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by pbar 2516 days ago
I wonder about similar future change in imagination. Almost certainly possible since there's precedent for it happening, but the hard part is imagining what sort of thought it would enable.
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Just like the dark ages, particularly in medicine, practitioners followed text from hundreds of years prior, without any perceptions without. Only memorizing and being SME on past thought was relevant.
I imagine the next cognitive leap is toward greater empathy to the other, and de-emphasizing the self.