The Heart and Our Future...

This is a little hard to write....have you seen some parents with children of special needs....whether its Down Syndrome, or autistism; how you seen how the parents love these children.....From nature-evolutionary angle, reason can make little sense out of this.....I remember in the Eskimo culture that the elders would sacrifice themselves for the survival of the young in times of scarcity. This particular altruistic example of [Love] makes sense; it satisfies the reason and heart of an observer, but sacrificing [Love] and resources for children of special needs, makes "no" sense....(don't get angry dear readers, wait til the end of this posting; like I said, this is not easy). Another example that makes "no" sense is sacrificing resources for people with terminal cancer....If you ask Deep Blue, the supercomputer to decide which ship to deliver given limited stocks of nails/hammers/paint/fuel: Ship A, an old old ship that is leaking in multiple places, or Ship B, a brand new ship with only one leak. Deep Blue would pick Ship B, I would guess.

But parents of "special" children, would save Ship A, even if resources were scarce. Mr. Reason and perhaps, just perhaps, Chief National Economic Adviser would scratch their heads;these parents wouldn't. The answer, as you already know before I even mention it, is the overused and abused word called [Love]. Its synonymous with the Heart.

From the biologist-scientist-philosopher standpoint, this is fascinating because, [Love] is something that can't be observed and quantified under a microscope, or within a particle collider. Its like the dark matter, it can be studied and "observed" only via its effects and consequences; like the studies advocated by Dr. Dean Ornish.

Perhaps, one can design a Love-particle-detector and discover its spin, angular momentum, and charge value.

But I digressed. The wonder and poignant beauty in the scenario of the loving parents is that, it tells me that the Heart is superior as compared to either Super-DeepBlue or the most powerful of electron microscope/Hubble telescope in reasoning power or visual capacity. Its superior because it sees a dimension that cannot be tapped by the strongest of instruments or brain power.

God bless these parents and their precious children....

P.S.: Imagine if all the powerful nations treat each other with the Heart rather than with Reason;.....Fear is what I suspect that led strong nations to prefer Reason over Heart...I mean the Heart wouldn't tell you to invest billions in nuclear arsenals over building more schools and paying teachers more.....right?...