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The funny thing is, we can only categorize intelligence to the peak and adjacent possibilities of where we're at now. Go back over 100,000 years or more and it
by bennyg 13y ago
The funny thing is, we can only categorize intelligence to the peak and adjacent possibilities of where we're at now. Go back over 100,000 years or more and it would be very hard to categorize us as extremely intelligent beings.
- yk 13y agoNot sure if this is what you meant, but assume you are showing a picture of a programmer to someone from the past. One hundred years ago, the person would probably recognize a computer as some kind of type writer, and from his background then assume that the person is a typist. 200 years ago, there were no jobs which could be described as 'sitting in front of a box,' so the person would have no frame of reference to understand the picture. ( And it seems likely to conclude the same into the future.)
- pavlov 13y agoMedieval monks copying manuscripts had jobs that were essentially "sitting in front of a box all day": http://www.studenthandouts.com/photo_gallery/Pics1/MiddleAges-4.jpg http://www.studenthandouts.com/photo_gallery/Pics1/MiddleAge...