look around ; take a breath ; feel the scenes
Would I have rather lived as a butterfly? Floating along the winds and drinking from flower patches? A blissful and straightforward existence, free from the stresses of modern structured life
Humanity’s defining advantage has been our natural capacity for complex ideas. We understand and communicate concepts far more convoluted and abstract than the monarch could even begin to dream of (as far as I’m aware). But is that all there is to it? And how quickly is our dominance eroding
Never discount your intuitive senses ; your innate sensitivity to emotion and story ; the feelings and the memories and the visions. Though we often treat it as such, why should the “other intelligence” be any less worthy
I admit that an artistic heart may not be immediately useful when confronted by a hungry lion in the safari, but the value of any strength is dependent on its context. It’s a different world we live in today. We have far more convoluted and abstract questions on our minds than the Neanderthals could even begin to approach (as far as I’m aware)
I’ll also offer a more subjective argument: it’s fun to have fun
We have one advantage over the butterflies and robots alike ; we’re human.
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