Thinking about such things is the necessary first step to preventing such new species from arising that would make you extinct. So yes, if they had thought about these things competently enough, and otherwise been competent enough, it would have enabled them to survive.
Doesn’t seem very smart of you to argue against thinking. If you don’t think, you’re certainly even more screwed than with thinking.
The “most species that have ever lived” that you mentioned were not capable of preventing new species from arising—because that happens naturally all the time. If you introduce this hypothetical, it seems as though you have to abandon your original argument.
It is thinking too much about events that you have little control over that can be bad.
Also, in biology, more thinking than normal is not good, on average—thoughts are costly and there is an economic tradeoff.
Thinking about such things is the necessary first step to preventing such new species from arising that would make you extinct. So yes, if they had thought about these things competently enough, and otherwise been competent enough, it would have enabled them to survive.
Doesn’t seem very smart of you to argue against thinking. If you don’t think, you’re certainly even more screwed than with thinking.
The “most species that have ever lived” that you mentioned were not capable of preventing new species from arising—because that happens naturally all the time. If you introduce this hypothetical, it seems as though you have to abandon your original argument.
It is thinking too much about events that you have little control over that can be bad.
Also, in biology, more thinking than normal is not good, on average—thoughts are costly and there is an economic tradeoff.