Honestly, at this point I’m starting to think there’s a lot of life throughout the Universe, but none of it has arisen to intelligent beings because of the sheer number of things a brain has to have to produce it.
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1. Mimicry One human is too slow to advance knowledge in any meaningful sense. By unconsciously and automatically mirroring each other, humans quickly disseminate and distribute knowledge throughout a population. That’s the first requirement.
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Then you need to somehow develop the ability to capture abstract ideas via sound waves. In order to do that, you likely need highly visual processing power.
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Then you gotta have some kind of incentive system in place for organisms to assemble and sort themselves by competency, so organisms can work together at scale rather than compete against each other.
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Then you gotta have the ability to rapidly increase caloric intake via fire. Then you need the ability to manipulate your environment precisely. I don’t think intelligence is the endpoint of evolution. It’s just a very hard to teach local maxima that happens by accident.
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I like the theory that human intelligence evolved recursively—smart humans competing to outsmart each other, with non-social reasoning as an accidental byproduct. Makes sense given how we use our giant brains (mostly status games).
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