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I’m afraid that whales are precisely as smart as they need to be to strain krill, navigate, and reproduce.
by JohnJamesRambo 5y ago
I’m afraid that whales are precisely as smart as they need to be to strain krill, navigate, and reproduce.
- Razengan 5y agoWhat about humans? What ultimately have we achieved beyond reproducing?
- RalfWausE 5y agoWe are f...ing good at killing ;-)
- Razengan 5y agoNo really, what have we done that will outlast us or matters to anyone but us? (on geological scales let alone cosmic)
- JohnJamesRambo 5y agoConcrete.
- StanislavPetrov 5y agoHow smart could whales become if they had a billion more years to evolve without having their environment destroyed by humans or some other "smart" species?
- vardump 5y agoNot smarter at all, if there's no evolutionary pressure for it. On the contrary, bigger brains can be a hindrance, consuming energy for no reproductive benefit.