The eagle could be very dangerous to cavemen, who had no weapons to resist the bird. In the time of cavemen, eagles could take their children. The technical advancement of the human race turns eagles less dangerous.
But it's still a respectable bird that can make serious injuries to its victims. Technical advancings are not turning things like lions harmless. our houses and all equipment are giving protection against those predators. But sometimes they still kill humans.
The race between a predator and its prey requires advancing. Or otherways saying, ability to create new skills and tactics. And top of that game is the species name Homo Sapiens. And we are that species.
Our brains are the ultimate tool, that allows us to create new tricks to hunt prey and protect ourselves. Human brains are made to solve problems and develop new solutions. Without our tools and weapons, we would be in trouble.
But our brain's flexibility allows us to create tools and survive in a rough environment. Intelligence makes humans so powerful. Without our intelligence, we would be easy prey for things like lions.
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At this point, I want to tell one example about intelligence. It's a tale about cavemen and cave lions.
Those cavemen needed to conquer the cave where the lion lived. So they needed cooperation and communication for solving that problem.
The cave lion is one of the species that has faced extinction. And probably the reason for that is that animals lived in caves. so let's start our tale.
The weather in the savanna was extremely bad. And two cavemen needed to get protection from the cave. The problem was that there was a lion in that cave. The cavemen couldn't kill that lion without tools.
So the other caveman created an idea that the other caveman will entice the lion away from the cave. And when the lion runs out, the other caveman will drop the stone to its head from above. That thing could be the first tactical plan in the history of mankind.
Then there was the need to transmit the information on how to get cave lions out of their caves. And some cavemen draw those things to the walls of their cave. The birth of written language is coming from the need to transmit data over generations. And that was the birth of a culture.
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When we are thinking carefully, evolution is one big computing or data handling process. Evolution is the race between predator and prey. When the prey is creating some new method to avoid the predator, the predator must create a new method to catch its prey.
If a predator cannot create the new method it will not get food and get eliminated. If the prey cannot answer that challenge it will face the ultimate fate and be eliminated. The key element in the game between predator and its prey is flexibility. And the ability to create new tactics.
Of course, if the predator turns too dominating it can destroy all other animals. So in that case, predators must learn to eat vegetables. Or they will face extinction. And then some other species can "learn" to hunt it. So when dominating species steps away. Sooner or later, another species will fill its place.
What is the purpose of life of the human being? Is it the same with other creatures? And is handling data the purpose of the existence of creatures? When we are thinking that existence is the purpose of the creature, we can ask what guarantees that the existence of the creature continues?
If we are saying that the purpose of living creatures is to produce descendants that thing requires that the creature's existence continues so long that it can make those descendants. And here is the reason why we can say this. that the purpose of the existence of the creatures is to handle data.
In nature, there is always a race between predator and prey. The prey must create new methods how to avoid the predator's attack. And the predator must answer for that thing by creating a new attack method. To create new methods, species require data handling. In nature, natural selection means that. If some prey cannot avoid hunters that means extinction. And if the predator cannot reach prey it will be destroyed because of hunger.
So when the prey creates new tactics the predator must answer to that tactics. And the top predator on Earth is humans. The thing that makes us top predators is our brains. Our brains are made for handling data. Their purpose is to create new methods to avoid hunters and protect humans against outcoming enemies.
Human brains are very flexible and that makes them able to create tools. Without flexible brains and their ability to connect information to new entireties, we would face extinction. Without our weapons, tools, and clothes human race would be very easy food for most of the other predators.
When we are thinking about the purpose of human brains or our mission is to create and develop new things. The purpose of the body is to protect brains and make what brains are ordering. There is a reason why I used the word "our" in the last sentence. The thing that writes this text are brains. Rest of the body that writes these words are just following commands that are coming from the neurons that are forming brains.
The thing why the purpose of brains is to handle data is that brains must find new methods to find solutions for more complicated problems. When the human race turned more and more dominating it faced new threats. New threats need new tools. When the human's living environment expands that thing brings new challenges for humans. And human brains must give response to those challenges.
COVID-19 has shown that the biggest threat to humans is not lions on the savanna. The biggest threats are the small tiny predators that slip into the body and destroy it from inside. Vaccines and medicines are the response to that kind of threat.
And another big threat to humans is another human. That is one of the saddest things in our nature. Humans are the biggest threats to each other. The wars are forcing us to create new weapons, and those weapons require counter-weapons development.
And that is the next step in evolution. That step is the evolution of the machines.
Another name for machine evolution is development. When a machine is inefficient, it needs to be developed. In other words, the developer must give a feature to the machine, that makes it possible to complete the task. If the machine can't do its job, it's useless. This requires people to create a new machine that can do its job.
The situation in nature is always the same. It's improved protection against an improved attacker. When some prey is creating the ultimate way to protect itself some predator will create a method of how to avoid that protection. Then the prey must create some other method to protect itself. If it cannot make that thing, it will face extinction.
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