intelligent life

[Swollen_Member]

^^Good points. But I think AI will evolve into the dominant life-form before any species here on earth does.

 

[Butt Rubber]

I believe some sea creatures like the octopus might evolve into something really intelligent, it got the tentacles to create and form things and is a quite clever creature, if the humans didnt have the hands (especially the thump) we wouldnt have evolved the way we did, but will the tentacles be as importent for them as the hands where for us. As a sidenote intelligent life in water would look totally diffrent then in air, where fire meant hell of alot for us humans, what would sea creatures be able to control in a way that would help them advance further?

octopuses have developed other stuff like camouflage, fleeing using ink clouds, using seashells as shields, thier speed, strong tentacles with good grip, and a brain like no other in the sea, also dolphins are quite clever but needs something wich can hold things similar to a hand or tentacles

Also small insects like ants and bees are quite significant in the ways they "built" up and controll thier empires, the ant as an examble have farms in thier nests where they grow mushrooms and farm it, is things like that based on instinct? i would believe so, but still quite facinating.

but can they think, and form an actual society? its hard to imagine any sea creature on Earth people capable of doing all of that

 

[Minardi]

but can they think, and form an actual society? its hard to imagine any sea creature on Earth people capable of doing all of that

Actually i dont know that, good point, ill look into it.

 

[GhostOfRazgriz]

extraterrestrial intelligent life could be god. or even the "angels and daughrers of man" i nthe bible the so called nephilim.what crashed in roswell in 47 wasnt a weather balloon. but area 51 has nothing to do with aliens. MJ-12 exists. i wanna know if the base in dulce new mexico is real though.

i suggest aboveropsecret.com great website for conspiracy and talk on technology and weaponry, aliens, politics, theology and other forms of conspiracy along with ancient civilization and much more

and btw yes i am a hardcore conspiracy theorist.

 

[Swollen_Member]

That link didn't work btw^^

 

[Pacaveli-T]

well rizzi your right jokermans posts may possibly be interesting is a word to describe it.

anyways i wont use just a animal as an example because there are other life forms on this planet i think we all have a serious level of intelligence to begin with we all learned on our own to breathe,eat,sleep and survive so i think that constitutes intelligence to begin with. Now if it takes the matter of speech to be intelligent then animals as well are they have their own speech amoungst themselves as well, now cause we dont understand it doesnt make them dumber or not as intelligent.

As far as capabilities of wiping out a race of some sort thats a whole other story I wont get into but bk to the original topic...

as for the pleasures in life maybe they have reached their maximum level now if its not what we see as evolvement we may be too ignorant or unknowledgable to discover that. As humans we have mastered the physics and psychology of many things but some things we still dont know enough to explain so maybe animals have evolved to the degree they were supposed to and that was that.

Who is to say they havent already eveolved to do what they were destined to do.

 

[Swollen_Member]

After a comet hits the earth, that's when the race will begin for the next dominant species.

 

[Chronic]

If we came forth from 'unintelligent' life then yeah I guess it's theoretically possible.

 

[Cooper]

That link didn't work btw^^

www.abovetopsecret.com i assume is what he meant

 

[Minardi]

Heres some interesting quotes :

Recently there has been a new ripple of interest in their psychology after researchers at Naples found evidence that one octopus was capable of learning by watching what another octopus did. "Observational learning" was thought to be evidence of intelligence and restricted to the "higher" mammals and birds.

Octopuses in some aquariums have even at night climbed out of thier tank to get fish in other aquariums

Cephalopods have boneless bodies and keen senses. Their complex eyes, as large as car headlamps in some deep- water species, can distinguish detail as well as mammalian equivalents. Although cephalopods are thought to be colour-blind, they can see polarised light, which we cannot. They also have highly developed senses of touch, taste and smell, and can detect gravity, a sense which is used in the coordination of muscles during movement. And in the past few years, researchers have even discovered what can best be described as hearing: fine hairs along the head and arms that, in cuttlefish at least, can detect disturbances made by a metre-long fish up to 30 metres away.

New studies have proved that they have eyes similar to us, wich makes them see in great detail.

When she passed a fake bird over the tank, the animals stopped their hunting display. "They still hunt," she says. "But they don't show it.

What took her by surprise was that not every animal reacted the same way. "All of them stop doing the 'passing cloud' when the bird is present," she adds, "but one does the coolest thing-he inks and then hunts under the ink. The first time he didn't do it, but the second, third and fourth times when the bird flies by, he secretes a bunch of ink and goes down into the substrate and continues hunting." As Adamo sees it, such behavioural variability- both between individuals and by the same individual at different times - hints at the presence of a sophisticated brain.
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The "hunting display" is like a light show to attract other fish.

And it is not only when it comes to patterning that the cephalopods show a startling flexibility in their behaviour. Jennifer Mather, a psychologist at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, has studied how octopuses feed on shellfish. In one strategy, the octopus uses its beak to bore a hole through the shell near the abductor muscle. Next, it injects poison to weaken its victim and then pulls open the shell. On other occasions, the same octopus will simply yank the shells open, or smash them, or chip a little off the shell's edge and inject the poison there.

Shows the same creativity to achieve something, as monkeys do on hard stuff like cocos shells

They may not have a backbone, but they do have brains The octopus is the most intelligent invertebrate. In this sequence, an octopus quickly figures out how the cork in the bottle has to be removed in order to retrieve the shrimp inside

 

[KAMIKAZI]

I seen on Animal Planet that squids will evolve into the next form of intelligent life.

 

[Swollen_Member]

That kinda looks like a hand. Very interesting.

 

[Valeoz]

For all those who are interested in some E.T. intelligence, if you do not know, look up the Drake equation. It'll amuse you. If your a Trekkie, you should know this lol.

The Drake equation had several terms, including the rate of star formation, the fraction of stars that might have planets, and so on. By multiplying all the terms together, you were supposed to be able to guesstimate the number of intelligent civilizations that might currently exist in the Milky Way. I can't remember all the terms but I'm sure you could find it at wikipedia or something.

 

[KAMIKAZI]

People are so fuckin picky, you're lucky if you find any life on another planet, let alone intelligent life...

 

[Butt Rubber]

People are so fuckin picky, you're lucky if you find any life on another planet, let alone intelligent life...

hell, we havent even found intelligent life on 2pacboard

 

[KAMIKAZI]

^LOL, yea. *looks at Bank Robber's age*