Dingo the Dissident

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Friday, 19 April 2024

Our Limitations.

"Nothing has caused the human race more trouble than intelligence."  Hitchcock's Rear Window, script by Hayes and Woolrich.

human-behavioural-crisis-at-root-of-climate-breakdown-say-scientists

The chief limitation of our intelligence
is that it tends to be too particular and narrow-focussed.
Finding it difficult to 'take a cosmic view',
we are very bad at seeing how tight
are the - socially imposed - boundaries of our minds.

"We all want to know whether animals are talking and what they’re saying. Although there’s a weird split personality on this: on the one hand, we want animals to talk; but on the other, we’re scared of animals talking because that would mean we’re not quite as special as we thought." Arik Kershenbaum

 And we might not like what they had to say.

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