Darwintruth video Week 3 Post 5

This video demonstrates through evolution man's search for meaning in all things, and what role truth has along with man.  It seems, though, that truth is undiscoverable.  As the video points out, we only evolved to survive, and were not originally engineered to examine problems like why light travels in waves and packets of energy.  Robert Blake's bleak quote demonstrates this, and how much man likes to apply humanized emotions (like sentiment) to the rest of the non-human universe.  I especially like the paraphrasing of Voltaire, in saying that man would invent God even if he didn't exist.

 

            I find the intriguing statement at the end a bit simplex though.  The truth lies?  Or do we lie to ourselves?  For we are the ones seeking it, and through subjective lenses, the unfiltered truth will never be seen by all.  Deceit, though, is rife in nature, and also in human nature as well.  And what if we did somehow, as Jack Nicholson said, "handle the truth"?  What would knowing it change?  All I can think of is our desire to seek knowledge would die, and we would become really bored.