How come we are so smart?

[Mayne]

Why is every other animal not smart? Pretty sure we haven't been on earth as long as some other animals. Why?

 

[BudAshes]

Why is every other animal not smart? Pretty sure we haven't been on earth as long as some other animals. Why?

Who told you you were smart?

 

[Mayne]

Who told you you were smart?

I'm just saying.

 

[Newell Steamer]

Considering how we recognize utopia, but refuse to live it, we aren't so smart.

We are cunning and intelligent. But, certainly are not smart.

 

[MongGrel]

Who told you you were smart?

I wasn't going to comment and hoped the thread would fade away, but I guess that's a futile effort.

I call animal racism.

:sneaky:

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[OverVolt]

Maybe we just make gibberish sounds back and forth like all other mammals.

 

[Mayne]

Maybe we just make gibberish sounds back and forth like all other mammals.

maybe we do..but i haven't seen other animals make computers and talk on the internet.

 

[mmntech]

Humans aren't particularly strong or agile in the trees. We evolved on forest floors and in the savannah. Natural selection favoured larger brains because it allowed us to process more information more quickly. Thus increasing chances of survival and reproduction in a hostile environment.

There's a good documentary series done by PBS called "Your Inner Fish" which covers evolution from early land animals to humans, including how our brain evolved. It's on Netflix.

 

[SlitheryDee]

I had a long post going about how being fit for survival doesn't necessarily mean being smart and how evolution doesn't have any particular goals beyond continuing, but I decided to just post the following instead:

My cat is pretty smart.

 

[Mayne]

Humans aren't particularly strong or agile in the trees. We evolved on forest floors and in the savannah. Natural selection favoured larger brains because it allowed us to process more information more quickly. Thus increasing chances of survival and reproduction in a hostile environment.

There's a good documentary series done by PBS called "Your Inner Fish" which covers evolution from early land animals to humans, including how our brain evolved. It's on Netflix.

I get the whole evolution thing...still doesn't make sense since we've only been here a short time.

 

[Kadarin]

Why is every other animal not smart? Pretty sure we haven't been on earth as long as some other animals. Why?

This bird is probably smarter than you are: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtmLVP0HvDg

 

[HeXen]

For one thing, if there were 2 smart species or even 20 at any point in our history, only 1 would survive. We are very territorial, belligerent, greedy..etc and let's face it, our ancestors were just plain nuts. They would have killed off anything remotely displaying intelligence long ago.
Look at Big Foot, we don't even know if they exist yet there are many that try to hunt them down to this day. If found they wouldn't survive long without govt intervention and zoo's or reservations for them. We are the most dangerous species to ever walk the earth.

We can thank our natural war like behaviors to drive our need for better technology which requires smarter brains. Octopuses are also pretty darn smart but there is nothing in their environment that requires a necessity to push for more brain power.

Historians believe there may have been as many as 5 species of humans living alongside at one point but apparently our genes, being a mix of the bunch it appears, won out. If anything else was ever intelligent to much degree, they got murdered out as well. If not they probably would us. "There can be only one!!"

 

[SlitheryDee]

I get the whole evolution thing...still doesn't make sense since we've only been here a short time.

How do you arrive at that conclusion? Our heritage goes all the way back to the first single celled organisms on the planet just like everything else's does.

 

[OverVolt]

We're actually just mammal sized ants. For the colony or death!

 

[IronWing]

We're actually just mammal sized ants. For the colony or death!

Very dangerous, you go first.

 

[OverVolt]

Very dangerous, you go first.

Well there's worse wealth inequality than the ratio of soldiers to queen ants!

 

[Mayne]

How do you arrive at that conclusion? Our heritage goes all the way back to the first single celled organisms on the planet just like everything else's does.

we existed when dinosaurs ruled the earth?

 

[IronWing]

we existed when dinosaurs ruled the earth?

Our ancestors did.

 

[Mayne]

Our ancestors did.

I don't believe you.

 

[lxskllr]

we existed when dinosaurs ruled the earth?

In some form or another

 

[OverVolt]

Our ancestors did.

Yea, little shrews who lived in holes hoping a T-rex doesn't cave it in and squish us. And that is where the neurotic part of the brain evolved!

 

[Ruptga]

Had Mayne been banned so long that people forgot to never take his character seriously? I see a vicious cycle on the horizon.

 

[BoomerD]

Let me guess...Mayne was raised by this lady:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H50llsHm3k

 

[IronWing]

I don't believe you.

Your beliefs are of no concern to me.

 

[Mayne]

Had Mayne been banned so long that people forgot to never take his character seriously? I see a vicious cycle on the horizon.

its called forum evolution.