Aaron
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I was wondering just the other day on a similar vein that someone here mentioned earlier, whether the immense culling of the Human population, along with the harsh times that followed for millennia after the Younger Dryas period could have resulted in us losing some mental faculties, or having thought patterns changed. For example, could this ancient civilization have been a more peaceful one? Then due to the harsh life after the cataclysm it forced the worst out in people, just to survive, leading to aggressive traits to become more dominant? Possibly other traits too?
I'm open to the theories that they had discovered some ancient, now lost, form of acoustic technology for moving large structures. There seems to be some anecdotal evidence of such things in ancient texts, notably the destruction of the walls of Jericho.
To demonstrate my thinking, take for example current artistic capabilities. We live in an age with a very vibrant, diverse and robust artistic life, whether it be in music, movies, writing, painting, you name it, and have been for millennia. What would happen if a cataclysm wiped out 95% of the world's population, and those that survived had to be the hardy, no-nonsense, survivalist types, and practically all with high artistic talent died out. Fast forward 10k years, would the civilization that then arouse be likely to have similar capabilities in art as now? I doubt it. Sure, they would have art, possibly good art, but much different than what we call art now. So the same could be true of other mental faculties such as scientific reasoning and engineering abilities, or more to the point, the creative process used to come to conclusions and work out solutions to problems.
While not needed, it is still even more interesting to think along these lines if you go deeper and factor in theories such as the world being some form of either simulation, or that the mind creates the world in some way. Should that be the case, then changes to "the mind" could change the way we perceive "reality" - whatever reality actually is.
I'm open to the theories that they had discovered some ancient, now lost, form of acoustic technology for moving large structures. There seems to be some anecdotal evidence of such things in ancient texts, notably the destruction of the walls of Jericho.
To demonstrate my thinking, take for example current artistic capabilities. We live in an age with a very vibrant, diverse and robust artistic life, whether it be in music, movies, writing, painting, you name it, and have been for millennia. What would happen if a cataclysm wiped out 95% of the world's population, and those that survived had to be the hardy, no-nonsense, survivalist types, and practically all with high artistic talent died out. Fast forward 10k years, would the civilization that then arouse be likely to have similar capabilities in art as now? I doubt it. Sure, they would have art, possibly good art, but much different than what we call art now. So the same could be true of other mental faculties such as scientific reasoning and engineering abilities, or more to the point, the creative process used to come to conclusions and work out solutions to problems.
While not needed, it is still even more interesting to think along these lines if you go deeper and factor in theories such as the world being some form of either simulation, or that the mind creates the world in some way. Should that be the case, then changes to "the mind" could change the way we perceive "reality" - whatever reality actually is.
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