SILO - S03E02
It is a short but surprisingly dense excerpt . In just a few sentences, the dialogue brings together ideas from anthropology, the philosophy of language, cognitive sciences, and narrative psychology. At the same time, it considerably simplifies these traditions. I think almost no contemporary thinker would fully agree with Victor; many would say he mixes correct observations with very strong extrapolations. It is worth separating the statements. "Why do humans rule the world and not the apes?" This opening is already provocative. From an evolutionary perspective, it is problematic because it presupposes that "ruling the world" is the criterion for biological success. A biologist like Stephen Jay Gould would probably say that evolution does not move toward dominance; it produces contingent adaptations. But there is a sense in which the question directly refers to a well-known hypothesis today. 1. Yuval Noah Harari: would probably say "yes" It is difficult...