RE: Odds of intelligent life occuring?
September 19, 2017 at 5:47 pm
(This post was last modified: September 19, 2017 at 5:48 pm by I_am_not_mafia.)
(September 19, 2017 at 5:32 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:(September 19, 2017 at 5:21 pm)bennyboy Wrote: I'd say wherever evolution can occur, if the resources and environment are complex enough, intelligence must eventually also occur. Intelligence just means high-order processing, and this is clearly linear rather than punctuated-- i.e. there's no critical mass at which pop! intelligence pops into the system.
I suspect that to a highly intelligent species, we may not be all that, after all. We are pretty biased.
Why "must"? What requirement in nature is there for a human-equivalent?
Humans are not the only forms of intelligence. We are surrounded by hundreds of thousands of intelligent species.
I don't even consider humans to be the highest form of life on this planet any more. I consider corporations to be instead.
