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#191 – Daniel Schmachtenberger: Steering Civilization Away from Self-Destruction
Lex Fridman Podcast
Homo Sapiens Capacity for Abstraktion
The idea of humans as better than nature in some kind of ethical sense ends up having heaps of problems. But we say what is unique about homo sapien capacity relative to the other animals we currently inhabit the biosphere with and I'm saying it that way because there were other early hominids that had some of these capacities we believe. So I do think our ability to coordinate with each other is pretty fundamental to the selection of what we are as a species. Is it possible that it affects basically 99.9 or maybe the whole thing? The whole thing is the connection between us humans and that we're no better than apes without our human connections.
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