Coltan Scrivner

That's not really that helpful.

Now, historically, that would have been helpful because if you saw something like that, you didn't have a screen.

So it's something that happened to you or someone you knew or someone you might know.

It's like in a small community, right?

I don't think it makes us more morbidly curious, though, because 500 years ago, you would have packed up your family and walked five miles to watch a public execution.

Like that takes a lot of motivation to engage your morbid curiosity.

Yeah, exactly.

But it takes a lot of energy and motivation to be like, all right, I'm going to walk barefoot five miles to watch this guy get his head lopped off.

To me, that's just as morbidly curious as watching some videos online, right?

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah.

One of the unique features of humans, which famous last words, we always end up finding something animals do that we thought was unique to humans.

But one thing that does seem to be somewhat unique to humans is healing.

We heal other members of our species in ways that other animals don't really do.

And we're really good at it.

That would have never happened.

Like that cultural...

artifact would have never came about if we weren't curious about why are there boils on that person's body how can we stop that why did this person fall over and die mysteriously and we didn't realize for a long time we're like well it's witches it's whatever and we did try to come up with solutions right we came up with counter curses we came up with effigies or totems that would heal you or protect you we did try to come up with ways to heal things that we didn't understand

Now, if it was a visible injury, we would often have pastes that we put together, put on the wound.

And you do see chimps do that a little bit.