Forests are a far richer, more complex environment than human-made artificial habitats that eliminate most complexity. Consciousness advanced quite far in forests as well as grasslands. Ninety-nine percent of human history occurred in rural settings. A modern home has not 1% of the complexity of a forest and is not challenging for a brain or body. Even walking on safe level floors and sidewalks eliminates 95 percent of the mental attention to detail required on a complex forested slope. There are neither a lot of birds or insect vectors flying about that one need remain subtly vigilant about. The only danger in modern cities is other humans as predators.
In the modern urban environment humanity constructed unchallenging safe houses that sanitized the natural ecosystem they eschew because of its many challenges. Humanity has moved into safe cribs that do not stimulate a brain interactively; physically. Cities are environmental dead zones.
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