We Being More than Meets the Eye
- Gideon Samid
- Feb 9
- 1 min read
When a blind man checks an elephant and happens to touch the tusks, he then concludes that he understands what an elephant is like. And if the tusk is cracked, broken, or even pulverized then the blind man mourns the death of elephant, not realizing that the elephant is alive, if not very well, having lost a tusk.
The Darwin Cage hypothesis suggests the same for human perception of life and death. The being that we call a person, including ourselves, may be, a limited visible part of a true being, most of it cannot be seen or contemplated by our Darwinian brain. Freud theorized the existence of a hidden part of us, the subconscious. But the Darwin Cage hypothesis claims that an unbound part of who we are does exist but is not seen, not contemplated, and not imagined by our Darwinian brain. Accordingly when a person dies, it is like an elephant that lost his tusk. A part of the being that looks to us in its limitation has been broken, taken from existence, but the core, the full being is humming -- unseen.
Death as we know it, misleads us to conclude annihilation of being, while in fact it may be damage and harm to a being that otherwise is well and alive.
This being a premise of mysticism, one should hold back from running ahead into luring conclusions. The Darwin Cage hypothesis is well grounded. It was published in Applied Physics Research Journal, and baby steps are called for. Stay tuned!
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