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Evolution
Bunks
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I am starting to think that Buddhism (or some similar practice) is the next step in the evolution of man (and woman).
Anyone else think the same?
Anyone else think the same?
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If you mean from an emotional/psychological standpoint, then I would still say no since I would guess that many people of different religions would say the same about their faith.
One thought is that we are actually in the matrix except instead of being used by the machines we are being used by karma? Yup.. we could all just be Karma drones!
or...
what you hope is a human evolution is actually for the benefit of the microbes and virus that utilize us as bio spheres. Yup, we could also just be mobile terrariums!
And Buddhism is just a twist of truth that offers us poor taxi cabs a chance at retirement, or it might be a program to keep a portion of these vehicles from driving too self destructively.
Little vehicles with big dreams..
It supposes that the things we think are important.
It supposes that these things are a summit of sorts.
It supposes that there is a 'next step', in that linear progression is undisputable.
It supposes parity between evolution of concepts and Darwin's survival of the fittest evolution.
It supposes that we as men and women would survive an evolution and remain as men and women.
The challenge is the number of suppositions added to an otherwise supposition filled day!
On dr. Oz he showed the mind of a meditation practitioner and the whole brain was lit up as opposed to a worldly man who's brain in the middle was dormant.
I know where you are coming from in some sort of way I guess. basically if we were to all be wiser to how the mind operates, to be more compassionate etc, we would be a better species overall and thus would have evolved in the sense of improving? More and more people are turning to this type of spirituality now in the west as it is not seen as a religion as much, so you have atheists who accept certain aspects of Buddhism but they do not follow say the 5 precepts or even acknowledge them.
QuadhelixDNA has been around for a long time though not observed in human cells as a stable structure - it has been formed in labs and observed as a transitory structure most often when cells are dividing - it is a sort of lockstep of sorts in certain types of cell division - I believe the recent discovery in human cells was an observation of the structure in cancer cells - there is likely a link between fast dividing uncontrolled cancer cells and the appearance of a transitory structure in what appears to be a more stable form - the way it was observed was by highlighting the G-base pairs (appearing in quads) - this means that it is only that part that was highlighted... very early days.
This doesnt seem to lend too well to quadhelixDNA being better than doublehelixDNA - or say more evolved - or that 4 is better than 2 or that going from 2 to 4 itself is progress.
Not too sure about the whole brain dormant thing - I remember when I was in school, the general quote was that around 90% of the brain is unused - neuroscience has shown this is not an accurate statement - quite apart from the uses that have been observed since, there is also a strand that is looking at the place of zero or silence in this process - so a neuron fires = 1 (something happens and it is used) or a neuron doesnt fire = 0 (nothing happens and it is not used) - so there is work on establishing how the 1 and the 0 interact - another words, that 1 and 0 both mean something rather than 1 being something and 0 nothing.
The one thing that seemed to stick was that the quadhelix might cause less maneuverability for those things to roam around which might cause problems with blockages.
Seems to me like science nowadays takes 4 steps back for every half step forward.
I sometimes think of my Grandma - she passed away before the internet hit the public consciousness - what a different view of the world she had and how things changed not much more than a couple of years after her passing - would she recognise the new habits now?
I chuckle knowing that around 2 weeks after my death, someone somewhere will discover that everything I ever said or thought in my whole life was a crock of sh*t!!
'But it seemed so true'... never thought I'd find my epitath on a random Tuesday!
But, to some extent, it was the next generation of geographers who proved most of Davis' work, because they took it to the next step. But nevertheless, it was Davis (like Darwin) who pointed out the direction, and so I give that generation of scientists the most credit.
In the past we were like almost all other animals and just acted on our instincts (with no ability to think about the effect it had on others).
Now, as we evolve, we seem to be able to do that.......
I dunno, I'm just babbling. Too much coffee!!!! :eek2:
I believe mankind will take the next step and evolve. I think aspects of Buddhism might be present.
Today we are much more crowded and interconnected so when one group loses it has some effect on the rest.
I think if we are to survive and thrive as a global society we have to learn to get along and live in cooperation instead of competition. So in that social aspect I think the values taught in many of the spiritual traditions that promote harmony and well being are a needed step forward for humanity.
I certainly believe that peoples spirituality is becoming more abstract (Pantheism, Panentheism, Deism, Mysticism ,etc.) and that more people are adopting eastern religions. However, I don't think they'll be the majority anytime soon (at least not for another lifetime or so) and I don't think one particular religion/philosophy will take precedence over another.
I've had too many jelly beans I think, lol.
But I don't see that as anything to do with scientific evolution.