"Would you try and reason with a Cockroach?" Answer is probably no, because you know the cockroach does not have the ability to understand you even if you tried your best. But is your "best", the "best" of the human race?
what seperates human beings from the rest of the animal kingdom is our ability to serve our cognitive functions. Actually, the fact that we have cognitive abilities alone justifies us as the master species of the planet. But even our own brains are in a sense, limited to certain levels of efficiency, limited by other factors and systems, such as the human body.
It is important in every mechanism, in every system where two or more structures co-exist, one to dictate and the other to follow that dicatation to be in-lieu with one another. To be synnonymous with one another. Imagine two cogs of different sizes, spin them hard enough and its almost a given they will either derail or break.
It is paramount when two structures that coexist to serve one another be connected with one another.
However, its alot easier said than done. Its alot harder even, to think of one and then DO the same.
These coexisting strutures, well exist everywhere. The most common, and also the most problematic is the relationship between the mind and the body. It is a well known fact that the mind dictates the body. Sometimes the status quo is reversed, rendering the mind helpless to bodily ailments. But that is just us humans reversing down the evolutional chain to more primitive manifestations of life which is innate, since we humans have not achieved a level where our minds reign dominant over all other entities. I would argue, that it is most problematic when the mind functions too quickly for the body to follow.
Say for example, when youre thinking, and you need to put those cognitive points down in a readable, physical form, such as text. The mind races forward, leaping through every detail, every piece of information, and as how thoughts behave- like connected cars in a train, disrupt just one of them and the whole system collapses.
It is not uncommon for thought "cars" to be distracted. And the biggest distraction to the mind, ironically is the body.
As aforementioned the mind steam-rolls ahead. Barreling down the tracks, or road, or any path way you so desire to envisualize the progress of rational thought, because of the speed of which the mind operates, the body can never keep up with the mind's pace. Hence causing that very distraction that unravels the system.
From here two things can happen. The first is that the whole system breaks and shutsdown, disabling the mind completely as the body fails completely to follow suit. The other is more compensative, where the mind slows down to a pace at which the body can accept. Typing this blog post for example, the mind is already past the ending, and thinking of the next issue to tackle and how. And by the time the processes involved in typing this post is complete, the mind if set free- has already completed the next task at hand.
So, because the body has to keep up, I shall end this post. But before doing that, I shall re-highlight the last words of Socrates. I say last words because it was definately not his last thoughts.
Socrates was a philosopher who lived in pre-biblical times. Often prodding other people to think about issues which he saw before anyone else, which when solved, effectively breaks down government. Because the latter wishes to keep in power, to enslave the minds of the many, they framed Socrates as a dissenter, and have him punished "rightly" so - by executing him.
"Forcing" Socrates to ingest poison to take his own life (note the inverted quotation marks). Socrates willingly take the punishment, not because he was sick of how stupid people around him were and that they had no hope, nor worthy of being graced by his advanced system of thought - he saw his body as the biggest hindrance to his truth-seeking quest. His body, like any of ours, is limited by speed, by sustenence, pleasures and rest. By eliminating the body, he claims, actually sets the mind free.
There is one problem though, earlier I mentioned two systems are required in order to make work materialize and function. The mind and body are two distinct, yet arguably inseperatable entities, that co-exist as a system.
Wouldnt eliminating a cog from a system of gears make the other cog spin without effect? If only Socrates can again grace us with his discoveries about life from death, and illuminate us all from this inefficient duality of a system we live under.
But yet again, why would Socrates reason with us when we do not reason with cockroaches?
