I, for one, will miss Prince Philip’s fabulously frank commentary on the century that best represents Humanity’s cognitive evolution as a species. His assertion to Malala Yousafzai, Human Rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, that children, “go to school because their parents don’t want them in the house”, in October, 2013, was but one of the pearls of homespun wisdom HRH has bequeathed to future generations. And thanks to the unique human cognitive ability to store learning over time, innovation can occur when these pearls of knowledge are mixed with courage and stupidity. No one is quite sure of the exact proportions of the alchemical elixir for cognitive evolution. Therein lies the magic.
就我而言，我会怀念菲利普亲王对最能代表人类作为一个物种的认知进化的世纪的非常坦率的评论。 2013年10月，他向人权活动家兼诺贝尔和平奖得主马拉拉·优素福扎伊断言，孩子们“上学是因为他们的父母不希望他们呆在家里”，这只是HRH传给子孙后代的自制智慧的明珠之一。 由於人類在時間裡儲存學習的獨特認知能力，當這些知識的珍珠與勇氣和愚蠢混合在一起時，創新就會發生。 没有人完全确定炼金术长生不老药在认知进化中的确切比例。 魔法就在那里。
What we do know is that the ability to innovate grows exponentially with iteration. Sam Beckett’s drop of sagacity, “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better” (Worstward Ho, 1983), sums it up well. The 20th century was a long, dark night of the soul for humanity as we hatched from the chrysalis of imperialism, colonialism and genocide, into a new century; one that will hopefully bear forth new dreams that end the silk farming of the voiceless to clothe emperors.
我们确实知道的是，创新能力随着迭代而成倍增长。 Sam Beckett的智慧之滴，“有尝试过。 曾经失败过。 没关系。 再试一次。 再次失败。 失败更好”（Worstward Ho，1983年），总结得很好。 20世纪是人类灵魂的漫长而黑暗的夜晚，因为我们从帝国主义、殖民主义和种族灭绝的蛹黛黛��雹雹，进入一个新的世纪；这个世纪有望孕育出新的梦想，结束无声者到穿衣皇帝的丝绸耕作。
The current sum of the parts of collective human knowledge, the internet, grants access to all. “By 2021, more members of the global population will be using mobile phones (5.5 billion) than bank accounts (5.4 billion), running water (5.3 billion), or landlines (2.9 billion)”, according to the 11th annual Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast for 2016 to 2021. And with more egalitarian platforms available, more representation is made possible. This is important.
目前人类集体知识的总和，即互联网，允许访问所有人。 根据2016年至2021年第11届思科视觉网络指数（VNI）全球移动数据流量预测，“到2021年，全球人口中使用手机的人数（55亿）将比使用银行账户（54亿）、自来水（53亿）或固定电话（29亿）还要多。” 有了更多的平等主义平台，更多的代表性成为可能。 这很重要。
Children may well go to school because their parents don’t want them in the house, and Prince Philip and his ilk are the ones to tell us these and other disagreeable truths. So, while genetic evolution of heritable traits may take an objectively “long time”, changes in societal mores and values may happen much more quickly. Look no further than the quirky and questionable psychological experiments of the 20th century; The Stanford Prison Experiment, The Monster Study and The Milgram Experiment. What we learned unseated many lingering beliefs from before the holometabolism. In education, Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky revolutionised our understanding of learning and knowledge construction. We learned a little more about the “courage/stupidity: stored knowledge” ratio to create cognitive fairy dust. We grew in self-awareness and learned to say, Me Too. We are working on our capacity to say, I’m Sorry. To raise up our voice when we should, and be silent, to just listen, when that is required.
