Animal Minds; how much can we learn about them? (Animals)

by David Turell , Tuesday, December 08, 2015, 15:11 (3275 days ago) @ BBella

dhw: However, the possibility that “my” form of intelligence evolved in inorganic matter is central to the hypothesis that life is the product of such individual intelligences cooperating. 
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> Bbella: Intelligence evolved from unintelligent matter? Is that not saying a human evolved from a rock?
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> > dhw: Again, we are probably talking of a different form of “intelligence”.
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> Bbella: To me, intelligence is intelligence. Intelligence can show itself in different forms (rock or human), but it's still intelligence at work.-I don't think innate intelligence in organisms developed until the first neurons appeared, developed networks and rudimentary brains in the Cambrian.