Is every intelligent species going to be technological? It depends how fast they get how smart. Are they first intelligent enough to want an easier and longer life? Or are they first intelligent enough to decide that they don't need that and change their internal rewards instead?
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Seems plausible. But another possibility: mediation is just a good way to clarify our thoughts, so that we can better achieve happiness along the same lines, and constraints, evolution set out? See what I mean?
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Yes, I see, but both from the well documented reports of practitioners and some personal experience, it allows significant reorganization of cortical structure and interpretation of rewards. These monks burning themselves alive in protest were mostly fine with that pain.
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