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there is this growing Chasm between our Paleolithic brains and what we're designed for and the niches we're built to inhabit and this new technologically infused world that we're living in
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- Elise says
- "there is this growing Chasm between
- our Paleolithic brains and
- what we're designed for and
- the niches we're built to inhabit and this new technologically infused world that we're living in
- We have changed our environment so rapidly
and so radically and we have not kept pace with that change
- so either we keep changing the environment or
- we change ourselves to fit the environment and
- I think the fact that we're consistently making these commodified decisions in which
- we do expunge more and more of our of our Humanity in favor of profit
- in favor of short-term decisions i
- n favor of such abysmal thinking when it comes to complex systems like the human body
- it is a testament to the fact that these brains are not built for this world and
- we are not going to be adequate stewards of this system
- that is now so complex that to keep it held together
- you actually need a new form of intelligence beyond what we are"
- "there is this growing Chasm between
- Elise Bohan' statements perfectly echo Ronald Wright's famous quote on the nature of progress traps
- “To use a computer analogy, we are running twenty-first-century software on hardware last upgraded 50,000 years ago or more. This may explain quite a lot of what we see in the news.”
- https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.goodreads.com%2Fwork%2Fquotes%2F321797-a-short-history-of-progress&group=world
- Elise says
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- I think, however, that Wright would agree more with Mary and less with Elise in Elise's contention that
- we need a new form of intelligence beyond what we are
- applying progress to our own cognitive abilities
- may create the biggest progress trap of all
- I think, however, that Wright would agree more with Mary and less with Elise in Elise's contention that
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