person is aggressive however they would also turn their frustration on others.
Loss of intelligence is normally completely permanent. This can be caused by accidents (in and out of the womb) or simply faulty genes. Loss of intelligence is essentially retardation. It is blissful knowledge of knowing nothing is wrong, which in itself is wrong. A foster intelligence can be nurtured but it is purely memorization. The concept of death and time enables these people to be happy until death.
All creatures other then humans may have some sort of pre-consciousness and pre-intelligence, but nothing on terms with humans.
So there you go! Go impress your friends.