The Learning Mind - Know the Self within

We,the people..
Individual and society are inseparable and we need to look at them together – always.

Evolution took over 70 million years.

So far as human specie is concerned – out of 7 million years of rigorous natural selection
process of evolution,but for last 10-12000 years, human specie remained increasingly
focused towards survival – driven by instincts and reptilian brain fighting with fears,food,
shelter and uncertainty.

The control over instincts started separating the human from all other animals. Natural
selection and adaptation struggles prompted human specie to opt for brain power in
exchange of physical strengths and ascended from lower forms to be what we are today.
Magnitude of intellect developed slowly to provide self motivated adaptable behavior
requiring growing brain and over the entire four million years or more of the human
development.

Later process of natural selection was responded by self-discipline powered by larger

brain, and it increased difference between the human and the lower order instinct driven
animals. Self-discipline is the yardstick of the human evolution. The more of behaviour
determined by intellect, more human he becomes. The less disciplined or uncontrolled
behaviour by an individual pushes him towards the lower order animals.
Thus human in being acquired the skills that were needed to survive, over the instincts.
Need for protection, which the human collectives offered, learned behaviour through
limitation, division of labour for mobilization of strength and expertise and most of all
need for reproduction for enlarging the collective lead humans from herd to family and
then to civilization - enlarging forms of society.

Society formation was not end of challenges – human consistently raised itself to the
occasions to avert extinction - used something more than the animal power – thinking –

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for survival struggles and then for comforts of life, sustain and grow ! .. and many felt
saturated in this.

Human brain evolved in the process to be a powerful organ, with tremendous ability to
learn and think. The human evolution went in parallel in development of cultural behavior
and changes in physical appearance. Culture was represented by all human creations
and activities governed by social customs and rules, including elements like language, art
and alphabets, numbers etc. Ability to transfer of information from one person to another
and from one generation to the next evolved through communication ways including
spoken ,written language language and demonstration effects.

However, as it seems obvious very few who realized the power of thinking and learning
were able to raise themselves considerably to use the brain and evolving associated
powers gainfully, and for the reminders pains, struggles and dilemmas habitually became
a way of life.

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