I also imagine there's are a a minority of lucky people with naturally uncanny positivity and balance.LuckyR wrote: ↑January 26th, 2020, 4:05 amI don't disagree. Silicon based life forms certainly will solve this issue. As for humans, I suppose yogi masters probably already have.Greta wrote: ↑January 24th, 2020, 6:22 pm
Sure. That's because other animals, largely including humans, are as thick as pig droppings and just about have to be beaten into a helpless, bloody pulp before they accept inconvenient truths that aid survival. Look at Australia's politicians who are still denying that climate change is real or at all related to the fact that most of our east coast forests, that have stood for millennia, will be gone by summer's end.
So nature provides a blunt instrument to get through those thick skulls.
I like to think that, in time, the humans who pull through the coming natural disasters, wars and pandemics in this overpopulated world, will be more sophisticated. If they, say, have a kidney stone, they might not need to be sent into paroxysms of pain to get the message that they need to do something. Just receive a message: "Kidney stone" should be enough to send them straight to treatment. In a time-poor situation, such breaking a leg, agony serves to guide the poor blighter towards doing the least damaging movements. However, just because I can't think of a way around this does not mean there are subtler, more sophisticated means of achieving the same thing with subtler, more sophisticated humans (or post-humans).
Perhaps, the body has sufficient self-repair capacities, then pain might not be needed, with any unfixable injury being so extreme that it would be fatal anyway?
But for the balance of humanity (and other species), life ranges anywhere from nightmarish to challenging. Ideally, we don't throw the baby out with the bathwater, still maintaining the capacity to enjoy positive emotions.