"If you know what selects for intelligence, by all means post it here; I've asked every biology teacher I've had since 9th grade and never gotten a reasonable answer."
Tangential to 'what selects for intelligence' are self synchronizing systems. An observable natural occurrence that runs like entropy in reverse.
Too much order in a system? entropy.
Too much disorder? synchrony.
at 4am, while I was real hot on the synchrony kick (thanks to Steven Strogatz's book 'SYNC, the science of spontaneous order") a friend and I were discussing entropy. He claimed that intelligence is the universal entropy counterbalance.
I was championing sync that night, and when I woke the next morning I found that synchrony and intelligence had been strongly correlated in my mind. It will probably remain that way for a while.
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"If you know what selects for intelligence, by all means post it here; I've asked every biology teacher I've had since 9th grade and never gotten a reasonable answer."
Tangential to 'what selects for intelligence' are self synchronizing systems. An observable natural occurrence that runs like entropy in reverse.
Too much order in a system? entropy.
Too much disorder? synchrony.
at 4am, while I was real hot on the synchrony kick (thanks to Steven Strogatz's book 'SYNC, the science of spontaneous order") a friend and I were discussing entropy. He claimed that intelligence is the universal entropy counterbalance.
I was championing sync that night, and when I woke the next morning I found that synchrony and intelligence had been strongly correlated in my mind. It will probably remain that way for a while.