The Dead-end Up Here

A sufi master, Dr. Syed Hussein Nasr during the 2013 festival of faiths in Louisville said why is it that horses do not overeat nor do most animals, but we do? Even after your belly is full, the craving for the next tasty morsel persists. Even after you can barely see, you want another drink. It doesn't take long before your heart is after another lover.  His answer was that something propels us to want everything, the point he made was that within us  is a desire for the infinite. Where does this desire for the infinite come from? Surely it can't be the organs like a mouth, a stomach or even our sexual body- none of these have a will. They serve a bigger master. Is it the brain or its representative, the mind? When we look we find no mind, no brain, just thoughts coming and going like wisps of clouds; sometimes arbitrary and other times evolved out of a stimulus. For a moment just imagine an engine behind all desires in the world incl...

Honda's ISMO will one day be doing the dishes and getting your pills as we age and as ISMO gets smarter but one thing it can not do is become human. Here is a simple test, how long do you think it will take for you to program your robot not to drink too much, eat too much or smoke? How about the same for you? There is an independent streak within this body and mind that refuses to just follow. That streak has to come to that conclusion all by itself even at the cost of obviously damaging this body. Do you need any further proof that you are not the body?