I wonder why I cannot get myself into a more energetic mode these days. Everything just seems so monotone, so aimless, so purposeless, as is the truth behind the façade of glittering justifications a human society gives itself.

2 days of reservist have only served to worsen the already shitty situation, and if there is indeed a higher governing intelligence, it really has its way of toying around. The week before reservist was rather slack, and on my first and second day, the year end orders suddenly came flooding in. Well this is not exactly a bad thing, but not being able to attend to business matters first hand, and having to sit in a course totally irrelevant to me, even from the NS aspect, is just killing all my brain cells.

I’ve been watching this anime called “NANA” recently (think I’ve combed 30 episodes in 2 days). One of the more human animes I’ve seen in a long time. The scenario flits between the glitz-and-glamour, and the more common aspects of people and their lives. It is sometimes marvelous to think that born so different from one another, we still consider ourselves a single species.

Pondering along these lines, it is even more disturbing to know that as a species, our very biological and psychological make-up is such that we are equipped with the capability to execute independent action and decisions, and yet all we have ever done in our measly history is to try to mimic other species.

As my earlier posts have mentioned in brief, it all started when we observed our surroundings, differentiated the observations, and decided we want what others have. We then move through space and time, painstakingly piecing together the world we have separated and segregated to obtain the “power” (if I may just use such a crude word), to create our own world.

In a certain way, we are really not one species, but totally separate entities, bonded by a single thing – put the dick in the hole and we get one more entity independent from the rest of everything.

Recently there was this movie – Invasion, which depicted a world, or rather an alternative to our current civilization, a solution to all forms of political leadership and civilization efforts. In the movie an alien spore / vegetable (oh whatever) invades our planet and when “infected”, the “victims” will retain their biological habits but work without hesitation, as if aware of humanity as a singular consciousness, for the “greater good”. Well in the end, no single human really wanted to be infected. We say when push comes to shove, people reveal their inner desires. This movie literally tells us in our face, that any form of civilization is pointless, because we are independent beings with unique minds.

Summing up the fundamental construct of the human being (as an individual, since we now know that conceptually, we don’t really suffice to be labeled as a species), we have the following:

The Body – A piece of carbon finely woven to be able to perform physical action, at a certain cost, as depicted in the table below.

ACTION

2 units of waking experience
1 unit of sleeping experience
Functions requiring physical movement

Energy in the form of food
Maintenance fee
Daily replenishment of lost fluids

The Consciousness – An independent will that grows, and can continue to grow infinitely, as long as our body is able to perceive experiences and transmit them effectively to this will. It is interesting to note that at the point of one’s creation, we don’t really have a consciousness. The most primitive form of our consciousness is that which reacts to the first needs of the body.

Adaptability – This is something I find unique to us humans. We don’t necessarily thrive in every condition, material or emotional, but we are able to “get used to it” over time. We are able to process, filter and execute actions to harness surrounding resources to get over almost any situation.

Having broken down the components of ourselves, we now look at the general direction where our “species” is headed, as determined by the “human” factors:

The Governments – They are the people who have sufficiently convinced the rest to discard the majority of natural consciousness, because the government has a superior consciousness and are able to make better decisions. However, on the inside, they are no more than self serving beings. With or without them, the human race will survive. In fact, we may be better off because looking at us as an eco-system; these are merely free-loaders providing no actually contribution in the long term (I mean years in the millions).

The Thinkers – This group includes researches, mystics, philosophers and similar. Their life quest is to find “the truth”. Converged at the pinnacle of human knowledge, they are only interested in the full development of the human consciousness.

The Creators – These are business owners, whose strength lies in improvising the surrounding resources to help adapt to the situation. They influence the body of the human being, and help to perpetuate “sellable” ideas and thoughts hatched by the thinkers.

The Internet – I paid special attention to this entity because it is an alternate connection of consciousness, and broadens the physical range of connection, from surrounding people to people all over the world. It is a realm the governments have no solid control over, unless they want to wipe of every human being, with which they will all starve to death. This environment is growing, evolving, entirely without government influence (there is some but it is totally negligible).

In a world like the one we live in today, we can safely say that we will continue to live and reproduce, as long as our planet lives. No matter how harsh the physical conditions, we are equipped with enough adaptability to pull through and find new comfort.

Governments may one day crumble under the influence of the internet. With the scale of global interactions increasing by the minute, and direct exchange of value made possible (since value is a virtual thing anyways), there will be almost no need for policy makers in future.

Governments will not crumble if there is a person smart (no I think wisdom is needed here as well) enough to take his lifetime to dominate the internet, and yet is a free loader. I think such a person is quite hard to come by, but I actually know one such person. In this case, there will eventually be only one government.

In both cases, we will eventually conquer space, thereby extending the lifespan of our “species” to be pegged to the lifespan of space, instead of that of earth. In the first case, we will probably be able to harness more of our consciousness, in the second, our consciousness will deteriorate slowly, till the top uses about 3% of his / her brain, and the rest less than half of that, which means 1.5% and below.

As the first case continues, we will probably come to a stage where we change our physical shell, or evolve it to sustain the massive energy emitted by our more highly evolved consciousness. If not, we will just become shell-less, and consequently cease to have anything in common to call ourselves a “species”.

In the second case, we would probably be wiped out by our increasing stupidity, or be eradicated by another species that have evolved more effectively than ourselves, then we also become shell-less, but our consciousness concentrate may not be strong enough to sustain itself in a shell-less state, and we then disintegrate (quite quickly), into part of the universal Akashic-Field.

The second case’s probability largely exceeds the first. That is, if this is a cause and effect universe. If this is a random universe, we may actually have a chance at playing god. Either ways, Iwill not live to see that day, nor will I be able to achieve above 50% usage of my brain in my lifetime to be able to sustain my own consciousness after death.