Rightly.
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Yes! Who's going to thrive out there? Live long, have many offspring? You'll survive a few hours. Yrs with a boat
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We could adapt to live in the sea of we wished. Most of us have no great desire to do so, currently.
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"Drop us in ..." does not seem to include scuba gear or submarines, to me at least :)))
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It’s a non point. MY point is that humans CAN conquer even evironments not natural to them.
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This is why “reason” isn’t like “gills.” Reason is an omni-tool, a tool that allows us to INVENT other tools.
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What we lack by nature, we can accomplish by artifice.
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Wherever you are, look around you, and tell me, besides (1) humans and (2) raw elements, what around you is “natural”?
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I bet you are surrounded almost entirely by ARTIFICIAL things.
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Not arguing. It seemed there was a more subtle point being made, that higher could be defined using different perspectives :)
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Disagree! We have a unique ability to use technology to survive in environments other than those we were evolved in.
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We have lots of unique abilities! So do other animals.
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We alone have the ability to develop technology needed to adapt to new environments, e.g. space, underwater.
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Yes, we have unique and wonderful abilities. So do other animals. Some can regrow limbs AND camouflage AND hunt AND run fast
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Ah, but reason is a qualitatively different type of ability, one which allows us to do *all* these things & more.
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And also destroy the planet & all life on it. Read good argument abt why it doesn't evolve much.A disadvantage in many ways
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Well, that argument has also been put forward by others. Thinking of Vonnegut's 'Galapagos' novel for instance.
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Lindsay & Boghossian wrote abt today actually.Do species intelligent enough to space travel wipe themselves out b4 they can!
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Are you assuming good intentions and honesty again?
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