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On top of all these probabilities I think you also have to add the probability of high technology. Humans existed for 100k years before we started doing things
by api 5y ago
On top of all these probabilities I think you also have to add the probability of high technology. Humans existed for 100k years before we started doing things like harnessing steam and electricity and we have no evidence early humans were insufficiently intelligent. There is a whole chain of mental and cultural developments that may very well not be common.
- frazbin 5y agowell we were having a real bad ice age for most of that time. We pretty much got busy immediate after shit thawed
- sethammons 5y agoI'm reading Guns, Germs, and Steel which goes into some detail in this topic
- akomtu 5y agoThe official history says humans started diverging from advanced monkeys only 12k years ago. The unofficial history describes a few impressive and socially advanced civilizations before that "flood" event, but all of them valued knowledge only so long as it helped with day to day tasks. So they've built some interesting structures, but weren't technologically advanced by our standards. Our generation, that started 12k years ago, is the first that values knowledge for the sake of knowledge, so we we have things like theoretical math.
- frazbin 5y agonope! 300k years ago, people who were anatomically as smart as us were walking around. Just not very many on account of the glaciers, megafauna, and competing hominids. Can't do agriculture on a glacier