> The idea that a transient celestial phenomenon that lasts around 5 minutes [...] is going to somehow stimulate a cognitive awakening is absurd I specifically

> The idea that a transient celestial phenomenon that lasts around 5 minutes [...] is going to somehow stimulate a cognitive awakening is absurd I specifically said it's the corona, not the eclipse, that's spectacular. The corona only lasts seconds, not anywhere near 5 minutes. > and that a large number of organisms in the species will never even see That's based on the present geographic distribution of humans. When humankind was making the transition to intelligence, they were distributed differently over the earth, over a zone more likely to produce eclipses with a corona. > How many eclipses have you seen in your life? Only one with the full corona. There's three naturally occurring time periods in nature: days, years, and inter-coronal intervals.