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Because at some point you run out of food, and if you write birdsong in spite of that you just die out. It may be possible but its not much an effective long te
by klmadfejno 6y ago
Because at some point you run out of food, and if you write birdsong in spite of that you just die out. It may be possible but its not much an effective long term strategy. Too stupid to survive doesn't earn a lot of marks towards being an intelligent species.
Individuals with a desire to improve their survivability being evicted from the gene pool is the opposite of how natural selection works. Humans would still invent things even if painting gave everyone erotic pleasure.
- whatshisface 6y agoI am suggesting that intelligent populations may often die out. Evolution doesn't look ahead to avoid dead ends.
- klmadfejno 6y agoAn I'm suggesting that a population that dies out before accomplishing any intellectual achievements wasn't all that intelligent or make sense as a species. How a species would appear that decides to forego its basic needs in favor of making art is beyond me. A species that spends its time making birdsongs is effectively just a dumber version of birds. > Evolution doesn't look ahead to avoid dead ends. It does though, by many metrics. Many steps of evolution are not just the outright outcomes, but traits that make it easier for competitive adaptations to develop later on. That is, natural selection works on multiple levels of derivatives of fitness scores. Humanity's intelligence is built on top of everything else, and is often overruled, by base survival instincts.