“Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors. If self-deception promotes fitness, the brain lies. Stops noticing—irrelevant things. Truth never matters. Only fitness. By now you don’t experience the world as it exists at all. You experience a simulation built from assumptions. Shortcuts. Lies. Whole species is agnosiac by default.”
Your brain is there to keep you alive
It isn’t there to make you happy
Life isn’t fair, it never was, and it never will be
Just make the most of things, because it’s all we have
“Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors. If self-deception promotes fitness, the brain lies. Stops noticing—irrelevant things. Truth never matters. Only fitness. By now you don’t experience the world as it exists at all. You experience a simulation built from assumptions. Shortcuts. Lies. Whole species is agnosiac by default.”
― Peter Watts, Blindsight
No matter the technology we develop, will we ever escape the mindset of being prey?
It’s not a mindset, it’s our whole system. We’d have to be made of something else.
Or de-condition maybe.
It doesn’t really have anything to do with being prey. It’s all about evolution. Even apex predators would have the same issue.
Correct. My mouth and stomach are there to make me happy