- A couple thoughts while listening to this:
If you pick something like ‘telephone’ or ‘spoon’ as your endpoint, you ignore the fact that each of those is also the step to another piece of technology. It’s actually both.
Think about this idea coming into existence. It’s a piece of technology. So if this idea gains traction a large part of the reason for that is because the time for that idea is right — and it could only come about because the idea was able to be formed at this time.
Humans as a vehicle for evolutionary experimentation (via technology) makes sense fractally. Or from the standpoint of programming and APIs. Or from a standpoint of cellular automata.
Lastly, if sense of self and the mind is a technological breakthrough for evolution, an idea whose time was right, where are the co-evolved other minds? Did they die out? Does that represent a potential flaw in the process?
