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That’s a highly controversial point of view, considering the implication that we are an “advanced race” but still “are going extinct”. It is also implied that while some of those humans can be counted towards the intelligent being count, others cannot. It’s possible that I’m not understanding the reasoning behind this comment, but I’d just like to ask: Where do we draw the line for extraterrestrial life being intelligent, if we apparently cannot display intelligent life ourselves? (As some people say, humans as a race could be seen as a virus that relies solely of another organism -in this case the planet- to gain energy and resources mandatory for life, even extracting from that “organism” while knowing that at the current rate the host will sooner than later die, along with the “virus”.)
Please correct me if I’m wrong. As far as i agree with the possibility of new opportunities associated with gains, that would come from discovering micro organisms on other planets in our solar system, or far beyond, I strongly believe that such projects that go along the lines of drilling through the ice sheets of Europa generate more costs than they are worth, mostly because, as far as expanding the horizons of biology goes, the probability of such findings is, dare I say, is as microscopic as the findings themselves would be, compared to the costs of such undertakings.
That is an interesting perspective of how we learned to develop our “big brains” from hunting, and I certainly agree that hunting must have been an element of what influenced us as a species to evolve, but if such -subjectively speaking- small changes in environment are that big a condition, that would in my opinion mean that the smallest of alterations to the planet’s delicate ecosystem would likely lead to drastic changes in who (or what) we are today, of course that is saying that we would be here at all. However, such conclusions lead to the question that if it is merely such trivial circumstances as hunting places and our metabolism that allows for the development of “big brains” as we currently know them, then on the cosmic scale where, as is commonly known, every planet has such unique conditions that humans wouldn’t be able to live there, how might life develop and even if it did, would it be anything close to resembling us? I think not, and even if it did, like said by Chris Adkins, those (however unlikely) life forms would be separated from us by unimaginably large distances.
All in all though, the example of the impact of hunting on the development of “big brains” is, in my opinion, an example of The Butterfly Effect Theory in full glory.
Do you agree?