{"id":237,"date":"2021-04-10T16:15:48","date_gmt":"2021-04-10T16:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qsconsultants.in\/blog\/?p=237"},"modified":"2021-04-10T16:15:50","modified_gmt":"2021-04-10T16:15:50","slug":"new-world-new-mind-dr-robert-ornstein-dr-paul-ehrlich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qsconsultants.in\/blog\/new-world-new-mind-dr-robert-ornstein-dr-paul-ehrlich\/","title":{"rendered":"New World New Mind \u2013 Dr. Robert Ornstein & Dr. Paul Ehrlich"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Namaste Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation) I am Sunil Rao here. Today I would like to share with you an excerpt from \u201cNew World New Mind\u201d first published in 1989 co-authored by Dr. Robert Ornstein & Dr. Paul Ehrlich<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can purchase your copy from any of the bookstores near you or via any online portal that sell this book or by clicking on the link below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.malorbooks.com\/new-world-new-mind.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

About the authors<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Ornstein<\/strong>, was the president of the Institute for the Study of Human Knowledge, conducted extensive research on the human brain and authored numerous articles in publications such as Psychology Today and Encyclopedia Britannica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paul R. Ehrlich<\/strong> is Bing Professor of Population Studies, Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University. He is an expert in the fields of evolution, ecology, taxonomy, and population biology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The authors hope that the information presented in this book will stimulate the people to think about the roots of the \u2018human predicament\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, and how we might begin to adapt our society where we can learn to evolve consciously and address the challenges accordingly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Excerpt<\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Human beings have always been the most adaptable creatures on the planet, and they should be able to chart a new course for themselves. Some of that charting is already being done. The old mind today is being challenged and changed by many scattered efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All non-human species evolved to fit into their physical habitats, and people originally evolved to do this as well. Human beings, however, have changed the world more in the last ten thousand years than their ancestors did in the preceding 4 million. Much more than any other species, we have turned the tables on the physical environment and made it change to fit us. Clothing, fire, dwellings, and agriculture all enabled people to live where none could before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We don\u2019t perceive the world as it is, because our nervous system evolved to select only a small extract of reality and to ignore the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of conveying everything about the world, our nervous system is \u201cimpressed\u201d only by dramatic changes. This internal spotlight makes us sensitive to the beginnings and endings of almost every event more than the changes, whether gigantic or tiny, in the middle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why, on a planet that has an exploding population, a deteriorating environment, and massive social problems, has the only genuinely creative species invested so much time, energy, and genius in building arsenals that can only be used to destroy it-self? Why has humanity not redirected its efforts instead into seeking ways for people to live together without conflict and to limiting the size of its population so that everyone can lead a meaningful life? Why hasn\u2019t humanity tried vigorously to preserve the earth that people and all living species depend upon? The answers to these kinds of questions are not simple. The problem has much deeper roots than most people envision. To trace its history will take us into the world in which our species evolved, into the world that made us. That world has produced in us certain ways of interpreting our surroundings, ways that once enhanced our survival. But these \u201cold ways\u201d are not necessarily adaptive in a world that is utterly different from the one in which our ancestors lived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More importantly, human beings have built entirely new environments: farms, villages, towns, crowded cities, ocean liners, even underwater dwellings, and more. Human beings can even live for brief periods away from earth itself. The human experience has been one of expanding creations and adaptations. This cyclic pattern spooled us, in an evolutionary instant, from small groups of hunters and gatherers into a complex civilization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is now a mismatch between the human mind and the world people inhabit. The mismatch interferes with the relationships of human beings with each other and with their environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rate of change in the world around us is increasing. Humanity is refashioning the world so quickly now that each decade\u2019s environment differs dramatically from that of the last.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our minds now conquer challenges and tasks that appear to have no parallels in our evolutionary past; we read and write, learn more than one spoken language, use word processors, and design and fly aircraft. But none of these tasks represents a break with the standard animal pattern of planning to reach short-term goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like those of other animals, our brains evolved to understand only a small portion of the world, the portion that most affects our capacity to survive and reproduce. Each animal, whether a bee, butterfly, frog, chimp, or human being, lives within its own \u201csmall world,\u201d which is a mere caricature of the outside world. This simple caricature of the environment, as we shall see, sufficed for most organisms in most environments, for most people throughout history; and it still works for many people. To retrain ourselves requires a radical shift in our normal way of perceiving ourselves and our environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe an evolutionary process, a process of conscious evolution is what it will require to address such a situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Excerpt from New World New Mind \u2013 Dr. Robert Ornstein & Dr. Paul Ehrlich<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us remember<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our life experience would ultimately amount to whatever we had paid attention to. Attention: is important and most of the times we are so indifferent to it. It is as fundamental as food; and we go blundering about, seeking ways to assuage the craving, instead of learning how to provide ourselves with what we need, sensibly and calmly. We feed the hunger blindly. Once the mechanism is brought to our attention and we begin to study it, it is as if a veil has been stripped off ordinary life, and we become freer in our action and choices.<\/p>\n

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