I am not sure about this, but suspect that many civilizations had individuals that got the basic questions (nature of meaning, consciousness, self, ethics) right, but their understanding gets lost in translation, because our culture gets them wrong per default.
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I think you're very right. excerpt from Cosmos, by Carl Sagan.pic.twitter.com/rUhe6JUOxL
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