“…no intelligence where there is no change..”
it takes smarts to deal with change…
“It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility
is the compensation for change, danger and trouble.
An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment
is a perfect mechanism.
Nature never appeals to intelligence
until habit and instinct are useless.
There is no intelligence where there is no change
and no need of change.
Only those animals partake of intelligence
that have to meet a huge variety of needs and dangers.”
Spoken by the Time Traveler in The Time Machine
by Herbert George (H. G.) Wells (1866-1946
New York: Penguin Books, 1895 (repr. 2005)
pp. 78-79
I notice that there is no mention of love and joy and imagination.
I notice that contented animals don’t write poems.
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