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What gives is the extra status we automatically pad to the idea of human intelligence to make ourselves feel special. Anthropomorphic padding.
by tehchromic 6y ago
What gives is the extra status we automatically pad to the idea of human intelligence to make ourselves feel special. Anthropomorphic padding.
- betwixthewires 6y agoThat might have a little to do with it, but it can't be the entire explanation. Human beings can send a man to the moon in a tin can. This has got to have something to do with intelligence. Ant colonies cannot do that. This comparison is now reminding me of Starship Troopers...
- circlefavshape 6y agoI don't think that's a good argument. For 90% of the time that homo sapiens has existed we didn't even have pottery
- vbezhenar 6y agoWhere's the threshold? For thousands of years humans just hunted and gathered. They used primitive tools. I would argue that ants had more sophisticated behavior at that time.
- tehchromic 6y agoHumans are also causing a planet scale extinction event. That's the opposite of intelligence by any philosophical definition.