Zupančič’s work is beyond interesting, and the general sentiment sounds nice…but this could really be utter psychobabble potentially. Wanted to post for others’ thoughts either way

  • cabbage@piefed.social
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    1 month ago

    Smells dumb to me.

    I fail to see the relevant difference between “human intelligence” and the intelligence of a gorilla, dolphin, octopus, chicken, or firefly for that matter.

    You could argue there’s nothing natural about any of those, but then where does it stop? If we make this argument I’d say the same goes for DNA itself. In the end it becomes an argument that the natural world is not natural. And at that point it seems pretty obvious that one is working with flawed definitions rather than brilliant insights.