Our instincts
Last night, when I was about to sleep in the room, and it was dark, our dog walked in and in the darkness, it felt like something moved.
For a second, I felt afraid and then I realized that it was our dog who had come to sleep near me. I then calmed down and it indeed was our dog when I checked.
That made me wonder. The instinctual ability of spotting danger lurking in the darkness is always active in us. I have not worked on it. I have not honed it as some other “skill”. But it is still there. That is the difference millions of years of evolution can make by encoding the program of certain behaviour as instinct.
What would happen if we had an instinctual ability to acquire true knowledge, manage risk or avoid polluting the world? How different that world would be?
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