"If you live at that time - no matter how intelligent you were - you would have struggled to tell the difference between six applies and seven, just by looking. Even though you had the same eyes and the same brain, you would have found it hard to tell the difference. Why? Because counting hadn't been invented."
I remember as a kid I would think about things like this. "How did we get numbers?" or "How were ;languages created?". This would eventually lead into some sort of circular logic or rational dead end, and I would instead move on and play with Legos or some similar childish activity.
How was it that the human mind came to create a way to communicate numbers, or anything for that matter? How would the person that came up with a language communicate it to other people without the use of language? It's all very confusing, and baffled me to no end as a kid.
Even now, as a much smarter person, I still find it hard to fathom the difficulty with which the early man created ways of expressing ideas and communicating.
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