The Abstract Realm and Humanity

The human experience is defined by many things. Our physical world is occupied by many vibrant and complex wonders. The colors, the shapes, the structures, the games. All these things form a core component of our experience.

    Though the physical is an important and foundational component of our existence, so is the non-physical.  The abstract concepts and ideas of our experience are also absolutely essential for a full, well rounded, and enjoyable human experience. 

      Abstract social and cultural facets of our reality like love, liberty, friendship, faith, mythology, fiction, and beliefs all form just as much of a foundational experience of human beings as the physical realm. In fact, we would be nothing more than an instinct driven, base animal without the abstract.

      The great problem of the abstract, non-physical realm of our reality is that there is enough uncertainty surrounding many abstract concepts and ideas where there is room for a skeptic or a cynic to deny the existence of many of them, even when there is significant implied and indirect evidence to confirm the mental effects on human consciousness and behavior of many of these abstract things. Even though they don't exist physically, they very much exist linguistically, symbolically, and conceptually. 

         Things like flags represent the ideals of a nation or people, and these ideals have a profound effect on human behavior. These ideals are mostly abstract. Religious text alters and changes human behavior significantly in the followers and adherents of a particular faith. These are usually abstract things as well. Symbology of its many forms profoundly shapes human psychology and experience. Again, this is abstract as well.

        In fact, without abstract concepts, innovation and advancement would be impossible. The abstract realm forms the foundation of the human imagination and creativity. With the imagination and its ability to access abstract information, we are able to develop and construct absolutely amazing feats of technological, social, and political achievements. 

         The imagination gives human beings the ability to visualize and conceptualize structures, systems, and organizations that don't exist quite yet at the moment of conception, which is why the abstact and imagination is so important for the innovation and and advancement of a species. The abstract and the imagination are the keys to the future.

        Without the abstract, fiction and cultural developments and activities would be impossible. Since the abstract forms the core components of the human imagination, without the abstract realm, our existence would be a bland, grey, wasteland devoid of innovation, excitement, advancement, pleasure, and purpose.

          Cutting access to the abstract would cripple humanity beyond repair, and our existence would become nothing short of a boring nightmare.

          Not to sound like a broken record, but this is why you don't artificially alter neurology or brain functions. The law of unintended consequences applies to this, and there may be extremely detrimental consequences to doing this to an individual or group of people, such as the crippling of those people's innovative or imaginative capabilities.

You got to teach human beings to be peaceful, not force them to be through genetic or neurological alterations of their brains.

Have a good day everyone!