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Let\u2019s imagine you were stranded on a desert island.<\/h3>\n\n

You\u2019ve made a little shelter for the night, you\u2019ve managed to gather some food, you\u2019ve sharpened a stick to keep the beasts at bay.\u00a0 The thing to do now of course would be to light a little fire.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

\"Fire<\/figure>\n\n

We definitely know how to do that : we\u2019ve all read the books, and even watched the chaps on reality TV rubbing sticks together for hours on end.\u00a0 Hours and hours of rubbing – the chafed hands, the aching muscles – but oftentimes, not even a whiff of smoke.\u00a0 There are people that can do it easily – a few seconds with some twigs and presto!\u00a0 Fire.\u00a0 These would however be people with know-how, born and bred in the bush, or trained adventurers.\u00a0 For most of us, even though we have a rough idea of the techniques involved, the task of lighting a fire with just a couple of sticks would be near impossible.<\/p>\n\n

So my question is : How on earth did anyone come up with this incredible idea?<\/h3>\n\n

Presumably someone invented this procedure.\u00a0 Top marks to them!\u00a0 This strikes me as quasi-miraculous – and I\u2019m not the only one: see Prometheus’ story (nb. the guy who stole the secret of fire from the Greek gods).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

In my mind, Einstein\u2019s got nothing on our first anonymous fire starter.\u00a0 The God of genius must have somehow been involved.<\/p>\n\n

With my cultural bias and modern-day IQ, I can relate to young Albert grappling with scenes of naive occupants in a falling elevator<\/a>. This is probably because Albert and I are, as they say, standing on the shoulders of giants – I may not really understand the meaning of E=MC2, but I get the idea of stuff like cause and effect, narrative or logic.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Our prehistoric genius however, was stranded in a wilderness where fire only appeared as if by magic.\u00a0 Technology, for the last million years, consisted of banging rocks together in order to squash stuff. What happened was obviously not due to intelligence as we tend to quantify it: we\u2019re not talking about IQ.\u00a0 Logic, reason or a vast library of technical knowledge won\u2019t help us here.<\/p>\n\n

\"cogitating<\/figure>\n\n

Sticks + Friction = Heat.\u00a0 Heat + combustible + oxidant \u2026 Forget it.\u00a0 (Innovation, discovery as a concept only really began to take off in the 16th century)<\/p>\n\n

Our prehistoric inventor was obviously some kind of demigod, blessed with incredible powers of vision, clarity and pure creativity.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

I would like to describe this scenario again if I may:\u00a0 Our ancestors liked to burn things.\u00a0 It makes stuff taste yummy, it keeps us warm, we can see in the dark, we can stare into it for hours – all this fantastic stuff and probably more.\u00a0 What more do you want you might ask – it makes life worth living and some say that it fundamentally changed who we were and the planet we lived on.\u00a0 That it may have led to the development of the modern human brain, thanks to the extra nutrients from easily digestible cooked food, sounds like a tenable hypothesis. \u00a0(Some anthropologists posit the hypothesis whereby big brains started to develop in areas with access to volcanic activity) That it changed our internal microbiome, and at the same time the environment we lived in – due to the resulting population explosion from all that good food and people setting fire to stuff all the time – sounds completely legit.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

So we generally agreed that fire was great.\u00a0 It was probably part of the Prehistoric mindset, along with food, sex, itching and wild animals. The ability to control and handle fire was certainly part of everyone’s skillset, local taboos notwithstanding.\u00a0 Finding fire, caused by lightning, would have been a thing.\u00a0 Transporting it back to camp and keeping it going, another thing.<\/p>\n\n

But wanting to be able to start a fire from scratch, was that a thing?\u00a0 If so, this means that we\u2019re going to have to assume a few characteristics about our hypothetical protagonists.\u00a0 Like for example that they were modern homo sapiens with a brain similar to ours.\u00a0 I say this because these bad boys (and girls etc.) were going to have to imagine something abstract, something that did not exist. And not only that, but to imagine that creating some non-existent thing, at a time when no one was doing stuff like that, was even possible.<\/p>\n\n

\"tecnology<\/figure>\n\n

Serendipitous Exaptation<\/h3>\n\n

Anyway, the most popular, or obvious answer to the fire question: \u201cHow did we discover that we could start a fire by rubbing sticks together?\u201d\u00a0 is Serendipitous Exaptation.\u00a0 That\u2019s a fancy expression (I may have just made up) which means discovering something accidentally thanks to an invention meant for something else.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

