That seems likely for me as well, but I am not in a place to investigate if that is actually the matter of fact for all animals. Wouldn’t such study fall in the field of science.
I would point out, that human thought is a result of biological evolution, which resulted in an idea of psyche. From which a question then arises, if evolution of psyche with all its knowledge and mayhem is part of natural evolution. I’m not sure I see a need to separate these two streams of progressive knowledge-bases from each other.
I would like to question that. When we are serious about this question, we are not concerned about rhetoric or limitations of language. All analysis is of thought and limited, and a “game” the mind plays for its own existence.
So let’s drop interpretation of the invitation to meet someone as for the first time as a method or any other idea. And let’s do it actually. Are we able to meet someone we know from the past as if for the first time? When we ask ourself this question, and go into it, what happens?
My apologies, I am mixing too many things in my response, which have missing links.
In one of the discussions, with biologists and so on, JK pointed out that, the natural evolution of humans had lost its direction, when humans started giving precedence to thought and actions based on thought. Thoguht and psychological time, together further complicated the natural evolution of human beings. Need for survival has overlapped with survival by thought. Resulting in not right actions.
You can further navigate your self with complexity and disorder produced by thought and time since the usage.
This thread is not going in right flow. I guess, you follow the hint.
We don’t know if we’re able until we do it. If that happens, everything has changed. If it doesn’t happen, we can’t choose, try, or practice a technique to make it happen.
The truth we want is a mind so blown away that it can’t recover the ignorance and delusion that defined and limited it. But we can’t have this because we want it.