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Since we have to divert a significant portion of our mental resources to secure and optimize physical survival, we can not see the Reality FOR WHAT IT REALLY IS, in its most final and ultimate aspects. Striving to survive necessitates a dynamic interaction with the surroundings, a condition much too accelerated to allow for the recognition of the enduring aspects of balance and rest.
To the extent that the Human Mind is but a useful implement in assisting self-preservation, it can not properly assess the Truth. Given the demands of survival, it necessarily must focus on immediate and local considerations, while correspondingly de-focusing elsewhere. In so doing, it implicitly negates all else.
The animal inside imposes upon us its supreme imperative - SURVIVE AT ALL COSTS, PRESERVE YOUR PHYSICAL FRAME NO MATTER WHAT, and last through time. No more, no less. Our conscious Self and our human intellect are at its service as well.
If given a choice, the Conscious Mind would rather proclaim its own postulate - the formulation and establishment of THE BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS. Such an ideal world would be most pleasing and gratifying to subjective consciousness - collective or individual.
However, given an overriding imperative, the conscious Mind is forced to compromise. It must attend to survival oriented tasks and filter out all else as secondary or irrelevant. Thus, a Mind that is engaged in securing survival must remain inherently biased when attempting to represent Reality in its fundamental aspects. Rather than being uniformly diffused, it assumes a narrow, goal oriented focus. Its conclusions are reached on the basis of limited and incomplete data and will not prove useful for the purposes of general definitions.
Since physical survival is achieved very successfully and
efficiently by many species without human-like intelligence, we may conclude
that the application of Human Mind towards the business of survival represents
a misuse. To put it differently, it appears that orientation towards survival
makes the Truth unattainable.