孩子们很可能去上学，因为他们的父母不希望他们在家里，而菲利普亲王和他的同龄人会告诉我们这些和其他令人不快的真相。 因此，雖然可遺傳性狀的基因進化可能需要客觀上的「很長時間」，但社會特質和價值觀的變化可能發生得更快。 20世纪古怪而可疑的心理学实验；斯坦福监狱实验、怪物研究和米尔格拉姆实验。 我们学到的东西消解了全息代谢之前许多挥之不去的信念。 在教育方面，Jean Piaget和Lev Vygotsky彻底改变了我们对学习和知识建设的理解。 我们更多地了解了“勇气/愚蠢：存储的知识”比例，以创造认知仙女尘埃。 我们在自我意识中成长，并学会了说，我也是。 我们正在努力提高说“对不起”的能力。 在我们应该的时候提高我们的声音，在需要的时候保持沉默，只是倾听。
This is progress.
这是进步。
13.8 billion years after the Big Bang, humans are arguably one of the most complex organisms in the known universe, but that is not to imply that we are the most evolved species, or that there is any kind of linear logic to the rambling nature of the evolutionary path. Life developed from a single cell organism in the primordial sludge; this is true according to our current best-guess hypotheses. However, we can only ever know as much as we already know. The curious, and advantageous thing about Humans is that we engage in Collective Learning, the ability to retain pearls from the past. This allows us to climb up the current mental scaffolds we construct through ideologies, philosophies and pathologies, and use them as foundations for even higher-order knowledge construction. We are building this pearly staircase as we climb. The steps below are an essential part of our ascent, and yet we must not try to bring them with us as we climb, or the structure will not hold.
大爆炸后138亿年，人类可以说是已知宇宙中最复杂的生物体之一，但这并不意味着我们是进化最多的物种，或者进化路径的漫无边际性质有任何线性逻辑。 生命由原始汙泥中的單個細胞生物體發展而來；根據我們目前的最佳猜測假說，這是真的。 然而，我们只能知道我们已经知道的那么多。 人类好奇和有利的地方是，我们参与集体学习，即保留过去珍珠的能力。 这使我们能够爬上我们通过意识形态、哲学和病理构建的当前心理支架，并将其作为更高层次知识构建的基础。 我们在攀登时正在建造这个珍珠楼梯。 下面的台阶是我们攀登的重要组成部分，然而，我们登山时绝不能试图带着它们，否则结构将无法保持。
Trial and error, failing forwards, and occasionally, blowing oneself up is what allows humans to innovate and evolve. We are in equal parts stupid and brave. But also, the ability to pool our smarts, and to share it through the spoken and written word allows humans to thrive in the world, to dominate, and to rule over our planet.
试验和错误、失败，以及偶尔的自我爆炸，是人类创新和进化的原因。 我们既愚蠢又勇敢。 但是，汇集我们的智慧，并通过口头和书面文字分享智慧的能力，使人类能够在世界上茁壮成长，统治和统治我们的星球。
Miracles that would have left our Renaissance counterparts swooning in their jerkins provoke not a “meh” nowadays. Zoom calls are the modern equivalent of summoning a spirit. Video footage is a séance. Online shopping is telekinesis. We invented all this stuff that makes life warm and safe and sanitary. We look better, live better and smell better than any humans that ever came before us. Our evolution has been exponential and fantastical. One of the under-sung ingredients for this collective mental connectivity is known as intersubjectivity.
奇迹本可以让我们的文艺复兴时期的同行在他们的混蛋中晕倒，如今并没有引起“嗯”。 Zoom通话在现代相当于召唤灵魂。 视频片段是一种摄像。 网上购物是心灵感应。 我们发明了所有这些让生活变得温暖、安全和卫生的东西。 我们看起来、生活得更好、闻起来比我们之前的任何人类都好。 我们的进化是指数级和梦幻般的。 这种集体心理联系的不足成分之一被称为主观性。
We’ve all heard of objective and subjective knowledge. Objective knowledge, based on quantifiable facts and data is considered superior to the subjective, feeling intuitive ways of knowing. Intersubjectivity is this interchange of thoughts and feelings, both conscious and unconscious, between two persons, as facilitated by empathy (Cooper-White P.; 2014). It’s the space where the Venn-diagram circles meet. This intersubjective space is where we understand each other on a visceral level, where mirror neurons in your mind respond as though the observer was the one performing the action (Rizzolatti, Giacomo; Craighero, Laila; 2004). Monkey see, monkey feel.
