[ExI] far future

[Mirco Romanato]

Il 09/01/2014 22:39, Ben ha scritto:
> It occurs to me that minds that were evolved to cope with the African
> Savannah on approximately the metre scale, are woefully inequipped for
> understanding how the universe works.  The reason that the double-slit
> experiment, and all the other manifestations of quantum theory (and many
> other things) are mind-blowing to us is probably that our minds never
> needed to understand those things during our evolutionary development. 
> That kind of understanding will probably require a different mental
> architecture than the one we have.  It's likely that anyone capable of
> understanding how the universe works can't be 'human' in any
> currently-accepted sense.

Or we just use a module to understand the quantum scale and the cosmic
scale and use our original module to understand metre scale and switch
from one to the other when required and useful.

Mirco