Judaism and Greekity, united by the same writing technology, thus take the first and fundamental steps of Western culture.
Pictographic and ideographic forms of writing existed, and still exist, before and outside the history of the West. However, these techniques were complex and elitist, their use restricted to a few scribes and priests in the ruling class. Even in the cradle of writing, Mesopotamia, it was not until the middle of the first millennium B.C. that pictograms were simplified to make a syllabic system for making up words. China still remains tied to a predominantly ideographic system.
If the forms of human intelligence before the advent of the alphabet were completely incompatible with those that were to come through the cognitive revolution of phonetic writing, if it was impossible for the mind of a prehistoric man immersed in myth to imagine the intellectual forms of the invisible God and philosophical thought, unthinkable to him, the genius of Moses and the Greek philosophers succeeded in the feat of transforming the invention of alphabetic technology into an extension of human intelligence, easily applied and spread throughout the people.
Likewise, today we need to be able to meet the challenge of Artificial Intelligence by thinking the unthinkable.
New genius is needed, capable of laying the foundation for the future form of human intelligence, what we call extended intelligence.
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