Thursday, April 30, 2020
Remarkable intelligence
UncommonDescent has found this rather old video of a Stickleback fish building a nest. It's a real eye-opener, forcing me to expand my definitions of intelligence.
UD is mainly discussing genomes and such, interesting but not the main point.
Watch the way the fish surveys the location, excavates the hole, then selects branches from a nearby water plant and mortars them into place. He's not just running a reflex subroutine as you'd expect. He has a plan in mind. He knows how he wants the nest to look, and rejects branches that don't fit well.
This is a 3-inch fish with a 1/2" brain, showing vastly more intelligence and PRODUCTIVE talent than our 6-foot-long governors and presidents who only know how to DESTROY.
I probably won't edit my usual statement:
MEN NEED TO MAKE THINGS. IF THEY CAN'T MAKE THINGS THEY WILL BREAK THINGS.
But it really should say MAKERS NEED TO MAKE THINGS. ... with MAKERS as an expandable category of species.
Labels: Grand Blueprint, Make or break
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