And so it begins. The second Renascence- the genesis of another age.

We stand in this perfect world, this mathematically exact and deterministic universe- and yet, there is suffering. It's a really good thing to think about, that suffering business. Mostly it stems from the pleasure/pain dynamic, which essentially is the obsession with the desired/undesired draw. We obsess over 'personal' nature and strengthen the aspect of the ego which is "self" in order to build stronger associations with these trivial personality traits.

The draw to the "I" self is due to the obsession over pleasure and pain.

I care less about what happens, my associations free up, you start to learn faster.

The whole draw towards religion is based on this idea of grace. "All we hope for is a little bit of grace", the grace of god, the elegance of divine action. If you look up the word grace, it starts to talk about excellence- another divine virtue. Basically it has to do with efficiency, which is getting the most out of your input in any given system. I use the word efficiency because it's useful language in many disciplines. It's not the most elegant, but it gets the message across.

The emergence of religion looks the same as the emergence of any other system. It obeys the same laws and general principals. Yes, I can draw the similarities between your urge to scratch your nose and the advent of the combustion engine. That's another story all together.

The biggest issue is that the larger the scale you look at things, the less you're able to take from each individual place. The inherent limitation is that you're only able to communicate with the adjacent scales of reference in anything that resembles an honest way.

Genius has as much to do with genetic material as how that genetic material is taken care of during gestation. Typically marked by an excess of struggle and unusual almost radioactive brilliance. Genius is a pretty loaded word and I try to avoid it, but I'm referencing the Greek idea of the genii which was your guardian spirit that acted through you when fed properly. It would give you certain powers and was responsible for every creation of excellence from man. Every person was born with one and you fed it gifts of the self.

Get it now? Selfless acts, the movement away from the "I" sense, the distancing from the pleasure/pain dynamic and the such mark improvement as I have mentioned.

Sometimes distant and seemingly cold, uncaring- yet kindhearted and generous; honest to a fault, blunt, forward, high energy, high metabolism; unflinching humor, wit, sense of absurdity; intelligent, analytic, higher functioning logical processing, emotional, hedonistic, outspoken, high confidence. The list goes on.

Each variation of this story is due to localization of information and the individual lens it's told through. As a necessity any foundation is wider than the peak, as such, higher functioning people are less common and I don't mean to label an entire person as higher functioning, but parts of people who are better suited to excel.

Syncopation and eudaimonismos.