How did intelligent life got so advanced on land (humans) than in the oceans considering how the ocean is the greater part of the world and has much more diversity in it?
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Maybe dolphins have a way of communicating so much more advanced than us, we cannot even perceive it.
The whole non-human animal intelligence debate falls on the premise that what we call intelligence is a human characteristic, based on humans doing human stuff. We cannot understand what other animals are doing, besides comparing to what we know we do. We measure success, being intelligent, being advanced… by how much non-human animals are like us.
Every single living species now is an “advanced” life form. Imagine a galapagos tortoise: it lives longer than us with no medicine technology, carries an armour to protect itself from predation, eats, reproduces… we don’t know what it thinks, because we cannot communicate with it. It lives, as well as we do.
The purpose of life, as we humans are just an iteration of it, is to reproduce. We managed that quite well, getting to 7 billion. But life really does not care about “advancement” like we do. Which is why humans slowly descend into death a little bit after their peak reproductive age. We managed to stall that, but far from perfectly. How is that “so advanced”?
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