Longevity
Artificial Behavior
Our brain shapes reality to keep us functional, but human inventions often backfire. From environmental toxins to ultra-processed foods, we're sabotaging our own health.
Longevity
Our brain shapes reality to keep us functional, but human inventions often backfire. From environmental toxins to ultra-processed foods, we're sabotaging our own health.
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And it has to be this way: if humans could truly understand how small and insignificant their existence really is in the infinite expanse of the universe, they would not be capable of surviving.
We never see the world as it actually is, but always as our brain—our survival apparatus—colors it for us. It's usually painted in such a convoluted and "sophisticated" way that we don't even notice—we consider ourselves far too important anyway.
When we're in perfect physical and psychological health, life from beginning to end is a perfect matrix. The brain gives life meaning.
Only when we're no longer healthy does the matrix crack, and we begin to see even small glimpses of the (unpleasant) reality.
People notice it, for example, when they lack testosterone. They also notice it when dopamine is missing in the frontal lobe behind their forehead. The musician Funny van Dannen showed us a world as it's often experienced when we lack thyroid hormones (it's funny how many people still laugh at the song!).
The combination of how easily our "perfect human matrix" can be disrupted and our inherent egocentrism means we often end up sawing off our own branch.
Much of what humans invent and believe they've improved upon compared to nature and evolution has proven to be catastrophic sawing off our own branch.
Our brain is at work here too. Without realizing it, we're constantly being fooled by this survival machine.
Whoever doesn't see through this, whoever doesn't understand themselves and their own biology and doesn't take themselves and their body in hand the way you would with a dog or other animal, is wandering down the wrong path.
We modern humans have been burdened with the responsibility of independently and autonomously ensuring we can stay healthy.
No Aborigine or Bushman ever had to wrestle with such a question, because they still live in the "perfect matrix of humanity" mentioned at the beginning.
But instead of taking a look behind the curtain here, humans continue with their narrow-minded and limited way of doing things. Nowadays, people are supposed to eat a piece of fake meat from a laboratory instead of quality meat—supposedly it's healthier.
How can you actually believe this? A piece of fake meat contains nothing that would benefit human physiology in any way. Instead, we're creating more cracks in the matrix that keeps us healthy.
Even if researchers go to great effort to prove the opposite through "science": it's becoming increasingly rare. We've just worked through an excellent example in our blog. It's worth reading.
