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by OJFord 1219 days ago
Do we know it didn't?
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reflexco 1219 days ago
It almost certainly did, but for what we lost in working memory, we gained a broadness of outlooks that would have been unfathomable at the time. We are connecting ideas from further afar in a sense.
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mountainb 1219 days ago
Why is broadness good?
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egman_ekki 1219 days ago
We don't seem to remember.
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