That's not the point. No human is capable of those things individually. The human SPECIES has achieved those things. By developing language and a way to exchange, pass down, and build on shared ideas. No human that was abandoned as a child and left alone in the woods would develop any of those things (assuming they wouldn't just die from starvation or whatever).
I had to do this interesting project in college bio where we had to create a species of lifeforms who are NOT carbon based. We could use any other element, so long as it actually works scientifically, and you can explain exactly how they evolved and how their body functions. it was really neat, I did mine on silicon-based life forms. I considered drawing what I thought they'd look like, but I was just too busy
@@Man-tk2dcwhat are you gonna do about it? Use a micro combustion-chamber to fire semi-pointy things made of soft metal on beings who’s ancestors found a way to be immune to?
Well we are cousins to the chimp, but we're also separate from them, they don't have fine motor functions which is why they're stronger than us and they lack the kind of emotional and common controls we use to control our anger, and do other things orangutans are closing in on the bronze age of understanding I believe and they're smart
5% smarter isn’t that much it’s only 5% . That level of variability exists in our own species, the title makes it confusing . A species that’s 5% smarter than us won’t really seem that much smarter. The percentages Neil is bringing up are differences in dna and then we are WAY more than 5% smarter than chimps, and a species with a similar amount of brain evolution would be way more than 5% smarter than us
I mean he starts off with a theoretical half a percentage more intelligence and weve basically destroyed the entire planet in less then 10.000 years. Bring that up to 5% intelligence and the kids would probably down their entire planet in less then month
Yeah that was a pretty stupid analogy. That said,a species that really was 5% smarter than us while mostly the same on average would probably be much more advanced. Advancement throughout our history was and mostly still is done by the top echelon of gifted people and these aliens would both have way more of those (by our standards) while also having geniuses better than anything we can muster at their own top of the pyramid.
He didn't say they're 5% smarter. He said the vast difference between us and apes along our "intelligence vector" is caused by a 0.5% difference in DNA, so imagining that we (or something) continues on that vector until their DNA is 5% different to our could result in an immense amount of difference in how their brains work and make them naturally so much more intelligent than us that it wouldn't even make sense to make a comparison. He wasn't saying it's a 1:1 correlation with the proportion of genetic differences.
@@Disktoaster On the video label, it reads: “An Alien 5% smarter Than Us” I have heard and watched many videos stating the 5% genetic difference. I wasn’t correcting Neil. I was correcting the label.
Yeah but someone in his position really shouldn't be spouting off on nonsense they know nothing about. Onions have a genome 5x larger than humans, an over 80% difference. But just exactly what I'd expect of someone from those Ivy League Schools that only gets in because of ties to the Elite so they can become another droning Npc Celebrity to spread their propaganda and lies. I'm so sick and tired of this Idiocracy. It's got what plants crave! :D (And no the Earth isn't flat, I'm not a complete lunatic lmao!)
Exactly right. We really have no way of knowing either how far an intelligent species can advance, or how long that advancement takes. However, we do have an idea of the vast time frame preceding our industrial revolution.
@@DasHeino2010 But first they would need to domesticate humans before they hold them like pets. I mean humans also don't hold wild dogs/ wolves as pets. :)
@@battlebrother2390 Because we are sentient it should not be that much of a problem, we can adjust. The bigger problem would be to create a save environment for us in space. Also our livespan may fall short in comparison. (to cross distances)
@@DasHeino2010 you might be right here. However every wild creature wants 2 things: to survive and to be free. I guess the „to be free“-part will be much of a problem. If you’re happy being a pet, maybe your children or most probably their children won’t be. Therefore aliens will need to domesticate us. I mean at the end you won’t leave a wild chimpanzee at home with your children, right
Alien: "Awww look they're trying to make sustainable energy sources from nuclear fission. So cute!" 5.9k likes and the arguments in the comments are priceless 💀
False! They’d be smart enough to make sure we understood immediately… since sending a meme insinuates they want us to understand lol Unless it’s just something they send to boggle our minds hahaha
@@samsmusichub mmm... Good take, and taking it one step further... What if the only way to figure it out meant that during the process of engaging with it we actually learn a few things along the way to help us be less vile to ourselves and the world! 💡
And our environment in that Zoo would be a mansion, a large field, a car of our own, best and finest dishes because that's what we like most. Like monkeys with a tire attached to a rope and bananas. Hell yeah I would live in that Zoo forever. Can you imagine? A whole cathedral for ourselves just to contemplate the architectural design! Hell yeah I would live in that Zoo forever.
