That's a mere 2-3000 years of technology with large periods of stagnation.
Give Churhill/Stalin/Hitler an iPhone.
They now have access to a device of unparalleled ability compared to anything they could have conceived of, and they will simply be completely incapable of understanding or utilizing it outside of performing basic tasks.
That's 60 years of the accelerated age of technology we live in.
I'd be happy to explain any of this to Aristotle. "It's a picture that draws its itself. Here, touch it." We do this every day with children. Ten thousand years o development and you're caught up in five. It's fine!
My point is that our relative distance in time and technology is basically zero, yet we're already seeing massive gaps in capability.
Yes, Aristotle would likely be able to pick up on the new monke uptake given that he was a unparallelled mind. That was a pretty weak analogy given it didn't impart the information that I intended.
You can give an infant an ipad and they will figure out how to use it pretty quickly. They will have an understanding of its purpose. You merely extrapolate from our advances of 5000 years that there must be technology that is inconceivably advanced.
Though he did not believe in it, Aristotle was aware of the concept of atoms (that he had no hope of observing). I am sure he would have gotten the gist of quantum physics too.
Try explaining quantum physics to Aristotle.
That's a mere 2-3000 years of technology with large periods of stagnation.
Give Churhill/Stalin/Hitler an iPhone.
They now have access to a device of unparalleled ability compared to anything they could have conceived of, and they will simply be completely incapable of understanding or utilizing it outside of performing basic tasks.
That's 60 years of the accelerated age of technology we live in.