ANTIDOTE

Cognorobot is a creed of humans who are predominantly evolved themselves into thinking class. The cognitive processes have become mechanistically aligned with a self-contained abstract system (theological, ideological, scientific, technological) among this thinking creed that have gradually lead to a dangerous decoupling of our entire civilizations from the embodied, survival-based ‘natural’ endowments that originally shaped the human mind. This creed of cognitive class infatuated with their own mental crafts and products can be identified as characterized by the confusion or infusion or occupation of exploring, innovating or creating models for reality and the pursuit of abstract ends at the potential cost of concrete existence.

The brain is a biological product or a biological mechanism meant to secure 'survival' of species. It is not really meant to probe metaphysical or ontological inquires. It didn’t 'emerge' for abstract thinking. Not definitely to ask questions of reality or ultimate reality. Linking it to civilizations and social structure of civilization and especially to social classes that emerged and specialised them as thinking class that too in abstraction like philosophers and logicians of Greece, priests of Egypt, sages of ancient India or Aztec priest were deviating from dictates of nature . This class then specialized in and monopolized this abstract, “non-natural” activity and made the unnatural activity of cognitive exuberance as the highest commodity to be sought in societies, of course leveraging out of it against ‘natural’ unthinking people. This class, can we call them ‘cognitive robots’ or ‘cognorobots’ systematically used abstraction to create ideologies (religion, di...