Sanau, you don't understand why humans are intelligent.
Ok, how do we go about solving this problem ?
Here is something you don't understand and you have expressed this lack of understanding to your fellow human beings.
As social creatures, we want to help you understand. We want you to be the best you that you can be.
We might offer books for you to read to help you understand the evolution of the brain.
We might suggest that you take some online courses in biology to help further your understanding.
As a group, our level of information that we have obtained over the centuries allow us to stand on the shoulders of giants in any particular field of understanding, but this didn't happen overnight. It took millions of years for our brains to slowly evolve.
If you go back to our shrew like ancestors, they had a brain that was keen on survival. They had physical features that helped them to survive. Their paw like hands allowed them to grip things and their brains made cause and effect connections.
There are birds today that will drop hardened nut shells into city traffic in such a way that cars will drive over the nuts and break open the shells for them. Then they can fly down and get to the nuts inside the shell. That kind of mentality came from a more evolved brain. It's small things like this that may lead them into something very intelligent like us a hundred million years from now.
Biologically we have a lot of physical and mental traits going for us that allowed us to not only survive, but to thrive in a world with other animals that are physically more powerful than we are.
One human versus one other animal and most of the time, we'll lose that battle.
Human vs lion
Human vs wolf
Human vs shark
We survived because our ancestors formed social circles long before we had any kind of intelligence.
We helped protect one another from outside elements that wanted to harm us.
As we grew smarter, we also learned that we could hunt and gather as a group and this allowed us to be more successful in surviving. Larger groups meant that we could hold our own if we worked together.
Do squirrels hunt or gather in packs ? Do they have any survival needs that might require them to do something special in order to survive ?
They have it pretty good. They live in fairly protected cities and even in the wild, their natural predators are owls, hawks and eagles that attack from the air. Snakes also feed on squirrels and can travel right down into that hole that squirrels might hide in to avoid birds. Because of this squirrels create multiple nests for themselves in case they have to move.
As you can see, given millions of years of more evolving, squirrels will probably make that jump into what we consider intelligence.
Our biggest survival tool that we use is our brain. Other animals survive using their natural physical characteristics.
Sharks have survived for millions of years without much change.
We survive and are very adaptive to new situations and new environments.
Sharks have had the same environment for literally millions of years.
My final words are ...."Pick up a few books and start reading about the things you don't understand."
Ok, how do we go about solving this problem ?
Here is something you don't understand and you have expressed this lack of understanding to your fellow human beings.
As social creatures, we want to help you understand. We want you to be the best you that you can be.
We might offer books for you to read to help you understand the evolution of the brain.
We might suggest that you take some online courses in biology to help further your understanding.
As a group, our level of information that we have obtained over the centuries allow us to stand on the shoulders of giants in any particular field of understanding, but this didn't happen overnight. It took millions of years for our brains to slowly evolve.
If you go back to our shrew like ancestors, they had a brain that was keen on survival. They had physical features that helped them to survive. Their paw like hands allowed them to grip things and their brains made cause and effect connections.
There are birds today that will drop hardened nut shells into city traffic in such a way that cars will drive over the nuts and break open the shells for them. Then they can fly down and get to the nuts inside the shell. That kind of mentality came from a more evolved brain. It's small things like this that may lead them into something very intelligent like us a hundred million years from now.
Biologically we have a lot of physical and mental traits going for us that allowed us to not only survive, but to thrive in a world with other animals that are physically more powerful than we are.
One human versus one other animal and most of the time, we'll lose that battle.
Human vs lion
Human vs wolf
Human vs shark
We survived because our ancestors formed social circles long before we had any kind of intelligence.
We helped protect one another from outside elements that wanted to harm us.
As we grew smarter, we also learned that we could hunt and gather as a group and this allowed us to be more successful in surviving. Larger groups meant that we could hold our own if we worked together.
Do squirrels hunt or gather in packs ? Do they have any survival needs that might require them to do something special in order to survive ?
They have it pretty good. They live in fairly protected cities and even in the wild, their natural predators are owls, hawks and eagles that attack from the air. Snakes also feed on squirrels and can travel right down into that hole that squirrels might hide in to avoid birds. Because of this squirrels create multiple nests for themselves in case they have to move.
As you can see, given millions of years of more evolving, squirrels will probably make that jump into what we consider intelligence.
Our biggest survival tool that we use is our brain. Other animals survive using their natural physical characteristics.
Sharks have survived for millions of years without much change.
We survive and are very adaptive to new situations and new environments.
Sharks have had the same environment for literally millions of years.
My final words are ...."Pick up a few books and start reading about the things you don't understand."
Insanity - Doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result
