Happiness Is A Scam - Santosh Jha (best books to read .TXT) 📗

is a scam, we mean to point out to the fact that realities are always amenable to be distorted and conditioned to pilferage and depravity, to suit personal profitability. A scam is a fraud; a deception of perceptional and cognitive sanity, aimed at installing a reality, which is made to stand as true and right but is actually a conned and conspired copy of reality. This deception can be conscientious or subconscious; this fraud can be owing to ignorance or ingenuity, but it shall remain a scam.

We are very humbly but sincerely attempting to build a hypothesis that over the millenniums; especially during the last few centuries, cultures, human systems of appropriateness and life-living rules-regulations et al have become scams; aimed not at overall wellness of humanity but to the profitability of a few in politics and businesses. This is scam. We hypothesize that many human ideas and perceived realities; like Happiness, stands as scammed reality; divorced of the true and real intelligence of either nature-evolution or human order.

There is a humble insistence that what we are detailing in this eBook should not ideally be accepted as some reality. They are all only probability; as all realities are supposed to be. Science has come a long way in understanding so many aspects of realities but still; there are gaps. Loads still remain to be unraveled and deciphered. Science is progressing exponentially but it still has so many missing answers. That is why great scientists always insist that there are no theories in science of reality but always probabilities. Modern physicists like to call them Landscapes. A landscape is a universe of probability of reality; somehow amenable to good measure of measurability and predictability but never the Finality.

We also build our hypothesis as probabilities and this we do to enable you to understand how and why there is this very impending need to expand our horizon of the domain of perceptions, to allow novel and alternative ideas and shades of realities. This shall definitively help in expanding the dimensions and domains of your overall wellness and true successes in life-living. The aim and purpose of this eBook is just to empower your consciousness by presenting a possible hypothesis about life-living realities. This probably is the way personal potentials are optimized. Thanks. Welcome!

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A Look Back Into Time Dimension

Realities are not built overnight. Every reality, we live out today and accept as real and true, has a long and complex historicity. I, my life, my experiences and feel of realities surrounding me, are all millions and billions of years old. I am 54; but the realities I live with, in presentness and contemporaneousness, have their origins and evolution in a timeline, which my brain simply cannot actualize in entirety. There probably is a continuum, embedded in my genome, spanning these billions of years till date, which I cannot sense out and actualize; until, I understand and accept the mechanism and processes of my body-brain system. But this continuum affects me; shapes my subconscious, which I am oblivious of. It is such a huge satisfaction that brilliant scientists have invested their precious lives in unraveling and deciphering so much about the billions of years of nature’s evolution, which makes me juxtapose my ‘Self’ and Consciousness in marvelous symmetry of realities. This is some ‘contentment’; beyond the horizon of whatever may define as Happiness.

As I align my consciousness and my awareness with the objective-scientific knowledge of history and its continuous evolution to this date; I subconsciously acquire a hugely satisfying cognition of the magnificent ‘cosmos of perceptions’, which my meager 54 years have processed. This enables me to see, visualize and internalize multiplicity of realities around me and in the universe in so many novel and alternative ways. The novel and alternative Cognition, which this ‘knowledge’ has extended me, is probably the ‘Happiest’ attainment of my life-living. This cannot be expressed and explained with the help of humanly designed language.

It is such shamefulness yet, a matter of utmost contentment that I have done nothing; still, I have received all. This endowment of unimaginably blissful proportions has happened to me just because I am a stupid; I accept it with unashamed willfulness and that is why learning becomes galvanized and smooth for me. This is the magic of acceptance. You imbibe, ingrain, install, internalize and catalyze novel and alternative information and knowledge and become truly rich and wealthy; without doing anything!

This wealth of objective and unadulterated information about the probabilities of nature’s evolution over billions of years, as part of the modern scientific knowledge of evolutionary biology and molecular biology, et al, stands us in unraveling such perceptions about self and the world of realities that truly creates wellness. This primarily helps in deciphering the scams that surrounds us and shows the pathways to come out of them.

We need to talk about some aspects of this emerging knowledge and information about history of nature and evolution. This may impart crucial vantage points in unraveling some dimensions of current life-living realities in novel and alternative ways. Essentially, as we said earlier, the most critical information, modern science has unraveled, pertains to the evolution of brain; from the very start; hundreds of millions of years back to modern times. As emergence of brain and its evolution has been the most crucial progression, emerging out of prolonged and calibrated interaction between nature and organisms; it is truly sparkling information for all of us. It paves the journey of our understanding of how evolution works its intelligence around organisms, including humans and what is the mechanism and processes of these interactions between nature and organisms. All of us now living in presentness are also doing the same – constantly and intricately interacting with our external milieus and adapting (evolving) our behavior-actions to optimize survival wellness. We need to talk about them as it is a general acceptance that Happiness (and all other feelings) is an emergent perception, engendered out of our interactions with external milieus of society-culture-polity and people therein.

