re: Are we better off as dummies?

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re: Are we better off as dummies?

phil — 7/9/2008 5:26:24 PM (archived)

I don't understand your question.

Evolutionarily speaking, we MAY be better off being dummies. It's served many species well for several 10s of millions of years. Then again, should we avoid self destruction as I think we will and use intelligence to interdict the next NEO with NYC targeted on its regolith, maybe intel will prove to be a trans-species ecosphere survival trait.

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"Revisiting The Science Behind Planet Of The Apes" or Why Intelligence is Rare - Marsby - 7/9/2008 4:22:04 AM
- There's a bit of a straw man, in that argument. - alcaray - 7/9/2008 5:40:31 PM
  - Be careful about brain size equated with intelligence. - Jacob - 7/9/2008 7:07:57 PM
    - Also - Lee - 7/12/2008 5:59:15 AM
      - Rushton's racist garbage has been completely debunked... - ARRELL - 7/13/2008 7:38:36 PM
        
        Tell it to your AGW cohorts. - Lee - 7/13/2008 10:39:51 PM
    - If there was an elephant equivalent of Albert Einstein... - Socrates II - 7/9/2008 9:01:19 PM
    - The piece emphasized whether a being has a head or not... - alcaray - 7/9/2008 8:03:38 PM
      - re: The piece emphasized whether a being has a head or not... - ER - 7/10/2008 1:16:51 AM
        
        yes (n/t) - alcaray - 7/10/2008 1:47:46 AM
- re: "Revisiting The Science Behind Planet Of The Apes" or Why Intelligence is Rare - phil - 7/9/2008 2:25:29 PM
  - Rod Serling was not a scientist - Socrates II - 7/9/2008 3:05:31 PM
  - I concur - ER - 7/9/2008 2:52:53 PM
    - re: I concur - phil - 7/9/2008 4:03:10 PM
      - "Is even life itself rare or common??? " - ER - 7/9/2008 5:49:27 PM
        
        re: "Is even life itself rare or common??? " - phil - 7/9/2008 6:30:06 PM
        
        re: "Is even life itself rare or common??? " - ER - 7/10/2008 12:09:18 AM
        
        Not Even Wrong - phil - 7/11/2008 10:32:17 PM
        
        re: Not Even Wrong - ER - 7/12/2008 3:42:30 AM
        
        re: Not Even Wrong - ER - 7/12/2008 3:39:50 AM
        
        Exactly - Socrates II - 7/10/2008 3:53:38 PM
        
        One of my regrets... - nick hoffman - 7/11/2008 4:33:29 PM
        
        Just for the record - Socrates II - 7/9/2008 9:09:27 PM
        
        I seriously doubt that the first replicators were cellular. (n/t) - alcaray - 7/9/2008 8:12:50 PM
      - Are we better off as dummies? - Socrates II - 7/9/2008 4:53:55 PM
        
        re: Are we better off as dummies? - phil - 7/9/2008 5:26:24 PM
        
        I think humans were created by Gaia... - Socrates II - 7/9/2008 6:06:53 PM
        
        re: I think humans were created by Gaia... - phil - 7/9/2008 6:45:05 PM
        
        Big Brains Arose Twice in Higher Primates - Socrates II - 7/10/2008 3:42:54 AM

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