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25 November 2013
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knowing that one day, inevitably, we shall perish. What makes this more interesting is the
methods we device for the same. Now in a recent video by V-Sauce on YouTube, I saw him
mention how, what sets humans apart is something which is very fundamental. Our ability to
ask questions. Now scientists have been able to train chimps to count, to express, and even to
an extent to feel emotion and convey it in the precise manner. But the one thing that they
havent been able to do even to the species that is second most intelligent to humans, is to
induce the ability to ask questions. I have always had this theory that our will to know
everything around us is more than just a human factor and a few days ago while driving, it
struck me! It is the ultimate defence mechanism. What made humans evolve, what made
them stronger and more agile and adaptable than other species to a certain environment is
their ability to ask questions. Now I am not stating this biologically or as a theory in general to
be universalised but it is worth giving a thought.
Early on in the process of going around doing our own business, we as humans catered
to the fact that we needed a defence mechanism simply so that we can strive and be alive for
as long as we want. And what we figured more than any other organism was that we needed
information. We needed a constant flow of knowledge of things around us and things around
those things and then things around them in turn. We ended up hardwiring knowledge
gathering into our predecessors and today we see ourselves are explorers and expedition
makers and the wanderers of tomorrow. We have seen, through history that more we know
about things, the safer we are, everything else kept constant. And it perpetuates into our
lifestyle.
Now the root of me writing this article was actually to figure out why we happen to have
a tendency to survive, and I somehow ended up thinking about all of this and then wrote that
down. And that very same thought process stands as testimony to our ultimate defence
mechanism. Our ability to ask questions. And more so, our incessant and frustrating
morbidity to answer them.
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