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16:50 | 14-02-2013 | Metaphysics, Science | No Comments
Нил Деграсс Тайсон в одном из интервью.
Everything that we are, that distinguishes us from chimps, emerges from that 1% difference in DNA. It has to because that’s the difference. The Hubble telescope, the grand… that’s in that 1%. Maybe, everything that we are that is not the chimp is not as smart compared to the chimp as we tell ourselves it is. Maybe the difference between constructing and launching a Hubble telescope and a chimp combining two finger motions as sign language- maybe that difference is not all that great. We tell ourselves it is. Just the same way we label our books optical illusions. We tell ourselves it’s a lot. Maybe it’s almost nothing.
How would we decide that? Imagine another life form. That’s 1% different from us. In the direction that we are different from the chimp.