• @numberfour002
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    210 months ago

    While I agree that evolution would progress roughly the same way, I don’t think it would result in exactly the same people.

    This implies that you think I was saying it would be the same people, but I actually said the exact same thing as you, just in different words: “it wouldn’t be the exact same people, living the exact same lives, at the exact same time as now.”

    With powerful people (like kings, emperors and their courts) being different, history would be different too

    For sure, but from the timescale we’re discussing, the whole of human history is literally just a tiny fraction, a blip, at the very end. And until very recently, you could even argue the vast majority of human history was almost entirely inconsequential.