How do you describe the impulse that leads humans around the world to collect antiques, attempt to preserve endangered species, re-enact past time periods, etc?
Whatever that is, there seems to be more of it in humans than in non-human animals. Why do you imagine we’d see less rather than more of it in something built to have more than we do of those traits which distinguish us from other creatures?
How do you describe the impulse that leads humans around the world to collect antiques, attempt to preserve endangered species, re-enact past time periods, etc?
Whatever that is, there seems to be more of it in humans than in non-human animals. Why do you imagine we’d see less rather than more of it in something built to have more than we do of those traits which distinguish us from other creatures?
Gwern’s “What Is The Collecting Mindset?” is relevant to your question.