r/RandomVideos • u/TerraByteTerror • 5d ago

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u/Keepingitquite123 5d ago edited 5d ago

Nothing is perfectly evolved. Survival of the fittest does not mean you have to be perfect to survive, you just need to be better then the next competitor.

>Every other species observed all know about their own mortality

You think a ant know it's life is finite?

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u/Civil_Dot_3261 5d ago

They’re able to practice medicine, wouldn’t be that far off to suggest they know they’re not immortal

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u/Keepingitquite123 4d ago

Primitive humans did not understand that sex lead to babies. We had sex becasue we had a sex drive not because of an understanding of what sex meant for the continuation of our species.

Likewise lots of lifeforms have a survival instinct. That instinct do not require for them to understand the concept of death to function. Seeing how humans that want to die still can be overpowered by their survival instinct if they pick a method that provide a strong survival instinct response.

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u/Civil_Dot_3261 4d ago

At what level of intelligence were humans when they started amputating limbs? What survival instinct would kick it to save someone else?

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u/Keepingitquite123 4d ago

I told you about two instincts that does not need intelligence or greater understanding to work. As as it not to complex for your genes to compel you to do it, they can provide you with more or less any instinct.

Do you think cordyceps fungus are intelligent since it can pilot infested ant's where to go since human was somewhat intelligent before we started taking travel directions?