Yes, an arc, an exploration of who's in control of one's life, based on conversations I've had throughout my life and most recently with a friend I cherish as a brother. Hmm...probably shouldn't offer that. I once dedicated a book to a friend with "...there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother." (Proverbs 18:24). Knew the fellow for seventeen years then never heard from him again. Don't know if it was the sentiment, the dedication or simply time.
In any case, this is an arc about getting control of your life. Way at the end I'll be offering some typical Josephian ways to do it.
But until then, enjoy the ride.
We started the discussion with therapy, workaholism, differences in different cultures, neurologic adaptations that can and can't be seen, dinosaurs, homosexuality and evolution in action.
We left off wondering if big teeth and big muscles was an experiment that failed. Here we pick up with how Nature really tests theories...
Well, close and no cigar. Nature found a solution that worked in the environment of the time. As things changed, old solutions didn't solve the new problems (something I'm hoping to communicate in my comments on Starting the discussion: Attention, Engagement, Authority, Influence, ..., but that's another blog entirely and literally) so come up with some new solutions. Right now it seems Nature is testing to learn if big brains (comparatively speaking) are an adequate solution to the current problems.My guess (in this anyway) is that the cure is worse than the disease. Big brains seem to causing more problems than they solve (see The World Without Us for a good read on this subject). And big brains' current run is something less than a million years. Dinosaurs had several million, at least two orders of magnitude the run of big brains.
So maybe, just as big teeth and big muscles evolved to insure a good, long run, so shall big brains.
(more to follow)
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