Re: Best Bet for Abstract Intelligence Development in Other Orders
By some measures, dolphins are considered more intelligent than primates. For example, I've read that other than humans, dolphins are the only other species known to engage in gang rape. Not the most pleasing example, to be sure, but it does demonstrate a sophisticated sense of social intelligence (team goal acquisition, communication, cooperation, etc).
Follow-up question: Yes, I think it does increase the likelihood of the theist perspective, but I think the simulation might need to iterate through countless numbers of initial "seed" configurations before we could conclude that the likelihood of intelligence resulting from chance is neglibly small.
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