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To: Red Badger

Amazing...but I’ve long felt our animal friends are much smarter than most give them credit for.


7 posted on 09/29/2024 8:06:45 PM PDT by griffin (When you have to shoot, SHOOT; don't talk. -Tuco)
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To: griffin
.but I’ve long felt our animal friends are much smarter than most give them credit for.

We are made up of cells with a nucleus. Every cell is intelligent. The brain is more of a data processing and storage facility. Our intelligence is really comprised of the collective intelligence of each cell.

Every single creature on our planet is made up of the same intelligent cells. In the octopus, for example, each tentacle of the octopus is individually intelligent (has a brain). An octopus can solve a very complex puzzle (like a maze for it to negotiate) very quickly.

There are flying insects that live in holes in the sand out in the desert. When they leave their hole, they push sand into the opening. They take off and fly for miles foraging for food. They can come back over miles of shifting sand which is indistinguishable and fly right to their nest and dig out the sand particles and enter. There is no way a human could accomplish the same.

As a matter of fact, most creatures are more intelligent in terms of survival abilities, and at a much younger age. than humans.

Every single life form on Earth is intelligent. Not just humans, not just animals, even plants are intelligent. And some plants are more than they seem. There are plants that live on the ocean floor. When they need to, they pull up their roots and swim off like a snake, to the extent of actually resembling a snake.

47 posted on 09/30/2024 2:20:46 AM PDT by UCANSEE2
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