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The laws of physics impose contraints that will make certain traits common amongst intelligence species and advanced civilizations. We see a variation of this
by CryptoPunk 4y ago
The laws of physics impose contraints that will make certain traits common amongst intelligence species and advanced civilizations.
We see a variation of this in convergent evolution across distantly related species (e.g. the evolution of wings).
- trasz 4y agoThis is obviously not true. We can’t even define what intelligence means, leave alone somebody’s physical traits.
- CryptoPunk 4y agoIt's obviously true that convergent evolution, that produces similar traits across distantly related species, occurs. So your assertion makes no sense to me.
- trasz 4y agoOnly when it happens in a similar environment.
- CryptoPunk 4y agoFlight evolves all over the planet, across diverse environments. But in any case, there will be some commonality in environments across many planets, owing to what environments are the most probable hosts of life, and to the fact that the laws of physics are universal.
- trasz 4y agoThat works for flight, but not for intelligence. We can define what “flight” means, but we can’t do that for “intelligence”. Unless by “intelligent” you really mean “appears to be behaving like a human”.
- CryptoPunk 4y agoIntelligence is a higher order trait so harder to describe, but it is still a discernible trait. Roughly speaking, intelligence is the ability to achieve an objective through modeling scenarios in order to determine more optimal behavior. Intelligence across species shares common characteristics even between dolphins, apes and birds which all evolved it independently.
- trasz 4y agoExcept we wouldn't even notice intelligence that manifests in a way different from earthly animals, eg one that works on vastly different time scale.