I've always considered human memory similar to a hard disk. Runs out of space after a while, since it has to store everything it sees.
btw, Asimov and Dan Simmons have humanity evolving into separate species on its own in the extended Foundation (Spacers and non Spacers) and Hyperion Cantos series. And it almost happened in real life 150,000 years ago, when two strands of humanity was isolated in E & W Africa and Southern Africa for 100,000 years
rads
· 10 months ago
I am not sure if we can call such a development 'progress'. It will only be known when things are gauged across time.
Flip side being just like we'd never know what and how it is to literally hunt for food, the "artificial limb man" would never really know what it is to experience the finer elements of life as we do perhaps?
manuscrypts
· 9 months ago
Arby: dont know about Dan Simmons, well versed with Asimov though.. the africa tale is very interesting!!
rads: progress is so relative and subjective that it really can't be judged at all... and we'd think hunting for food would be such a tedious thing, maybe it wasnt :)
All Comments
btw, Asimov and Dan Simmons have humanity evolving into separate species on its own in the extended Foundation (Spacers and non Spacers) and Hyperion Cantos series. And it almost happened in real life 150,000 years ago, when two strands of humanity was isolated in E & W Africa and Southern Africa for 100,000 years
Flip side being just like we'd never know what and how it is to literally hunt for food, the "artificial limb man" would never really know what it is to experience the finer elements of life as we do perhaps?
rads: progress is so relative and subjective that it really can't be judged at all... and we'd think hunting for food would be such a tedious thing, maybe it wasnt :)