| Self awareness, as the byproduct of intelligence serves no function, no purpose in the species survival. To be aware of ones death from early childhood on, does not furthen the survival or evolution, thats why I think intelligence may be an evolutionary dead end. Overpopulation and resource depletion is another reason. I am not talking this or next generation, I am talking about 10,000, 100,000 maybe 1 mil years from now. Where do you think we will be in 1 mil years from now? Keep in mind. the dinosaurs ruled the planet for 200 mil years, can we do the same or better?
It is almost impossible to speculate about our fate, the fate of the species as social and cultural beings when our history only spans across 10,000 years of society. Do I want intelligence to be an evolutionary dead end? No, of course not. However, I am realistic, maybe nihilistic and can not help but feel insignificant and helpless in this stroll to total entropy. The cosmos marches to its own rythm, it has its own evolutionary drums....  |