The first modern map of Europe was not even made until the publication of Schedel’s Nuremberg Chronicle in 1493.
We are basically ooze that has only recently come out of the muck.
It is the hubris of the human mind that so amuses me. The idea that we as a present peoples have any idea whatsoever what is really going on.
The popular concept of the impossibility of replicating the small simple human brain. As a HUMAN it may seem to some difficult to replicate, but please, it’s just a brain. We have such hubris that since it is OUR brain it is so sacrosanct and complex.
The human brain is only complex in relation to it’s view of itself. It is simply a point in the evolution of matter/consciousness/life. As Ray Kurzweil says the Singularity is coming where computers will create themselves with exponentially increasing speed intelligence and processing power and may or may not dispose of humans.