我们都听说过客观和主观知识。 基于可量化的事实和数据的客观知识被认为优于主观的、感觉直观的认识方式。 相互主观性是两个人之间有意识和无意识的思想和感受的交流，由同理心促进（Cooper-White P.；2014）。 这是文恩图圆相遇的空间。 这个主观间空间是我们在内脏层面上相互理解的地方，你脑海中的镜像神经元会做出反应，就好像观察者是执行动作的人一样（Rizzolatti，Giacomo；Craighero，Laila；2004）。 猴子看到，猴子感觉到。
This is really rather remarkable. Humans can “know” the emotions, attention, intention and beliefs and knowledge of others because our brains have evolved to learn socially, collectively.
这真的很了不起。 人类可以“了解”他人的情绪、注意力、意图和信仰以及知识，因为我们的大脑已经进化为社会、集体学习。
Spring is springing. The first lockdown in Europe, to flatten the curve, is going, ongoing. They have recently marked their 1-year anniversary of discovering the first case of COVID. The long and lugubrious evolution of pandemic style restrictions over time has caused certain changes in cognitive expressions of our common humanity. We are collectively astonished at the things we are missing:
春天正在涌来。 欧洲第一次封锁，以压平曲线，正在进行中。 他们最近纪念了发现首例新冠肺炎病例1周年。 隨著時間的推移，大流行式限制的漫長而淲起伏的演變，造成了我們共同人性的認知表達的某些變化。 我们集体对我们错过的东西感到惊讶：
Airport Security. … Flying Long-haul. … Jetlag. … Sand in the bedsheets.
机场保安。 …长途飞行。 …时差。 …床单里的沙子。
We have amassed a whole new raft of terminology; flattening curves and herd immunity and mRNA Vaccines now trip blithely from our tongues. A year ago, I didn’t know an AstraZeneca from a kick in the ass. Like this vaccine, my knowledge base has evolved from nought to one hundred in an orbit of the sun.
我们积累了一整套全新的术语；扁平曲线、群体免疫和mRNA疫苗现在从我们的舌头上跳出来。 一年前，我一脚就不认识阿斯利康。 就像这种疫苗一样，我的知识库在太阳轨道上从零演变为一百。
It is still too close to the event to have any perspective on COVID and its evolutionary fingerprint. Or rather, to have many perspectives on it. Which amounts to the same thing. Subjective experiences manifest themselves like snowflakes, unique and valid, one and all, but we need the collective 20/20 hindsight to learn from them. The pandemic has already highlighted the need to respect scientific expertise. It is also highlighting the need for connectivity that hums in even the most introverted of us.
它仍然离事件太近了，无法对新冠病毒及其进化指纹有任何看法。 或者更确切地说，对它有很多观点。 这相当于同一件事。 主观经验像雪花一样表现出来，独特而有效，但我们需要集体的20/20事后才能向他们学习。 疫情已经凸显了尊重科学专业知识的必要性。 这也凸显了连通性的必要性，即使是我们中最内向的人。
Some claim to be so feral they now need to be lured from self-isolation with treats. But the children have been away at school all day, and we miss them now. We all have one or maybe two souls from whom we would don a mask and hop on board a red eye in a heartbeat. Intersubjectively speaking, it is the very essence of our species. And that is an objective fact.
有些人声称自己太狂野了，现在需要用点心引诱他们从自我隔离中。 但孩子们一整天都在学校，我们现在很想念他们。 我們都有一或兩個靈魂，我們會戴上面具，在心跳中跳上紅眼船。 从主观上讲，这是我们物种的本质。 这是一个客观的事实。
