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Pleasure is far superior to mere intelligence

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Pleasure is far superior to mere intelligence
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RE: Pleasure is far superior to mere intelligence
July 31, 2014 at 10:43 am
Without intelligence, would you be smart enough to find pleasurable things to do?
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."

-Stephen Jay Gould
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RE: Pleasure is far superior to mere intelligence - by Tonus - July 31, 2014 at 10:43 am

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