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OCR: already in the refrigerator and on the kitchen shelves You think about a few alternatives keeping track of what else you might have to fetch from the grocery store All this can flash through your mind within seconds and that is probably Darwinian process at work In phylogeny and its ontogeny human intelligence first solves movement problems and only later graduates to ponder more abstract ones. An artificial or extraterrestrial intelligence freed of the necessity of finding podd and avoiding predators might not need to move and so might lack the what -happens -next orientation of human intelli igence There may be other ways in which high intelligence can be achieved, but up- from- movement is the known paradigm It is difficult to estimate how often high intelligence might emerge, given how ...