Why are you trying to misrepresent me?Dubious wrote: ↑Mon Nov 26, 2018 6:01 amThere are many such links by those who are far more knowledgeable on the subject then you or I. As with stocks, past performance is not indicative of future results. Congrats on knowing the reality. Most experts are still theorizing!Greta wrote: ↑Mon Nov 26, 2018 5:18 amDubious wrote: ↑Sun Nov 25, 2018 9:51 pmThere can be any number of evolutionary patterns in nature, no two overlapping. You seem to think intelligence is what evolution strives for and that because it happened once it's likely going to happen again.
Nothing of the kind; that's not how evolution works or I don't understand its fundamentals which is first and foremost adaptation, the ability to survive and procreate. If intelligence on our level or even on a lower primate level is not required, it won't happen; there wouldn't be any necessity for it.
Believe as you like; it's natural to observe patterns as predictive but patterns may have variations just as a musical theme can have any number of variations following it moving further away from resemblance to the original theme.
The following link (among many others) gives a neat summary of how things may play out.
http://theconversation.com/what-species ... -out-53340Greta wrote: ↑Sun Nov 25, 2018 10:51 pmNo, life doesn't strive for greater intelligence. How you got that from my posts is beyond me. It's simple observation to note that life has continued to become ever more intelligent over the last few billion years.
I have a pretty decent handle on evolution, Dubious but I wonder if you do or if you just recite what you heard? The controversial view is that the trend towards greater intelligence could suddenly stop. Why would it do that after four billion years of life bouncing back after extinction events with far greater intelligence each time?Whatever, the extinctions and rejuvenations are proved by the palaeontological and geological records. So, after each major extinction life grew back in ever more complex forms, and ever more rapidly. That's the reality, not just interesting theorising about specific qualities of life, as per the link you provided.Dubious wrote: ↑Sun Nov 25, 2018 11:21 pmThe link I provided, and there are many others, summarizes the interactions of evolution and intelligence in a clear manner without coming to any overt determinations either way. It measures probabilities based on how evolution operates by invoking intelligence as an adaptation toward survival.
But by all means observe your patterns and come to your own conclusion.
Please pay attention: the timeline I described is not theoretical, it's in the fossil record, as stated more than once.