• vertexarray [any]
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    4 years ago

    Being a literate ape is such a ridiculous experience. The world holds so much complexity, yet my meat body can only meaningfully interface with a tiny sliver of it at once.

    • Katieushka [they/them,she/her]
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      4 years ago

      fr, how tf does it work? we evolved to hunt big game, eat berries, and have social groups of 150 people max. how tf do we have the capacity of doing all the rest, like being in societies of millions of people, being able to read, study a subject for years, etc?

      • vertexarray [any]
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        4 years ago

        I have no idea. When I'm at work talking to people about a particularly difficult problem, I always feel like it's someone else piloting my body. My ape ego has no ability to integrate the wildly abstract shit I do for work.

      • vertexarray [any]
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        4 years ago

        he's got a whole body of work, is there anything specific that would be most relevant?