The Patterns of Life-Week 4

Week 4 - The Pattern of Life

1) Is there a drug around for just about everything?
Well yes there is. Our culture and medical paradigm is based on medicinals to treat conditions. The system is set up for this. The moment you group a number of symptoms into a category and call it a disease then soon will come the medication for said disease. They sort of coexist. You cant be high unless there is something caled being low. It seems that in our culture you can have a disease or condition without there being a medicinal to balance it out. This paradigm is quite dysfunctional but it seems to be the mentality of most modern people.

2) Can we raise our levels of dopamine ourselves?
Sure, I’m sure any and all process in the body, whether they are chemical or energetic, can be influenced by ourselves without an outside catalyst. The question isn’t so much as “can we” but more of “how can we”. and to make things more difficult I doubt that if we figured out a method of how to raise dopamine levels, im sure that the method wouldn’t be the same for everybody.

3)How do you think chimps and humans diverge as species?
They probably diverge at the point where humans care to find out the differences between us and them, where as chimps don’t really care to make this comparison. This is not to say we have a more developed consciouness but we sure do have a different consciousness. They would prob spend more energy on living a thriving life than they would on researching what makes us different from others.