Notices by CapritiaJH (patriciajhawkins@mastodon.art)

@hypolite Heck, I'm not taking this seriously; just entertained by the circularity. Are we intelligent? We think so. Is the system that produced us somehow or other intelligent? We think not --so we're intelligent beings produced by billions of years of unintelligent processes. But what does that imply about our intelligence? Though put that way, eh, no reason that intelligence can't emerge from primordial muck. But does leave me meditating: what IS intelligence?

@hypolite Well, it's also how evolution works.

...interesting to contemplate a life form considering itself and its kind, only to snort *intelligent*? Pah!" I mean, if not, are you qualified to judge?

@hypolite Seems like good enough design though? Billions of us have managed to survive quite a number of years without choking to death on our own spittle. I'm an atheist -- and I'm astounded and awed by what matter just tumbling around the universe buffeted by physics has managed to come up with.