The drama of human condition comes solely from consciousness. Of course consciousness and its revelations allows us to create a better life for self and others, but the price we pay for that better life is high. It is not just the price of knowing risk, danger, and pain. Worse even: it is the price of knowing what pleasure is and knowing when it is missing or unattainable.
The drama of human conditions thus comes from consciousness because it concerns knowledge obtained in a bargain that none of us struck: the cost of a better existence is the loss of innocence about that very existence. The feeling of what happens is the answer of a question we never asked, and it is also the coin in a Faustian bargain that we could never have negotiated. Nature did it for us.
Antonio Damasio
петък, 11 ноември 2011 г.
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