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I don't know why, but certain people tend to be very resistant to the stupendous power of information systems. One such information system, the dragonfly brain,
by dsign 2y ago
I don't know why, but certain people tend to be very resistant to the stupendous power of information systems. One such information system, the dragonfly brain, is amazing, and another such information system, the human brain, may never be sufficient to understand it... in the raw. But it is a proven fact that human brains can build tools and other information systems.
Take that DJI drone. For the sake of argument, let's assume it took 300 000 years to develop: that's for how long we know anatomically modern humans have been around. We could reduce it to 10000 years, to account only for modern estates and concentration of resources in such quality that people get time to do science, invent new things, and imprint all of that in the web of human culture (another information system). Anyhow, humans have developed a thing that flies and has a camera, and the two things are connected, in 300000 years. Insects evolved 2.6 billion years after life appeared on Earth. Is the DJI drone not as amazing as the dragonfly? And if not, but we keep making new versions of it for the next 1000 years, will it be able to catch up to the dragonfly?