When Ideas have Sex

[Halo]

Even though no human can make a mouse, collectively we can.

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[Strong]

That raises an interesting point in my mind. Since no one person knows how to make any thing, and it takes a collective group to make something, what would happen if part of society were lost.

I think of a major catastrophe for instance; the Spanish flu, a major earthquake, Yellowstone erupting, an asteroid hitting Europe. The number of people that society would lose would be vast, so how much of that specialist knowledge would be lost to society. What kind of a toll would it take?

[Atom]

When Ideas have Sex (...)

[YT]OLHh9E5ilZ4[/YT ]If this is sex then I believe this is the first time I've fallen asleep during sex. I got about an eighth of the way through it.

:sqembarrassed:

[Muddy]

When sex gives me ideas.

[Halo]

If this is sex then I believe this is the first time I've fallen asleep during sex. I got about an eighth of the way through it.

:sqembarrassed:

You didn't hang about for the climax then? :sqlaugh:

[Atom]

You didn't hang about for the climax then? :sqlaugh:lol. Nope, I got bored too quickly. Would you mind giving us a brief summary?

[Halo]

lol. Nope, I got bored too quickly. Would you mind giving us a brief summary?



Ddespite concerns about global catastrophe

Lifespan up 30%

per capita food production up by 1 third.

Prosperous as we become more populous

Nobody ever saw a dog make a fair and deliberate exchange of one bone for another with another dog. Adam Smith.

Shows picture of flint axe head and computer mouse

same size, designed to fit human hand

In our species it's one thing we insist on doing ourselves (reproduction).
Even in England we don't leave reproduction to the Queen.

If we were plonked on a desert island
how many things in our pockets would we be able to continue making after 10000 years?

Who knows how to make a computer mouse? There is no one on the planet who knows how to make a computer mouse.

I, Pencil (http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/rdPncl1.html) Leonard Read

We all know little bits but none of us knows the whole.
We have created the ability to do things we don't even understand.


We are just the nodes in the network.

[Muddy]

Ddespite concerns about global catastrophe

Lifespan up 30%

per capita food production up by 1 third.

Prosperous as we become more populous

Nobody ever saw a dog make a fair and deliberate exchange of one bone for another with another dog. Adam Smith.

Shows picture of flint axe head and computer mouse

same size, designed to fit human hand

In our species it's one thing we insist on doing ourselves (reproduction).
Even in England we don't leave reproduction to the Queen.

If we were plonked on a desert island
how many things in our pockets would we be able to continue making after 10000 years?

Who knows how to make a computer mouse? There is no one on the planet who knows how to make a computer mouse.

I, Pencil (http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/rdPncl1.html) Leonard Read

We all know little bits but none of us knows the whole.
We have created the ability to do things we don't even understand.


We are just the nodes in the network.

Well done old chap!

[Atom]

D(...)Great, thank you.

This weird human thing that seems to have happened here is rather odd to me to say the least, it doesn't really seem natural to me in the evolutionary scheme.