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Can thought arise out of matter? Can self, soul, consciousness, `I` arise out of mere matter? If it cannot, then how can you or I be here?
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Friday, 26 May 2017
quote [ Whatever happened on Easter Island, it wasn't good. Polynesians landed there, farmed, thrived, built their famous statues, and then things went very bad, very fast. Sixteen million trees vanished. What happened? Was this a case of ecological collapse? Not exactly, say two anthropologists. It was, arguably, worse than that. ]
I came across this article from 2014 while I was googling whether or not the statue arms-race hypothesis was really why the Easter Islanders destroyed their ecology.
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cb361 said @ 11:19pm GMT on 26th May
TL;DR - The Easter Islanders hunkered-down and got on with the miserable job of surviving in a much impoverished environment, and so might we.
cb361 said @ 11:23pm GMT on 26th May
TL;DR - The Easter Islanders hunkered-down and got on with the miserable job of surviving day-to-day in a much impoverished environment, without a lot of the luxuries of their forebears. And so might we.
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cb361 said @ 11:19pm GMT on 26th May
TL;DR - The Easter Islanders hunkered-down and got on with the miserable job of surviving day-to-day in a much impoverished environment, without a lot of the luxuries of their forebears. And so might we.
