“It’s an easy mistake to make. After all, their behavior was sometimes similar to intelligent behavior! But no one put any thought into their design; they were just a result of totally random mutations run through a blind, noisy filter that wasn’t even trying for intelligence. Most of what they did was driven by hormones released by the nearness of a competitor or prospective mate. It’s better to think of them as a set of hardwired behaviors that sometimes invoked brain circuits that did something abit like thinking.”
“But I heard humans were actually intelligent...”
“It’s an easy mistake to make. After all, their behavior was sometimes similar to intelligent behavior! But no one put any thought into their design; they were just a result of totally random mutations run through a blind, noisy filter that wasn’t even trying for intelligence. Most of what they did was driven by hormones released by the nearness of a competitor or prospective mate. It’s better to think of them as a set of hardwired behaviors that sometimes invoked brain circuits that did something a bit like thinking.”
“Wow, that’s amazing. Biology was so cool!”