[extropy-chat] cosmic silence

[spike]

> To: Samantha Atkins; ExI chat list
> Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] cosmic silence
> 
> ... I think that our minds are the means
> to overcome the bad parts of our programming. That is why we are the only
> surviving member of the hominid family. H. neanderthalensis may have been
> pretty smart, but they also may have hunted themselves out of food, burned
> themselves out of land, or taken on some other similar self-destructive
> behavior...

There is a possibility of course that CroMagnon hunted
Neanderthalensis to extinction intentionally.  That 
notion is reinforced by the National Geographic report 
that certain African tribes despise and fear the Orangutan.
They seem to not fully grasp the notion that there is
a great gap between human and orangutan.  (Perhaps they
have a point there.)  Clearly the beast is a direct
competitor for food, so those two species are natural
enemies we might suppose.  They attempt to slay every 
orangutan possible, which is making it very difficult to
save the species from extinction.

spike