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Re:The Big Alien Theory by natosaichek on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @02:45AM (#27365675)
The ability to solve widespread coordination problems is... probably orthogonal to consciousness? Bees and ants do it without consciousness, and humans clearly suck at it. Or you could say: The odds of them being capable of using their sentience to solve their desire to have a controlled population level is small.
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Re:The Big Alien Theory by freshhawk on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @08:28AM (#27367880)
Our population changed radically when we gained sentience.

I don't see how it is reasonable to assume a species will gain sentience and not alter their behaviour in a way that alters their population. That is a "big" threshold to cross in terms of ability to alter your surroundings.

It doesn't have to be controlled, it just has to change significantly because of the gain of sentience for this argument to not be valid.

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Re:The Big Alien Theory by plutonorm on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @06:08AM (#27366887)
“Bees and ants do it without consciousness” do they? Prove it.
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