could that potentially mean(and i didnt really read it

) that at one time could we have been as developed as we where now or even more?
for example, we could have been living in another soceity like the one we live in now with most of the same things we have or diffrent, then like we are doing now we fuck it up the earth kills us and starts everything over? like with a ice age or sumthing?
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