RE: A knockdown prophecy
September 9, 2022 at 4:02 pm
(This post was last modified: September 9, 2022 at 4:02 pm by R00tKiT.)
This is devolving into a cheap game of semantics. Even if I play along, I can still squeeze a first modern human from your description above, regardless of its accuracy.
Let's assume we observe the first generation of modern men dispersed over groups in different places around the globe.
Step 1 : For each group of "modern men", take the oldest member.
Step 2 : You get a collection of very old people, each of whom would locally be considered the first modern human.
Step 3 : Take the oldest element in this collection. This element would evidently be the first modern human we're looking for.
QED.
The existence of a greatest element is a mathematical property about finite sets, the set of modern humans is finite, people.
Let's assume we observe the first generation of modern men dispersed over groups in different places around the globe.
Step 1 : For each group of "modern men", take the oldest member.
Step 2 : You get a collection of very old people, each of whom would locally be considered the first modern human.
Step 3 : Take the oldest element in this collection. This element would evidently be the first modern human we're looking for.
QED.
The existence of a greatest element is a mathematical property about finite sets, the set of modern humans is finite, people.
