(June 29, 2017 at 11:21 am)Astreja Wrote: Organisms with unreliable minds are more likely to die out, leaving a gene pool of more reliable minds.
(June 29, 2017 at 11:28 am)Parsim0ny Wrote: This is an astonishing claim to make. I cannot trust a monkey to perform a heart surgery in my chest, even if it means that these monkeys are capable of selectively improving their fingers movements and become "more" reliable.
Don't worry, Parsim0ny -- first the monkey has to learn to read, write and speak a human language, graduate pre-med university with a high GPA, get accepted to medical school and pass all the exams, do a 5-year residency in Cardiac Surgery, do a 3-year Fellowship, and get hired by a hospital. I for one *would* trust any simian that could achieve all that. Because of the educational time required, the comparatively long-lived white-headed capuchin and the Guinea baboon are the most likely candidates.
More likely we'll see cardiac robots long before that happens, though, and ambitious monkeys will have to content themselves with other careers (parkour coach; rigger, roofer or skywalker; Shakespearean transcription) or explore entrepreneurship.