Inyash Brodsky

recursion this consciousness could have diffused rather than independently evolved each time.

One of the things you said here is that agriculture popped up in a dozen civilizations worldwide.

Surprisingly, the academic consensus holds that this was independent each time.

Cultural diffusion is really unpopular.

Why is cultural diffusion really unpopular in the academic circles?

So the problem is that if there was diffusion... Then somebody gets credit and that makes it look like someone's better than someone else.

Well, but that's stupid.

It's like 50,000 years ago.

No one nowadays gets credit from what happened 50,000 years ago.

Like, Gobekli is in the Middle East somewhere?

In Turkey, maybe?

Is Turkey the Middle East?

Yeah, Turkey.

Fairly close to Syria.

Okay.

They should totally be like, check it out.

The Middle Eastern dudes created consciousness.

We don't have to blame the white people for everything.

So, so basically it's cultural diffusion is unpopular because it is politically dangerous to, to say that it could have diffused.

Yeah.