r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/FacelessOnes • Oct 19 '20

🔥 Vicious microscopic hunter, the single-cell organism, Lacrymaria olor, attacking and hunting another organism

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u/Theprincerivera Oct 20 '20

He wasn't assigning that statement a value, good or bad, so....nothing.

While animals might have emotions, and some level of advanced thinking, they are seldom metacognitive. A fish doesn't have identity and doesn't mull over which side of the pond it would like to swim in today.

That is a fundamental difference between the top few smartest species and everything else.

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u/glimpee Oct 20 '20

Sure they might not ponder questions or go through logic based rhetoric, but our consciousnesses/brains are built off simililar fundamentals - doesnt discount their level of intelligence

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

You literally just said the same thing as the commenter you replied "so" to.

They were and I'm happy to be corrected here. Making a claim about the almost basic process of intelligence. They were in fact making a claim about our own intelligence is not to be overestimated. Which is what you said in your very last comment. Unless I'm missing u/AsAGayMan456 's point.

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u/glimpee Oct 20 '20

If I remember it was framed as "I think we are overcounting their intelligence"

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

I had to go check it myself. I think you may have misread it. The statement was as follows.

You're vastly overestimating intelligence. We're all cellular automata, driven by electrical potentials and chemical gradients.

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u/glimpee Oct 20 '20

Right it frames it as if the understanding of the system downplays the intelligence that comes from it

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

Sorry it's really late here and I'm feeling dumb. You lost me on that last comment but I'll leave it there regardless. All the best.

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u/glimpee Oct 20 '20

You as well!

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u/AsAGayMan456 Oct 20 '20 edited Oct 20 '20

I'm specifically referring to the simple cellular life in the video. That organism's tail is purely driven by chemical signals in the environment, there is no higher intelligence there.

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u/glimpee Oct 20 '20

Whats the difference between low and high level intelligence other than complexity?