/sci/ - Science & Math

>>7649185
the "fucking up" is actually totally necessary. life will never get it right the first time. I believe you actually need tons of mass extinctions before something as complex as humans are created. the environment needs to be abruptly changing and hostile for life to become more complex. life has to fail and start over a few times and that means life WILL need a few billion years. 1 billion years without any change and life will not be prepared when it suddenly does, resulting in extinction.

really human thought exists because it is the ultimate adapting tool. a changing environment is telling life "sorry genetics and built in instinct alone will not help you survive the curve balls im going to throw at you. you are no good and need to evolve something quicker than passing on genes" thought exists because I can't wait for my offspring to not make the same mistakes as me. ive got to learn to not make my same mistakes in my lifetime. arguably no other organism adapts like that. mass extinctions forced us to adapt that quickly