Re: Fighting fire with fire
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Plenty of animals plan in the short term.
I think the major differences in humans stem from out communicative capacity. Maybe opposable thumbs, to some degree. But would we be able to plan into the future without language?
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More important than language is writing. The average university library has waaaaaaaaaay more information in it than can be stored in thehuman mind. Writing allows for our species to accumalate knowledge, rather than relearning it every generation.
Modern humans are no smarter than our relatives were15k years ago, however due to our ability to store knowledge we are far more advanced.
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