Give the right developmental program, non-vertebrates like octopuses might conceivably evolve into intelligence able to create technologies like us. Humans just happen to evolve with the right kind of circumstances, but the original instructions have always been present.
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In fact, humans evolved to who we are because of limitations in our own biology and not because of strengths. Our larger brains and vocal capability is a consequence of a gene that weakened our jaws. Our need for socialization is due to individually inferior physical abilities.
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Humans are intelligent because humans are relatively less physically superior than other creatures in the environment. We conquered the world because our intelligence allowed us to collectively organize ourselves.
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It's a bit more ominous than that. We also conquered the world because our collective action drove out cultures that would fundamentally be more in balance with nature, humans that were fundamentally stronger and healthier and likely smarter, like the hunter gathers, neanderthals
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My argument is that collective behavior trumped individual physical prowess. Homo sapiens bested the other humanoids on the planet.
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Not sure this is true. By the numbers, yes, but people are obviously holding back. By the numbers argument you could say that chickens are a more successful species than humans. Otherwise, we would not have such an idiot as a "leader" of the free world.
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Right now a virus, from a bat and a pangolin, plus our efforts for centralised information control, have decimated the world economy. It is probably our hunter-gatherer blood kicking in right now - after all there was still intermarriage between neanderthals and mitochondrial eve
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To this day, Mongolia has 2 people per square km. In Temujin's day, it was one of the most sparsely populated places on the planet -- but connected to the steppe, a central land. From this wilderness, a horde emerged, enough to overcome everything but itself.pic.twitter.com/MnkvQKMrmM
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Kublai Khan eventually overcame the Chinese rulers, and founded the syncretic Yuan dynasty. If you study language, it is hard to avoid the fact that this formed the central pivot point in Chinese language, history, and political thought. And, moreover, in a move of great wisdom,
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...connected the power of the state and spirituality, elevated the Dalai Lama, chosen of the *children*, elevated above the rest of the Earth, and placed this spiritual power *above* the centralised state authority. Brilliant!
@DalaiLama https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibet_under_Yuan_rule …pic.twitter.com/tkpuqdB6Yy
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The fact is that P-Space bests P-time. So the winning strategy, if you have patience to execute it, almost always comes from the outside.
cc @michael_nielsen @n0x00
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