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Comment author: RobertLumley 14 November 2011 06:03:30PM *  6 points [-]

Evolution versus Intelligence

I didn't read all of this post, unfortunately, I didn't have time before class. But I wanted to mention my thoughts on this section. This seemed like a very unfortunate analogy. For one, the specific example of flying is wildly biased against humans, who are orders of magnitude handicapped by the square cube law. Secondly, you can think of any number of arbitrary counterexamples where the advantage is on the side of intelligence. For a similar counterexample, intelligence has invented cars, trains, and boats which allow humans to travel at velocities far superior to evolution's animals and for longer periods of time

Comment author: RobertLumley 15 November 2011 02:06:17AM 0 points [-]

Guess someone beat me to this point.