Supernormal Stimuli

You have an old brain, and just as anything old, you are primitive and a slow learner.

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At this stage of the world’s history, and due to the exponential technological advancements, we have to ask ourselves if our brains are ready to process everything new to humanity. Evolutionary history has shown that humans adapt depending to their necessities. Ancient events such as the development of hair all over the body due to the cold time period, or the enlargement of the human jaw because of the necessity to eat raw food are evolutionary examples of what took place through thousands of years. Since the invention of the light bulb the technological advances have revolutionized the way we live, this has brought new devices and new foods, both a problem from an evolutionary perspective. Things such as TV, junk food and porn are not adequately processed by our brain, and have far greater effects on our brain than the old things our ancestors used to do. This is called supernormal stimuli, which is an exaggerated effect of something in the brain. This type of stimuli is not processed as it should by our brains, so it causes problems such as porn addiction, obesity and problems in social life by isolating humans. This is also a big problem in nutrition, where since the last 200 years the humans have been introducing new foods that aren’t good for our bodies. An example is the case with butter, a food made up of animal fat composed of the type of fat humans have been eating throughout thousands of years. Butter has been falsely linked to the deficits of the circulatory system and believed to induce heart disease. However the statistics show that in 1910 the rate of heart strokes was 10 percent of the population while today it is higher than 40 percent, when foods like butter that are supposed to cause strokes have been replaced for margarine and canola. Which makes us question whether butter is truly bad for our health, an idea that clearly contradicts evolution.

Religion at the Cost of Science

The three central monotheist powers that dominate the world have set back thousands of years of scientific development simply because the bases of science directly contradict the ones of religion. Giving more importance to fantastical, fictional and illogical explanations over rational and logical facts. These religions only approve of science if it is working on its favor, which is the case with Islamism that supports astronomy, geography, optics and math all because they provide better knowledge for the location of their mecca in relation to the stars and the strategic locations for their massive pilgrimages, and for the construction of calendars for their religion. However this religions directly fight all the scientific discoveries that go against their nature. Being the case the Christianity and the Catholicism, which throughout history have fought and censored everything that isn’t even contradicting or attacking their doctrine, all because the bible is supposed to contain everything humans need to now. A clear example was the persecution of Galileo for his heliocentric theory, on which the earth revolves around the sun. This theory provided the explanation for the proper functioning of our galaxy and our nature, but it contradicted the church in the sense that the earth, and therefore the church, were not in the center of the universe anymore, proving wrong the bibles allegations about being the center of life.

 

These explains the gigantic set back in scientific knowledge, given that the only way people such as Galileo could research logical explanation for matter was illegally, dangerous, and extremely difficult because of the scarcity their own resources. Concluding that the three principal monotheistic religions have affected thousands of years of development and evolution for the need of upholding a lie that has the power to control humanity by dominating their thoughts and behavior.

 

 

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This blog is written by a Colombian who feels that culture has failed him. You will find posts about new alternatives to someone living in the 21 century, on which I will write small essays about culturally significant matters. This blog is a place to criticize our currently degraded and poor culture, a victim of industrialization and religion.