RE: Permanent omnipotence?
November 11, 2012 at 5:01 pm
(This post was last modified: November 11, 2012 at 5:10 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Do you think that ants engage in logic very often? They survive. (We might say that they do without realizing it, meh.) We have strong reason to believe that ants don't actually have a concept of self (at least nothing like we would conceive of it), for example..lol. so, even the "if I am here" bit wouldn't mean much to them.
Never discount the misfortune of others btw. There has been alot of life here, not alot of it has been very smart (even though we know of quite a few species that could have potentially been "very smart"), if "smart" was a unilaterally successful strategy we'd expect more instances of it. Seems that intelligence has some peculiar drawbacks of it's own. For example, it seems fairly easy for intelligent creatures to create unintelligent and potentially deleterious "explanations" for things.
(November 11, 2012 at 5:00 pm)DoubtVsFaith Wrote: Yes, interesting. I wonder if there are any actual truths rather than functional ones that need to be known at all?
What about basic logic? "If I am here I am not not here." I wonder if we would be able to survive and reproduce without logic considering that back in prehistory there were so many dangerous predators around and we were dying from bad teeth and disease at a young age?
The very basics of the most obvious logic of all must be a basic requirement for our intelligence I would have thought, and our intelligence is surely one of the reasons our species has survived and reproduced successfully so far.
Never discount the misfortune of others btw. There has been alot of life here, not alot of it has been very smart (even though we know of quite a few species that could have potentially been "very smart"), if "smart" was a unilaterally successful strategy we'd expect more instances of it. Seems that intelligence has some peculiar drawbacks of it's own. For example, it seems fairly easy for intelligent creatures to create unintelligent and potentially deleterious "explanations" for things.
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