Comment on What if the idea of “life” and “intelligent life” is all relative?
pleasestopasking@reddthat.com 6 days ago
The longer I live, the more I start to think that maybe the “intelligent life” are the creatures frolicking in the woods, not knowing what “fascism” or “rent money” means.
sanguinepar@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Douglas Adams considered much the same idea…
Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake coming down from the trees in the first place, and some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no-one should ever have left the oceans.
…and…
on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.