How intelligent are living beings?

[Spalea]

Quite agree @sanjay:

To sum up : The animals have an instinct. A safe, sure instinct which allows him to predict some facts, some unpredictable events (see the tsunami in december 2004, birds, elephants, monkeys, dogs and so one had anticipated it). Of course next to this infaillible instinct the animals can have an intelligence too. For exemple, when you see some mammalian predators hunting, how they know and exploit their hunting ground and so on. How the apes are able to conceive some tools in order to catch some insects through a bark. How the cork can use a peeble and so on, examples are so numerous !

The men, rid of this sure instinct, have a pure intelligence but "without safeguard" which allows them to conceive and make everything. Sometimes genious, often catastrophic. No safeguard I said, thus with unforeseeable consequences.

I remind a Einstein's sentence "the problems we have are the result of our intelligence. But, to solve them requires an other intelligence"... That, perhaps, we have not, collectively speaking. Reply