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Occams Razor states you should first look towards more plausible explanations (aka the simplest, but no simpler)

Time traveling does not fit that description. Archimedes was part of a culture of learning, and he was a genius / master of his field.

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Another thing we should also remember is that just because most of the earliest sources we have are greek means less that the ideas were necessarily novel to those sources than that we simply don't have any earlier record of the ideas.

Consider Thamus, as reported by Socrates, as written by Plato, arguing contra legibility, against preserving knowledge in writing.

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%... (infra)

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%... (supra)

Socrates: Ancient Literature Theorists believe the written word will be used for disinformation campaigns.

(voiceover) Theban: You offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom, for they will read many things without instruction and will therefore seem to know many things, when they are for the most part ignorant and hard to get along with, since they are not wise, but only appear wise.

Socrates: What if it were true?

Phaedrus: Are you just making up fake news about Egypt?

Socrates: To you, perhaps an ad hominem against the source is apropos, for you do not evaluate solely the truth of claim.

Phaedrus: True, the purported argument of this alleged Theban is sound.

Demang im bera vide fit welte na ye finyish kom sif weltemang. (Those who only watch welding tutorials haven't yet become welders.)

I think there will come a time when we come back to it. Today we have computers and very fast lookup, but an encyclopaedia won't tell you what you don't know. If you're a specialist, you'll have a hard time to making a discovery in an unrelated field. But a polymath, a renaissance man, a Leonardo, a man of many talents might. There's probably a limit of how much we can discover with current model. Far future inventors will need to have wide internalized knowledge and skills. A computer is a tool. A much more mentally capable person would do more with it.

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