Jun 23, 2015
The jellyfish has no heart of its own. Only a barren cavity of cartilage and bundles of scattered nerves. It senses that things are there, and then not: simple. This, combined with its lack of a brain, means that it doesn’t feel pain. Yet humans do; humans feel it so overwhelmingly that it cripples even when it isn’t physical. Because humans do and continue to feel it, pain must have some evolutionary advantage that has allowed them to retain it through hundreds and thousands of years against nature and its odds. It must be good for something, perhaps reflex and reaction to slay enemies, to activate adrenaline and pounce upon prey. To awaken and hasten before all is lost. To act. And yet.
sehnsucht by 5pips
