I recall that in the film Lucy, which is about the development of the mind’s full potential,
the Morgan Freeman character says something like: ‘If people had that much knowledge the result would be chaos.’ Lucy replies that ignorance, not knowledge,
produces chaos. It had me speculating, as things do…
It occurred to me that all bad deeds are driven either by fear or the pursuit of wealth or power. (Even the kid who pulls the legs off spiders is deriving satisfaction from exercising power over a smaller, helpless creature.)
But is it not true that fear, wealth and power depend for their existence on the existence of hierarchy – the perceived fact that some other people or forces are superior to us? If that’s true, would it not also be reasonable suppose that if our brains reached the ultimate level of capability, the concept of hierarchy would disappear and there would be nothing to drive badness?
Is that reasonable or not? I don’t know because my brain is still in the gutter and fast approaching the storm drain, but it’s a thought.
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