Thanks for supporting my son's theory nez
I understood it in the same manner as yourself. I prefer to watch an ant, too. Einstein probably watched many ants whilst developing his Theory. I believe that about Einstein.
I think Time, as Thomas11 says, does play a role. Drinking heavily definitely interferes with our capacity to think. Maybe we/I choose it to prevent thought?
With sobriety comes the return of thinking, and we embark on all of the things we wanted to do in our private moments, but we're possibly too afraid? We will have no time to be bored anymore. Life becomes full, it evolves. This is what I'm hoping for myself at anyrate.
Poor people with Werneke's Encepalopathy, etc., think no more. Do no more.
WE are in with a chance.
Sail a matchbox down the gutter and become a sailor, I say.