Quote:You've moved the goalposts still. I was only responding to the notion that ants are smarter than us. I don't doubt we can still learn certain things from them.
I'm not saying they're smart. Just smarter than us. Any being that intentionally puts it's own existence in grave danger is either really stupid or has faulty genes. Ants aren't dumb enough to put their own existence in peril. No animal is. No animal would walk a single rope over looking a very deep cavern. We would. I'm not saying ants are brain boxes, just smarter than us in certain aspects. Smarter not smart.
Quote:Too bad they are too stoopid to understand language enit.Yep.
Quote:It takes intelligence to build a nuclear device, it takes madness to use it. I think your little scenario got that bit confusedI thought it took madness to build one. After all it was built to wipe us out. The space shuttle was smart. Big things that go bang on your own home world is really dumb.
Quote:No, it's that our social dynamic doesn't allow us to. We are simply not capable. In a sense, we actually ARE too intelligent for it.
Too intelligent to work together? I thought it was because we are just too stupid to. And yet ants with no ability to think at all pulled it off easily. It's like me trying to build a small wooden shed with all my tools and schematics and two little 8 year olds built a large stone shed with less than half the stuff I had. Can't help but feel stupid.
Quote:In order to do what you want us to do, it relies on people not having opinions, or brains, or thinking.No you French bugger! It requires people to ACTUALLY work together. Thought having large brains would make it a walk in the park. Yet it's the complete opposite.
That's gotta hurt.
Quote:It just requires them to perform tasks continuously without question.No it doesn't.
Quote:Let's just say I win and call it a day.Not in a billion years you stubborn French bugger.
Though we can have a spot of tea if you like?
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - Carl Sagan
Mankind's intelligence walks hand in hand with it's stupidity.
Being an atheist says nothing about your overall intelligence, it just means you don't believe in god. Atheists can be as bright as any scientist and as stupid as any creationist.
You never really know just how stupid someone is, until you've argued with them.
Mankind's intelligence walks hand in hand with it's stupidity.
Being an atheist says nothing about your overall intelligence, it just means you don't believe in god. Atheists can be as bright as any scientist and as stupid as any creationist.
You never really know just how stupid someone is, until you've argued with them.
