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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: neolib who wrote (246412)8/17/2005 7:20:06 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (2) of 1572339
 
"So, I would guess that intelligence is somewhat inevitable in evolution."

Consider the cephalopods. Even other mollusk has, at best, a small ganglion. Nothing that can be honestly described as a "brain". Some of the brighter other mollusks are things like sea hares, which are totally hardwired. Given that the other big differences between cephalopods and the other mollusca is their visual system and their sophisticated system of manipulating their environment, i.e. tentacles. Tentacles would require a complex perceptual space, which also generalizes well to a sophisticated visual system. And once that is in place, intelligence would probably be a foregone conclusion.
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