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Old 05-18-2014, 03:31 PM  
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Originally Posted by TheSquealer View Post
Furthermore, our brains abhor complexity and conscious thinking as it is very slow and costly in terms of energy consumed. It wants one simple answer. It doesn't care about the right answer if it is unimportant and unrelated to something we are focused on. It definitely does not want a complex, multifaceted answer to irrelevant things. Our brain is an organ tasked with a very simple purpose... survive and multiply. If the problem (such as what we observe in the video) is not directly related the brains mission of reproduction and survival, then it quickly dismisses things with any sensible explanation.
You must be talking about primitive humans because for tens of thousands of years humans have been embracing and growing their capacity to think and plan in increasingly complex ways. We'd still be living in caves and eating animals we killed ourselves if as you say our brains abhor complexity and conscious thinking. Many modern human beings including yourself don't abhor complexity, they seek it.
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