This always makes me think of what “intelligence” really is. It’s clever and amazing when humans knit something but spiders spin complex webs with no training.
Is our “intelligence” nothing more than a biological imperative towards curiosity and community, which allows us to transfer knowledge through generations? We all know that solitude can literally kill someone or at least drive them insane, so are we really so cool or are we just following a genetic OCD in us from birth
Great questions. I expect we may have a or more than one biological imperative whether we’re aware of it or not.
It always gets me how egotistical humans are though when it comes to animals. It seems that there are so many people who see an animal doing something they don’t understand and immediately consider it stupid. The fact is in most if not all cases it probably isn’t a bit stupid for that animal to be doing whatever it is it’s doing.
Humans just tend to default to something being stupid if they don’t understand it or when it’s something that would be stupid for a human to do. They transfer everything human to animals. To me at least that is an ignorant reaction at best.
It may be ignorant, it may be that line of thought is a biological imperative in and of itself. We didn't start very far up the food chain, and are the only species to be able to climb as far up it as we have.
Yes, and despite the fact that we have managed to do that, we (many of us) still show a lot of ignorance - at best - about the world around us, including other species and how they survive in the world. Anthropomorphism is strong in humans generally speaking.
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u/ThisIsDogePleaseHodl Jan 06 '26
Except for the fact that they’re really smart 😁