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Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World: A Conversation With Wade Davis

The Emerald

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The Importance of Kinesthetic Awareness

The greatest ocean sphere on the face of the planet was navigated by memory. Kinesthetic genius exists, intuitive genius exists, it's simply that we may not always identify it as genius. So when we have now technology that remembers everything for us, are we missing out on something that's fundamentally human? I think it's, you know, none of this is either or, right? And there's this tendency to sort of say, to get into a space of self-flagellation if you're from the West and idealization of the exotic other. It's about a we, what kind of world do we want to live in?

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