Intelligence in Nature

[jean-luc]

Well, and language enabled society, which was another matter of great importance. Our bipedalism and long gestation period is actually extremely inconvenient from a hunting perspective. When you're bipedal, losing just one leg disables you, while quadrupedal animals can continue on with even two missing legs (if they're on opposite sides). Women are also severely disabled during late gestation. However, because we had 'society', there was a concept of those who could hunt providing for those who couldn't. Our move to eating meat also meant that people often collected more food than they could eat, further encouraging sharing.

[bobaganuesh_2]

This caused me to be curious about how such a system could have evolved; how an object such as the brain could have achieved such levels of intelligence through natural selection; how anything as unnatural as the soul managed to develop under such conditions.

but are humans really the most intellegent at everything there is to be intellegent about? One reason to prove that humans are not is the concept that animals can understand humans better than vice-versa.

What's a soul?

You know, that thing inside that will live in happiness forever if you do what God says or will burn forever if you don't.

isn't the soul similar if not exact to the Chinese concept of chi?