Human Conservancy...evolving

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How does the mind evolve?

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That question was on my mind this morning. I just could not let go of it for some reason. I must say it bothered me. Much like the reaccuring thought of a root canal gone bad. EVOLVE???

It seems to me that civilizations have evolved through some form of strategic forgetting. Maybe a forgetting of what were once considered vital life skills.

For example, the farm era may have morphed itself when the farm worker realized they could let go of all their woodland lore, their skills for animal tracking, and other bits of information that seemed vital coming form the hunting and gathering era. And, hey, they got wind there might be a good living in pork belly.

Now let's move forward in time. When societies industrialised, then reading and writing became vital, and the knowledge of ploughing and harvesting could fall by the wayside...and so the mind forget those bits of information.

As you are so astulaty aware, many of us get lost without our smartphone GPS. So what's next? Dirverless cars? With driverless cars, will we forget how to drive ourselves?

I'm guessing we will be surrounded by voice-recognition Articial Intelligence that can phrase the most beautiful and appropriate utterances for us all. 

Hell, we may even forget how to spell. And does it really matter?...Doc