Labels:bulletin board | dialog box | sky | web site | window OCR: Why are there not more species with such complex mental states? little intelligence can be a dangerous thing bevond the -apes intelligence must constantly navigate between the twin hazards of dangerous innovation and conservatism that ignores what the Red Queen explained to Alice in Through the Looking Glass ...it takes al the running you can do to keep in the same place Foresight is our special form of running, essential for the intelligent stewardship that Stephen Jay Gould of Harvard University warns is needed for longer term survival "We have become by the power ofa glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence the stewards of life's continuity on earth We did not ask for this role but we cannot abjure it We may not be suited for it, but here we are beyond Stepher
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