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You are severely underestimating the mental difficulty of spear hunting in relation to writing a couple of lines of code.
by GFKjunior 14y ago
You are severely underestimating the mental difficulty of spear hunting in relation to writing a couple of lines of code.
- makmanalp 14y agoReally? I've spear hunted fish when I was a kid and shot targets with a bow (if I were a proto-human it could have been small animals instead) and both were pretty damn easy and not mentally taxing at all.
- saraid216 14y agoWhat was the risk of getting mauled while doing this?
- makmanalp 14y agoThe majority of edible animals are not big game (by nature of the food pyramid), and a even a decent chunk of big game are not predators of humans. Plus, it's easy to overwhelm them if you have more than one person. I've never hunted before, but I can't imagine at all that it's a fair fight. Humans have been known to trap them, net them, flank them, shoot them at a distance, lure them, corner them, smoke them out etc. etc. None of which requires a whiteboard, drafting paper or a calculator. Are you really going to argue that any human with any semblance of intelligence (and I don't mean deep thought here) would have to risk mauling to hunt for subsistence?
- GFKjunior 14y agoYour post specifically said SPEAR hunting. You do not hunt small game with a spear. Trapping is usually the most effective way of getting meat in the wild. Off topic but some of the best traps are large modern mouse-traps. Just make sure to drill a hole and tie it to a tree with a strong rope so the animal doesn't pull it away. Set it, and you will almost certainly capture a small mammal within a day.
- saraid216 14y ago> Are you really going to argue that any human with any semblance of intelligence (and I don't mean deep thought here) would have to risk mauling to hunt for subsistence? That's why we invented farming, dear.
- GFKjunior 14y agoI love bow-fishing! But shooting targets as a child is hardly the same. Getting a powerful, accurate shot in itself takes a lot of concentration. But when hunting for sustenance it means getting up before dawn, tracking animals for miles on rough terrain, and managing to approach the animal in complete silence. Once in sight you have to stalk the animal and look for the one perfect opportunity because if you miss or are too loud it will run and you will have to repeat the whole process again. Add in the stress that you and your small group have to be successful or your tribe might go hungry and it's a whole different ballgame then shipping code at the end of the day.
- anthonyb 14y agoMental activity requires a lot of glucose, whereas muscles can run on fat, protein or glucose. Additionally, people are adapted to minimise their mental output. So if you're low on blood glucose, producing a lot of mental output for >6 hours is a real stretch.
- dllthomas 14y agoIf you dropped me in a forest and required me to hunt animals with a spear, there would be significant higher-order mental involvement. For someone who has been doing it their whole life, I expect that is not the case in the typical hunt.