Speaker A
Ultimately, we currently operate on two layers. We have sort of a limbic, like prime, primitive brain layer, which is where all of our kind of impulses are coming from. It's sort of like we've got, we've got like a monkey brain with a computer stuck on it. That's... that's the human brain, and a lot of our impulses and everything are driven by the monkey brain, and the computer or the cortex is constantly trying to make the monkey brain happy. It's not the cortex that's steering the monkey brain. It's the monkey brain steering the cortex. The cortex, just like what we'll call human intelligence, you know, it's like that's like the advanced computer relative to other creatures. Other creatures do not have... either we're really... they don't, they don't have the computer, or they have a very weak computer relative to humans. But... but it's just... it's like it sort of seems like surely the really smart thing should control the dumb thing, but actually the dumb thing controls the smart thing. The difference in intelligence between your cortex and limbic system is gigantic. Your limbic system really has no comprehension of what the hell the cortex is doing. It's just literally hungry, you know, or tired or angry or sexy or something, you know... and then it just... and then it communicates that impulse to the cortex and tells the cortex to go satisfy that. Then a great deal of... like a massive amount of thinking, like truly this stupendous amount of thinking, has gone into sex... without purpose, without procreation, which is actually quite a silly action in the absence of procreation. It's a bit silly. Then why are you doing it? That's because it makes the limbic system happy, that's why, that's why. But it's pretty absurd, really. But I mean, this is a lot of computation that has gone into how can I do more of that with procreation not even being a factor.
