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Comment on Somewhere along the way Humanity lost the ability for long term thinking.

Our brains are physiologically wired for the short term. In the place we came from, there was no long term. The world before society was brutal. We are still running on that hardware.

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Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
This is the correct answer. Whatever long term thinking we are capable of is a result of the most recently evolved parts of our brain.

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- intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Pop quiz for you: what’s twice as far away as a million years in the future?
  
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  - Nougat@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Two million years in the future?
    
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  - Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Human equilibrium with our environment
    
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intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Our brains are physiologically wired for a longer term than any other brain in existence.

Human minds are the only thing we know of that has any awareness of the future. So on the scale of short term to long term, humans are the longest-term thinkers there are.

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