Human Evolution Discussion with Ahmed

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@Ahmed_AbdelSattar

So, if the difference between the processing power of the basic desktop PC and the largest cray computer is way larger than the difference between the PC and a calculator… does that make a calculator a computer??!

You’ve made at least two massive errors here:

1. My TI-89 calculator is literally a computer. So are many calculators. Depending on one’s definition of computer, so are most calculators.
2. The range of human intelligence includes the average chimpanzee intelligence. So in your example you should ask ‘The most basic desktop PC is less powerful than the average calculator, does that make calculators computers’. Worded like that, the answer is obviously ‘Yes’.

@Ahmed_AbdelSattar

You don’t do intra-category comparisons versus inter-category comparisons and reach to anything.

You can learn that the two categories are fully continuous. Given that the original question is ‘Are these two things fully continuous’, I’d say that’s something relevant.

@Ahmed_AbdelSattar

so humans and chimps are great apes, and them you give yourself a green card for doing such a comparison.

Let’s ignore the fact that humans and chimpanzees are both great apes for a moment: Is the range of human intelligence still fully continuous with the range of chimpanzee intelligence? Yes? Guess I didn’t need that ‘assumption’ after all!