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    Default Where Did Intelligence Come From?

    Is intelligence a byproduct of evolution? What about personal identity?

    To describe what "personal identity" is, it's when you are aware of you.

    Intelligence and personal identity are two separate things.


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    Quote Originally Posted by AProudLefty View Post
    Is intelligence a byproduct of evolution? What about personal identity?

    To describe what "personal identity" is, it's when you are aware of you.

    Intelligence and personal identity are two separate things.


    Intelligence is a property of the universe. It did not come from anywhere.

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    Stoned ape theory makes a lot of good points.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AProudLefty View Post
    Is intelligence a byproduct of evolution? What about personal identity?

    To describe what "personal identity" is, it's when you are aware of you.

    Intelligence and personal identity are two separate things.

    As time has gone by we've discovered that other beings besides ourselves are both intelligent and possess sense of self/self-awareness. Our parrots definitely possess both these traits.

    Intelligence is an evolutionary trait that increases the likelihood of a species surviving long enough to pass along their genes.
    "Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." -- Mark Twain

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    Quote Originally Posted by goat View Post
    Stoned ape theory makes a lot of good points.
    Hi Stevie. Aren't you going to get in trouble for wandering away from the icky, sticky web?
    "Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." -- Mark Twain

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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    Hi Stevie. Aren't you going to get in trouble for wandering away from the icky, sticky web?
    Nothing goat says makes any sense.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    Nothing goat says makes any sense.
    Stoned apes predate a high protein diet and has to be included in brain development.

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    Quote Originally Posted by goat View Post
    Stoned apes predate a high protein diet and has to be included in brain development.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
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    5 6 7 8 BP has nothing to say.

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    Another good thread that JPP "intellectuals" are afraid of.

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    Quote Originally Posted by goat View Post
    Another good thread that JPP "intellectuals" are afraid of.
    Your comments are usually incoherent and bizarre.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    Your comments are usually incoherent and bizarre.
    To you but factually accurate in human brain development.

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    Quote Originally Posted by goat View Post
    To you but factually accurate in human brain development.
    No one knows what you are talking about. What the hell are "stoned apes?!"

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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    No one knows what you are talking about. What the hell are "stoned apes?!"
    Me thinks he was talking about Terrance McKenna. Probably a product of the Woodstock folks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AProudLefty View Post
    Me thinks he was talking about Terrance McKenna. Probably a product of the Woodstock folks.
    Very little of what goat says makes sense.

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