I agree that both are good explanations. My question is more about which will be dominant in the long run. I tried to ask this more clearly with the mutually exclusive version in the post (someone vs no one was trying to produce the outcome).
I could view the “Why not both?” response as indicating that neither is dominant and we just have to understand how both operate simultaneously (perhaps on different timescales) and interact. I think I’d view that as actually coming down mostly on the evolution side of things—i.e., this means I should understand intelligence only in the larger evolutionary context—no intelligence will permanently outstrip and render irrelevant the selection forces. Is that right?
Sometimes something is invented (not necessarily just by one person, and possibly changed by ‘one or more processes you would call ’evolution″,) which makes both more powerful. Writing. Trade networks. The internet. Languages that are a mixture of earlier languages (for easier communication between speakers of one of two languages). Etc.
“Why not both?”
I agree that both are good explanations. My question is more about which will be dominant in the long run. I tried to ask this more clearly with the mutually exclusive version in the post (someone vs no one was trying to produce the outcome).
I could view the “Why not both?” response as indicating that neither is dominant and we just have to understand how both operate simultaneously (perhaps on different timescales) and interact. I think I’d view that as actually coming down mostly on the evolution side of things—i.e., this means I should understand intelligence only in the larger evolutionary context—no intelligence will permanently outstrip and render irrelevant the selection forces. Is that right?
Sometimes something is invented (not necessarily just by one person, and possibly changed by ‘one or more processes you would call ’evolution″,) which makes both more powerful. Writing. Trade networks. The internet. Languages that are a mixture of earlier languages (for easier communication between speakers of one of two languages). Etc.