Indeed. As the line goes: the past is a foreign country, they do things differently there. Equally human, equally logical, but with different priors, different

Indeed. As the line goes: the past is a foreign country, they do things differently there. Equally human, equally logical, but with different priors, different axioms, different base truths to reason from. > Maybe they didn't really care, and had a similar view to us about the matter. My impression is that this is probably not the case however. Another line following from the above is that ancient people believed their religions, with the same unexamined priors as we believe in our own modern Truths. But since they were human, too, there is always room for charlatanism, fraud, and delusions of grandeur. And humor as a defensive mechanism against all of that.