Humans are evolved and we will at some point increase our lifespans even more, perhaps to the point of immortality. It may be the case that a conscious mind lik

Humans are evolved and we will at some point increase our lifespans even more, perhaps to the point of immortality. It may be the case that a conscious mind like a human mind is a hard prerequisite to then leveraging tools to build technology that makes us immortal. In such a case I wouldn't expect regular animals to be capable of achieving this through sheer brute force over billions of years. Might need to flatten all those additional years of evolution into CPU-time and let an AI figure out how to do it for us.