Actually I'll debate you on this.. Humans are the smartest.. It's how we have been able to survive for so long... We will never be the strongest or the fastest (by natural means) but what makes us different is that we havent more brain fuctions and brain activity. Human vs a Bear way back in the day.. the BEAR IS GOING TO WIN because a human trying to rely on physical attributes is gonna lose that battle EVERY time.. now give a human some time and experience.. Human vs Bear again.. Humans developed weapons, documented past encounters with bears, learned a bears habits and movements... HUMAN WILL WIN.... No animal species can keep up with that... They rely on instinct and physical attributes only.... Humans we can make up some physical shit.. We cant naturally fly.. MAKE A PLANE.. see what I mean?
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all other species do the same and some existed long before us. heck the crocodile and sharks have been here for million of years. unchanged.
so what?
i doubt this. still has nothing to do with intelligence.
“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
no animals aren't doing the same thing.... Sharks are alive because of their power in the water.. take a shark out of water he cant do very much.. It depends on it's physical attributes to survive...
So what? Welp I did a typo on that one.. ehh so not sure what your "so what'ing" but that is my bad...
Human intelligence depends on LEARNING and PAST EXPERIENCE. What we have learned. It's why we are reading and typing now..... SOMEONE TAUGHT US and SOMEONE ELSE TAUGHT THEM.. They learned some how.. If a Bear attacks an animal the same way Over 100's of years.. it hasn't learned anything.. it's just pure instinct that gets it done.. .
Finally the quote, ok so that is not fact.. that isn't proof in anything because someone has said something.. It's a fact that humans have made advancements in technology, education, and travel. What are the FACTS behind that quote???
same applies to humans mate
How do you think things evolve? all species learn. just different things and in a different way.
actually animals vary their attacks based on experience. cats, wolfs, whales, lions, all do very different strategies unique to their pack.
that others don't need to. when you need to study for a test and some other student doesn't then he is the smarter, not you. if you have to make clothes and the other species just regulates temperature automatically, you are the stupid one in respect to them.
Not really.. Put a human in water.. they will learn to swim.. put a human in the dessert they can find a way to maintain life...
No animals don't change tactics.. they might change locations due to a lack of food but wolves and cats do not change TACTICS... They still hunt the same way. Name one animal that has changed Tactics... If an Eagle cant find food is it gonna stop using the air?
Your example makes no sense.. If the student already knows the answer.. Then Yes for that question he would be smarter.. But what makes a person intelligent is having the ability to find those answers... Because an animal is born with fur to keep it warm doesn't make it intelligent. (Thats like saying because a person is tall they are smarter because they can reach the top shelf.) It is a great ability for it to have but Humans are smart enough that they can create that ability... and go beyond it..
they can learn to swim but they cannot survive the sharks.
you will be surprised. even crows do. e.g based on human environments they throw nuts on the street and wait for cars to cut them open. aka changing of tactics.
you will regret have of what you wrote after watching the video
But a human in the water that didn't learn how to swim and he will drown. Put a human in a desert where he has not learned how to survive he will die. There is no human that holds the knowledge of the whole species. We evolve and adapt just like animals, we are the same only we seem to be able to put our capacities to cruel use. We create answers to complex problems that create increasingly more complex problems. Humans still die on a daily basis. All over the world people are dying because they haven't learned or predicted things that think they feel they could have. Humans commit suicide, they die in wars, through genocides, they die of hunger, through torture, because of love or hate. If you look at human behaviour on a individual level, we are utterly silly and laughably stupid, which is fine because it is fun and we like it. It doesn't make us 'smarter' than animals. We haven't learned how to overcome death in any way. Would you sacrifice anything for the survival of the species? Honestly? What would that mean for a species that calls itself human. If being smart is our purpose, but there is no meaning to it, why would we want it anyway? So if being smart is what we aim for without any purpose we are just doing things in a more complex way. Random complex activity is not the same as being smart.
Yes! finally a Douglas Adams reverence. Thanks for all the fish:)