RE: Life eating other life.
May 9, 2021 at 10:42 am
(This post was last modified: May 9, 2021 at 10:46 am by The Grand Nudger.)
I wouldn't rule out autotrophic intelligence entirely. I think it might be more the case that earth has no smart plants because it has a ton of smart motile predators. There are predatory plants here - but none of them appear to be any more or less intelligent than the other plants they prey on (though they're all probably a hell of alot more intelligent than we would generally credit them for).
We, the grand we, might be a hard ceiling to intelligence like ours in the case of plants or autotrophs in general. Effectively, we've shut the door behind ourselves - and probably did so long before we were intelligent..ourselves. There has to be some way to manage the risk of the expensive structures we associate with intelligences like ours. A plant growing a "brain" to have it nibbled on by every passing insect has a problem that we don't.
We, the grand we, might be a hard ceiling to intelligence like ours in the case of plants or autotrophs in general. Effectively, we've shut the door behind ourselves - and probably did so long before we were intelligent..ourselves. There has to be some way to manage the risk of the expensive structures we associate with intelligences like ours. A plant growing a "brain" to have it nibbled on by every passing insect has a problem that we don't.
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