Evidence that animals cannot evolve
to become humans

 

HUMANS

 

A human has accurate mental models of:
      o    self
      o    environment
      o    relationships between self and environment
      o    relationships between self and others
      o    relationships between others and environment
      o    relationships between others and others.
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In a human: all these mental models are linked together
to form one, big, unbroken, organically structured,
mental model of everything, with few fractures.

‘Organic’, here, meaning:  like a spider’s web
with the most important bits in the middle.

It’s the most efficient arrangement.
Hence it evolved into being
in us, and in God (God built himself, evolved).

 

1)        Your mental model-of-everything:
                       is organically structured
                       with few fractures,
            both of which make your mind more efficient.

2a)      The fabric of your mental model-of-everything
            is made of:

                       Memories:
                                   of sights & sounds (e.g. words)
                                   smells, tastes, & touches,
                                   of this temporary universe
                       that you’ve taken in,

2b)      The framework of your mental model-of-everything
            is made of:

                       Phrases & concepts, also made of words,
                       that you’ve built inside yourself.

                       That the mind’s framework is made of words
                       makes your mind even more efficient.

 

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To conclude:

            1) and 2b)
            increase the efficiency of
            our mental model-of-everything.

            This increased efficiency
            of our mental model-of-everything
            then causes
            our high applied-intelligence.

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ANIMALS

 

Animals, unlike humans,
do not each have:
            one, big,
            mental model,
of everything they know.

Instead animals have:
            many, small, disconnected,
            mental models,
of everything they know.

 

This is because an animal’s behaviour
is based on only pain & pleasure:

For example:

            At a water hole
            an animal sees a dead member
            of its own species.

            It starts to learn the scene.

 

            But, the more it realises
            that death & decay are its own destiny also,
            the more frightening, mentally painful,
            the scene becomes.

            As it operates on only pain & pleasure
            it stops learning the scene.

 

            After a drink, it wanders over the hill to a lake
            with logs floating in it.

            This new scene is ripe for inventing the dug-out canoe.
            But this new scene must first be learnt.

            The animal is hesitant:
                 It knows it once found a scene
                 that was so frightening, so painful,
                 that it had to stop learning it.

                 Is this another one of those scenes?

 

            The trouble is – it doesn’t know much about
            the first frightening scene
            because it was too painful to learn it properly.

            So it doesn’t know whether this new scene
            is another frightening scene or not.

            But it does know it was able to learn a little
            about the first frightening scene
            before it got too frightening.

 

            So, even if this new scene is another frightening one,
            it’s safe to learn a little about it.

            But only a little.

 

            So, the animal learns only a little
            about the potential dug-out canoe scene.

            Indeed, it learns only a little about all scenes.

            But, unfortunately, it needs to learn about a scene fully
            in order to visualise inventions,
            visualise the changes that need to be made to the scene.

 

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            Even if an animal does not, itself, experience this,
            it will have inherited this reaction/response
            from those that have experienced it.

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A TECHNICAL VERSION OF THE ABOVE

 

An animal’s behaviour, and therefore also thinking,
is based on only pain & pleasure.

            So it finds mental models of its own temporary nature
            disturbing, painful.

            So it becomes less observant at death situations.

 

            So it records only poor mental models
            of death situations.

            So it possesses only poor mental models
            of death situations.

 

            So it cannot tell
            which situations are death situations
            and which are not.

            So it cannot tell
            which situations to become less observant at
            and which not.

 

            So it becomes less observant
            at all situations.

            So it records only poor mental models
            of all situations.

            So it possesses only poor mental models
            of all situations.

 

            So, it possesses only:
                 many, small, disconnected, mental models
                 of all the situations it’s experienced.

            Does not possess:
                        one, big, organically structured,
                        mental model-of-everything, 
                       with no breaks/fissures
                        & with its framework made of words
            as we humans do.

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