Will man’s innate intelligence lead to the extinction of the race, effectively outsmarting himself?
intaleckshul asked:
Natural creates forest fires to create new opportunities for growth, culls animal herds by enabling predators, introduces disease to manage species, etc. Man, however, through intellect and guile, creates defenses, be it vaccines, flood levees, whatever. The result is that we live too long, take up too much room,and consume and/or waste too many resources, in addition to contributing to the eradication of other innocent species.
Natural creates forest fires to create new opportunities for growth, culls animal herds by enabling predators, introduces disease to manage species, etc. Man, however, through intellect and guile, creates defenses, be it vaccines, flood levees, whatever. The result is that we live too long, take up too much room,and consume and/or waste too many resources, in addition to contributing to the eradication of other innocent species.
So, the question is: Will we basically do to ourselves what we work so hard at trying to prevent Mother Nature from doing to us in the first place>
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Yes I beleive they will work so hard to prevent global warming , that they will speeden up the process and eventually bring it upon themsleves
i mean speeden up the process by making w/e like using chemicals and crap to try and stop it and it just makes it come faster? i dont know
Man’s intelligence has already removed him from the evolutionary process. That is to say, “fitness” is no longer a factor in determining successful reproduction and survival of offspring (which is how natural selection works).
With no natural selection, thanks to our invention of technology and civilization, we are no longer evolving in any meaningful way.
Thus, if we are to be defined as “the smart animal”, and we are no longer evolving towards being “smarter”, then we are at an evolutionary dead end, and eventually we will run into a problem that we are not smart enough to resolve (such as a comet or asteroid impact).
As you note, we are futzing around with forces we don’t really understand, yet; global climate, nuclear energy, treatment of diseases. And so we are creating an unstable global climate, the potential for poisoning the planet, and the evolution of germs and viruses that are resistant to any cures we can develop.
Yeah, we were smart. We just weren’t smart enough. And when we stopped getting smarter (around 1650), we started on the long road to extinction.
See you in the Dodo Grounds, kemo sabe.
The average man does not have that much intelligence. We all improved because of just a handful of persons each century who were smart enough to give us either insight or new technology to use and improve further in details (like electricity).
I think we need to focus either on producing more of these exceptional smart people (e.g. actively finding them on this planet so we get a handful more in each century) or we must find ways to somehow expand our brains or connect our brains to achieve the same.
I think mother nature should help us by providing more Einsteins, Descarte´s, Tesla and such. The rest of us are just a bunch of nitwits either getting in the way of progress or enjoying life by the grace of these persons.