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Please share how you realized that people in the past were just as aware and smart as us.
by innguest 12y ago
Please share how you realized that people in the past were just as aware and smart as us.
- rthomas6 12y agoDan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast cemented the idea in my mind more than it had been before. http://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-series/ http://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-series/
- logfromblammo 12y agoIf they saw less far, it is only because they stood upon the shoulders of not giants, but dwarves, and many of those had also excavated deep and luxurious holes in the ground for the purposes of their habitation. Most people, up until the development of scientific inquiry, operated from a position of either complete ignorance or propagated misinformation. If you transplanted a medieval child into modern times, and afforded the same advantages that we now enjoy, such as low-cost education and easy collaboration with people who have similar interests, you would be hard-pressed to find any difference between that child and one born to this era. As we know well from trying to solve the problems of AI, intelligence and knowledge are difficult to separate. Medieval people were equally intelligent, but they had far less knowledge, and what they had was less persistent and transferable.