On Keidran Lifespan and tangential subjects
Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2020 1:47 am
Ok on page 1112 we had Saria again and every time she appears on comic we have a discussion about Keidran age and lifespan. Which generally boils down to: she is terribly old and how come Keidran have a functioning civilization if they live onl 30 years?.
In any case we managed to completely derail that particular page thread so i thought creating a new thread for this topic was a good idea.
Besides I already had something to say on the topic:
I am no biologist much less a historian or an anthropologist so question about culture and or speculative biology are way out of my area of expertise. But I work on technically stuff and there when you do not know something, or have a problem you do some research both in the sense of consulting available bibliography and, more often than not, asking the whole world about their opinions hoping you are not the first person with the same issue and that someone else can give you a hand. that is the core idea of stack-overflow.com a forum about programming question in general.
As this approach turned to be quite succesfull the guys at stack exchanged decided to create similar forums for every topic imaginable, from board games to spanish and yes writing and world-building .
So i decided to ask everyone listening: What is the minimal lifespan of a species for culture and civilization to arise.
I am quite satisfied with the answer. I accepted the idea of a 30-50 as he is the only person who to date, the question is not closed and you can even add some comments, provide any number. But that is not the most popular answer.
In general most people tend to accept that as long as there is enough information exchange between generations a functional culture will arise. So as long as you can teach the newer generation what you know ther should no be any issue, you might see more generations taking making the same amount of progress than more long lived creatures but that is that.
On the other hand some other people think that there is some lower limit, if they kinda learn the ropes of a career on a third of their life, or when their grandparents are still around, they are all set. But if you really take it to low lifespan you have problems with seasonality. As some people here pointed out before no matter how good you are at learning how to smith weapons, the iron ore still takes some time to process so you might not be able to master a skill that has inherent time requirements. On the other hand if you are are capable to learn a whole career in 4 years you are probably superhuman and i did mentioned that was not allowed.
Oh also that site is awesome and it can be a good resource for those into creative writing.
In any case we managed to completely derail that particular page thread so i thought creating a new thread for this topic was a good idea.
Besides I already had something to say on the topic:
I am no biologist much less a historian or an anthropologist so question about culture and or speculative biology are way out of my area of expertise. But I work on technically stuff and there when you do not know something, or have a problem you do some research both in the sense of consulting available bibliography and, more often than not, asking the whole world about their opinions hoping you are not the first person with the same issue and that someone else can give you a hand. that is the core idea of stack-overflow.com a forum about programming question in general.
As this approach turned to be quite succesfull the guys at stack exchanged decided to create similar forums for every topic imaginable, from board games to spanish and yes writing and world-building .
So i decided to ask everyone listening: What is the minimal lifespan of a species for culture and civilization to arise.
I am quite satisfied with the answer. I accepted the idea of a 30-50 as he is the only person who to date, the question is not closed and you can even add some comments, provide any number. But that is not the most popular answer.
In general most people tend to accept that as long as there is enough information exchange between generations a functional culture will arise. So as long as you can teach the newer generation what you know ther should no be any issue, you might see more generations taking making the same amount of progress than more long lived creatures but that is that.
On the other hand some other people think that there is some lower limit, if they kinda learn the ropes of a career on a third of their life, or when their grandparents are still around, they are all set. But if you really take it to low lifespan you have problems with seasonality. As some people here pointed out before no matter how good you are at learning how to smith weapons, the iron ore still takes some time to process so you might not be able to master a skill that has inherent time requirements. On the other hand if you are are capable to learn a whole career in 4 years you are probably superhuman and i did mentioned that was not allowed.
Oh also that site is awesome and it can be a good resource for those into creative writing.