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From Earliest Records to the Power of Intuition

2024/4/10
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David Boles: Human Meme

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The concept of "the earliest recorded memory" in human history is a tantalizing enigma. To unravel it, we must first distinguish between different types of memories: those etched into the tangible world through writing and artifacts, and those that reside, more fleetingly, within the human mind. The earliest known written records, emerging from the cradle of civilization in ancient Mesopotamia, date back to around 3200 BCE.