RE: Permanent omnipotence?
November 11, 2012 at 5:11 pm
(This post was last modified: November 11, 2012 at 5:17 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
I think that we must be an exception. If we weren't intelligent in the way that we are, how would we survive? We're inferior to other animals evolutionary-wise in many other ways.
Imagine humans that never had clothes to warm themselves, never invented fire, never had agriculture or any other form of culture, or technology, no tools - if we weren't intelligent we would be less effective than wolves at working together in a group, and we're far less powerful than lions, bears, etc. Other apes are stronger than us. We'd have died out by now surely.
We have a bigger brain than other apes... if we did not I'm sure we wouldn't still be around because other apes are superior in many ways. Also, our complex language surely requires our intelligence. And I'm sure our language has aided our survival and reproduction over the years. Communicating information can be a powerful tool.
I'm not completely sure though. Thoughts on this?
Imagine humans that never had clothes to warm themselves, never invented fire, never had agriculture or any other form of culture, or technology, no tools - if we weren't intelligent we would be less effective than wolves at working together in a group, and we're far less powerful than lions, bears, etc. Other apes are stronger than us. We'd have died out by now surely.
We have a bigger brain than other apes... if we did not I'm sure we wouldn't still be around because other apes are superior in many ways. Also, our complex language surely requires our intelligence. And I'm sure our language has aided our survival and reproduction over the years. Communicating information can be a powerful tool.
I'm not completely sure though. Thoughts on this?
