In Response: '"If"

I came across a blog post this morning, by a blogger member named Jaimie, which essentially asked the question: "What is 'if'? is it real?" This was my response to her article:

The function of the word 'if' comes from our desire to prepare for what's ahead of us, or what is expected in the future. So lets say: If we lived in a world without the word 'if', we would be living in a world of taking whats in front of our eyes. The idea of a world without 'if' is primitive and a instinctual. 

If we didn't have the capacity to question what's going to happen, or what we want to happen, we would be another animal roaming the earth. Like a dog, or a bird, only homo-sapien.  

It's the power to be able question our surroundings instead of merely absorbing them that sets us apart from other mammals. As an example: A dog sees a point of interest and it goes to investigate. It does not ask itself 'what if i go and investigate? what will I gain?' A human's mind works in such a way that we must be prepared, with our increased intelligence since the dawn of homo-erectus. We have lost our instinctual flame, it's been replaced by the addiction of knowledge and other factors. 

Humans are capable of instinctual action, but they do not know how to unlock the part of their minds that allows it because it's been blanketed with absolute truth and expected reaction.  

So 'if' is real. If only to the human race.