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This is mainly a question of attention directed inwards vs outwards. From a biological perspective, situational awareness is what has allowed our species to sur
by glitchc 3y ago
This is mainly a question of attention directed inwards vs outwards. From a biological perspective, situational awareness is what has allowed our species to survive, there's evolutionary pressure. That this behaviour is so prevalent now, given the comments, suggests that our environments have become too safe and human beings are losing this awareness. It also suggests a high degree of narcissism, where my own thoughts are more important than what's happening around me.
- atomicnumber3 3y agoFor the purposes of natural selection, everything that's happened since the Pyramids (and probably several hundred thousand years prior to that) is effectively instantaneous and natural selection/evolution has had no time to "react". If anything, the narrative should be that clearly being inattentive in safe scenarios isn't selected against and thus can't be that detrimental to reproducing successfully.
- glitchc 3y agoThat is certainly very recent, although I agree with your core point, that we are but an instant on an evolutionary timeline. Life has normally been much more dangerous than the past 70 years. We don't know how long it will last either.