With all do respect, why are humans so stupid/limited in knowledge?

Question

For example: being blind to our own mortality...etc

Answer 1

I think animals are stupid for not being able to drive a car.

Answer 2

In my travels so far, human beings are the most intelligent beings I have ever met. Not all are blind to their own mortality, but the ones that are are neurotic, paranoid weirdos, who live their lives in constant fear so I see being blind ones own mortality as a definite advantage.

Answer 3

it is an effective question. With all due appreciate, ask a monkey and be conscious the way it responds. hmmm, can not ask the monkey? perhaps you need to confusing: What are you comparing us to that proves we are so stupid? we are the in trouble-free terms animal that contemplates mortality, so technically we are smarter than the different animal. perhaps you're inquiring about lack of expertise. properly, Blaise Pascal wrote that there are 2 kinds of lack of expertise: a organic lack of expertise that all mankind has because it accompanies beginning and an lack of expertise reached through the intellects; "having run through all that adult men can understand, discover they understand no longer some thing, and are available back again to that similar lack of expertise from which they set out; yet this can be a discovered lack of expertise it is conscious of itself" really, we are ignorant because we do not understand that we ought to continually understand more beneficial or because we've discovered that we can not learn all of it. Pascal believed that the stupid people were those that departed from the single extreme (the single which starts at beginning) and had no longer reached the different. I consider him.

Answer 4

Human behavior is still governed by cave man instincts. We may intellectually know things but our lower brain tends to control our emotions and desires. In essence we have much less free will than we like to think we do.

Our lower brain seeks out repetitive pattern input usually with some kind of "satisfying" effect. If it doesn't get them it generates anxiety, restlessness, boredom, and even physical impulses that the higher brain only knows it wants to feel better and takes action to get what is really a lower brain desire.

Take smoking. People now generally believe that smoking is bad for their health. But the lower brain has learned that smoking creates a satisfying feeling and the fact that it is only temporary has no effect on the lower brain. The higher brain, or intellect, has no way to control the lower brain directly, so you are hostage to feeling bad until you smoke a cigarette.

The key to controlling the lower brain is forming habits. For some reason the lower brain feels satisfied when you repeat actions over long periods of time. How long it takes is different for everyone. But if you want to stop smoking, you have to form habits that "replace" the act of smoking. That is why people who are currently or have quit frequently chew gum, or gain weight from eating, or stopped hanging out with people who smoke themselves.

Answer 5

Honestly, I think humans are one of the foulest species on the planet. Many of us are very blind to everything that sits right before our eyes. I guess that a creature as advanced and intelligent as humans are can't be wonderful too. I think it has to do with a constant balance factor in life. I hate humans... I hate being human.

Answer 6

I'll try not to point out the obvious irony of the grammatical error in your question.
In any population there will be a percentage of people who do exhibit this sort of stupidity, but usually the majority of people will not. It's just part of being human.

Answer 7

That isn't being stupid, that is avoiding the bleeding obvious. We all know we are going to die, we just choose not to dwell on it.