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Existence, not history. History requires writing.
by djohnston 1y ago
Existence, not history. History requires writing.
- layer8 1y agoThat’s a narrow definition of “history”. See for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Earth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Earth.
- saltcured 1y agoThe above seems clear as genetic history written in the DNA. Those bottlenecks are a bit like burning the library at Alexandria.