RE: Special Relativity. Lifetime.
November 26, 2019 at 9:56 am
(This post was last modified: November 26, 2019 at 10:02 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Evolutionary advantage isn't determined by individual fitness, but by the fitness of a population. We can discard notions of interdimensional travel since they're just not in any way an ability that the human mind possesses.
However, the ability to manufacture those alternative realities and hypothetical experiences, while it may not help an individual escape a lion, does help a population imagine a world in which they don't have to run from lions, and using that as a map, proceed to make this world into that world.
It's a bit like our innate aggression, as a species. It might not serve the individual aggressor well, but it gives the lions something to think about the next time it starts looking at a hut like a snack shack. While the majority of people who ever fought a lion or any other predator probably died, they created a situation in which even those who wouldn't fight back...maybe even mentally check out ( a common survival strategy - called "playing dead"), are protected by the inability of a predator to know which of the two types of human beings in this comparison it's looking at. The ability of one to inspire many...whether that's standing up to teeth and claws or helping others to imagine a different world - the benefits are clear.
Here we are.
However, the ability to manufacture those alternative realities and hypothetical experiences, while it may not help an individual escape a lion, does help a population imagine a world in which they don't have to run from lions, and using that as a map, proceed to make this world into that world.
It's a bit like our innate aggression, as a species. It might not serve the individual aggressor well, but it gives the lions something to think about the next time it starts looking at a hut like a snack shack. While the majority of people who ever fought a lion or any other predator probably died, they created a situation in which even those who wouldn't fight back...maybe even mentally check out ( a common survival strategy - called "playing dead"), are protected by the inability of a predator to know which of the two types of human beings in this comparison it's looking at. The ability of one to inspire many...whether that's standing up to teeth and claws or helping others to imagine a different world - the benefits are clear.
Here we are.
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