Struggle.

I was not enlightened by Melvyn Bragg’s quizzing of four philosophers yesterday so I feel I must step in where centuries of debate have patently failed to get a grip on our relationship with reality. The core of the oneness of all things is struggle. Rocks struggle with gravity and weathering, plants with getting nutrients and Japanese Knotweed, and animals with digesting other animals and/or plants. Humans though are in a class of their own having a forehead brain extension to aid our struggle. Imagine if you will, being in a darkened, soundproof room alone. You put on headphones, turn on a 3D monitor and plug in an olfactory/gustatory transducer into your nose and mouth. You feel in the darkness for joysticks connected to your manipulators. With the aid of these inputs you begin your forehead brain extension’s struggle with what appears to be an external environment. This isolation booth defines the parameters of our cognitive Matrix-like struggle. And that’s it. The so-called philosopher’s struggle is just the same as David Beckam taking a free kick. It doesn’t address the root of our relationship with reality, it’s just another aspect of our struggle because that’s what we’re programmed to do; it’s all we do. It’s called 'struggle.’ Then of course there's the other old question. "Is there anyone in the room with you?"