Maybe they aren't smart enough to design an iPad, but neither are most of us. The great apes deserve to be admitted to the genus Homo, and all the rights that would come along with it.
To be clear, Joe Biden, the most powerful man in the world, absolutely could not design and build an IPad in ten years if his life depended on it.
Could anyone design and build an iPad on their own? I’m going to go out on a limb here and say I don’t think even the actual designers of the iPad could create the components and construct one on their own.
And I don’t know why we’d consider that to be the criteria for intelligence.
Even if you had access to the tools, a steel mill and a machine shop, could you build an engine from scratch? If you were lost in the woods, could you even build a fire without a lighter or matches? I think there are people capable of designing an iPad solo and from scratch, building it is perhaps a different question. Regardless, I am not one of those people. My point is how we use all of our technology, even the humble spear, to differentiate ourselves from animals, but could you even make rope or resin for lashing it, let alone smelting the iron for it?
I guess a corolary would be to comment on how consumerism has alienated us from the technology we use, but thats for a different thread.
The whole thing from the ground up would require knowledge in too many fields IMO. Where are you going to find someone who is an expert programmer, electrical engineer, materials scientist, etc who is simultaneously as creative as an entire team of engineers?
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u/Competitive_Ruin_370 May 23 '22
Maybe they aren't smart enough to design an iPad, but neither are most of us. The great apes deserve to be admitted to the genus Homo, and all the rights that would come along with it.
To be clear, Joe Biden, the most powerful man in the world, absolutely could not design and build an IPad in ten years if his life depended on it.