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Money as a psycho-technology

As people started trading more and more during the ancient times, money became used. And coinage was a massive cognitive upgrade:

  • Money popularises abstract thought. Accepting an abstract representation of value was a massive shift for the time.
  • Money makes people think mathematically. 

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The second part of this amazing course. It discusses the transition from Paleolithic to the Bronze Age. At the end of which we get the Axial Revolution when get the likes of Buddha and Plato. Abstract thought. Second order thinking.

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