He's smart. Calling him the most intelligent is not the right thing to say. You're as intelligent as him. Think about it like that; You both have the same amount of coal underneath a mine, the more coal you collect the smarter you get, but his and your coals aren't placed in the same place, you're driven by your emotion to find the thing you want say like dirt, why dirt you say? idk maybe your parents didn't give you dirt when you wanted so you devopled a need for it, Hooray! You found it, you'll be satsfied but not smart (efficient) because dirt is useless and coal is SQ.
That will probably happen all by itself. At least in part, intelligent people are more likely to have a partner with a similar intelligence level and they have a greater likelihood to get a good education which results in better healthcare and lifestyle. If completely left to evolution I think it's likely that we get 2 subspecies of homo sapience. An intelligent one and a worker one. Somewhat like HG Wells described in the Time Machine.
I appreciate everything this man says, and every thought he has. Mr. Kaku makes me think about things i never would have before. Thank you for stimulating my mind.
Art, philosophy, and even science is discovered or made through through the lens of unique perspective. Any human that achieved or constructed anything great did so because they had a perspective, point of view, or set of values that made them inherently unique, this is why often the best solution to finding the answer to an incredibly difficult problem is to get an outside perspective from someone who hasn't been working on it, so their "fresh set of eyes" can contribute an idea or a theory that could spark progression to whatever the set ultimate goal is. If we have the capability of genetically altering another animal like a Chimpanzee to be more human like, as in more intelligent or capable of higher brain capacity, who is to say there is no value in it? Would the unique perspective of a newly self-aware subspecies of creature capable of advanced thought and communication not have artistic, philosophical, or even scientific value? What might that creature say? What might we find out about our common ancestry that we might not have discovered otherwise? What might that creature write about or create if it learns how to express itself? What insight into scientific theory might a creature have who is trying to learn it for the first time? I would argue that the value of creating intelligent life in any form is incalculable. Humans create intelligent life every day through biological procreation, why should giving the gift of advanced thought and self-awareness to another creature not be the same?
You are making it more human. Which there are lots of. A chimp cant give out knowledge and the modified chip only is better because its like a human. Experts guide things, not lucky strikes
@@benjaminRhodesLEGO Well we are apes so if you talked to a human, you talked to a ape. chimps are our closest relatives as there only 2% difference between humans and chimps. Chimps have all the genetic tools to be intelligent like us, but there’s no evolutionary pressure for that.
I love the way Mr. Michio Kaku thinks big or Big Thinks. Thank you Mr. Michio you’re a awesome teacher! I have learned so much from your videos and TV shows that you have been on..
Thank you for this video... I grew up in a small private christian school and never learned evolution as a science. We spent years reading manuals on how to poke holes in all facets of evolution and even carbon dating. I grew out of that thinking eventually and I have basic questions about human evolution but I have no where to ask them. Google is not built for specific questions like mine, but this video helped a lot....where can I get free answers from reliable scientists??? I feel like I left my home island into an ocean with no guidance on a small rickety raft...
Well it is great you have interest in such things, the problem with people being educated in religious schools is that they think they got all the answers already and don't believe/manage to research for themselves. There is no simple way of learning anything though, it will take time. But maybe this site may answer some of your questions : evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/evo_01
Cats are more intelligent then what we take them for. They know they can take advantage of humans they'll get free food and ear rubs and get to sleep all day. Little shits.
Well no shit, we selected them to live with us, so their are now other way for them to survive without us helping them. If cats or dogs go to the wild nature is going to find a way to have them not exist so se they weren't supposed to be a species at the first place
Great episode. What I find hard to grasp is the third factor which is language. To my basic understanding language evolved as a result of intelligence, because in order for us to form sentences and talk in contexts we need the ability to intellectualy manipulate words.
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I appreciate the concept being communicated... About what combination of distinctions make up intelligence, and that other than this we are not so different. But, there are some important things that I think need clarification: some animals have culture, just not on the level of sophistication of humans (how this is defined particularly I'm not sure), and we did not evolve from chimpanzees. We shared a common ancestor and have since evolved separately. In fact, chimpanzees in some cases have a way better working memory than humans. So, if you modify the genes for the skull, the brain and all that, you may actually end up with something smarter than a human.
This is the first thing i dont agree with Michio. Dolphins dont have eyes at the front, dont have thumbs, not even limbs and maaaybe they have a meaningful language, but yet, they are at the very top of the list of intelligence. I dont think these factors are that important (if at all).
yeah, but Dolphins are in the water, the rules are different for everything in the water. on the land, only apes comes close to humans, and again, they're aren't even close to us in intelligence.
shoulung Not really. You can still develop tentacles (and even limbs) and do plenty of stuff underwater, you can have eyes in the front (which have the same benefits/flaws as on the land) etc.. yes, octopus is intelligent, but i didnt use "therefore" because dolphin is physically extremely limited, yet extremely intelligent.
Chris Weiss I believe animals like Chimps for example at the age of 5 as you mentioned do not have the social pressure our kids have today. Human society, more directly kids, from a very young age have to prove themselves and lose their creativity more and more the older they get. Everything which is good/bad, and expected from you is planted into you, leaving a low amount of space to think or create yourself. Chimps and many other animals while not having the intellect we have, don't have this kind of pressure, it's part of evolution in my opinion. We evolved by thinking out of the box, inventing ways to live, survive and evolve to the point we are now. I doubt we can evolve further because while we maintain the belief we're superior, forgive my crude comparison., we're just robots. That's why those chimps you mentioned are smarter than us in many ways.
Chris Weiss chimps are smart, no doubt. and yes, they have strong short term visual memory, and mental agility. I can see how that would be a huge advantage in the wild. but that isn't the only thing that matters. Their reasoning ability and their ability to make mental connections is very low when compared to humans. they don't have language, and that is a HUGE limiting factor as to their ability to reason about the world around them, connect concepts and ideas, formulate new ideas, and then express their ideas as tools or art. humans beings are the only creatures that are able to do that. even when chimpanzees learn sign language, their expression is still very limited when compared to humans. the fact that they can connect signs with concepts is amazing. but they still can't reason very well, or appreciate art, or perform even the most basic mathematics. they simply don't make the mental connections that humans can. that's because thinking is humanities thing. I think its strange that I as a human being am communicating over the internet with another human being as to weather chimpanzees are smarter than us. do you realize how ridiculous that is?
Well, here's a nice rule: if an organism is capable of manipulating its environment, whether it's on land or in the water, then you've got yourself an intelligent species. So, dolphins aren't intelligent - relative to humans - since they can't shape the -landscape- they live -on-. - or the vessel they inhabit -
The most important ingredient is our brain structure perhaps the most vital thing. Our perceptions and mind is what made us dominate, no animale can think like us
Great Video!!! Really interesting!! Although... I must say that, even this not being my area of expertise; it seems to me, from a logical stand point, that there are two key ideas mixed in a trendy/ tricky way here.... and they are: The idea of "how necessary intelligence (as a phenomenon) is to nature and the time and effort from the very nature to enable or provide the conditions to its evolution".... For instance: From a logical stand point it could be mistaken (or a limited perspective) to conclude that "if intelligence is quite rare (not abundant) than it is not so necessary to nature" - actually the understanding from this observation (of how rare it is) could lead it to the absolute opposite conclusion!!
I can imagine it, a hairy chest showing from the outside of a Hawaiian shirt with a golden chain that was paid for by selling stolen goods. Definitely an italian thing
"Predators seem to be smarter than prey". Makes you realize how amazing elephants are. They are one of a handful of animals that can recognize themselves in a mirror (even monkeys and crows can't do this). They can use branches as tools. They have incredible memory. And they seem to mourn their dead. So, predation is not the only context in which intelligence can evolve. In the case of elephants, intelligence developed because of a long lifespan and community living. Another good counterexample is the intelligence of birds: parrots, crows, ravens and jays. These birds have great speech skills and tool-using capabilities. The context for the evolution of their intelligence seem to arise from the need to learn how to exploit a variety of resources which are seasonally available.
Another unrelated thing about that quote, "Predators seem to be smarter than prey" is that it could not be otherwise. If the rabbit's intelligence grew to the point that it could outsmart the fox, it would at that point cease to be prey.
Wes Jourdan I disagree. Look at the Thomson's gazelle from the african savannah. They are prey to cheetahs, but they have developed bodies that not only allow them to run very quickly (not as quick as a cheetah), but also to make sharp turns as they run. Cheetah bodies are not adapted for keeping up their speed and making sharp turns. So the gazelle learned, in a way, to outsmart those who prey on them, but still that doesn't mean they all can survive when chased by a cheetah.
