I am just thinking about how the Neolithic people were organized, who came with an idea to build Menga, for example? Did they know what they wanted to build, did they have an “architect”, a “plan”? what did the people get back for their work?

I liked what Thiel said on Rogan. It was something to the effect of "the unbelievable engineering feats are less interesting than what motivates people to accomplish unbelievable things."

Science is a method of gaining certainty which I'd guess emerges from the benefits of certainty like language emerges from benefits of communicating. Maybe I'm nitpicking but it's weird to treat science as if it were a physical object as if its formalization is what brought it into existence.

There is a lot of mystery behind how these great civilizations were built... the closest I have is Machu Picchu... and there are several studies and analyzes of how this great city was built... but still there are several enigmas that have not been deciphered. .. I also consider that they miscounted the number of slaves or labor and that is why they were able to advance more easily in the constructions!!

I’ve spent a fair amount of time looking at the monuments of ancient Egypt. The huge statues carved out of very hard stones like basalt amd granite are really impressive as well as the tiny vases that are dated to the earliest times of Egypt.

We often focus on the pyramids but these other achievements also defy simple explanation.

Maybe we just miscalculate the amount of slaves they had.

I would like @TomK's take on this. He lives part of the year near Malaga, I think.

It's amazing to see how those people in ancient times were so ahead in time without so much technical advancement.