Good ideas and conversation. No ads, no tracking. Login or Take a Tour!
Yeah, very interesting!
Speaking of "waking up", it remembers me of the book "the toaster project" by Thomas Thwaites (link for the lazy of youes http://www.thetoasterproject.org/ ). Personally it often falls on me about near-raw food. As an early human I'd never had tried to squash those little hard and untasty grains of wheat to mix them up with water and bake it: I couldn't even invent bread, what am I good for at all?
It's a good point. In fact, I think technological evolution can be used as a good metaphor for comprehending biological evolution. We see these complex systems that are a synthesis of countless simple iterations, and the result seems almost unbelievable.
We look at the human eye and think: "No way. How could that have come from stepwise iteration!?" But when you look at the Earth and see just plants, rocks, dirt, etc., the International Space Station just doesn't seem to be a possible outcome for any conceivable path for even a very smart apes to take.