You think our intelligence is an evolutionary accident? how you figure this?
I do, because
-observations of intelligent behavior of other species on the mammalian line
-simple errors and glitches in logic I have made often intimate to me the binary "rube goldberg machine" quality of human logic; my two favorite examples
1. the crossover/integration of homo genus's ever present sex and aggression drives, in the framework of our cooperative concepts of love and family. It seems like a form of synesthesia that went over really really well- reproductive competition wise. (don't that seem like weird things to mix up, you can almost behind evolution's curtain)
2. animal infanticide
(given your last posit at the bottom, I advise caution, the above response is a chess not checkers move, consider that before you reply
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We are not the only intelligence on this planet, even viruses (which regardless how you want to book-term it, is an alive thing) exhibit intelligence on how to strategically position their 'code' into hosts and propagate.
with all due respect, this is too much of a straw-man to count as a rebuttal. There's intelligence and then there is INTELLIGENCE, on any given day human sentience can appear to move up and down the scale from godlike to lower than monkey poo. But we are the only intelligence that threatens to master life creation and intelligence development itself, aka hack and rewrite DNA, the intelligent program nature wrote eons ago.
I don't think 'intelligence' is at all an evolutionary accident, without intelligence geared towards your specific environment, you'd die as a species.
According to available evidence, you have it backwards
and you are missing few components as well; without imperfect mitosis/meiosis and other genetic dice game mutational mishaps (and perhaps a few environmental lottery wins) you would not have the intelligence accident and then without the proper environmental cauldron, the witches brew would not have evolved to what we see today; an intelligence that turns back and begins to defy environment and guide its own evolution for better or worse, and continues to do so evermore daily.
now rather or not life came about due to intelligent design[Dictated Creation] or evolution[Randomized Creation].
You would have to define "intelligent" as it relates to the category of a designer capable of the diversity of the creations we experience today and propose how they would look differently if there was no such designer. There is plenty of evidence to back the claims of natural selection. So shall we begin this Game of "God of the gaps"? your move.
wonder what the future going to hold.
