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Is a higher level of thought possible?
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RE: Is a higher level of thought possible?
Hello! Big Grin

So... as Neil Degrass Tyson once pointed out in a talk. It is interesting tht HUmans and CHimps are really similar genetically.

However something in our development allows for our neurons to form connections that they don't seem to be able to.

So... Chimps can master simple tools and create simple colourings 'Art' if given the chance and tools to do so.

Perhaps a 'Higher' inteligence is simply able to put together concepts and 'master' learned things faster than us.

While we take twenty or so years to develope. They master higher level calculus, physics, chemistry and engineering in pre-school.

Then, as a different level/end of the example, as Michael Stevens, creator of 'V-Sauce', points out. We Humans do something fundamental and simple that our close gentic cousins the Gorillas and Chimps do not seem to do. Even when taught sign language and hence are given the intelectual tools to communicate concepts from their world into ours.

Humans ask "Why". We look at things and we often wonder the 'Why' such a thing is. How it came to be. Where it might be going.

Perhaps the differences between 'We' and a 'Higher' intelligences might be just as simple a difference between how we see/look at/infer reality and how different they do.

Cheers.

Not at work.
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Is a higher level of thought possible? - by Macoleco - May 11, 2019 at 2:45 pm
RE: Is a higher level of thought possible? - by Peebo-Thuhlu - May 11, 2019 at 3:04 pm
RE: Is a higher level of thought possible? - by no one - May 11, 2019 at 3:11 pm
RE: Is a higher level of thought possible? - by brewer - May 11, 2019 at 4:43 pm
RE: Is a higher level of thought possible? - by Alan V - May 11, 2019 at 9:42 pm
RE: Is a higher level of thought possible? - by no one - June 10, 2019 at 2:01 pm

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