> Nothing we have tried in the past two hundred thousand years of our species’ existence has successfully captured and preserved sufficiently complex knowledge

> Nothing we have tried in the past two hundred thousand years of our species’ existence has successfully captured and preserved sufficiently complex knowledge for future transmission. I would argue that DNA has done an admirable job in this regard and I would deem it successful at capturing and preserving complex knowledge for future transmission. I enjoyed the post and enjoyed its thought provocative stance. I feel like recording the “why” is important, not to facilitate recreating a given “thing” but rather to help our future creativity by staying aware of past inspiration triggers.