Julf wrote: > 'were not wired to think scientifically' > (http://eatingacademy.com/personal/wired-think-scientifically-can-done) >
I wonder about one thing. We invented the scientific principle 400 years ago. (But perhaps the chinese actually invented it much earlier? They were really good mathematicians 6,000 years ago, I think. Western history books seldom include their history.) I find it hard to believe that suddenly a mutation that allowed scientific thinking rapidly spread over the world at that time. We must have been able to think like that a long, long time, even if we didn't do that on a great scale. Has any proof ever been produced that says that we have changed at all for thousands of years? Since agriculture was invented 11,000 years ago we have adapted to new food. But our mental capacity? Since the 1960s (IIRC) we have started developing better concentration skills (bigger working memory), because of the increasing amount of information we are exposed to. That is said to translate directly to abstract intelligence. So according to neurocognition scientists, humans get more intelligent by the decade, because of our environment. This curve has a name, which I have forgotten. But did this perhaps already start 400 years ago? If so, could it have been the greater cities with more impressions, the invention of the printing press and possibly time to read because of better living conditions in general (if they were actually improved)? Just thinking out loud... Best Regards, Gandhi not often enough well recorded and mastered cds *|* dbpoweramp with accuraterip *|* flac *|* fanless asrock z77e-itx intel i5-3570t *|* ubuntu 12.04.1 lts 32-bit *|* lms 7.8.0 *|* brutefirdrc 3.0 (rewv5) *|* transporter (balanced out) *|* thule ia252b *|* audio physic scorpio *|* no fancy cables. *+* also some booms. *+* harmony 525s for them all, including waking the server from s3. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gandhi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58909 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103842
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