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> However, we did not evolve to live in huge cities, surrounded by millions of people and tall concrete boxes. Glancing around it seems quite apparent that we’
by CPLX 6y ago
> However, we did not evolve to live in huge cities, surrounded by millions of people and tall concrete boxes.
Glancing around it seems quite apparent that we’ve done exactly that.
- f6v 6y agoWe adjusted our culture, but our brains are likely the same as they were before the mega-cities came into existence. My point is that we shouldn't necessarily judge the technology by what's "natural" to us, i.e. "VR isn't going fly because we're social creatures".
- coldtea 6y ago"Evolved == went on" to live in big cities vs "evolved == adapted as an evolutionary process" to live in big cities, etc, are two very different things.
- TeMPOraL 6y agoEvolution adapts to present conditions, not future conditions, and on a time scale of millenias. It chanced into a feature set that let us change our environment much faster than that. We're still adapted to the lifestyle we had many thousands of years ago.