Ricardo -> RE: Will I ever be as good as the old masters? (Feb. 17 2016 11:14:53)
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ORIGINAL: Ruphus quote:
ORIGINAL: Ricardo "Dumb"? Or perhaps just smart enough to SEE that our activities are the cause of the next Mass extinction cleansing event, in fact, it was this purpose that Mother Nature allowed us to be spawned to begin with, to bring forth the renewal. Perhaps. I see. Your understanding of the world leans on a sort of genesis rather than a scientific base. However, nature has no inherent purpose. It just is. Even though nature does bear the phenomenon that life apparently developes whenever possible, there is no tendency as to how. With the physical laws that appear to sort material in accordance to density, electrical values and so forth, provided stable circumstances, coming about of substances and planets is likely. And with the increasing diversity of substances and shapes of a planet diversification of eventual life becomes more probable too. With that typically an evolution towards higher specialisation. However, unlike one might be wanting to assume, such specialisation must not inevitably mean all progressing development, nor self-evident tendency towards higher intelligence and awareness. There have for an example been cases like of island elephants that shrank in size and cut back in intelligence. And dino sauriers despite of roughly 24 times more of chronological legacy than ours never came to invent a wheel. Anyway, nature has not voluntarily led us, nor meant us to be, lesser even planned us to be relais to anywhere. We are on our own with our brain, and we should use it. Ruphus I am not saying we should not TRY, but in the bigger picture, there is but ONE biology to study at present, and that is EARTH biology, and the historical record shows the occurrence and frequency of Mass extinction events. Perhaps the causes and regularity of them are coincidental, but with only ONE biology to study, we can't say. Likewise I agree, "intelligence" need not be the be all end all of biological evolution, it's about survival nothing else. But it could very well be the norm that once or IF technology arises in the universe, it is also time for the species to leave and make room for others (destroys itself ALWAYS). THis could be the reason, after surveying THOUSANDS of worlds in the galactic neighborhood, not a single tech or Intelligence has been found....the reason for fermi's paradox is simply, nature (the cosmos) doesn't want it...or it takes a VERY VERY special type of entity to advance past that technological adolescence, while the rest are the normal type that help out with extinction events, slate cleaning. A pitiful few humans might seem to fall into the "special" category, obviously. Is it enough? Time will tell.
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