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How does Jaynes explain the lack of this kind of thinking among peoples who have culture and genes unchanged in the last 3000 years ?
To quote the pdf you dug up:
...and Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs and Steel" explains why this long history doesn't result in industrial capability.