Cooking is an artificial technology that releases more energy than would otherwise be available for human activity. The invention of cooking enabled the human body to grow its brain to where it consumes 25% of the body's energy load, and, at the same time, to where its gut and digestive system can shrink because cooking is a form of pre-digestion.
Eating cooked meat involves the inclusion of divine powers because the cooking of meat alters Man's ecological balance. That's why Noah brings the offering as soon as he's given permission to eat meat, to introduce the divine actor into the process.
The use of cooking technology needs to be tempered by the involvement of the divine ruler. By consecrating the act of cooking meat we are inbuing into the technology of cooking the values of sova.
Cooking is the pre-historic analogue to the Industrial Revolution’s employment of oil. What is missing in the modern world is some way to consecrate the employment of refined energy from fossil fuels or renewable fuels in the same way the ancient world consecrated the employment of refined energy from cooked meat.
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