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To: koan who wrote (867)	11/23/2016 12:19:44 AM
From: diegosan	Read Replies (1) of 935

A long time ago I read Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germ & Steel". He had studied primitive peoples in New Guinea. He was impressed with their intelligence and capability. He noted that modern man, living in modern cultures was getting dumber. The brain does process modern culture and all of its wonders. However, if it is not honed by evolution, meaning success and failure, there is no mechanism for enhancement. Numbers and time will cause corruption to prevail, eventually.

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