Joseph H wrote:
Seems like a VERY unintelligent question....!
What's new?
Two clarifications to begin:
First, by "creature" I mean natural product of the evolutionary
process, not some engineered conglomorate of the future.
Second; I know nothing. How did intelligence evolve? Was it some
chance mutation, as we say, or some gradual favouring over time or a
cumulative build-up of cognitive capacity as we responded in different
ways to the challenges and crises of existence? Maybe some kind
gentleman out there will dispense the latest thinking in this area.
(Sorry, madam, but you have been very quiet over there)
You brute!
But...my point:
Our accumulating response to the challenges of existence would not have
been hasty. Today we could not conceive of these time-spans, probably
tens of thousands of years for particular advances. But today we do not
have to endure these time-spans. Once we reached a certain level of
intelligence we could out-jump the evolutionary process. We could
respond - alter, perceive, create, decide, visualise, mimic - far
faster than the evolutionary process allowed.
Thus - and this is almost a logical point - the evolution of
intelligence would at a certain point be rendered redundant by the
range of skills permitted to creatures who had reached that point.
I'm lost.
Looking forward to the usual gracious replies.
I hope I have not been too unkind.
Joseph H
www.humanisation.org
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