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>> What we are talking about is a new, higher form of real intelligence. Which if the author is right and our brains have already been shrinking means that wit
by at-fates-hands 10y ago
>> What we are talking about is a new, higher form of real intelligence.
Which if the author is right and our brains have already been shrinking means that within a few hundred years, there won't be any humans left - just "higher intelligence".
I've never understood people's naivety thinking we're always going to be at the top of the evolutionary ladder. At some point, we will be replaced and humans in whatever form they take now will cease to exist in the very near future.
- icebraining 10y agoWhich if the author is right and our brains have already been shrinking means that within a few hundred years, there won't be any humans left - just "higher intelligence". No, it really doesn't. Even if the extrapolation was correct - which is dubious at best - losing 15% of brain over 10 000 years certainly wouldn't mean "no humans within a few hundred years".
- ArkyBeagle 10y agoI think termites and fungii are above us on the evolutionary ladder - they're more by count and by mass. If we cease, we had a good run.