A Very Human Invention

An extraction from the book, Adeology

From the section: Everyone Is Agnostic—No One Knows A Goddamn Thing

        The human brain is without a doubt the most advanced evolutionary discovery in the universe known to humankind today. From a single-celled organism 3.65 billion years ago to the conscious, communicating, self-reflecting, dreaming, procreating, sentient creature presently known as homo homo erectus, or, the human beings that we call: us. The human brain is so remarkable that the human beings walking the earth 200,000 years ago were just as relatively capable of intelligence as we are today. But, they simply did not have access to the same resources in history that we have today—they had to forge them. And, it should not go without saying: it is only through our collective ancestors’ great struggle and sacrifice that our collective great fortune is made in the head start they’ve given us towards the future to surpass our very own wildest dreams and ambitions.