Intelligence is not the same thing as a physical adaptation. The gazelle did not use their intelligence to evolve more nimble bodies. Their bodies are a result of the nimblest gazelle escaping predators and reproducing more often than the less nimble gazelle.
Wes Jourdan Define intelligence. The gazelle doesn't have it programmed into her brain on how to react in order to escape the predator. Those who learn how to best use their physical advantages over their predators survive. They can learn by watching others do it, for example. I'm no expert, but it seems to me that that process involves a certain degree of cognition, and that's defining of intelligence.
I would argue that some animals do, in fact, have a unique culture of their own. Elephants, dolphins, primates, lions, wolves.... their cultures may not be quite like humans, but truly they have their own unique ways of living and passing along information.
I think what he meant to say is that many other animals like dolphins and some birds have demonstrated intelligence. But they simply lack the physiology like front facing eyes or opposable thumbs that would enable them to completely destroy their own habitat, like humans have. Research biologists would disagree with Michio Kaku
The funny thing is We were mostly preyed upon for majority of our history, even when our eyes were seated at the front of our face and not on sides. It is to give depth perception, for when we were Arboreal, lived on trees and needed to accurately judge the distance to jump. Sometimes Kaku like other scientists just goes too far without doing much research. Trex had its eyes on the side of his face, like the komodo dragon, both of which are apex predetors of their respective habitat. Also the Thumb/stereoscopic vision and Brain size are simplistic interpretation of development of intelligence, not to say only our type of intelligence. Intelligence is a trait selected by Natural selection, , and could arise from other factors than the 3 Kaku presents, should NS allow it. He postulates a defective hypothesis of 3 factors for intelligence, then scans nature for animals that match it and comes out with a false result. Shit in shit out.
A gorilla is much smarter than a fox, also has eyes in the front of her face, and eats ONLY PLANTS (Also has very large tusks) so does the Panda, Sloth, Koala and the Tree Kangaroo. (though the sloth and tree kangaroo are probably not as smart as foxes) All have eyes in front of their faces and eats only plants. The REAL REASON for them having eyes in front of their faces - is due to an evolutionary reason: They evolved in a leafy environment and needed 3D sight when looking ahead into the leaves in front of them and assessing distances correctly.
I like how he says(over and over again)," to the best of our knowledge." All animals are intelligent. They understand life, and they understand how to survive. If thats not intelligence then maybe we are not the intelligent ones. Just because we fail to communicate with them with language, doenst give us the right to say animals are not intelligent. A better term is less advance, but even that is arguable, but at least would be a better more valid statement in my opinion.
Perhaps the definition of the word "intelligence" needs to be discussed. I assume that when some people distinguish human intelligence from any other animal intelligence, they emphasize the fact that humans are actually AWARE of everything that is going on. EXAMPLE: A tiger hunting its prey can be argued to have the intelligence to not only hunt, but to hunt successfully; skill and awareness are needed to hunt. However, the key difference here is that the tiger doesn't actually know that it is "hunting." It is simply following its body's demands. This is why language is important. The word "hunt" is a label that we use to identify the act of what we call hunting. Whenever someone who understands the word "hunting" hears it or sees it, some general idea of the same act will be thought of. Tigers don't use labels because they don't know language. They may use primitive signals between each other for certain understandings when hunting or mating, but their ability to understand the world beyond doesn't go much further. They can't know that they are tigers because they lack the ability to think that far ahead. They are mostly limited to their hunting/survival modes of thinking. This is both due to their genetics and lack of intellectual stimulation in their environment. With language, humans have been able to not only increase the stimulation their brains get, but they have also been able to pass on that information, creating a compound effect. This is what has taken us from hunter-gatherers to engineers in less than a million years.
Cash Daugherty sorry I haven't replied earlier. But i wouldn't say it is only a practice of survival. For instance, ive seen dogs kill cats or rats for pure fun. Or even cats kill bugs and mice just because its fun. They do stimulate their minds beyond survival. They understand they are alive and life will come to an end. Or else they wouldn't be defensive. And this may be a little out there but, I believe animals do communicate just as good as humans.
I think intelligence is the ability to manipulate the surroundings to own benefit, understand and remember past, accurately (almost) predict the outcome of a action.and most of all ability to measure/calculate everything
Oh, it's refreshing to see that someone is thinking this way the same as me. From my experience some people think that dolfins may someday become more intelligent in the future, but they will never be as intelligent as us unless they change their physical body and go to life in the land rather than in the sea. I don't think animals that live in the sea may develop consciousness the same as us. All this confirms what i thought about human consciousness. We were in reality pre-stablished to become what we are today because we already had the necessary physical features to develop consciousness. Probably the most important thing to develop consciousness is having hands. But i wonder: were our hands the tools which gave us consciousness or was our "coming" consciousness which made us to have hands? From my point of view i think that it was our coming mentality and being the characteristics prevalent from the very beggining. Time is something that happens in the instant, there is no present in real time. I mean, there IS and there ISN'T but this proves the part which there ISN'T. It's possible knowing the future.
Nothing is necessary according to what he say, intelligence is a present for the few. intelligence is the best way to insure durability, intelligence is the best way of indicate the entire existing... If intelligence is the final product of nature, so everything before it was meant to serve it.
in 2004 when the tsunami took thousands of human lives, not one of the animals those are free lost their lives. They all have escaped from the scene hours before.
My wish for the intelligent Michio Kaku is to firm it up. The reasoning here in "The Evolution of Intelligence" is much too loose with glaring exceptions. The role of "science popularizer" is time honored. I loved Sagan's work. Before "Cosmos", as a kid I enjoyed "The Cosmic Connection", "The Dragons of Eden" and "Broca's Brain". Asimov too with "The Search for the Elements" and "Building Blocks of the Universe". And, of course, the science fiction works of both and many others. The classic, if dated, "Ascent of Man" by Bronowski deserves a look, and for discussions on chimp culture, go to the source with Jane Goodall.
Curiosity drives Intelligence drives Wisdom. Child to Teen to Adult, personally and in cultural arcs. Wisdom grows slowly. Looking into the void seems to help prompt it along. Atomic energy was the first innovation that quickly had the potential for mass extinction and gave us the first hard look at oblivion. Fossil fuels helped drive civilization for nigh 200 years and only now are we beginning to see the consequences. We are now on the verge of several others in genetics, cybernetics and AI. Wisdom must come quick as the pace of technology speeds ahead.With courage, clarity, compassion and critical thinking, I remain optimistic that humanity and the world will be in a much better situation than what we have now.
You forgot curiosity to try to understand why. Why something acts the way it does or why it exists in the first place. But your videos are some of the most intelligent ways of describing something. I'm pretty sure the true test of intelligence is how many things you know not necessarily how well your ability is at problem solving like most iq tests. True intelligence is knowledge and being able to use it in a practical manner.
Your is best insight in all coments I saw until now, but I would say that true intelligence is the search of knowledge for knowledge's sake. Everything is a byproduct of this activity.
@@cavelupum2 I agree but sometimes the knowledge we discover and figure out is used as a weapon or becomes somthing dangerous to our own existence so we got experience from the knowledge not everything should be known or after the discovery should be suppressed like my plan for a stabilized wormhole . After drawing up a blueprint that came to me in an Instant. I thought about it for several hours then burnt it
Well, not over generations at least. I can read a manuscript no one has read in 300-400 years and gain knowledge that has skipped several generations. I don't see other animals doing that.
All Japanese babies spend a lot of time with their thumbs up their noses trying to find their brain. Many babies prefer fetching excreta out of their nappies to make pretty streaks on the sites of their cots. That's intelligence thanks to excreta.
Exactly, and that's what its all about for me. Its not whether I agree with his ideas. Its that it gets me thinking about his ideas and thinking about my own as well. Its about provoking thought.
I think intelligence spawned from the moment we conquered fire, and we learn how to cook food. Our jaws shrank from the tender meat allowing our brains to develop.
I believe intelligence spawned even before that because when we left the trees and became early Homo that is when we evolved opposable thumbs, which lead to our ancestors creating tools and lead to Homo erectus creating fire
By intelligence we mean Homo sapien level intelligence not reptile intelligence. As in being able to communicate with others, gather information from others and the environment, create tools and learn new skills very quickly.
