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Michael Alan Prestwood.
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2024.
Life becomes calmer when you stop demanding perfect certainty. Your impressions are imperfect, but they are enough to help you learn and grow.
From History: 295 Million BCE
By about 280 million years ago, Dimetrodon was one of the best-known predators of the Early Permian. It stalked rivers and floodplains alongside caseid synapsids, large amphibians like Eryops, and a landscape of Calamites, Sigillaria, ferns, and early seed plants.
From History: 14.5 Million Years Ago (+/- 2 million)
Laughter is older than language, older than humans, and probably older than the human-chimp split. Its first purpose was not comedy, but connection. In the breathy play sounds of ancient apes, we can hear the early roots of emotional intelligence, friendship, and social trust.
Good common knowledge is the Grand Rational Framework. It is our common-floor public belief, and it evolves knowledge anchored to the material world, where only evidence-grounded reasoning reshapes what we collectively treat as true.