Ye gods. The techbros really need some humanities education.
The archeological find that is often touted as the first sign of civilisation is not a building, or a stone tool, or anything like that. Its a human femur bone.
Why? Because it's a human femur that has a healed break. This shows that a group of humans cared about this one human enough, to feed, & protect them when they were injured. This requires compassion. It requires empathy.
It's what makes us civilised