In the Problem is the Solution: Question and Answer Meetings in India by Krishnamurti

Author:Krishnamurti [Krishnamurti]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Publisher: Krishnamurti Foundation India
Published: 2017-05-28T04:00:00+00:00

[Reads out a question]: The body ages, but is the ageing of the mind inevitable?

The body ages, grows old, but is the ageing of the brain inevitable? (Not the mind for the moment.) As the questioner says, it is inevitable for the body to age, grow old, and die through accident, disease, constant usage, malnutrition, wrong food, and the battle that goes on in our hearts and minds; all that psychosomatic activity affects the body. There is over-drinking, over-sex, over-eating without exercise. Look at you all! So the body inevitably ages. And the questioner wants to know: is it inevitable for the brain to age and decay? What makes a machine, an internal combustion machine, age? Any kind of friction in the machine makes the machine grow old. This is obvious. Our brain is a kind of machine, and it grows old because we live with friction, we live with conflict, struggle, perpetual battle with ourselves and with the rest of the world. I am not saying anything new. This is a fact—that as long as there is friction, conflict, battle, rows with one’s wife or husband, quarrels, abusing each other, hurting each other, the brain must inevitably decay.

And also the computer is coming into being now. We have been talking this over with experts, the top people. The computer can do almost anything that the human brain can do—almost. It can out-think, out-plan, remember vast information; a little chip can contain a million memories. Of course the computer cannot look at the stars and see the beauty of the stars, it cannot watch the movement of the wind among the leaves. But each generation of computers will be better than the previous generation. So if the computer can do almost anything that human beings can do, what is going to happen to the human brain? Do ask these questions, for God’s sake. This question is not being asked by the professionals, by the top people. They are concerned only with building better, more advanced computers, ultra-mechanical intelligence as they call it.

If the computer can do almost everything, then what is going to happen to the human brain? The brain has lived because it has to struggle, it has to work, go to the office. It has to be active—active in its friction. But when that friction, that activity is gradually transferred to the computer, what is going to happen to your brain? The computer can invent a new god, a super-god better than your gods, it can create marvellous theories, it can invent. A mathematics professor can program a computer with the most complex mathematical problems, and the computer will come out with its own new theorems. Go into it all, sir.

So what is going to happen to your brain? It is going to pursue entertainment—religious entertainment, puja, football, cinema; they are all entertainment, aren’t they, to pass the time in the name of God, in the name of some silly affair, because we all want to be entertained. See the seriousness of all this, for God’s sake.

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