>>13986095Look at human history:
- We became the apex predator on this planet amongst countless other predators cause we figured out a way to take our numbers and wear down the prey, then capture it and kill it; energy problem solved.
- Agriculture was solved by expending mental energy into devising a better way to generate a vast amount of food in the same space instead of constantly having to move the tribe. The settling allowed for concentration of knowledge, history, and allowed for advancements of technology, because people in tribe could specialize, freeing up intellectual capital to solve other problems encountered; all energy problem solutions
- We made friends with wolves to help us hunt better, those eventually, likely evolved into dogs; they are hunting aids, a means to cross energy barriers through emotional connections, an energy problem solution
- We domesticated wild animals in the form of cows, goats, and horses; the former for its meat and skin (to gain a lot of energy through food, through milk to strengthen bones, and to use its fur and hide to protect against the cold) and the latter to transport goods across geographic distances or communicate across distances quickly; an energy problem solution
- Writing was a way of expressing thoughts and making records of those thoughts, we used pictograms at first, but eventually letters, words, grammar, and what not once our brain developed cognition of sufficient sophistication that language could form; writing is a more efficient way of using energy than to grunt and shout, it also lasts longer and is clearer--an energy problem solution
- We discovered fire, we could cook meat and cure it, it allowed us to retain food longer and not die of disease, it allowed us to treat wounds and prolong life, it kept the flame of civilization alive; energy problem solution
- Horses --> Oil = cars and planes, planes -> split the atom, atom -> computers, computers -> fusion; energy problem solution