The word Exaptation is used when biologists talk about the evolution of things like feathers.\u00a0 This is due to the theory that feathers did not initially evolve because they were so useful for flying – but rather that they were initially useful just for showing off (for sex and fighting) and for keeping warm.\u00a0 The first feathered creatures did not fly – and they only further evolved into proper flying feathers when crazy jumping and gliding creatures found that they were really practical for the long, long-distance jumps.\u00a0 Exaptation is a bit like adaptation, except that instead of just getting improved upon, it gets used for something completely different.<\/p>\n\n

The claim is that people did not decide to rub bits of wood together because they thought that it would start a fire – they were rubbing bits of wood together for a totally different reason: maybe they were drilling holes.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Sometimes we need holes.\u00a0 And a good way of making holes in stuff is to use a sharp pointy, hard thing and shove and twist it into a softer thing – like a big thorn or a big bone fragment that could be used to puncture some animal hide.\u00a0\u00a0 In this case, we need a hole in a piece of soft, pliable wood.\u00a0 The best way of making one back then would be to use a pointy stick of harder wood. (Because you didn\u2019t happen to have a pointy rock or some pointy bits of ivory) You can make pointy sticks yourself.<\/p>\n\n

Anyway, once you get really good at rubbing bits of wood together in order to drill holes, you notice the unmistakable signs of fire – the familiar smell, the charring, the smoke – and seeing as rekindling fires from embers every morning has always been part of your life: you know what to do.\u00a0 From urgent need and familiarity, you have managed to start a revolution that humanity and the planet are still feeling today.\u00a0 From desire and clarity, you have uncovered and mastered the unknowable.<\/p>\n\n

Ga\u00efa\u2019s mentation<\/h3>\n\n

Stuff happens.\u00a0 Change is happening all the time, we all participate in moving things along.\u00a0 But sometimes we can point at the main instigators and say: \u201cLook at them!\u00a0 Stirring stuff up.\u201d\u00a0 Like the ones that rustled up all the planet\u2019s oxygen; or the ones that killed off all the dinosaurs (cyanobacteria and asteroids).<\/p>\n\n

Us humans have been the main instigators of planetary change for a while now. Anthropocene is what we have named the human epoch – so we are well aware who’s in charge – and for the first time the Biosphere might well be in the hands of a self-conscious pilot – we just want to know: In charge maybe, but are we in control?<\/p>\n\n

If we are going to be the planet\u2019s eyes, ears, hands and brains from now on – this is a huge game changer – a huge promotion.\u00a0 If we are going to rise to the task in a competent fashion – this will call for a revolution in humanity\u2019s identity and the shouldering of great responsibility.<\/p>\n\n

The driving desire as always, is still survival and wellbeing – no worries there – the question is whether we are sufficiently malleable and pragmatic for this psychological evolution?\u00a0 As our destiny is to become Ga\u00efa\u2019s mentation – can we still afford to be worrying about whose alternative facts we should believe?\u00a0 As we are being called upon to form the Noosphere, to function as an integral part of a superorganism (ie. Planet Earth) – can we still afford to react from self-centered confusion and conflict?<\/p>\n\n

A change is a gonna come, always has done – no doubt there.\u00a0 The only question is whether humanity is going to be around to participate in that change, and if so, are we going to do so driven by fear and confusion, or with clarity and acceptance?<\/p>\n\n

Just to be clear, I\u2019m not only talking about reason and logic.\u00a0 Luckily, smart people exist – and we can put them in school to make Cosmologists, Astrophysicists, Meteorologists, Biologists etc. Thank God for smart people – if only for the invention of the washing machine and running water. (And all the yummy food, hospitals, and not dying all the time etc. etc.\u2026) I also like that we have been to the moon, and even checked out our dead neighbors : Mars and Venus.<\/p>\n\n

These people are, of course, essential.\u00a0 They can give us a heads up on what happens, for example, when we press this button, or when we acidify that ocean.\u00a0 They might even invent our replacements: an AI smarter than us.<\/p>\n\n

What I\u2019m talking about is fulfilling our potential.\u00a0 We have been blessed with an unparalleled capacity for shared imagination and belief.\u00a0 This can lead to amazing creativity like discovering how to control fire, or to splice genes. It can also lead to believing in demonstrably fallacious and harmful stuff (insert your own example here).<\/p>\n\n

I would like to inquire into how this all works.\u00a0 What inhibits clarity, and why we fall prey to confusion? \u00a0What are the traps and pitfalls that lead us astray from our human potential?<\/p>\n

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You\u2019ve made a little shelter for the night, you\u2019ve managed to gather some food, you\u2019ve sharpened a stick to keep the beasts at bay.\u00a0 The thing to do now of course would be to light a little fire.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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