Slik00Silk It is evolutionary fact that humans are smarter than all other known animals on earth. Tell me one animal that is proven smarter than a human.
yes! the black crowes! that guy had the best rock'n'roll voice in the industry-if you excluded a lot of the greats like elton,bowie,john,paul,sting,and boy george--the usual suspects--haha! but yeah,never argue with a crow-they possess much more cleverness in one little fingernail than....well,you get the idea
When talking about how many animals possessed the traits he said "Not many." He didn't say none. If you want him to list off all the animals with those traits why don't you ask him to make a different kind of video.
Shketri I don't know what century you're living in, but as of now scientific research still has to follow the law, and authorities on ethics happen to still have significant power over regulation.
It has yet to be proven either way, whether language is a function of intelligence or visa versa. In fact Noam Chomsky believes that intelligence and language are essentially mutually inclusive. and that language is the expression of intelligence. And as far as vocabulary of the average person goes most college students in the US have a vocabulary of 15,000 -20,000 words, Winson Churchill was said to have had a 70,000 word vocabulary. but our every day usage averages about 5-7,000 words or less.
yes but once you give it intelligence, what do you do with it? you cant sacrifice it, that will be murder, you cant integrate him to he sociaty, he will be bullied/rejected. Once a being develops inteligent it becomes concius of itself, just like we are.
quaglemy yes it might get mad.... but thats how humans think......we have no idea how it will think about what we did to it, it might not care..... Silly human stop projecting your assumed feelings onto another species...!
quaglemy It's going to be a single entity, a handful at most, that become cognizant. That is not a threat to us. Semir Tuce Not to mention that we're going to want to apply gene therapy to *ourselves* as well. That means animal trials before it comes close to humans. We're already in the process of having Designer Babies, and I know I'm sure as hell would want my child engineered to have a high level of intelligence. From there, I'm going to want therapy for myself to be able to compete with these genetically superior humans.
Ziliath It's going to be mad because when it is conscious of itself being made "artificially intelligent". It's going to want to do what? Explore. Fuck around a bit. We, as humans, wouldn't let the animal go anywhere without supervision. So those projected feelings are true. You think it'd wanna stay in one place and have multiple tests run on him/her? No!
Isn´t intelligence "The ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills" ? A Lion will acquire knowledge and learn certain skills during it´s childhood and will apply this for survival. And basically all mammals and birds have this capacity. I´m really not sure by what definition of intelligence he was talking about, just doesn´t seem right. :P
They may have the capacity for learning but they're not a learning species. Compare lions and humans over the last 1000 years. Which one would you pick as intelligent? Do birds take time out their day to try and figure out basic astronomy? Most animals do just enough to survive and that's it. It's pretty obvious how Kaku is defining the word intelligence here.
darkshad109 "They may have the capacity for learning but they're not a learning species." Aehm, ok. Nothing that anyone would have to ad to refute that any better than yourself. lmao "It's pretty obvious how Kaku is defining the word intelligence here." "Do birds take time out their day to try and figure out basic astronomy?" Not really, just that you seem to define intelligence being astronomy doesn´t change it´s meaning in general. :p Find me a human with the territorial memory as an elephant does and come back argue, until than intelligence is not just what you make it out to be, or what you find most significant, because that´s just subjectivity and alright, but opinion doesn´t change the meaning of words and doesn´t create significance outside of that opinion/worldview.
***** From my understanding, from what Kaku said, the book is a good analogy. It means we can accumulate knowledge, over generations and applied it almost immediately. The moment you start reading.. say a DIY Wooden shelf, you impart yourself with the ability to make a wooden shelf, even if you never touch one or build one (maybe sub par, but still able too). Animals on the other hand would have to rely on instinct, observation and trial and error, which humans also has a fair share (talents, studies and experimentation). But animals will unable to understand something immediately on complex knowledge. We seen smart ravens able to decipher a puzzle box to get the food inside. Its amazing. But we forgot a 2 year old baby already has the capability to do just that,( without a reward, just pure curiosity) just because we thought its common (oh the irony). No animal can pass down its knowledge, accessible to other of its kind like humans do.
Sanjaya Desa Yeah, the ability to pass down knowledge (trough more complex speech and than writing) is the biggest difference there is, but it isn´t being more or less intelligent, it´s just a different type of intelligence. Intelligence itself is just as meaningful as you make it out to be, like for example the guy above with "astronomy is being intelligent", i brought the elephant example. For the elephant of course his territorial memory will be more significant and for him the interest in astronomy, while both are right simply because a subjective opinion, but as soon one would argue one is more intelligent it would be ignorance...kinda like relativity theory of opinions, since they´re right from either perspective, but not actual to an observing eye. In a wider picture it would be like that: The complex speech is from a human perspective most relevant, while an elephant would disagree, since they would starve without finding water because they can´t navigate big territories anymore, it´s all a matter of perspective/opinion what´s "more" intelligent.
Roman Rozhok Oxford dict. : "The ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills" Free Dictionary: "The capacity to acquire and apply knowledge" Dictionary.com "capacity for learning" Time for your reference that it´s not and is predicting the future. In a neurological sense though any brain-function is predicting the future, since processing information needs time and most function of the brain predicts the future with accumulated stimuli of the past. It has nothing to do with the definition of intelligence though, just with biology... :p
You see what he is describing are the basic adaptations that have established our narrow definition of intelligence. Dolphins are near our level of intelligence however lack the manipulative organs which we have.
Humans are basically the biggest masterpiece nature has never pulled off,. Its like a piece of art, for billions of years life have evolved on this planet, we are the finished product.
I disagree, we are not the finished product - there will never be a finished product. We cannot possibly consider ourselves masterpieces if we continue to destroy the lives of fellow human beings and nature itself.
I was thinking about it, politics, economics, morality, science, mathematics, culture,technology, musics, just the way we begin from small tribes to huge civilizations,the way we develop science, our level of abstraction rises has history goes. Sure there is war, famine, hunger and all but when you keep in mind all the intelligence we have, even the dinosaurs didn't made such breakthrough, and dinosaurs lived hundreds of thousands of years
arch angel Read his book that just came out. He talks about how macroevolution, as it occurs naturally, has pushed us as far as the laws of physics will allow. I don't remember the exact reasoning (it's a 15 hour audiobook, and I'm not that smart), but the pressures that applies to those in the animal kingdom went away from us when we began manipulating the environment to make homes and cities (agricultural revolution).
We had to use the resources around because we couldn’t defend our selfs with no weapons which made us more aware, which made us had a more complex consciousness , Which made us more smart, which made us advance, which made us who we are now.
NearCry i think you are totaly right. we blame ppl for eating dogs but the pigs are comparable intelligent... he should have told that language and calture are the keys. i could imagen a different world with intelligent beeings as "oredators" but having the eyes sidewise...
Michio did a great job defining the problem: What are the selective factors underlying intelligence/language etc. But Michio's reasoning goes bad after that. The real reason for intelligence involves our ideological disposition--which is how we, essentially, program each other. And stories are the program. with the results being a continuum of attitude to wealth and resources. See a hypothesis called, 'Ecological Gatekeeper Hypothesis. So a search to find it.
Life has a million colors Not only black and white, that's it Make harmony, let this earth Be more beautiful for our children What are you believe as a truth Maybe not a truth for others Shine on, shine on.. Let's make harmony for a better future.. Shine on, shine on.. Let's make harmony for a better future..
It shows they are less intelligent than Humans. Coz they are unable to understand things above their limits and the difference between human and crow intelligence is the word 'infinity'' If you dint get it yet,you must be very intelligent.
To be intelligent does not necessarily have to behave like humans, and we are not the only intelligent beings, from brainless jellyfish to all living being on earth are intelligent, even all plants have a complex nervous system and intelligence.
You just made up your own definition for intelligence. Maybe you don't know, but there is an official standard for what makes something intelligent. According to that standard, jellyfish and plants are definitely not intelligent. They are certainly complex, but not intelligent. Its a word with an already existing definition and you are simply using it wrong.
mouseinmyhelmet There are many definitions of intelligence, like quickness of understanding etc., in the video I am referring, defines it as an act that has the capacity to change the environment. Every philosopher will give you a different definition. The burglar alarm you have is an example of artificial intelligence, when it rings to awake you. When lions meticulously plan and execute a hunt. they do affect the environment, if that is not intelligence, then what is ? Intelligence (more generally intuition) is not easily definable, just like consciousness, awareness etc. In my mind, we shall have a better insight as we better understand the self-organizing properties of the mind and the body (!?) All living beings have the qualities of love, hate, greed, etc. and are well trimmed to fight for survival, over millions of years, how can you think of them as duffers, you should be ashamed of yourself. Our notion that they have to do certain things to prove they are intelligent, is wrong.
mouseinmyhelmet He is not referring to the human definition of intelligence. He is referring to the intelligence prevalent in all species of life that enables the sustenance by the activation of sensory perceptions and necessary survival mechanisms for survival purposes ... The dictionary definition says that it is the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills... This intelligence is the survival instinct present in all creatures that allow the continuity of its specious.. .
