Re:Has humanity reached ‘peak intelligence’?
by timoth3y on Monday April 05, 2021 @07:46PM
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> How much mental stimuli did you have sitting in the forest and doing menial labour much of the day,
Quite a bit, I imagine.
We tend to discount the complexity of tasks we don't have to do. In the same way you dismiss the complexities of living off the land as "sitting in a forest", someone could uncharitably describe your day as "sitting in front of a computer."
Also, be careful not to confuse the importance of the subject matter or tool with the difficulty of the task. Reading about the discovery of Neptune or a political scandal likely requires much less mental activity than identifying an animal by its tracks and then tracking it though a forest.
Quite a bit, I imagine.
We tend to discount the complexity of tasks we don't have to do. In the same way you dismiss the complexities of living off the land as "sitting in a forest", someone could uncharitably describe your day as "sitting in front of a computer."
Also, be careful not to confuse the importance of the subject matter or tool with the difficulty of the task. Reading about the discovery of Neptune or a political scandal likely requires much less mental activity than identifying an animal by its tracks and then tracking it though a forest.