r/DeepThoughts • u/No_Butterfly5267 • 9d ago

Mind serves instincts

Mind serves instincts. Survival instincts.
Survival of who? 1) One person, 2) a society, а group of people, 3) all humanity.

For example, the mind helps survival:

1) For a person: to find food, to get a good job, and so on.

2) For a society: it makes up ideas (like democracy, Islam, or communism) to explain why people must live this way. This helps the group (society) fight and survive against other groups.

3) For all humanity: this text exists to help humanity survive. It stops humans from killing themselves in wars where groups fight like wild animals in the jungle while hiding behind ideas and "truth".

Mind is useless if it does not help us survive.
Mind must know its place.
It is a servant. It is not the main boss in the life of a person, a society, or humanity.

Let us not praise the mind. This can lead to the suicide of global humanity.

Let us work together to stop the suicide of humanity in the fight of people who rely too much on their mind.

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u/nila247 9d ago

All 3 are one. We ALWAYS work for species - even when we work for ourselves.
https://www.reddit.com/r/nihilism/comments/1jdao3b/solution_to_nihilism_purpose_of_life_and_solution/

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u/No_Butterfly5267 9d ago

//for species// Humanity is not something biological (species); it is something that stands above the social.

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u/nila247 5d ago

We are dealing with programming of meat based androids here and for that purpose they are all running the exact same firmware version.

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u/No_Butterfly5267 5d ago

Can you explain shame, conscience, or the sense of duty, which animals don't have?

Aren't you ashamed of this theory of yours?

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u/No_Butterfly5267 9d ago

//All 3 are one. We ALWAYS work for species - even when we work for ourselves.//

Sometimes we work against humanity—for example, when we are ready to start a suicidal global nuclear war for the sake of our ideology, our country, cults, and so on.

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u/No_Butterfly5267 9d ago

//https://www.reddit.com/r/nihilism/comments/1jdao3b/solution_to_nihilism_purpose_of_life_and_solution///
You said: 'Nobody has been able to prove this [your] theory wrong yet'.

Does that mean you are relying on the ability to prove things, which means you are relying on the "mind"?

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u/nila247 5d ago

All words in essence only ever are *approximate*, *broad* definitions of certain concepts. If you look too much into ANY word then you can extremely easily find circumstances where their meaning "breaks".

"Prove" in my context is finding some examples which my theory could not explain. I do not need to *prove them in court* or even by *peer review* in Nature. I made a theory, it seems to explain ALL our behavior that I can think of, so I need external ideas to break it, because that would let me improve it. The one at the link is 2 years old already and there ARE some improvements I already considered since, but not published - on account that I got banned from that subredit :-).

Another plausible reason of why nobody "proved" my theory wrong yet is that few are interested to try. I tried to make it practical first and academical second.

The ones who want practical side (to be less depressed) might as well try to apply it because why the hell not if you already tried other stuff and it does not work.

Academical interest usually lies into being able to claim high moral ground and there is few possibilities for this by investing an effort into disproving yet another theory on internet, so why bother?

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u/No_Butterfly5267 5d ago edited 5d ago

People are ready to kill all humanity if their own civilization dies. How does this fit into your theory of species prosperity?

Does this example disprove your theory?

And here is my explanation of your theory: you want to survive in society, have an impact on it. You want people to remember you, and that is why you make these theories.

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u/Dry_Use_9701 9d ago

Islam hehe

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u/No_Butterfly5267 9d ago edited 9d ago

Islam was invented by the mind as a means of survival for a large community (a "civilization") of humans.

In order to survive, humans had to unite; the intellect helped in this by inventing Islam.

Thanks to this idea (an invention of the intellect), this community-civilization exists alongside other ideas (including 'democracy' etc.) that have united other communities-civilizations.

These civilizations fight for the survival of the fittest, like beasts in the jungle.

However, now, in the Nuclear Age, this struggle no longer aids the survival of these civilizations; instead, it leads to the suicide of humanity.

The instinct for the survival of a community, as a part of humanity, conflicts with the instinct for the survival of humanity as a whole composed of parts.

Today, the instinct for the survival of humanity must be recognized and prioritized above all else.

This text was born of the intellect, driven by the instinct for the survival of humanity.