• Pennomi@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Octopuses are quite intelligent but I don’t think they have the lifespan to become a dominant society.

    So many creatures are almost there but missing just one or two things.

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      9 days ago

      Even Homo sapiens, the overwhelmingly dominant species on this planet, having all the things ready, didn’t do a lot of progress for tens of thousands of years.

      A technological civilization looks like a chain reaction that can’t quite start without a initial spark. I think anthropologists are still trying to find out what that spark was.

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      Yeah, like I said they’d need to live more than a couple years and have some way to pass on learned information, but the body plan and intelligence adaptability still meet the mark to be the base of the thought experiment. Mostly because I am not creative enough to come up with another ideal.

    • unconsequential@slrpnk.net
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      Yeah it kind of freaks me out a mollusk got that smart. Their development of intelligence is so independent from most other species on earth, it’s just bizarre. It gives human but in another animal phylum.