Naimul Haq Stop being a pain in the arse... You yourself said that "even all plants have a complex nervous system and intelligence ". So this biological survival instinct, which is a result of this 'complex nervous system' should constitute a form of intelligence also. I was referring to the dictionary definition of intelligence. Not your "Intelligence (more generally intuition) is not easily definable" philosophical gibberish that has no value in scientific methodologies..
S. F. Yes, it is so complex that there seems to be an unseen force behind evolutions construct. Its like programming language and code of the highest complexity.
Well whoever said it's his own words? Pretty sure he learned all he's talking about from other scientists. Like newton said "stand on the shoulders of giants"
Dear Dr. Michio Kaku, intelligence is not object of science called physics, it`s more complicated than physical phenomena. Please read just one book, called Science of Logic writed by G.W.F.Hegel, it`s really interesting
Time is the deviation from straight. Why energy is inversely proportional to time square. Always energy tries to coagulate. That's why we have curvature. Or shrink distance. Negative energy is supposed to do with area and positive time square. The storage of equilibrium is mass. Strings are quantas of mass distribution. The gaps between positive and negative. Non linear gaps between prime numbers. Numbers can never be negative. And they can never reach zero. As area by time square is never zero. Somewhat like zero by zero. There is always a bubbling brew.
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Sir, I am from India , a Physicist ,Tell me, the way humans are evolving, what will humans Shape be like 5,000 years from now?
it is possible or is it? 900 iq XD
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I can listen to Dr. Kaku all day long and still would beg for more! Respect Sir!
Of all the people I've heard speak in my life Mr. Kaku is the most interesting and intelligent.
Richard feynman and Robert Sapolsky are incredible check me out if you have the chance.
Move out of ur home and see something else
Hes definitely my most favorite scientist!
He's smart. Calling him the most intelligent is not the right thing to say. You're as intelligent as him.
Think about it like that; You both have the same amount of coal underneath a mine, the more coal you collect the smarter you get, but his and your coals aren't placed in the same place, you're driven by your emotion to find the thing you want say like dirt, why dirt you say? idk maybe your parents didn't give you dirt when you wanted so you devopled a need for it, Hooray! You found it, you'll be satsfied but not smart (efficient) because dirt is useless and coal is SQ.
Dr Tyson
Michio Kaku is not just intelligent, he is also eloquent, honest and genuine.
I agree but I can’t help but remember when he got bood for suggesting the US should cut taxes on corporations lol
@@michaeljasso10This sh1t is so stupid, it's funny 😂
Love this Man's knowledge and his way of explaining. Thank you, Big Think - by faaaaaar my favorite youtube channel.
Humans are intelligent.
Or are they?
@AgainstTheSystem .ATS
or is it?
I Love listening to Michio Kaku talk.
Hey you steal my words !
As far I remember I have set a copyright to this sentence.😁
I knw makes u feel smarter just by listening to him and his different subjects
How about we improve the intelligence of at least the average human being?
We don't have the blueprints to copy
That will probably happen all by itself. At least in part, intelligent people are more likely to have a partner with a similar intelligence level and they have a greater likelihood to get a good education which results in better healthcare and lifestyle.
If completely left to evolution I think it's likely that we get 2 subspecies of homo sapience. An intelligent one and a worker one. Somewhat like HG Wells described in the Time Machine.
We try but they keep sharing their opinions
Johnny Jenkins THE EARTH IS FLAT
In a way we sort have and have been doing so since well forever.
I appreciate everything this man says, and every thought he has. Mr. Kaku makes me think about things i never would have before. Thank you for stimulating my mind.
Art, philosophy, and even science is discovered or made through through the lens of unique perspective. Any human that achieved or constructed anything great did so because they had a perspective, point of view, or set of values that made them inherently unique, this is why often the best solution to finding the answer to an incredibly difficult problem is to get an outside perspective from someone who hasn't been working on it, so their "fresh set of eyes" can contribute an idea or a theory that could spark progression to whatever the set ultimate goal is.
If we have the capability of genetically altering another animal like a Chimpanzee to be more human like, as in more intelligent or capable of higher brain capacity, who is to say there is no value in it? Would the unique perspective of a newly self-aware subspecies of creature capable of advanced thought and communication not have artistic, philosophical, or even scientific value? What might that creature say? What might we find out about our common ancestry that we might not have discovered otherwise? What might that creature write about or create if it learns how to express itself? What insight into scientific theory might a creature have who is trying to learn it for the first time?
I would argue that the value of creating intelligent life in any form is incalculable. Humans create intelligent life every day through biological procreation, why should giving the gift of advanced thought and self-awareness to another creature not be the same?
and I want a friend ape that I can talk to!!
Perhaps if extraterrestrials exist or existed, this is what they did to humans' ancestor and this is why we became 'intelligent'.
Hi, I totally agree with you. You’re quite intelligent yourself. See you in future soon :)
You are making it more human. Which there are lots of. A chimp cant give out knowledge and the modified chip only is better because its like a human. Experts guide things, not lucky strikes
@@benjaminRhodesLEGO Well we are apes so if you talked to a human, you talked to a ape. chimps are our closest relatives as there only 2% difference between humans and chimps. Chimps have all the genetic tools to be intelligent like us, but there’s no evolutionary pressure for that.
Dr Michio Kaku documentaries are brilliant
Michio Kaku is definitely my favourite out off all the speakers on Big Think! I love hearing him speak!
Bandaged right hand...did Michio have to throwdown with Neil on string theory, again?
Noticed this as well.
Football injury
😂😂😂
Maybe he's been punching mirrors, like Walter White.
@Cosmeaux Naught hahah
I have always found his ideas fascinating
I love the way Mr. Michio Kaku thinks big or Big Thinks.
Thank you Mr. Michio you’re a awesome teacher!
I have learned so much from your videos and TV shows that you have been on..
Thank you for this video... I grew up in a small private christian school and never learned evolution as a science. We spent years reading manuals on how to poke holes in all facets of evolution and even carbon dating. I grew out of that thinking eventually and I have basic questions about human evolution but I have no where to ask them. Google is not built for specific questions like mine, but this video helped a lot....where can I get free answers from reliable scientists??? I feel like I left my home island into an ocean with no guidance on a small rickety raft...
GREAT! you went to a religion school, just one question: Why does everyone who is religious wants to bash other peoples ideas?
I invite you to investigate a little more off Google, and ask people. :)
Well it is great you have interest in such things, the problem with people being educated in religious schools is that they think they got all the answers already and don't believe/manage to research for themselves.
There is no simple way of learning anything though, it will take time. But maybe this site may answer some of your questions : evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/evo_01
Just read a ton of stuff
if you still see notifications.
check cosmic skeptic and other atheist youtubers..
watch Aron Ra's youtube channel
We are the universe becoming self aware.
Finally someone else who's really saying what i've been thinking for a few years now!
Yan Fagundes What an ignorant thing to say.
jay1085 pseudo philosophy at it's finest...
jay1085 why?
Gamerat why?
This channel, is godlike! Absolutely love this stuff, i eat it right up! :) Thank you!
I love listening to Dr. Kaku speak....soothing
Thank you for the video. Here in NYC Barnes & Noble listening and learning.
Cats are more intelligent then what we take them for. They know they can take advantage of humans they'll get free food and ear rubs and get to sleep all day. Little shits.
They can't watch porn so not that smart after all
Well no shit, we selected them to live with us, so their are now other way for them to survive without us helping them. If cats or dogs go to the wild nature is going to find a way to have them not exist so se they weren't supposed to be a species at the first place
Great episode. What I find hard to grasp is the third factor which is language. To my basic understanding language evolved as a result of intelligence, because in order for us to form sentences and talk in contexts we need the ability to intellectualy manipulate words.
