Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!cadre!geb From: geb@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU (Gordon E. Banks) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: Thought/Emotion/Feeling Message-ID: <1857@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU> Date: 9 Dec 88 17:40:34 GMT References: <569@epicb.UUCP> <1146@arctic.nprdc.arpa> Reply-To: geb@cadre.dsl.pittsburgh.edu (Gordon E. Banks) Organization: Decision Systems Lab., Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA. Lines: 12 In article <1146@arctic.nprdc.arpa> bickel@nprdc.arpa (Steven Bickel) writes: > > From what I have read concerning evolutionary development of > cognition: intelligence developed because humans discovered that > forms of farming were far more productive and life sustaining > than gathering. Farming required more thought and therefore > increases in thought were supported as an evolutionary trend. I doubt that agriculture is anywhere near as old as human intelligence. Were the Neanderthals agricultural? They certainly were very intelligent, and even had religion. Hunting also requires intelligence, and many of the most intelligent animals are carnivores and hunters.