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Strategic thinking, categorization, and the recognition of complex environmental patterns are among the abilities that would be very valuable even for mutes wit
by api 12y ago
Strategic thinking, categorization, and the recognition of complex environmental patterns are among the abilities that would be very valuable even for mutes without opposable thumbs.
- 6d0debc071 12y agoThat sounds reasonable, but I'm not sure what those things translate into. Take something that's reasonably intelligent - a wolf for instance. How, for most of its evolutionary history, would being able to recognise complex environmental patterns, as a human would, have made it successful enough to offset the energy cost of doing so? What part of the energy of the system accessible with their abilities are they missing?