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Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Thinking

There are many levels of thinking. When we sleep, we think. When we eat, we think. When we're bored we think. We like to think about thinking.
Thinking is what we like to think distinguishes us from other animals - even from the higher order animals such as our closest relatives: the great apes. But how do we know they don't think?
It is a fact that humans think far too much - we can safely say that our knowledge of our surroundings have become very sophisticated.
But do we owe this to biology? Does our evolved frontal lobe account for the fact that we think on a different level than the other animals?
Homo Neanderthalis had a larger brain capacity than Homo Sapiens - but still they were not as advanced as us in thinking, creating.
5 major genes differ us from Pan Troglodytes (chimpanzee) and yet they are still not able to even communicate with sophisticated language, to express thoughts and concerns?
Many look for proof of God. But to me this is proof. No computer even comes close to process as fast as the human brain. There is no computer that can store infinite memories. Still don't see the proof?
Biology doesn't explain how we can think: how exactly do action potentials enable us to have feelings and emotions?
There are many unanswered questions of life.
We can't answer all of them.
What will cure cancer? How can we end poverty? We don't know.
But we can only do our best and God will do the rest.

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