Language allows for symbolic understanding and therefore abstract thought. Language is the tool that makes complex thought possible
Kinda like how apes make yells/grunts is how we created language
I cannot get enough from this guy
Attended a Kaku presentation at Southeast Missouri State University during the Eclipse. Fascinating speaker and visionary.
michio kaku is one of the greatest minds of our time
Mr. Kaku, you re genius! I like your explanations
Love to listen to this man speak
Interesting video!!!
Linguistic mathematics:
Figure A & figure B.. contact and interact.. figure x is there as a constant when there are relative two or more figures at bulk.. so any configurations are predefined at.. at least with a number one less than the overall uniting given/concrete figures into the configutation and plus one and more virtual x, n figures or configurations.. plus: all virtuals eternally can have beed added to any virtual configuration(s). That is how timings are preconfigured at basic concrete terms and are of possiblities potentially.
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Lest timing is not the overall or ultimate time concept.. because of pulse dynamics in every living being is what we know as will and movement.. so pulse is wehen predefined configuration .. this it is a consent or intention.. multiple timings can be preconfigured and can be applicable related to interactiblities where the end formality or course is the contract.. and this contract in end is a result of the consent/intention within pulse.
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NEVERTHELESS:
The first and the second experiments say the same result as with what is matching up with the Superman insidance has as conditions and results: an A>Z car's and Z>A car's speeds make a total timing difference when their speeds are added to eachother aswith how they approach eacother.. aswith how they'd interact or reach eachother..
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Laser beams let us say one pure blue and the other is mere yellow.. if due to different arguing points bring out a varied types of greens.. that is what the two cars would do already.. and in both experiments and the superman issue what we find is (we already know that radiation of photons, electrons, positrons etc. already different speeds from eachother and they differ due to lots of reasons in speed especially when their types of spinnings are added and we say these are types of lights in deed and at all!! ) degrees and spins change trillions of things all of a sudden.. be it on a peripherial global surface of an atom or resonating bowing spectral area of an atom.. or atoms contracting eachother: contacting and intracting.. formulas are contracting patterns.. so the contact and interact parts must always be in the pulse and mass theoratization of what is of a light beam.
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The results of interactions does not mean the contract always.. how about the any real contact? Is light a pulse or particle? How do these make up the compound? _I think pulse changes the speed of every particle. Because it is what can divide or compact space, pace and speed_ .
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Had superman spin arround all atoms of the globe and of theirs of the very centrillions of electrons' backwards.. and himself's.. and what ever more the recepie could've ever have more of..: Ookkayy! That could've been a well configured and powered a time travel.. because you just like RE!turn you RE!pulse everything but must be configured exactly as that you'd play your record backwards.. so you need pure pulse and preconfiguration!
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PULSAR!
PULSAR!
PULSAR!
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CDs versus Records! Bringme my black analog records or make an ultimately black CD..
Per-fects blackholes needed!
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PULSAR!
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Timing is preconfigured a thing.. local time travels could've been possible.. as least of possiblity as that people of 70-80 years ago could have made CDs because we in our personalities endure a time travel from yesterday to today from today to tomorrow: at least informative time travels are possible for we cannot particularize pulse!
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Repetitionally: we already know that radiation of photons, electrons, positrons etc. already different speeds from eachother and they differ due to lots of reasons in speed especially when their types of spinnings are added and we say these are types of lights in deed and at all!!... _And.. This is time travel contract in every living being!_
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But more we have is pulse that we are pre/pro-vided and can have it gained regulatedly and even regularly: 5 times a prayer! Yearly and weekly special days and nights..
Take your time everyone!
In being a person of yesterdays, tomorrows and todays.. we witness the roots of and initials of time travel in ourselves but are hopeless of growing it just like a mom about to give birth is hopeless of eating and the baby is missing utmostly too.. of lots of things.. and even cannot get born and even the mummy dies due to low movement and malnutrition. Salaat is an existencial feed, update and recorrection and is an utmost CONTRACT predefined for a real existencial task and its achievement.
Take your time. Have it well.."overall time DÉHR" is The only God doing, willing, making, ruling judging severely really as these all. And does whatever he wishes.
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I appreciate the concept being communicated... About what combination of distinctions make up intelligence, and that other than this we are not so different. But, there are some important things that I think need clarification: some animals have culture, just not on the level of sophistication of humans (how this is defined particularly I'm not sure), and we did not evolve from chimpanzees. We shared a common ancestor and have since evolved separately. In fact, chimpanzees in some cases have a way better working memory than humans. So, if you modify the genes for the skull, the brain and all that, you may actually end up with something smarter than a human.
"... monkeying with our genes".
I C WUT U DID THERE
Now I get Zootopia, dumb bunny, smart fox.
"Smart fox, dumb bunny!"
This is the first thing i dont agree with Michio. Dolphins dont have eyes at the front, dont have thumbs, not even limbs and maaaybe they have a meaningful language, but yet, they are at the very top of the list of intelligence. I dont think these factors are that important (if at all).
yeah, but Dolphins are in the water, the rules are different for everything in the water. on the land, only apes comes close to humans, and again, they're aren't even close to us in intelligence.
shoulung Not really. You can still develop tentacles (and even limbs) and do plenty of stuff underwater, you can have eyes in the front (which have the same benefits/flaws as on the land) etc.. yes, octopus is intelligent, but i didnt use "therefore" because dolphin is physically extremely limited, yet extremely intelligent.
Chris Weiss I believe animals like Chimps for example at the age of 5 as you mentioned do not have the social pressure our kids have today.
Human society, more directly kids, from a very young age have to prove themselves and lose their creativity more and more the older they get. Everything which is good/bad, and expected from you is planted into you, leaving a low amount of space to think or create yourself.
Chimps and many other animals while not having the intellect we have, don't have this kind of pressure, it's part of evolution in my opinion.
We evolved by thinking out of the box, inventing ways to live, survive and evolve to the point we are now. I doubt we can evolve further because while we maintain the belief we're superior, forgive my crude comparison., we're just robots.
That's why those chimps you mentioned are smarter than us in many ways.
Chris Weiss
chimps are smart, no doubt. and yes, they have strong short term visual memory, and mental agility. I can see how that would be a huge advantage in the wild.
but that isn't the only thing that matters. Their reasoning ability and their ability to make mental connections is very low when compared to humans.
they don't have language, and that is a HUGE limiting factor as to their ability to reason about the world around them, connect concepts and ideas, formulate new ideas, and then express their ideas as tools or art. humans beings are the only creatures that are able to do that.
even when chimpanzees learn sign language, their expression is still very limited when compared to humans. the fact that they can connect signs with concepts is amazing. but they still can't reason very well, or appreciate art, or perform even the most basic mathematics. they simply don't make the mental connections that humans can.
that's because thinking is humanities thing.
I think its strange that I as a human being am communicating over the internet with another human being as to weather chimpanzees are smarter than us. do you realize how ridiculous that is?
Well, here's a nice rule: if an organism is capable of manipulating its environment, whether it's on land or in the water, then you've got yourself an intelligent species. So, dolphins aren't intelligent - relative to humans - since they can't shape the -landscape- they live -on-. - or the vessel they inhabit -
The most important ingredient is our brain structure perhaps the most vital thing. Our perceptions and mind is what made us dominate, no animale can think like us
Great Video!!! Really interesting!!
Although... I must say that, even this not being my area of expertise; it seems to me, from a logical stand point, that there are two key ideas mixed in a trendy/ tricky way here.... and they are: The idea of "how necessary intelligence (as a phenomenon) is to nature and the time and effort from the very nature to enable or provide the conditions to its evolution"....
For instance: From a logical stand point it could be mistaken (or a limited perspective) to conclude that "if intelligence is quite rare (not abundant) than it is not so necessary to nature" - actually the understanding from this observation (of how rare it is) could lead it to the absolute opposite conclusion!!
A human covered with hair, anyway. Actually, that's called "an Italian."
***** with a sense of humor.
***** You managed to misspell "racist"
ShotafterShotGaming- "Italian" is not a race, you idiot. Go back to your politically correct SJW cave.
I can imagine it, a hairy chest showing from the outside of a Hawaiian shirt with a golden chain that was paid for by selling stolen goods. Definitely an italian thing
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It is
"Predators seem to be smarter than prey". Makes you realize how amazing elephants are. They are one of a handful of animals that can recognize themselves in a mirror (even monkeys and crows can't do this). They can use branches as tools. They have incredible memory. And they seem to mourn their dead.
