sonar1

Means we're not self-motivated, as a species.

Given a choice between taking our chances outside the cave to forage for food at the risk of being eaten by bears, we're far more likely to remain in the cave, take another bong hit, and call out for a pizza delivery.

If we were wired to be complacent we'd sit on our asses and experience being directly, instead of taking dominion over creation and eventually paying The Fed to sell us our own money at interest.

That's the short form.


Yes I left out some evolutionary details, but that's a start.


We need SOMETHING to drive us out of our comfort zone. That something is not likely to spring from within (except perhaps as hunger).

"Stimulation from outside" can be, but is not limited to, the empirical needs of sufficient water, food, shelter, and social grouping for mutual benefit. Once these basic needs are met, the threat implied by their lack is diminished, and too the motivation to keep moving to towards broader goals unless a motivation is generated from an imagined (inwardly created from projection into the future) threat(s).