(November 6, 2012 at 2:20 pm)John V Wrote:(November 6, 2012 at 11:53 am)pocaracas Wrote: This is how normal people define knowledge.I'm saying the opposite of that. I agree that they had less knowledge. "More knowledge?" was a rhetorical repeat of the question, to which I answered "No."
If you tell me that an individual in the "information age" such as you or me know less than someone from 3 thousand years ago, living in the desert, then something is wrong with your concept of knowledge.
Indeed you did... I must have misinterpreted it. Sorry about that...
Then you say they were smarter than we are now. Like I said, they knew about their environment, like we know about ours. We keep adapting to new things... back then, new things were not that common...