JimBowie1958
Old Fogey
- Sep 25, 2011
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It's not at all hard to answer where intelligence came from. Intelligence in the form of trial and error is a very simple process, built into the very nature of life. Specialized nerve cells for carrying information is something that emerged not long after the first multi-celled organisms. Use of similar tissues, with a modified carrying-information function, is used to remember former trial-and-error experiments so they don't have to be repeated. A step or two further and it becomes possible to extrapolate from one trial to a similar trial. And so on. Intelligence becomes difficult to understand only if you try to imagine it all coming about at once in a single step. That's not how it happened.
So human beings are capable of creating art, music, and complex sentences because we have bigger brains?
Then Einsteins small brain means what? Or does the fact that women have smaller brains than men on the average mean that they are less intelligent too?