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Yes. Humans are obligatory fire users for example. We can no longer subsist on a diet of entirely uncooked food due to smaller jaws and jaw muscles, and shorte
by bediger4000 3y ago
Yes. Humans are obligatory fire users for example. We can no longer subsist on a diet of entirely uncooked food due to smaller jaws and jaw muscles, and shorter intestines.
The interesting question is what's next? I'm going to suggest obligatory C-sections. Infant's heads are already too large to pass through birth canals in many cases. A few thousand years of self reinforcing head/brain growth, and future hominids will require C-sections.
- contingencies 3y agoGreat thought experiment. Here's my ideas. Obligatory drug users. Physically, we can't survive long without antibiotics. Mentally, fewer and fewer of us choose to subsist within society while sober. Obligatory device users. We'll lose the ability to organise spatially as working environs shrink, physical objects rush toward disposable generics, warehouse operations become unseen automatons, and rituals as familiar as packing objects in to a vehicle become lost threads of unrelatable culture-history in a world of carry-on only rent-an-Uber. Obligatory supermarketeers. On the whole, we've lost the ability to grow or forage for food, to correctly recognise seasons for planting and harvesting, or to slaughter and butcher an animal. Obligatory ready-meal purchasers. Many people have lost the ability to cook. Obligatory fast-fashionista. Nobody makes or repairs clothes anymore, instead reaching for convenience purchase. One could go on...