Friday, October 20, 2006

On the Origin of the Human Mind

The first bipedal ape to be born with a human mind -- went mad.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

She or he took a bite out of knowledge and had the first existential crisis without coming back from the abyss.

Troy Camplin said...

Indeed -- quite a fruit produced by the tree of knowledge of good and evil. I imagine one would immediately feel alone and, even if joined by someone else, as though you were thrown out of some most fantastic garden and into a great deal of hardship. Only, it was a much better deal in the long run, since our complexity makes for a much more interesting game.

V said...

Not overly relevant but there's an interesting article on bonobos in this month's Snithsonian. Apparentlt they're pretty smart.

V said...

hmm... and nake less typoes then mee.

Todd Camplin said...

I think we have a bridge here for myth and science. Truth and fact can get along or is this too a game played between two teams that never win.