So, predation is not the only context in which intelligence can evolve. In the case of elephants, intelligence developed because of a long lifespan and community living.
Another good counterexample is the intelligence of birds: parrots, crows, ravens and jays. These birds have great speech skills and tool-using capabilities. The context for the evolution of their intelligence seem to arise from the need to learn how to exploit a variety of resources which are seasonally available.
Another unrelated thing about that quote, "Predators seem to be smarter than prey" is that it could not be otherwise. If the rabbit's intelligence grew to the point that it could outsmart the fox, it would at that point cease to be prey.
Wes Jourdan I disagree. Look at the Thomson's gazelle from the african savannah. They are prey to cheetahs, but they have developed bodies that not only allow them to run very quickly (not as quick as a cheetah), but also to make sharp turns as they run. Cheetah bodies are not adapted for keeping up their speed and making sharp turns. So the gazelle learned, in a way, to outsmart those who prey on them, but still that doesn't mean they all can survive when chased by a cheetah.
Intelligence is not the same thing as a physical adaptation. The gazelle did not use their intelligence to evolve more nimble bodies. Their bodies are a result of the nimblest gazelle escaping predators and reproducing more often than the less nimble gazelle.
Wes Jourdan Define intelligence. The gazelle doesn't have it programmed into her brain on how to react in order to escape the predator. Those who learn how to best use their physical advantages over their predators survive. They can learn by watching others do it, for example. I'm no expert, but it seems to me that that process involves a certain degree of cognition, and that's defining of intelligence.
Intelligence: the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills
what happened to your hand, Michio?
Was counting cards
I think it is well established that many animals have culture, teach their young and have more extensive communication than previously thought.
Nature communicates just fine, humans have just dulled their instincts/senses
Amazing man I've always been fascinated with people asking questions isn't that how we evolve
I would argue that some animals do, in fact, have a unique culture of their own. Elephants, dolphins, primates, lions, wolves.... their cultures may not be quite like humans, but truly they have their own unique ways of living and passing along information.
4:05 bruh I see what you did there
4:13 *I'm 5 years from the future so it must be already done*
4:14 😲
why bother? because science!
do you ever wonder how lucky you are living in this precise point of evolution
Yes but the future is going to be better to live in than now if everything keeps going and no major wars happen
@@hiyoutube8013 We can only hope.
I do, I'm thankful too
What other point can we live in?
Wait till everyone sees me propel humanity with my demonetization removal
I think what he meant to say is that many other animals like dolphins and some birds have demonstrated intelligence. But they simply lack the physiology like front facing eyes or opposable thumbs that would enable them to completely destroy their own habitat, like humans have.
Research biologists would disagree with Michio Kaku
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The funny thing is We were mostly preyed upon for majority of our history, even when our eyes were seated at the front of our face and not on sides. It is to give depth perception, for when we were Arboreal, lived on trees and needed to accurately judge the distance to jump. Sometimes Kaku like other scientists just goes too far without doing much research.
Trex had its eyes on the side of his face, like the komodo dragon, both of which are apex predetors of their respective habitat.
Also the Thumb/stereoscopic vision and Brain size are simplistic interpretation of development of intelligence, not to say only our type of intelligence.
Intelligence is a trait selected by Natural selection, , and could arise from other factors than the 3 Kaku presents, should NS allow it.
He postulates a defective hypothesis of 3 factors for intelligence, then scans nature for animals that match it and comes out with a false result. Shit in shit out.
That's a optical illusion. Both guys (dragon dino) can move their iris front side. Search their pics. Then search rabbit. His iris never move.
A gorilla is much smarter than a fox,
also has eyes in the front of her face, and eats ONLY PLANTS
(Also has very large tusks)
so does the Panda, Sloth, Koala and the Tree Kangaroo. (though the sloth and tree kangaroo are probably not as smart as foxes)
All have eyes in front of their faces and eats only plants.
The REAL REASON for them having eyes in front of their faces - is due to an evolutionary reason:
They evolved in a leafy environment and needed 3D sight when looking ahead into the leaves in front of them and assessing distances correctly.
I like how he says(over and over again)," to the best of our knowledge." All animals are intelligent. They understand life, and they understand how to survive. If thats not intelligence then maybe we are not the intelligent ones. Just because we fail to communicate with them with language, doenst give us the right to say animals are not intelligent. A better term is less advance, but even that is arguable, but at least would be a better more valid statement in my opinion.
Orange to apples
boipinoi604 but they're still both fruit.
Brandon Larranaga OHHHHHHHHHH
Perhaps the definition of the word "intelligence" needs to be discussed. I assume that when some people distinguish human intelligence from any other animal intelligence, they emphasize the fact that humans are actually AWARE of everything that is going on.
EXAMPLE: A tiger hunting its prey can be argued to have the intelligence to not only hunt, but to hunt successfully; skill and awareness are needed to hunt. However, the key difference here is that the tiger doesn't actually know that it is "hunting." It is simply following its body's demands.
This is why language is important. The word "hunt" is a label that we use to identify the act of what we call hunting. Whenever someone who understands the word "hunting" hears it or sees it, some general idea of the same act will be thought of. Tigers don't use labels because they don't know language. They may use primitive signals between each other for certain understandings when hunting or mating, but their ability to understand the world beyond doesn't go much further.
They can't know that they are tigers because they lack the ability to think that far ahead. They are mostly limited to their hunting/survival modes of thinking. This is both due to their genetics and lack of intellectual stimulation in their environment.
With language, humans have been able to not only increase the stimulation their brains get, but they have also been able to pass on that information, creating a compound effect. This is what has taken us from hunter-gatherers to engineers in less than a million years.
Cash Daugherty sorry I haven't replied earlier. But i wouldn't say it is only a practice of survival.
For instance, ive seen dogs kill cats or rats for pure fun. Or even cats kill bugs and mice just because its fun. They do stimulate their minds beyond survival. They understand they are alive and life will come to an end. Or else they wouldn't be defensive. And this may be a little out there but, I believe animals do communicate just as good as humans.
I think intelligence is the ability to manipulate the surroundings to own benefit, understand and remember past, accurately (almost) predict the outcome of a action.and most of all ability to measure/calculate everything
Oh, it's refreshing to see that someone is thinking this way the same as me. From my experience some people think that dolfins may someday become more intelligent in the future, but they will never be as intelligent as us unless they change their physical body and go to life in the land rather than in the sea. I don't think animals that live in the sea may develop consciousness the same as us. All this confirms what i thought about human consciousness. We were in reality pre-stablished to become what we are today because we already had the necessary physical features to develop consciousness. Probably the most important thing to develop consciousness is having hands. But i wonder: were our hands the tools which gave us consciousness or was our "coming" consciousness which made us to have hands? From my point of view i think that it was our coming mentality and being the characteristics prevalent from the very beggining. Time is something that happens in the instant, there is no present in real time. I mean, there IS and there ISN'T but this proves the part which there ISN'T. It's possible knowing the future.
This man is so inspirational . So intelligent.
When i hear him, i feel like everything in world is possible!
I can listen to this man all day and feel like i didnt have enough!
Love Big Think! Great Videos, Extremely Thought Provoking...
Nothing is necessary according to what he say, intelligence is a present for the few. intelligence is the best way to insure durability, intelligence is the best way of indicate the entire existing...
If intelligence is the final product of nature, so everything before it was meant to serve it.
in 2004 when the tsunami took thousands of human lives, not one of the animals those are free lost their lives. They all have escaped from the scene hours before.
Try checking your numbers and edit again please :)
It's amazing comparing how long we have been on the planet and how fast we are destroying it
Wow that took a dark turn...
My wish for the intelligent Michio Kaku is to firm it up. The reasoning here in "The Evolution of Intelligence" is much too loose with glaring exceptions.
The role of "science popularizer" is time honored. I loved Sagan's work. Before "Cosmos", as a kid I enjoyed "The Cosmic Connection", "The Dragons of Eden" and "Broca's Brain". Asimov too with "The Search for the Elements" and "Building Blocks of the Universe". And, of course, the science fiction works of both and many others.
The classic, if dated, "Ascent of Man" by Bronowski deserves a look, and for discussions on chimp culture, go to the source with Jane Goodall.
Maybe intelligence causes occasional mass extinctions , same as meteors and cataclysmic volcanic eruptions, mega flares of the sun etc.
We have been on the brink of it for years.
