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Re:Humans Interbred with Four Extinct Hominin Species, Resea... by orange8 on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @07:21AM (#20563794)
You are asking me to prove that humans are smarter than elephants? It makes for an interesting philosophical debate, but that is all it really will be. Kind of like me asking you to prove you are smarter than a rock, or that you are really conscious.
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Re:Humans Interbred with Four Extinct Hominin Species, Resea... by 1000units on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @01:11PM (#20566864)
Elephants' computational machinery look almost exactly like ours, except much larger. I can measure the thermodynamic properties of any rock's machinery and conclude with certainty it has no familiar intelligence. The only thing elephants have against them is they don't have technological civilization and just sort of bumble around, but so did Socrates. To me it remains an open question.
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Re:Humans Interbred with Four Extinct Hominin Species, Resea... by orange8 on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @08:19PM (#20570578)
What makes you so sure of your measurement machinery? An advanced alien race may laugh at your rock measuring equipment the way we laugh at early mans tools.

See what i mean about pointless philosophical arguments?

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