Where Did Intelligence Come From?

[ParachuteAdams]

escuchame perimoso

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I like it a lot. I bought a lot.

 

[goat]

you're stupid and a waste of time

You kant allow evidence to penetrate your tiny brain.

 

[BidenPresident]

You kant allow evidence to penetrate your tiny brain.

Shut the fuck up you foolish buffoon.

 

[goat]

Shut the fuck up you foolish buffoon.

Translation: I lost another debate to Goat.

 

[BidenPresident]

Translation: I lost another debate to Goat.

You are mentally ill. No joke.

 

[Truth Detector]

Where Did Intelligence Come From?

Well, we sure as hell know it isn't coming from you.

 

[AProudLefty]

Well, we sure as hell know it isn't coming from you.

My farts have more intelligence than you.

 

[Truth Detector]

My farts have more intelligence than me.

So true. Why, even an earthworm has you beat.

 

[AProudLefty]

So true. Why, even an earthworm has you beat.

That doesn't say much about you.

 

[Truth Detector]

That doesn't say much about me.

So true; you're also a brain dead, thread trolling, worthless piece of human excrement. [/size]

 

[goat]

Apes eating psilocybin had a big advantage in natural selection with better eyesight, more sex, and an expanded mind. McKenna is the only one to explain how apes went from scavengers to hunters so quickly. We can't talk about human intelligence and not include McKenna. It's as simple as that.

 

[Cypress]

Is intelligence a byproduct of evolution? What about personal identity?

To describe what "personal identity" is, it's when you are aware of you.

Intelligence and personal identity are two separate things.

Per Descartes, the mind body problem?

The honest answer is no one knows for sure if consciousness is distinct from the body, but modern neuropsychology seems to convincingly indicate the brain and the consciousness are the same thing; consciousness is not a distinct essence from the brain.

 

[AProudLefty]

Per Descartes, the mind body problem?

The honest answer is no one knows for sure if consciousness is distinct from the body, but modern neuropsychology seems to convincingly indicate the brain and the consciousness are the same thing; consciousness is not a distinct essence from the brain.

Then there is the problem of personal identity.

 

[Cypress]

Then there is the problem of personal identity.

Even lower animals are self aware.
Unless I misunderstand you, I am considering consciousness and identity to be basically the same thing.

 

[AProudLefty]

Even lower animals are self aware.
Unless I misunderstand you, I am considering consciousness and identity to be basically the same thing.

To use a simple example, is a Furby "aware"?

 

[BidenPresident]

Then there is the problem of personal identity.

What about it?

 

[AProudLefty]

What about it?

I like to use the Star Trek teleportation example.

When a person is teleported, his/her body is destroyed (killed) and an exact duplicate is created elsewhere. Same person?

 

[BidenPresident]

I like to use the Star Trek teleportation example.

When a person is teleported, his/her body is destroyed (killed) and an exact duplicate is created elsewhere. Same person?

I don't watch Star Trek.

 

[Hawkeye10]

This is a trip!

Hard to watch because this is a conversation between two brilliant guys who take no care to bring the audience along as they learn from each other, but it is fascinating.

 

[AProudLefty]

I don't watch Star Trek.

Never mind Star Trek.

The principle of teleportation is that you are destroyed (killed) and you are reconstructed else where. Will you be the same person?