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The Drive Interview with Peter Attia

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Are We the Only Ones That Are Blessed, Slash Cursed?

The city for linguistic, abstract, complex thought is what has given us everything that is recognizably human. It has allowed us to place all of the learning of our ancestors in a strata that is accessible to all of us and to every present generation. Just just imagine what the alternative would be if there was no acquisition of progress in civilization? Yes. And for the longest time, that was true of humanity as well,. If you go back 50 thousand years, and then you decide to go back 60 thousand years, that the differences are impressively non existent   n terms of the tool kit anyone was working with.

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