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To: gleeaikin
You do realize that AI is regirgitating only that which humans have expressed already, right? AI's real power is to quickly try different combinations of elements to give exposure as to how those elements might react when combined.

I have no argument whatsoever with what you say. I'm just saying that there is probably, without much question, that there are things that humans are not aware of anymore because the knowledge is no longer actually known to those in these times.

We really have no idea for example, when man first walked this planet. Nor do we know if these humans had progressed until a catastiophic even occurred that so thinned out the numbers, that humans lost a lot of its progression, because survival became important, and the knowledge was not able to be preserved.

It's still interesting, that things we thought we knew, all of a sudden we come across something that throws a wrench in the thinking that had been accepted, and is now in question.

For a good example, how is it that pyramids were built using only human labor because no heavy equipment was present? How is it that serveral variations of pyramids were built in ladmasses that were sepaated by large bodies of water, and they all seemed to begin around 5,000 years ago?

Was travel across the oceans occuring far longer then we currently believe? Were th Americas known by certain societies long before Columbus "discovered" America?

My point is that there are a lot of things we do not know.

what exactly has come & gone in the past that we beieve are modern accimplishments, that might have existed in some form or fashion before. That for some reason ceased to be passed along, and eventually were lost to ensuing generations.

Thus, there is a lot about life that still remains a mystery, and we seem to discover that the mystery even exists by accident that upsets that which was accepted as the reality.

Anyway, it has been an interesting conversation. There are no answers, only suppositions of which some are correct & some are perhaps partially correct, while still others are not correct at all. But we know not which are which. So while interesting, it is also a fruitless exercise, because the likelihood of determining provable truth is unlikely or perhaps provable truth may not be lasting truth, because of unknows that had remained hidden. All we really know is that we disproved an accepted belief, and that has happened before as well. Have a blessed day. 😁🤙

55 posted on 12/30/2025 9:16:19 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: Robert DeLong

Life is risky. Some things you just never know, for sure for sure. At least that much is certain. Poor Descartes. Didn’t like that at all.


56 posted on 12/30/2025 9:55:25 AM PST by aspasia
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