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Originally Posted by itto
imho mankind is the biggest failure in evolution - self-awareness makes us think of death and whatever.. hail to them low critters like apes who just live their lives and don't think about the outcome of their actions.
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The search for meaning in anything when you're on a spinning dirt wad in the vacuum of space for no apparent reason seems bound to failure or misconception at very least. The majority of people appear to operate in relative ignorance most of the time anyway (which isn't necessarily a bad thing). But not only that, the same people tend to take a stubborn / ignorant approach which would aptly be described as primitive when confronted with anything outside the scope of routine. Cognizance is fairly irrelevant if you're almost incapable of introspection... it's practically self awareness without the awareness - an extrospective reactionary existence.
So... without meaning to deride humanity, I'd say it's an observation that speaks more of the infrequent critique than his subject.
Metaphysics is always a hard subject to articulate.