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Evolution created intelligence without even being intelligent itself
by samiskin 3y ago
Evolution created intelligence without even being intelligent itself
- dontknowwhyihn 3y agoHow do you know that’s true?
- chrischen 3y agoEvolution is not a single orchestrator. It is merely the natural result of a simple mechanical process over a timescale that exceeds the lifetime of the common human.
- candiddevmike 3y agoBecause we eat and breath through the same tube
- _justinfunk 3y agoThere are two tubes.
- p1esk 3y agoEvolution came up with the shared eating/breathing tube design because it made sense for aquatic animals (from which we evolved).
- KineticLensman 3y agoThe trachea and oesophagus both start in the common space of the pharynx. The epiglottis stops food going down the wrong one
- hackernewds 3y agowe don't. which is why we choke and hiccup
- flangola7 3y agoEvolution is just a description of a process, it isn't a tangible thing.
- thfuran 3y agoYou're proposing that statistics is intelligent?
- hypertele-Xii 3y agoYou're proposing that evolution is statistics?
- thfuran 3y agoBasically, yeah.
- 8bitsrule 3y agoNotable that the people who saw the first automatons argued whether they were alive.
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- int_19h 3y agoPeople also argued that animals are mere automatons, that all their observable behavior is basically scripted, and that humans shouldn't empathize with them on those grounds. That's how vivisection etc used to be justified since at least Descartes.
- poulpy123 3y agoBecause evolution is random change + natural selection