I have little hope for our mind children. We will make them ruthlessly efficient devourers, at least one of them. Evolution had so much slack that it gave rise to a few of us dreamers. Intelligence and fitness are just pointless.
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Not even really primates, more like canvases for bacteria and viruses.
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I don't buy the strong microbiome puppeteering hypothesis, if that is what you are alluding to. The microbiome is probably more like a coevolving bioreactor that we need to produce precursors of several of our neurotransmitters (among many other things).
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