@cicerone imposter,
I agree with cicerone imposter. In the long run gentle intelligence wins out. Animals cannot outwit us at technology, no doubt, hexammer is right in that respect. But they can outsurvive us because in evolution their brain development stopped and their survival created the environment that allowed other creatures, including ourselves and themselves, to develop , thrive and multiply and create new species. Intelligence is already designed into the fabric of life. Imagine if the only creature on earth was the human, we would have to eat each other. So intelligence is not just math, physics, engineering, etc . ,its something to do with creating the right conditions to survive which does not come from our brains. Our brains are just a part of the picture, maybe good, maybe bad, well see how we behave in the future and how we control our aggressivity to prevent destruction. The timing of events, or call it chance, is beyond our intelligence, we can predict the weather, but not the future. Will globalisation spread disease and wipe us all out? Will man develop a better brain or a different brain, or lose it all? Can we control that with the knowledge of the universe that we have, how much more should we know to be master of our destiny? There is something moral we need and lack, in my opinion, which is not necessarily found in religious books, which are, by the way, mostly human creation and fantasy, and sometimes manipulative instruments. Dummies we are, relative to the unknown. Smarties we are when we think we know everything! So today, the earth has stood still, my spaceship is waiting… be good and have a sense of humor!
