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Post by I wuv M4( Satar Jaèoèdoæ) on Jan 8, 2009 19:24:47 GMT -5
Now I rember what great here means...hero as apposed to beast.
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Post by Sandmaster on Jan 8, 2009 21:12:29 GMT -5
They aren't heroes, since they are animals. Reptiles as smart as any other
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Post by sigh on Jan 10, 2009 18:35:04 GMT -5
Or maybe they are capable of intelligent thought like us.
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Post by Sandmaster on Jan 10, 2009 20:14:17 GMT -5
well.....no. It's impossible for an evolutionary link to jump in intelligence so drastically, only to fall back down to intelligence nearly equal to that before dragons
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Post by I wuv M4( Satar Jaèoèdoæ) on Jan 13, 2009 17:56:56 GMT -5
Dragons are smart. Anyone who insults them dies. Me is dwagon.
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Post by Sandmaster on Jan 14, 2009 19:59:21 GMT -5
Dragon's arent that intelligent. Brainpower didn't evolve until a few million years ago
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Post by General Veers on Jan 14, 2009 21:00:46 GMT -5
Human brainpower didn't come to be until even sooner (hundreds of thousands, not millions, of years ago)...
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Post by sigh on Jan 15, 2009 10:57:40 GMT -5
Besides Mr. Know-It-All, how would you know how smart dragons would be if you met them? And who ever said anything about them becoming less intelligent?
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Post by I wuv M4( Satar Jaèoèdoæ) on Jan 15, 2009 15:28:17 GMT -5
Dragons are smart. Since they do not exist in this reallity, All sandmaster says is null and viod. Anyway, intelligence can pop up whenever on the evolutionary tree, but if high intellegrnce wasn't good for the enviroment, smart beings die and it was of they never lived.
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Post by Sandmaster on Jan 15, 2009 16:41:33 GMT -5
Thing is, if they existed, they wouldn't be intelligent.
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Post by sigh on Jan 16, 2009 13:46:13 GMT -5
And how, exactly, do you absolutely, positively, without a doubt know that they're unintelligent beasts? Also, according to SOME people, every living thing is an animal that thinks it's the smartest. I think I see some of that popping up in this conversation right now.
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Post by Sandmaster on Jan 16, 2009 23:20:42 GMT -5
Because if it was true, why is it that our tests (that we found to be compatible with the animals tested) are always showing that they are not as intelligent as us?
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Post by sigh on Jan 17, 2009 14:24:14 GMT -5
Two reasons: 1: There's an exception to almost every rule. The general description of a mammal is an animal that has fur and gives live birth. But then you see the platypus, which is an egg-laying mammal. 2: Since we have no dragons to test on, we cannot say definitively one way or another how smart dragons are, hence the varying amounts of intelligence in varying fantasy fiction stories, video games, T.V. shows, etc.
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Post by Sandmaster on Jan 18, 2009 18:03:36 GMT -5
Two reasons: 1: There's an exception to almost every rule. I rest my case.
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Post by General Veers on Jan 18, 2009 22:44:33 GMT -5
An exception to a rule of exceptions?
I'll just side with Schroedinger on this one...I spelled his name correctly, didn't I?
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Post by Sandmaster on Jan 19, 2009 10:39:38 GMT -5
he has two little dots over the O, I know that
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Post by General Veers on Jan 19, 2009 17:50:23 GMT -5
Right, although my keyboard doesn't, and I didn't memorize the symbol guide yet...
...but yes, I'm siding with Schroedinger and the Principle of Uncertainty...
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Post by sigh on Jan 20, 2009 17:08:02 GMT -5
You could rest your case if you backed it up. However you not only homed in on only one aspect of my argument - completely ignoring the other, I might add - but you also used logic similar to what one man said,"Moderation in everything, including moderation," which actually contradicts itself if you think about it hard enough. Just don't hurt yourself while you're thinking.
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Post by Sandmaster on Jan 20, 2009 17:16:56 GMT -5
I'm stating that the chances of a sudden spike of intelligence followed by a sudden drop of intelligence so that the result is equal to the beggining level of intelligence is close to impossible! And if it happened, there would be no change in intelligence and the Dragons will become superior sentient beings over the planet instead of us, who would have been eradicated in the process, most likely.
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Post by sigh on Jan 23, 2009 22:16:36 GMT -5
Seriously, why do you keep talking about the Dragon's intelligence dropping? You were the first one to talk about that in the first place, and never gave any reason as to how it came up in the first place. Also, I would like to reiterate a point that General Veers brought up:
So, basically, your intelligence statement is null and void in every respect.
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