@platorepublic,
platorepublic;159627 wrote:Are you human?
"Humans have a highly developed brain, capable of abstract reasoning, language, introspection, and problem solving. This mental capability, combined with an erect body carriage that frees the hands for manipulating objects, has allowed humans to make far greater use of tools than any other species. Mitochondrial DNA and fossil evidence indicates that modern humans originated in Africa about 200,000 years ago."
It's more like ~20% of us who have a highly developed brain, rest are mere normal. We
can teach eachothers to preform much greater feats if left to ourselves, just observe various continents through history, only very few would rise to a great civilization, with great architecture, great goverment, medical understanding ..etc.
platorepublic;159627 wrote:What do you think?
Why are we born to live at this point in time in human civilization? Are you not a bit skeptical? Perhaps there were human civilizations that have reached peak of knowledge and wisdom before us but have decided best not to pass it on to us.
Yes I belive there has been some who reached almost peek knowledge in some areas, just look at buddhist monks who can stay sane even after years of chineese prison isolation, which would drive normal people insane just after a few months.
Roman and Mayan civilization would invent waterproof concrete long before our modern civilizaiton re-invented it.
Dogon tribe in African knew of the dog star, long before our astronomers with telescopes discovered it.