The Human Mind

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1. The human mind is likely getting worse on average. Technological advances which increase survival have logically reduced the effect of natural selection. If you need proof, go to youtube.

2. The pyramids were largely built by laborers, not slaves. The agricultural system was based on the annual flooding of the Nile, and so there were long stretches when agricultural workers didn't have much to do. Graffiti and, more recently, graves of pyramid laborers support this position.

On the contrary, modern genetics show certain recently mutations in behavior and cognitive related genes have spread extraordinarily rapidly throughout the global human population over the last 5000 years. This suggested that, obscured as it might be by vagaries of human perception and record keeping, very strong evolutionary selective pressures have acted upon human cognitive and behavioral traits just since the time the pyramids were built. Which in turn indicated genetically we as a species has already evolved noticeable in our cognitive capabilities since the pyramids.

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The quite miraculous parts are:

1. Move the 3 million rocks weighing 2 tons apiece.

2. Stack the rocks so the 4 edges of the pyramids are straight AND meet at the apex

3. Do so before the pharaoh dies.

The most miraculous part is they solved these problem even though these problems are both very difficult AND so subtle that some idiot born 5000 years later would still fail completely to grasp their magnitude.

Moving 3 million big ass rocks does not sound miraculous but fucking impractical.
The building itself is very simple it just takes a lot of effort.

They were smart enough to make what seem impractical to you not only accomplishable, but accomplished.

Furthermore, you seem to want to prove the sort of mental problem needed to make the four edges of the pyramid meet at the apex is not only beyond you to solve, but beyond you to detect. Egyptians, on the other hand, proved they detected it by solving it on their first try.

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There are also several older pyramids that are not so triangular. It took them a few generations and alot of trial and error until they found a way for the structure to remain triangular.

Uh, no. The earlier pyramids might have been step pyramids, but the very first Egyptian attempt at a true triangular pyramid, which involve a myriad of precision survey problems not encountered with step pyramids, succeeded perfectly from survey perspective. This suggests the analytical solution to the key geometric problem of true pyramid construction was known before the first true pyramid was started, and was not obtained empirically by trial and era during the start of the pyramid age.

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Regarding the pyramids, humans were once much stronger than we are today. Just look at the strength of chimps who eat mostly fruit, or gorillas who eat mostly plants. These are our ancestors/cousins. I read an article the other day that gorillas do not suffer from muscle-wasting like humans do i.e. unlike humans who have to keep exercising to retain muscles, gorillas can lounge around all day and not lose a thing.

You ignore the fact that overall, humans tend to be more muscular than gorillas or chimps. Gorillas and chimps have much greater a arm strengths, yes. But humans have much more muscle in the torso, the buttocks and the legs. Overall, humans, especially males, are overmuscled. It is suggested that human muscle is developed as part of ostentatious sexual display. The muscularness of the individual being a sign to the opposite sex of the fitness and living condition of the individual.

This may be why human muscles waste. Though recent human evolutionary history, just as in modern industrialized socieities, Human muscles are an luxury for show, not for use. Hence they are allowed to waste away if not used.