That’s exactly why it’s not cleverer than us—we live in an environment with ice cream and condoms. Among the !Kung, the saying might make sense (except that an explicit understanding of evolution didn’t exist in the ancestral environment, either). We’ve been handed a better screwdriver than we could make, but so what? We need a better hammer, and we can make one.
That’s exactly why it’s not cleverer than us—we live in an environment with ice cream and condoms. Among the !Kung, the saying might make sense (except that an explicit understanding of evolution didn’t exist in the ancestral environment, either). We’ve been handed a better screwdriver than we could make, but so what? We need a better hammer, and we can make one.