Curiosity drives Intelligence drives Wisdom. Child to Teen to Adult, personally and in cultural arcs. Wisdom grows slowly. Looking into the void seems to help prompt it along. Atomic energy was the first innovation that quickly had the potential for mass extinction and gave us the first hard look at oblivion. Fossil fuels helped drive civilization for nigh 200 years and only now are we beginning to see the consequences. We are now on the verge of several others in genetics, cybernetics and AI. Wisdom must come quick as the pace of technology speeds ahead.With courage, clarity, compassion and critical thinking, I remain optimistic that humanity and the world will be in a much better situation than what we have now.
You forgot curiosity to try to understand why. Why something acts the way it does or why it exists in the first place. But your videos are some of the most intelligent ways of describing something. I'm pretty sure the true test of intelligence is how many things you know not necessarily how well your ability is at problem solving like most iq tests. True intelligence is knowledge and being able to use it in a practical manner.
Your is best insight in all coments I saw until now, but I would say that true intelligence is the search of knowledge for knowledge's sake. Everything is a byproduct of this activity.
@@cavelupum2 I agree but sometimes the knowledge we discover and figure out is used as a weapon or becomes somthing dangerous to our own existence so we got experience from the knowledge not everything should be known or after the discovery should be suppressed like my plan for a stabilized wormhole . After drawing up a blueprint that came to me in an Instant. I thought about it for several hours then burnt it
Yeah but I wonder how far culture and tradition have separated the earliest human from the modern version.
As a biologist, I am offended by the fact that he said that animals do not transfer knowledge throughout generations
Well, not over generations at least. I can read a manuscript no one has read in 300-400 years and gain knowledge that has skipped several generations. I don't see other animals doing that.
"And so we think that's how the brain we evolved, we have an opposable thumb..."
- Michio Kaku 2014
All Japanese babies spend a lot of time with their thumbs up their noses trying to find their brain. Many babies prefer fetching excreta out of their nappies to make pretty streaks on the sites of their cots. That's intelligence thanks to excreta.
I miss them. Not enough to leave my reality to find them but I'm grateful.
The climax was well said!
what about dolphins don't their eyes face sideways? they seem to be more intelligent then most mammels
but they are predators
TheNaz01 they got sonar, so their eyes positioning might be irrelevant.
WHAT A THOUGHT PROVOKING GUY!
Exactly, and that's what its all about for me. Its not whether I agree with his ideas. Its that it gets me thinking about his ideas and thinking about my own as well. Its about provoking thought.
MKrip808
I HEARD HIM ON THE RADIO THE OTHER DAY, I COULD NOT TURN THE DIAL. WHAT A GREAT AND CLEAR MIND HE HAS
"Monkeying with just one gene", God I love Michio Kaku XD
This guy is incredible!
why do I love this guy?
I think intelligence spawned from the moment we conquered fire, and we learn how to cook food. Our jaws shrank from the tender meat allowing our brains to develop.
one of many factors I believed
I believe intelligence spawned even before that because when we left the trees and became early Homo that is when we evolved opposable thumbs, which lead to our ancestors creating tools and lead to Homo erectus creating fire
By intelligence we mean Homo sapien level intelligence not reptile intelligence. As in being able to communicate with others, gather information from others and the environment, create tools and learn new skills very quickly.
Slik00Silk It is evolutionary fact that humans are smarter than all other known animals on earth. Tell me one animal that is proven smarter than a human.
Michio's never heard of Crows I take it, they have all of those traits.
yes! the black crowes! that guy had the best rock'n'roll voice in the industry-if you excluded a lot of the greats like elton,bowie,john,paul,sting,and boy george--the usual suspects--haha! but yeah,never argue with a crow-they possess much more cleverness in one little fingernail than....well,you get the idea
When talking about how many animals possessed the traits he said "Not many." He didn't say none. If you want him to list off all the animals with those traits why don't you ask him to make a different kind of video.
4:14 Yeah, let's give the ethics police another reason to hinder scientific progress.
it appears to me you are living in 14th century
Shketri I don't know what century you're living in, but as of now scientific research still has to follow the law, and authorities on ethics happen to still have significant power over regulation.
It has yet to be proven either way, whether language is a function of intelligence or
visa versa. In fact Noam Chomsky believes that intelligence and language are essentially mutually inclusive. and that language is the expression of intelligence.
And as far as vocabulary of the average person goes most college students in the US have a vocabulary of 15,000 -20,000 words, Winson Churchill was said to have had a 70,000 word vocabulary. but our every day usage averages about 5-7,000 words or less.
Language is a huge reason that we are so intelligent
Why bother? Well for one you want to conduct experiments to verify what you think is true.That just seems like commons sense to me.
yes but once you give it intelligence, what do you do with it? you cant sacrifice it, that will be murder, you cant integrate him to he sociaty, he will be bullied/rejected.
Once a being develops inteligent it becomes concius of itself, just like we are.
quaglemy
yes it might get mad.... but thats how humans think......we have no idea how it will think about what we did to it, it might not care..... Silly human stop projecting your assumed feelings onto another species...!
quaglemy
It's going to be a single entity, a handful at most, that become cognizant. That is not a threat to us.
Semir Tuce
Not to mention that we're going to want to apply gene therapy to *ourselves* as well. That means animal trials before it comes close to humans. We're already in the process of having Designer Babies, and I know I'm sure as hell would want my child engineered to have a high level of intelligence. From there, I'm going to want therapy for myself to be able to compete with these genetically superior humans.
Ziliath It's going to be mad because when it is conscious of itself being made "artificially intelligent". It's going to want to do what? Explore. Fuck around a bit. We, as humans, wouldn't let the animal go anywhere without supervision. So those projected feelings are true. You think it'd wanna stay in one place and have multiple tests run on him/her? No!
Zedek Elon Musk has been talking about coding genetics for a long time. It's part of his goal to put people on Mars.
Isn´t intelligence "The ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills" ?
A Lion will acquire knowledge and learn certain skills during it´s childhood and will apply this for survival. And basically all mammals and birds have this capacity.
I´m really not sure by what definition of intelligence he was talking about, just doesn´t seem right. :P
They may have the capacity for learning but they're not a learning species. Compare lions and humans over the last 1000 years. Which one would you pick as intelligent?
Do birds take time out their day to try and figure out basic astronomy? Most animals do just enough to survive and that's it.
It's pretty obvious how Kaku is defining the word intelligence here.
darkshad109 "They may have the capacity for learning but they're not a learning species."
Aehm, ok. Nothing that anyone would have to ad to refute that any better than yourself. lmao
"It's pretty obvious how Kaku is defining the word intelligence here."
"Do birds take time out their day to try and figure out basic astronomy?"
Not really, just that you seem to define intelligence being astronomy doesn´t change it´s meaning in general. :p
Find me a human with the territorial memory as an elephant does and come back argue, until than intelligence is not just what you make it out to be, or what you find most significant, because that´s just subjectivity and alright, but opinion doesn´t change the meaning of words and doesn´t create significance outside of that opinion/worldview.
***** From my understanding, from what Kaku said, the book is a good analogy. It means we can accumulate knowledge, over generations and applied it almost immediately. The moment you start reading.. say a DIY Wooden shelf, you impart yourself with the ability to make a wooden shelf, even if you never touch one or build one (maybe sub par, but still able too). Animals on the other hand would have to rely on instinct, observation and trial and error, which humans also has a fair share (talents, studies and experimentation). But animals will unable to understand something immediately on complex knowledge. We seen smart ravens able to decipher a puzzle box to get the food inside. Its amazing. But we forgot a 2 year old baby already has the capability to do just that,( without a reward, just pure curiosity) just because we thought its common (oh the irony).
No animal can pass down its knowledge, accessible to other of its kind like humans do.
Sanjaya Desa Yeah, the ability to pass down knowledge (trough more complex speech and than writing) is the biggest difference there is, but it isn´t being more or less intelligent, it´s just a different type of intelligence.
Intelligence itself is just as meaningful as you make it out to be, like for example the guy above with "astronomy is being intelligent", i brought the elephant example.
For the elephant of course his territorial memory will be more significant and for him the interest in astronomy, while both are right simply because a subjective opinion, but as soon one would argue one is more intelligent it would be ignorance...kinda like relativity theory of opinions, since they´re right from either perspective, but not actual to an observing eye.
In a wider picture it would be like that: The complex speech is from a human perspective most relevant, while an elephant would disagree, since they would starve without finding water because they can´t navigate big territories anymore, it´s all a matter of perspective/opinion what´s "more" intelligent.
