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In what part of the world do people live as their ancestors have for centuries? I witnessed that a few decades ago in rural China. I don't think it's true there

• dota_fanatic 5y ago
  I sleep every night. I wake up and spent most of my energy on maintaining homeostasis (eating/drinking/waste/temperature), provision of resources, being social, raising young, and play. This involves walking, talking, gesturing, squatting, etc. Take someone from a thousand years ago and they engaged in the exact same behaviors. So there weren't living in a stick-framed house and using written forms of communication via personal computing devices and listening to recorded music or watching recorded stories. They still did a lot of the same stuff from day to day. We are more alike than we are different, same as how we're vastly more alike to other apes than different. Our subjective experience isn't all that different. This is especially true if you consider humanity as a whole, not some 0.1%er who has inordinate access to the fruits of civilization.