Possibly linux@lemmy.zip to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-29 months agoSomewhere along the way Humanity lost the ability for long term thinking.message-squaremessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up173file-text
arrow-up173message-squareSomewhere along the way Humanity lost the ability for long term thinking.Possibly linux@lemmy.zip to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-29 months agomessage-square21fedilinkfile-text
Imagine if we prepared for Covid back during influenza. Also we should have realize smoking is bad for you.
minus-squareSanctus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up40·9 months agoOur brains are physiologically wired for the short term. In the place we came from, there was no long term. The world before society was brutal. We are still running on that hardware.
minus-squareEp1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·9 months agoThis is the correct answer. Whatever long term thinking we are capable of is a result of the most recently evolved parts of our brain.
We’ve never had it
Our brains are physiologically wired for the short term. In the place we came from, there was no long term. The world before society was brutal. We are still running on that hardware.
This is the correct answer. Whatever long term thinking we are capable of is a result of the most recently evolved parts of our brain.