Roman Rozhok
Oxford dict. : "The ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills"
Free Dictionary: "The capacity to acquire and apply knowledge"
Dictionary.com "capacity for learning"
Time for your reference that it´s not and is predicting the future.
In a neurological sense though any brain-function is predicting the future, since processing information needs time and most function of the brain predicts the future with accumulated stimuli of the past.
It has nothing to do with the definition of intelligence though, just with biology... :p
It's funny a stupid person can't ever figure they are stupid. Dr. Kaku is a genius and some of you guys think you can correct him?
Not to downplay Kaku, but even geniuses can be proven wrong, they're not insurmountable. That being said, Kaku isn't wrong here.
You see what he is describing are the basic adaptations that have established our narrow definition of intelligence. Dolphins are near our level of intelligence however lack the manipulative organs which we have.
I don't think a dolphin can solve even the simplest of mathematics equations even if it had the right organs.
He's a physicist not a paleontologist.
Lee Tsui greed greed greed i say
Thank you jimmy page.
Good too se that people can stil have intelligence debates and discussions in the comments. Gives me a little more in human society. 👍
0:17 What about that philosoraptor meme? 🤔🤣
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Humans are basically the biggest masterpiece nature has never pulled off,.
Its like a piece of art, for billions of years life have evolved on this planet, we are the finished product.
uh no human beings are far from the greatest thing nature has created that's just plain human arrogance.
I disagree, we are not the finished product - there will never be a finished product. We cannot possibly consider ourselves masterpieces if we continue to destroy the lives of fellow human beings and nature itself.
ecobuddha
you are right that we are not a finished product, but I do think there is a point to the idea that we are one of the best creations made....
I was thinking about it, politics, economics, morality, science, mathematics, culture,technology, musics, just the way we begin from small tribes to huge civilizations,the way we develop science, our level of abstraction rises has history goes.
Sure there is war, famine, hunger and all but when you keep in mind all the intelligence we have, even the dinosaurs didn't made such breakthrough, and dinosaurs lived hundreds of thousands of years
arch angel Read his book that just came out. He talks about how macroevolution, as it occurs naturally, has pushed us as far as the laws of physics will allow. I don't remember the exact reasoning (it's a 15 hour audiobook, and I'm not that smart), but the pressures that applies to those in the animal kingdom went away from us when we began manipulating the environment to make homes and cities (agricultural revolution).
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We should realize that human beings are just animals.
We had to use the resources around because we couldn’t defend our selfs with no weapons which made us more aware, which made us had a more complex consciousness
, Which made us more smart, which made us advance, which made us who we are now.
I love to listen to his thoughts on things. I bought 1 of his books. it was about parallel universes. I could not make sense of 1 page.
Intelligence isn't necessary? Tell that to the chicken i'm eating right now ;)
foxes eat chicken too...
soenekken
and are foxes more intelligent than a chicken?
NearCry i think you are totaly right. we blame ppl for eating dogs but the pigs are comparable intelligent... he should have told that language and calture are the keys. i could imagen a different world with intelligent beeings as "oredators" but having the eyes sidewise...
NearCry But foxes are also more intelligent than Jersey Shore fans, and foxes aren't eating them (not to my knowledge anyway).
Yui714 you should see geordie shore from the uk...
Cant we manipulate humans to increase our intelligence?
Yes. Trough what you do in everyday life and in the future you're gonna use crispR
What the hell did he do to his hand?
+GodDidJesusInTheButt i was wondering the same thing lmao
He did an interrogation of a political dissident for the New World Order.
Michio did a great job defining the problem: What are the selective factors underlying intelligence/language etc. But Michio's reasoning goes bad after that. The real reason for intelligence involves our ideological disposition--which is how we, essentially, program each other. And stories are the program. with the results being a continuum of attitude to wealth and resources. See a hypothesis called, 'Ecological Gatekeeper Hypothesis. So a search to find it.
Life has a million colors
Not only black and white, that's it
Make harmony, let this earth
Be more beautiful for our children
What are you believe as a truth
Maybe not a truth for others
Shine on, shine on..
Let's make harmony for a better future..
Shine on, shine on..
Let's make harmony for a better future..
So................sloth is a predator?
Crows are actually intelligent. So are grey parrots.
bonto Yes crows can make a gun and they can plant crops to eat also water them daily,yesterday a crow nuked my neighbor
Ehtizad Zashkiyor You're clearly not so intelligent.
+Luc Ruijsink Neither are you if you would rather mock him than challenge a perfectly provable claim.
+Santa Cluas You know I'm mocking the guy who says, since they can't nuke each other, crows aren't intelligent?
It shows they are less intelligent than Humans.
Coz they are unable to understand things above their limits and the difference between human and crow intelligence is the word 'infinity''
If you dint get it yet,you must be very intelligent.
To be intelligent does not necessarily have to behave like humans, and we are not the only intelligent beings, from brainless jellyfish to all living being on earth are intelligent, even all plants have a complex nervous system and intelligence.
You just made up your own definition for intelligence. Maybe you don't know, but there is an official standard for what makes something intelligent. According to that standard, jellyfish and plants are definitely not intelligent. They are certainly complex, but not intelligent. Its a word with an already existing definition and you are simply using it wrong.
mouseinmyhelmet
There are many definitions of intelligence, like quickness of understanding etc., in the video I am referring, defines it as an act that has the capacity to change the environment. Every philosopher will give you a different definition. The burglar alarm you have is an example of artificial intelligence, when it rings to awake you. When lions meticulously plan and execute a hunt. they do affect the environment, if that is not intelligence, then what is ?
Intelligence (more generally intuition) is not easily definable, just like consciousness, awareness etc. In my mind, we shall have a better insight as we better understand the self-organizing properties of the mind and the body (!?)
All living beings have the qualities of love, hate, greed, etc. and are well trimmed to fight for survival, over millions of years, how can you think of them as duffers, you should be ashamed of yourself. Our notion that they have to do certain things to prove they are intelligent, is wrong.
mouseinmyhelmet He is not referring to the human definition of intelligence. He is referring to the intelligence prevalent in all species of life that enables the sustenance by the activation of sensory perceptions and necessary survival mechanisms for survival purposes ... The dictionary definition says that it is the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills... This intelligence is the survival instinct present in all creatures that allow the continuity of its specious.. .
NativeRed5
What is the "human definition of intelligence", and how "survival instinct" is intelligence?
Naimul Haq Stop being a pain in the arse... You yourself said that "even all plants have a complex nervous system and intelligence ". So this biological survival instinct, which is a result of this 'complex nervous system' should constitute a form of intelligence also.
I was referring to the dictionary definition of intelligence. Not your "Intelligence (more generally intuition) is not easily definable" philosophical gibberish that has no value in scientific methodologies..
You missed one, the harddisk called Conciousness. The will bring any knowledge into the future, animal or humans.
Expand on the flow of ether through universe ,and why Dayton Miller,and Nicolas Tesla ,both understood that light is a vibration of Hz.
***Are we really intelligent when we ruin so much shit in this world***
We don't. People who don't use their mind do.
Takes intelligence to ruin things
S. F. Yes, it is so complex that there seems to be an unseen force behind evolutions construct. Its like programming language and code of the highest complexity.
S. F. Well said...
we are capable of great intelligence but we need to learn what our ancestors pass down, the less someone learns the less intelligent they are.
can he explain donald trump??
Nobody can explain that one!
Watch Scott Adams, he predicted Trump's win as soon as the first primary debate happened.
man with no name I agree with Pete, an intelligent man needs to be a psychological liar because all great nations rise and fall
He's kinda what I would expect to see if you mated the Annoying Orange with George Bush.
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But he's a physicist not a biologist
Well whoever said it's his own words? Pretty sure he learned all he's talking about from other scientists. Like newton said "stand on the shoulders of giants"
Dear Dr. Michio Kaku, intelligence is not object of science called physics, it`s more complicated than physical phenomena. Please read just one book, called Science of Logic writed by G.W.F.Hegel, it`s really interesting
Time is the deviation from straight. Why energy is inversely proportional to time square. Always energy tries to coagulate. That's why we have curvature. Or shrink distance. Negative energy is supposed to do with area and positive time square. The storage of equilibrium is mass. Strings are quantas of mass distribution. The gaps between positive and negative. Non linear gaps between prime numbers. Numbers can never be negative. And they can never reach zero. As area by time square is never zero. Somewhat like zero by zero. There is always a bubbling brew.