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Why do I feel like I am an advanced form of intelligence trapped in the body of a human? - RFirst Name - 02-28-2013 02:25 AM
IThe pleasures that most people get out of life such as interpersonal relationships, facebook, sport statistics,etc,ect, have little to no value to me. What is even more frustrating is I am limited of understanding my place in the universe because it can be argued the human race is in an evolutionary limbo or standstill, we know JUST enough to frustrate us, knowing the vastness of the cosmos but having no tangible way to get there. It is hard for me to go through daily life because in a way I look down on the human race as inferior. I know there is more out there so I am unable to accept the reality everyone else accepts.
- mikey - 02-28-2013 02:33 AM
Its becuse your so smart in things you just fell that way i fell that way to like i sould be some thing else like a dragon or an animal so your not left out
- san-chan - 02-28-2013 02:33 AM
why not just take up science or be and astrophysicist.
- Hage - 02-28-2013 02:33 AM
Its a good thing that you understand your potential.
There are some people in this world who are very different or smarter than others. Most of them, though, may often be the victim of being ignored or isolated due to a huge difference in tastes.
My suggestion is - why don't you start something new this time, something REAL!
Make a good use of your intelligence and skill.
No one's gonna stop you from trying new things.
Come on, give out the best in you. . I bet there are lots of people out there who are just curious to learn whatever anyone can teach them!
- Yep yep yep.... - 02-28-2013 02:33 AM
By the sounds of things you aren't surrounding yourself with like-minded people. I suggest making your grievances a thing of the past by seeking out local societies that appeal to you. There are going to be tons. I recently joined my local astromical society and it's brilliant to be in the presence of people who are so knowledgable and passionate about the universe. I think that'd be a good starting place for you. You need some intellectual stimulation, it will make you feel less superior and also less alone. I know it can be difficult but know that there is good in the human race, you just need to keep your eyes wide open
- Malum - 02-28-2013 02:33 AM
I look down on the human race as well in some ways. It just comes with being an intelligent person. I would be embarrassed as hell if some alien race visited us and saw us killing for some liquid under ground to produce our energy, in a universe with infinite starlight.
Or the people of Africa starving even though we have an excess of food. Enough to feed 4 billion more people than currently living on our planet.j
Honestly, this sounds really cynical, but I separate humans into two groups. Intellectuals, and primates. I haven't any friends, (which sounds sad, but I'm indifferent to the ordeal) just because I can't be friends with someone as primitive as the majority of the population. I never cared for sports, and I despise most social networks. I'm only on twitter so I can follow NASA and Neil DeGrasse Tyson.
I am consistently irritated and slightly depressed just knowing I won't live long enough to see the human race ascend into true greatness.
We have to get through the stupidity one generation at a time. Hell, after the previous generation finally dies off, America will be almost half Atheist.
- Donut Tim - 02-28-2013 02:33 AM
You have the “Cassandra Syndromeâ€. Mythical Cassandra was given the gift of foreknowledge and later punished with the curse of no one believing her warnings. The syndrome is the feeling that your group or you alone know the truth.
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- ANDRE L - 02-28-2013 02:33 AM
-The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than average. This bias is attributed to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their mistakes.[1]
Actual competence may weaken self-confidence, as competent individuals may falsely assume that others have an equivalent understanding. David Dunning and Justin Kruger conclude, "the miscalibration of the incompetent stems from an error about the self, whereas the miscalibration of the highly competent stems from an error about others".[2]-
-Confirmation bias (also called confirmatory bias or myside bias) is a tendency of people to favor information that confirms their beliefs or hypotheses.[Note 1][1] People display this bias when they gather or remember information selectively, or when they interpret it in a biased way. The effect is stronger for emotionally charged issues and for deeply entrenched beliefs. For example, in reading about current political issues, people usually prefer sources that affirm their existing attitudes. They also tend to interpret ambiguous evidence as supporting their existing position. Biased search, interpretation and memory have been invoked to explain attitude polarization (when a disagreement becomes more extreme even though the different parties are exposed to the same evidence), belief perseverance (when beliefs persist after the evidence for them is shown to be false), the irrational primacy effect (a greater reliance on information encountered early in a series) and illusory correlation (when people falsely perceive an association between two events or situations).-
- Adam D - 02-28-2013 02:33 AM
Delusions of grandeur? Narcissism and a superiority complex? Chemical imbalance? Just a plain old lack of education?
Hard to pin down the exact reason for your feelings.
- Waqar Ahmad Khan - 02-28-2013 02:33 AM
Let your logical god reconciliate with your loving dog.