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Why patriarchy is so universal even when early societies were isolated? lack of a fortified theory; physical strength (? alpha male chimpanzee win by building a stable coalition with others)

law, money, gods, nations are all inter-subjective; organizational principles have to live in external mediums because memory overload (not biologically encoded, as opposed to bees); writing (language) was born as the maidservant of human consciousness but is increasingly becoming its master;
complex societies seem to require imagined hierarchies and unjust discrimination;

Agricultural society->1. start of strong sense of possession, wealth -> hierarchy 2. concern about future 3. delayed-gratification
Hierarchy -> again imagined order that is believed to organize individuals into an efficient system => even the concept of absolute equality, human rights (Babylon Hammurabi's Code vs Declaration of Independence) -> universal (?) immutable (?) Neither.

Wheat domesticated human not vice versa;
Agricultural revolution let Homo sapiens can multiply exponentially, stability, ownership;
Currency of evolution is the # of copy of DNA;
Pursuit of an easier life never freed us;
So post-AI and job replacement era, not physical resources but social resources will be what ppl fight for (attention, respect, love etc), comedians, artists, entertainers thrive!

Every group plays two parts in the macro backdrop of history. They are both the victim and the predator.
Any comparative advantage is temporary (well, still you can reap enough from that period of time) and very likely be turned against oneself. There is no way other than adapting quickly

Foragers: varied diet vs Agricultural (farmers) limited
Ache societies => humans can do anything + / - the lower bound is unimaginable

theory is that brain wiring in sapiens to have differing cognitive ability from other animals was accidental genetic mutation
ability to imagine fictional concepts collectively
cognitive revolution - when history declared independence from biology
*Thought: when future historian look at our "artifact remains", it's going to be mostly digital and privatized (ownership insists after our physical death)

what ifs:
several human species co-existed ("too familiar to ignore, too different to tolerate")
Neanderthals exit ~ 30K yrs ago.

We consider ourselves as a creature apart.
Brain size -> earlier birth -> infant dependency -> social tie/abilities
Where did the species started 'thinking' and why do our brain stop evolving (Homo erectus survived 2 m yrs, likely to be much more durable than us)
Fire -> shorter intestine (creatures are physical designs accustomed to natural environment thanks to natural selection)
-> a tool out of body design

"Just 6 million yrs ago, a single female ape had two daughters. One became the ancestor of all chimpanzees, the other is our own grandmother." Lol it is crazy to think how the whole civilization occurred through a combination of chances.

"Just 6 million yrs ago, a single female ape had two daughters. One became the ancestor of all chimpanzees, the other is our own grandmother." Lol it is crazy to think how the whole civilization occurred through a combination of chances.

Traders. Traders. Traders.
Think of the forces: religion, then trade, the blood has always been technology. Ready to see what he is going to introduce in the next book.
Commonalities: unified and basic rules (teaching and profit)
Differences: hierarchical (religion) vs reciprocal (trade)

Trade builds inter-dependence (well, sometimes unequal balance)

How Foundation bypassed the local government of A: 'Scienligion' that mobilizes 'the mob', while having full control of the 'electricity'.

Nationalism vs spiritualism. Another topic of its own.

"Death, your veneration, is so absolute and irrevocable a phenomenon that certainly there must be some alternative."

You need to constantly construct your own religion.

Traders - "Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right". lol. strategy is the key; + brute capability sure. So in addition to a set of static model parameters, strategy is rather a "model-based RL lol" that how you react to external components (game theory yes). To optimize my model, I need a bit more than seeing a set of static data generated on my own, but trials and error with peer models.

"eyes - televisors; arms - grapples; fists - atomic blasts; heart - motor; voice - communication; breadth - ventilation; soul - lights" Just thought the entire analogy is surprisingly fit.

? What needs to be done to turn science into organized religion (unexplanability, involve no formal experiments, one unifying 'text', one figure, tales and narratives, emotional appeal, offers a moral standard, etc) --in need of more thoughts

"Symbolic logic, which can be used to prune away all sorts of clogging deadwood that clutters up human language"
I like how he puts this. Very shapely.

"Science is more than the study of the past. It needs something new."
But where the 'new' comes from?
One could be the permutations and combinations of the existing knowledge components(finite)?(but allow repetition, so infinite) Remember the David's poem?