Rachell Powell
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 26 Jan
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and actually this is sort of still goes on today.
So like, I don't remember when a ride, the film arrival came out, but that was definitely 21st century movie.
So this is a movie where it's a, it's essentially the exact same thing as the bipedal humanoids.
It's just put into the body plan of, of a polioid mollusk.
Okay.
So it's like what you're doing is saying, Oh, and it was great because you're like, Oh, like octopuses and, uh, you know, and cuttlefish and, and so forth.
Uh,
show surprisingly sophisticated cognitive abilities, so maybe they could have been the intelligent species on Earth.
So that's the logic, but here's the problem.
The problem is that, and this is something that I call the bundling fallacy, because I couldn't think of a better word for it, but we treat evolution as these bundles of traits.
In physics, when you get these bundles, they might look like natural kinds or something like this.
In biology, it's this hodgepodge of
highly contingent non-replicable traits mixed with perhaps some law-like stuff weaved into it.
The problem is people tend to just project the whole bundle.
Yeah, exactly.
Or whatever the going kind of animal is, right?
And so it's this idea that the outcomes, these earthly outcomes are just projectable out into the universe to some extent.
And that somehow they all come together, right?
So when you get the body plan of a cephalopod in these respects, you're going to also get intelligence.
And when you get a bipedal situation, you're going to get the kind of intelligence.
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