Evolution never stops, so there will be a post-human species at some point in the future, and this may arrive sooner, rather than later. Not every species lasts for millions of years like dinosaurs did. When the environment changes fast, …
Political positions are emotional as well as rational, and depend on the degree of trust in other people. Lower trust reduces the boundary of identification and the degree of cooperation between people. Knowing the emotional reasons for political positions makes them more understandable and helps in finding acceptable solutions.
Language has allowed us to understand and navigate in the world, but we also rely on emotions and instincts. Much of our distress as humans is because we are receiving contradictory messages about the world. It is like listening to two radio stations at once.
We humans are a wildly successful species. Why is that? As life developed, it first responded to the world with reflexes, then emotions, then by thinking, but it was the human invention of language that turned thinking into a superpower. …
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