(September 19, 2017 at 5:26 pm)Mathilda 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.
I'd agree with you but would just like to add that the increasing complexity of the environment and the development of intelligence would drive one another.
As intelligence is a wonderful aide to survival, how could it not evolve in a world governed by natural selection, which must occur wherever there is life?
