
The Infinite Retina
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Human beings are classified as Homo sapiens, which in Latin means “knowing man.” Modern Homo sapiens are believed to have appeared a little more than 300,000 years ago. The distinction between Homo sapiens and what came before has to do with the relatively sophisticated use of tools―tools that were used to survive more efficiently and with which humans gained control of their surroundings. Tools were also used by early humans to make art on cave walls and carve statuettes of female fertility goddesses. The tools served as augmenting devices―augmenting humans’ chances of survival and also of expression.
With modern humans, this augmentation can take the form of education, which in turn is used to gain knowledge. With knowledge, our chances of survival should be better. In many ways, our Prime Directive is to know how to better survive and how to better express ourselves by willfully creating and using tools for those purposes...
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