Brain Health
Artificial Behavior
Our brain paints reality according to its survival needs—and when optimizing our health, it often works against us. Why artificial innovations sabotage our natural wellness and how to see through the illusion.
Brain Health
Our brain paints reality according to its survival needs—and when optimizing our health, it often works against us. Why artificial innovations sabotage our natural wellness and how to see through the illusion.
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And it must be this way: If humans could truly comprehend how small and insignificant their existence really is in the infinite vastness of the universe, they would not be capable of living.
So we never see the world as it really is, but always as our brain—this survival apparatus—colors it for us. This is usually done so intricately and "ingeniously" that we don't even notice—we consider ourselves far too important, after all.
When we are completely healthy physically and psychologically, life from beginning to end is a perfect matrix. The brain gives life meaning.
Only when we are no longer healthy does the matrix crack, and we begin to see even small glimpses of the (unpleasant) reality.
People notice when they lack testosterone, for example. They also notice when dopamine is missing from the frontal lobe behind the forehead. Songwriter Funny van Dannen showed us a world as it is often experienced when we lack thyroid hormones (it's funny how many people still laugh at that song!).
The combination of our brain's extreme susceptibility to disruption and our innate self-centeredness means we often sabotage ourselves.
Much of what humans invent and believe they've improved upon from nature, from evolution, has proven to be catastrophic self-sabotage.
Our brain is at work here too. Because without noticing it, we are 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 their own body in hand the way you would with a dog or another animal, wanders down misguided paths.
Modern humans have been burdened with the responsibility to independently and autonomously ensure we can stay healthy.
No Aboriginal or bushman ever had to wrestle with such a question, because they still live in the "perfect matrix of a human" mentioned at the beginning.
But instead of looking behind the curtain here, humans continue in their small-minded and narrow-minded ways. Today, a person should eat a piece of lab-created fake meat instead of high-quality meat—it's supposedly healthier.
How can anyone truly believe that? A piece of fake meat contains absolutely nothing that would benefit human physiology in any way. Instead, we're scratching more cracks into our health-maintaining matrix.
Even if researchers go to great lengths to prove the opposite through "science": it succeeds less and less. We've just worked through a prime example of this on our blog. It's worth reading.
