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Sure; I'm not arguing that they are. If you say that chimps and dogs fail to display specific attributes that humans do (e.g. concentration at a certain level,

Sure; I'm not arguing that they are. If you say that chimps and dogs fail to display specific attributes that humans do (e.g. concentration at a certain level, mental modeling, sufficiently advanced communication skills), I won't argue with you because my knowledge of BCS isn't high enough for me to participate at a meaningful level. But the OP didn't do that; he said that dogs and chimps aren't intelligent because they haven't gone to the moon and until he starts defining his terms in the same clearcut way that you have, it's impossible to really discuss the point he's trying to make. edit: Also, the original point the OP made wasn't "Dogs and chimps are not as intelligent as humans", the point was "Humans are the only intelligent species on the planet". And while you can make an argument to say that dogs and chimps are not as intelligent as humans, I would contest your saying that dogs and chimps do not display intelligence, full stop. And I would further contest (as I've been doing) the statement that the boundary for intelligence vs. however you'd describe a vacuum of intelligence is the arbitrary point of landing on the moon, or even being within 50,000 years of doing so.

JoeAltmaier 13y ago
Yeah OP was silly, agreed. There are humans that opt out of technology, and not because they're dumb.
- frade33 13y ago
  Technology is result of our wisdom, if one does not uses technology, that does not mean, that human is not intelligent,. The topic was intelligence and our physical body that apparently is perfect to support the intelligence we have.
  - JoeAltmaier 13y ago
    Same could be said of any animal? And just because animals don't express our sort of technology doesn't mean they can't.
    - frade33 13y ago
      do we have to redefine intelligence and technology :) or should we stick to the definition we all know :) All I could make of your comment, other animals are like us, but they are not nerds. :)
      - JoeAltmaier 13y ago
        Say we discover dolphins are doing something amazing and complicated under all that water. Its not hospitals or lasers, but pretty cool. So are they intelligent? Not like us surely, but their environment would mold their inventions to look very different from ours.
        frade33 13y ago
        I rather gave an example of chimp which is not only our relative but also i guess the most intelligent animal other than us. But something is evidently clear, i am not talking in religious terms, rather layman. I am not the sort of animal as other are. Why is it so. Lets figure it out. But when we do, we will have to look beyond the basics of evolution theory, Evolution theory itself, is not completely wrong. But if you instead start analyzing that Nedenethals were actually the prototype for the end product 'homo sapiens'. It may solve all the mysterious that surround the evolution theory. And the final part was, I am not willing to believe 'life' sparks at its own as says Evolution theory, It was sparked. If it did spark at its own, what is keeping it from on mars., as I was of the view, self-starting life can begin at its own, according to the atmosphere of its planet. On the other hand, if when someone say 02 and h202 are the standard for life. don't you think it proves the religion point, a standard was intentionally set so that life could not take place on other planets. as we are the only 'visible' intelligent, there are two other intelligent species other than us according to religion. angels, and jinns but both are invisible according to the religion. I wonder since religion says Jinn are as intelligent as humans beings are and were created zillions ago than human being, what they have been cooking up, if they really exist, when I tell they are the alien, everyone would dismiss me as being a lunatic. :) But if you can believe in aliens why not in jinn being the alien which religions validates too, and there is no validity of any kind for aliens most people talk about. :)
  - CocaKoala 13y ago
    You didn't address my point about albatrosses and dynamic soaring. Why do you think that our physical body has adapted to perfectly support our intelligence, as opposed to our intelligence adapting itself to our bodies? And you still haven't given an adequate definition for intelligence; just saying "the result of our wisdom" (what is wisdom?) doesn't cut it.

JoeAltmaier 13y ago

Yeah OP was silly, agreed. There are humans that opt out of technology, and not because they're dumb.

frade33 13y ago
Technology is result of our wisdom, if one does not uses technology, that does not mean, that human is not intelligent,. The topic was intelligence and our physical body that apparently is perfect to support the intelligence we have.
- JoeAltmaier 13y ago
  Same could be said of any animal? And just because animals don't express our sort of technology doesn't mean they can't.
  - frade33 13y ago
    do we have to redefine intelligence and technology :) or should we stick to the definition we all know :) All I could make of your comment, other animals are like us, but they are not nerds. :)
    - JoeAltmaier 13y ago
      Say we discover dolphins are doing something amazing and complicated under all that water. Its not hospitals or lasers, but pretty cool. So are they intelligent? Not like us surely, but their environment would mold their inventions to look very different from ours.
      - frade33 13y ago
        I rather gave an example of chimp which is not only our relative but also i guess the most intelligent animal other than us. But something is evidently clear, i am not talking in religious terms, rather layman. I am not the sort of animal as other are. Why is it so. Lets figure it out. But when we do, we will have to look beyond the basics of evolution theory, Evolution theory itself, is not completely wrong. But if you instead start analyzing that Nedenethals were actually the prototype for the end product 'homo sapiens'. It may solve all the mysterious that surround the evolution theory. And the final part was, I am not willing to believe 'life' sparks at its own as says Evolution theory, It was sparked. If it did spark at its own, what is keeping it from on mars., as I was of the view, self-starting life can begin at its own, according to the atmosphere of its planet. On the other hand, if when someone say 02 and h202 are the standard for life. don't you think it proves the religion point, a standard was intentionally set so that life could not take place on other planets. as we are the only 'visible' intelligent, there are two other intelligent species other than us according to religion. angels, and jinns but both are invisible according to the religion. I wonder since religion says Jinn are as intelligent as humans beings are and were created zillions ago than human being, what they have been cooking up, if they really exist, when I tell they are the alien, everyone would dismiss me as being a lunatic. :) But if you can believe in aliens why not in jinn being the alien which religions validates too, and there is no validity of any kind for aliens most people talk about. :)
- CocaKoala 13y ago
  You didn't address my point about albatrosses and dynamic soaring. Why do you think that our physical body has adapted to perfectly support our intelligence, as opposed to our intelligence adapting itself to our bodies? And you still haven't given an adequate definition for intelligence; just saying "the result of our wisdom" (what is wisdom?) doesn't cut it.