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> It’s pretty wild to think intelligence might have evolved more than once in vertebrates It's an utter bombshell if true. It means intelligence isn't "difficu
by energy123 2y ago
> It’s pretty wild to think intelligence might have evolved more than once in vertebrates
It's an utter bombshell if true. It means intelligence isn't "difficult" for evolution to arrive at, significantly increasing the odds of other intelligent life in the universe.
- pfdietz 2y agoIt significantly increases the odds if evolution of intelligence was the bottleneck, not, say, origin of life itself.
- guelo 2y agoNot difficult when given the common ancestor of birds and mammals and a few hundred million years of relatively calm environment.
- dboreham 2y agoOnce you have the basic GPU cell design, it's just a case of allowing time to run.