#149 Cynefin at 21 - with Dave Snowden
Being Human
The Importance of Art in Human Evolution
Most human innovation comes this way. We get microwave ovens because a Raythean engineer realized the significance of a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. So, I mean, take another person example, I've lost count of the number of things I radically repurposed to open beer bottles in hotel rooms late at night when there wasn't the proper opener. It's not just us as a species, right? All sorts of animals engage in exactly. And human beings more than others, it seems to be linked with in humans, art comes before language in human evolution. Our language evolved from abstractions. You can see some evidence of that in a round of tanks and possibly occupied by the
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