RE: Permanent omnipotence?
November 11, 2012 at 5:42 pm
(This post was last modified: November 11, 2012 at 5:48 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Better brains than australopithicines, but not better brains than ourselves, apparently. I'd say that the use of our hands is a bigger step up, as far as a single step, than the incremental increases that we have seen in our brains, yes. How many creatures use their hands? Now how many creatures use their brains? lol.
Using hands "more intelligently" is a small thing compared to "being able to use your hands vs not using your hands". Suppose an antelope thought up a machine that could fly...how would it build it?
(it's a strange but fun tangent...and i want to note at this point how many examples we have of how being smart (or any successful adaptation really) leads to usefulness....how that leads to "truthfulness" is a little sketchier")
As another fun aside, the use of our hands may have directly encouraged and facilitated the development of our brains, brains are expensive..and hands can get you much better nutrition (but as you've said, better brain, better use of hands...it's a not-so-vicious circle, a sort of feedback loop..theoretically).
Using hands "more intelligently" is a small thing compared to "being able to use your hands vs not using your hands". Suppose an antelope thought up a machine that could fly...how would it build it?
(it's a strange but fun tangent...and i want to note at this point how many examples we have of how being smart (or any successful adaptation really) leads to usefulness....how that leads to "truthfulness" is a little sketchier")
As another fun aside, the use of our hands may have directly encouraged and facilitated the development of our brains, brains are expensive..and hands can get you much better nutrition (but as you've said, better brain, better use of hands...it's a not-so-vicious circle, a sort of feedback loop..theoretically).
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