Jake:
Enco,
I don’t know if you remember but we saw a vid with the guy who worked for Reuters. And yea it gets copied over and over as though it were honest reporting instead of activists spinning and spreading their filthy ideology.
This is a pretty cool vid by Sagan except it is AI and i don’t even know if it is Sagan’s words.
Whut wuz all that furrin’ stuff he wuz sayin’? ‘Can’t be any gud comin’ from some Egghead New Yawk Boy starin’ at th’ Firmament above th’ Flat ‘n’ Hollow Earth held together by gravity from th’ Bermuda Triangle!
*SPIT!* *DING!*🤠💦🏺😉
I jest, of course, but AI is yet to be a good transcriber and translator, so for the time being at least, that foreign language part was head-scrathing. Latin perhaps? Maybe a Star Trek Universal Translator that works in the ambience would make the foreign phasing perfectly understandable. The part that was in English has great truth.
I would say that both jumping at the rustling grassy veldt and the formation of hypotheses and theories are forms of finding patterns in a chaotic Nature. Whichever way we use, our survival and quality of life depends on getting it right.
After a while, jumping at every noise in the veldt would distract from other acts that are life-sustaining either for individuals or a species. No sleeping, diminished awareness in the morning of water to drink, animals to hunt, and plants to forage, sluggish movements to do anything, no males and females making their own rustlings in the veldt, etc.
That’s when humans would make hypotheses and theories and figure out ways to check for or trap intruders while asleep. Taking turns at night watch, making twine trip threads connected to noise-makers, trenches around the encampment, hunting off predators by day so the don’t come by night, making stronger shelters that resist intruders, etc.
This is all just inferential conjecture and thinking backwards to guess how ancient humans would do things to survive. As Carl Sagan observed, I could be wrong.
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