Has the human mind evolved an almost inexhaustible capacity for absorbing knowledge of a non survival nature?
It’s curious that anyone should suggest that the human brain has evolved to a point where it’s ‘exceeded’ its survival requirements. Consider that our higher brain functions such as socialising actually require an exhaustive amount of brain power. When observed under clinical conditions, scans of the active human brain have shown that although we may absorb terabytes of data every single day, when we’re asked to recall say for example, what we had for lunch 2 tuesdays ago, or to recall verbatim a quote from a specific page of a book we’ve read, we have great difficulty remembering, and this is evident from the amount of activity within the relevant areas of the brain. We may have indeed reached a stage where we are capable of gene manipulation (though at a rudimentary level at best), basic space travel (we can’t even get to Mars without spending millions of dollars and hundreds of hours of research) and yes, we’ve also made a lot of social and political progress, but to say that we’ve