It is now believed by evolutionary scientists that even in a single cell oceanic organism, there was this ‘sophisticated’ capability of the cell to sense out and respond to its external ambient environment, which was necessary for its survival. Till date, even after billions of years, the evolved human brain does this same basic and primary task. This primary competence of cell to sense out and respond to environment remained the cornerstone of inter-cellular communication, when organisms evolved into multi-cellular living entities. It needs to be understood that all cellular communication happens with the help of chemicals. Till date, even in nerve cells of evolved human brain, communication happens through chemical signaling and electrical pulse, which also is a chemical process. We don’t go into details of it. However, it is a beautifully marvelous domain of modern knowledge everyone should have in details.

In progression of time, these capabilities evolved and diversified as organisms became complex and required better sensory signaling. The next crucial stage came later when organisms became more complex and they required much more than sensory signaling abilities to communicate information, for better survival optimization. The central nervous system happened with group of neurons not only relaying signals but also ‘processing’ them. The common ancestor of all animals; a worm like organism, had a basic and raw brain around its eye-like feature, hundreds of millions years back. Scientists say; script of modern human brain was clearly embedded in the brains of simple organisms, as early as 500 million years back.

This evolution of brain having abilities to process sensory information from external as well as internal milieu is a critical development in evolution. It is believed that modern human brain happened around two hundred thousand years back and this brain is the genius of information processing. It is not yet fully known how the brain ‘processes’ loads of complex information and how it decides on final actionable behavior patterns of humans. Though, there is a dominant hypothesis about human brain’s ‘information processing’ being analogous to humanly designed computers; it cannot be considered the finality, as there are opposing views too. Moreover, as we talked earlier; use of metaphors, analogies and symbols to understand a reality can be troublesome as it scams the perception of reality.

Modern scientists caution that undue adherence with current analogies and metaphors, for easy understanding of realities, may restrict the true and real deciphering of reality. They believe, as science progresses, the language of symbols and metaphors science uses, should also progress. That is why there is this valuable need to have novel and alternative perspectives and ideas about everything, including the language we use for describing realities. This restrictiveness is also applicable to the idea and reality of the term Happiness.

What we are concerned here about evolution of brain is, why human brain evolved the way it did. This may help us understand where and how human brain differs from other brains, especially when it comes to perceiving reality. It is now accepted that modern human brain evolved to its modern form and functionality because of three crucial factors –

Cultural Requirements – Complexities of new norms, rules and laws.

Technological Advancements – Complexities of new motor skills.

Social Relationships – Complexities of interaction with people.

It needs to be emphasized here that complexity of human brain stems from emerging diversities and intricacies in human life-living, as early humanity settled for organized living. There is crucial information coming out of our knowledge of evolution of human brain, which must be understood and internalized in consciousness. This is big facilitation in visualizing, what nature proposed, what goodness and utility this innate proposition had and what we humans must change and accept as contemporaneously relevant benchmark for current disposition.

History of brain’s evolution clearly points out to two very critical stage of brain’s evolution in thousands of millions of years. For clarity of understanding and easy internalization, we must detail them –

Centrality of Visuals in Brain Evolution – It is now accepted that when dinosaurs ruled the Earth, early mammals had to survive primarily in hiding; forced to nocturnal living, when it was safe to move around for food. These mammals relied more on olfactory perceptions to search food and find safety. Later, when dinosaurs were wiped out and mammals had a free run of the landscape, they developed better visual faculties. Much of mammalian brain evolution pertains to development of visual cortex and commensurate evolving of eye as dominant sensory information source. This facility is most evolved in humans. The superior olfactory genes are still there in humans but remain suppressed or switched off. We can easily visualize; around 85 percent of our perceptions, learning and cognitive decision making come from visual sensory inputs from our eyes. It is a hypothesis that our brain templates all sensory information and memory also works exclusively as visual information, coded in synaptic plexus, as chemical imprint. Even when we hear a sound, smell an odor or sense out a touch, our brain automatically recognizes the associated visualizations of the sensory information. We hear a sound from a far off place and immediately the image of the guitar, from which the sound is coming, is formed in our mind. Huge part of brain’s cortex evolution is dedicated to visual channels and processing. This in turn means; our brain is innately wired to learn by aping; as in most mammals; especially primates. Most of our sensory successes and reward insinuations come from seeing and aping, what most others do. This ‘sense of other’ is a very critical element in human consciousness, which we shall talk later. Science says that human brain is far more competent in ‘Recognizing’ than ‘Recalling’. We may deduce a hypothesis, from this fact that largely, majority of so-called memory functionality pertains to ‘matching’ new sensory information with existing templates of visuals, already encoded in brain plexus. We may hypothesize that what we see most others do, we recognize well and are subconsciously prompted to ape. The supposition is – we