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Ian Morris has popularized using empirical evidence to compare historical civilizations [1]. Energy capture per capita is the dominant metric. I’m not sure tha
by sradman 6y ago
Ian Morris has popularized using empirical evidence to compare historical civilizations [1]. Energy capture per capita is the dominant metric.
I’m not sure that speculating about civilizations older than 1 mya is anything but sensationalism.
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Measure_of_Civilization https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Measure_of_Civilization
- jbotz 6y agoThe question being asked is not "sensationalist". It is a perfectly legitimate question of epistemology: can we know? If there ever was such a trans-ancient civilization, would evidence still be identifiable? Or is deep time as, and perhaps even more, unknowable as deep (relativistic) space?