Gandhi wrote: > We actually agree. Perhaps I was unclear. I'll try again. > > Science is a method that has to be learned. But in general people can > actually think and plan things like trials and that must be one of our > few advantages on this harsh earth. (That and language. And being able > to sweat.) But some individuals have always been really good at that > they are genetically equipped with a sizable working memory, greater > than the average. It can also be trained. It enables deeper, more > abstract thinking, which is needed to think logically, plan ahead etc. > Everybody can't just mimic each other, nothing new would ever be > invented. We have made a great many inventions over the time, not just > fire and baking, which may have been found out in the wild and mimiced. > Also very important ideas like money, credit, insurance etc, that are > not found in nature. Not to mention hunting methods, building methods > and materials etc. Our forefathers may not have used the precise > scientific method, but they could think. However, at some point in time > we might have reached a critical mass, where the average intelligence > enabled us to make our living conditions significally better? It could > perhaps happen because people started living in larger communities. (If > you live in a tribe and meet 50 people in a lifetime, your brain might > not get as much impressions, and therefore training, as if you live in > NYC.)
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