Err, I wanted to add something but you're online and probably reading so I'll just post a follow-up.
BlackBox wrote:Like for example at Stone-Henge: people could just go in the center and download information directly into his/her brain.
Imagine what this could imply...almost half of humanity are procrastinators. Most of them perhaps even turn into couch potatoes because of it. Is it because they are just lazy? Is it because they don't see any profit in doing things for the enjoyment of just doing them? OR are they subconciously in withdrawal to a way-of-life that was present in past reincarnations yet completely lacking in the present.
Imagine a life where the technicalities of acquiring knowledge were radically different. In modern-days we concentrate on the formula because we feel detached, alone, separate, individualized, etc. We are in search for answers, and most die without acquiring anything but theories. We are so exhausted with just finding the pieces of the puzzle, that we rarely ever get the chance of putting the puzzles together. One society finds puzzle pieces while the other can conveniently download all the pieces, and then experience life for the purpose of putting it all together instead of searching. The rest of their time could probably lead to creation rather than destruction due to ignorance. By ignorance I mean: When humans learn something new, it usually reveals answers that present flaws to certain technologies (like fossil fuels create pollution). Then they adapt to not make that mistake. Then when they create a new technology that fixes the flaws of the old, they find out more information in later generations that reveals further flaws again. And this continual flaw-finding way-of-life goes on for eternity in this type of society. Every next puzzle piece we find, makes us have to restructure the overall puzzle we have. I think this feels heavily inefficient for many of us subconciously, and maybe even alien to some.
If society lived within a foundation that already supported the opposite of all those things (the answers), would we study and think the same way we do now, or would we have other thoughts in our head? If a student could simply go to the center of a Stone-Henge mechanism or put on a crystal-hat (reminds me of Steven Gould's book: The Helm) and download information directly into their neural-net (Matrix-style), what would their lives lead to? Sounds so fictional yet so innately familiar.
I have a hard time describing what I mean. The best way I could probably say it right now is: Instead of society staring at the formula, they would stare at the answers.
Sorry if I'm unclear. I'll just post this and see if any comments come in, or if I can find some clarify myself.
I think I'm bringing up an important subject.