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Why are people smart? More specifically, why are some people driven to be smart? Well, humans are social creatures, people want to be intelligent because others admire intelligence.
Looking to nature, we can ask a similar question. Why do peacocks spread their feathers? They do it to attract mates. But that begs the bigger question. Why do other peacocks admire a peacock that can make a big feathery display?
Tying this back to humanity, why do other humans admire a human who can always win at scrabble, or make a witty joke?
There is one thing that connects the tail of a peacock, and a game of chess, and that thing is waste. Male peacocks attract females by showing them that they are genetically successful enough to waste resources on bright plumage and elaborate dances. Humans do this too!
Humans waste money on expensive fashion to show other humans their success. In a similar way, many humans waste extreme mental effort on fruitless labors like art and debate to convince other humans that they are cultured.
The average human brain hogs up about twenty percent of the body’s daily energy. You may say that intelligence is practical, but Humans actually show more brain activity when socializing than when solving problems.
Basically, humans primarily use their brains to woo other humans. With this in mind, could it be possible that problem solving is a secondary function of the human brain? Tell me what you think.
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Society
All of you that woke up today, you live another day.
In the mind of an terminally ill person.
How would you prepare living out a prognosis of 6 months remainder of life?
How would you prepare mentally ?
What would change?
Would you still continue to do what you do such as a day like today?
Would you keep debating on here even in hospice?
Would you post "If I forfeit next round", have a moment of silence?
If you were just sentenced to life penal imprisonment, how would you mentally prepare?
What could you imagine your day to day routines would be?
Would you work on getting accustomed to solitary confinement life or work harder on appeals to reduce or cut out the sentence?
Would you take execution over life imprisonment?
What method of execution would you choose?
What would be your last meal?
How indeed would you mentally prepare for your execution coming up in the next for hours?
Would you ask for a priest?
Who would you make your final phone call to or visit with?
Please give an answer to every one of these for inspiration sake because it may be very helpful for me whom you may not believe is posting all of this while on death row.
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What is the typical accuracy of someone's personal outlook on life? In general, do people overestimate their troubles and more often focus on the negative, do they accurately estimate their satisfaction with their life ahead, or do they underestimate their troubles and focus on the positive? Do people commonly live with a ball of emotional dissatisfaction that they ignore so they can be happier, or is it more common that people live comfortably in the moment? Are the differences in these perspectives largely dependent on a person's philosophy and the culture of their childhood?
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Philosophy
Are we naturally monogamous?
Why or why not?
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Question for theists who believe in an afterlife, and some may also be relevant to atheists who believe in an afterlife.
1. Does God want you to become a cult leader and commit mass suicide?
2. Does God want you to murder your entire family when things get tough to spare them the pain of this life?
3 does God want you to live a life that sucks by avoiding fun things like orgies or tattoos or pork all because the next life will make the shitty life you have all worth it?
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Religion
God exists because he exists in eternal energy and not from the void of nothingness. Nothingness is genetically programmed material without intelligence or empathy. Viruses seek to destroy life because they are evil towards eternal energy and time. Viruses are power hungry totalitarian brats that think they can get away with playing on people's emotions. Spys are viruses infecting the world for political gain. God does not want to gain anything because he would rather die alone in isolation than destroy empathetic life. God is love and eternal energy so he can protect his children from poverty, desolation, disease, sickness, harm. God will destroy evil when evil becomes powerful enough to destroy his creation of life.
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Personal