Well some say, kids and animals won't judge you, or they have nice personalities, they are harmless and fun and imaginative and are fun to watch play. Something of unsoiled and unaffected by the trash and let down of life yet. Here are some more admirable qualities of kids.
- Kids actually have an imagination and know how to play.
- They know how to have fun and kids below the age of 7 smile a higher percentage of the time than adults.
- They can be entertained cheaply and are low maintenance. Bread and birds will suffice or even just a play ground.
- They have more friends and aren't judgmental.
- So yes when kids say "I'm better than you" they're actually right!
So what is it? I think that for kids they just haven't yet learned how to judge a book by it's cover. That's higher level learning that's learned in high school from the cool kids. You automatically become an outcast if you don't judge a book by its cover. But even if a little kid does judge a book by it's cover, at least they're honest and they tell you straight to your face like by saying "I hate you" Or "you're fat", Or "Your breath smells".
As for animals we all admire simplicity and simpler things in life and living a stress free life which are all qualities animals have. I like to site the giraffe who lives an entire life with all the food and water it needs just in the trees it eats. It's got very few enemies and can easily defend itself. Birds can fly we all want to fly and they do it with dignity and grace when we'd just be a bunch of howling monkeys in the air ourselves.
The goal in life is fun, not knowledge, which both kids and animals haven't forgotten yet.
What if we were all honest like kids? That would be nice if people couldn't lie about committing a crime or hating you or being uncomfortable around you or actually being interested in talking to you. You'd need some kind of mind reading machine in order to achieve that. It will happen some day since we all have thoughts and only need to be able to see them, and at that point there will never be crime anymore and everyone will be trustworthy. But that's in another eon.
So why do we like simplicity and perfection as seen in animals and kids and design and physical law? I heard once that is the natural course of scientific and technological development is to simplify and get rid of less perfect parts or functions that get in the way, and that things get simpler and more streamlined and lighter and more efficient as time progresses. So when we see something and say "That looks futuristic" It's usually because it's simple and uncluttered and perfect. Even Einstein believed in a simple and elegant universe. And that when we finally discovered the grand unified laws of physics that it would be extremely simple and elegant just like E=MC2. To scientists it's almost a religious experience to look at and understand a simple equation and is like looking at god even though we scientist do not believe in god, and equations work just as good at summoning up the feeling of joy as church and the bible did for C.S. Lewis as he would write about in his books on religion and how he described it. We may hope but we don't blindly believe.
I personally think that there will always be unknowns. Especially in a universe with infinite macro and infinite micro and infinite time frame. But we will always be discovering more about the universe over time and getting a more clear picture with new technologies. Like mind reading or, new types of photographs that don't use light or, use of newly discovered forces, physical laws, or principles, or effects. There's lots still left to discover about superconductivity and super fluidity and electron spin pairs for communication, and even meta materials that have superior qualities to normal mater and molecules, which always cause controversy when they appear to break the laws of physics. We still haven't even described gravity in any useful way. Even production of Electricity, we have only scratched the surface of.
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