I'm pretty sure if there was a super intelligent alien race out there, they'd be smart enough to leave us alone, knowing people would go autismo apeshit mode if they just showed up. And also smart enough to understand that we weren't around for that much time and that we're still evolving.
@@good8619 unless they wanna enslave us or make is into like ”zoo” animals. Which theu could easily do if they were more intelligent and had a way to make weapons
Disgust?, are you implaying they share our feelings and concepts of emotion? If that's true then they might not be that smart or they are smart enough to relate to concepts that are used on other civilizations which is highly undoubtful
And you think that based on literally nothing. The only cultural values you have (the ones that would inform your ideas about "disgust") come from humanity. There's no reason to think any human behavior (no matter how depraved) would be looked upon with disgust by an alien species. What you're doing is called anthropomorphizing.
I get NDT's proposition but it can also be entirely possible that after a certain point in that vector, the differences are minute but significant, like how the few seconds of difference between college varsity sprinters and Olympic-level ones
What humans achieved is not solely associated with human intelligence, it depends more on Human experience. 7000 years of civilization and discoveries and inventions are what got us to this point. While when a human is born if they are isolated from civilization they wouldn't be much different from chimps...
@@Vashter007 I always felt like we should be able to eat like the plants from the sun and also able to eat food as well to gather and maintain energy . Chilling out in the sun 🌞😎 getting full and feeling great efficiency at its best
Nah the controllers plugged in. It's just that all the buttons are disabled bar the one that lets us let nukes fly when he gets tired of playing and just wants a game over
Someone already brought this up but imagining a man getting roasted by that alien then sitting there catatonic until they starve to death is sending me
well, we are 75% genetically similar to chickens and 60% genetically similar to BANANAS. so %5 or %10 is not actually a small difference, it is incredibly huge
And 2 things would need to be considered a what you mentioned. So It would at least be better to take a comparison from, at a minimal, the base dna set for animals and exclude it. And probably better to take it for animals with brains (literal brains not figurative). Then make comparisons as such. The second thing to consider is even if we encountered a life form with identical intelligence that is foreign to the planet the difference in dna if it even has dna would probably be titanic if not 100% different.
@@deraxelturrelkeign yes, most life forms (if not all) in earth are carbon based so a foreign life form could use another element. This will lead a drastic difference in DNA
its is impossible to have any idea what these kind of percentages mean, when you havnt got years of professional understanding of the topic, so dont even try to extrapolate anything from a healine like x has y % dna same as z. this means nothing, when you dont understand gentics on a high level
@@gudrunhartfaust9378 I didn't said this percentages means something. I am just saying that %5 or %10 difference in DNA may be sound small but it is huge
Let’s just hope that if they’re that much more intelligent than us, they aren’t that much more arrogant because of it. Hopefully that 5% implies a deeper capacity for empathy and mercy upon us 😂😅
imagine that, by mercy we put animal on zoo for their own good (panda) imagine they saw us like that , that would mean they have empathy for us but to us look like emprisonment ...
@mike garcia Niel isn't that big brain, I mean just to mention a few things. His ego is pretty big (and his knowledge not so) , he's smart but ignorant. I mean that's what the comment is talking about. The fact he believes he's always right no matter what. Niel isn't the best we have to offer.
Also aliens: this man just insulted our intelligence by thinking we have to ask ourselves, why humans are using cars to travel. Maybe it’s because humans aren’t capable of teleportation durrrrrrr
Ik ur trying to make a meme, but we’re not paying for water, we’re paying for the labor behind gathering, filtering, purifying, bottling and distributing water for ease of access and safe consumption.
On average they would literally advance from going to work and watching TV to having hobbies. And those that have hobbies would advance to being good in it, and those on top would be just happier than they are 🤣
Well I assume he meant 5% smarter than the smartest human. There is a biological limit to our intelligence, our brains are only so advanced. Lets say As much as I love to bag on this guy I think you are misinterpreting what he meant.@@Its_charley
I'm surprised Neil didn't interrupt himself during this video. Edit: I'm loving the comments. I used to listen to start talk, I love listening to those topics, and Chuck Nice is a good comedic relief... however, Niel is condescending and cuts everyone off once he has a thought while someone is speaking. Not because of Joe Rogan I made this comment. Ya'll can chill, it's my opinion
A banana has 50% identical DNA with a human. A human and a human cancer tumor have 99.99999% identical DNA. Similarity does not constitute significance. And the significant information here is that Neil is clueless and he says only things that sound cool without thinking.
No he wouldn't the average person's IQ is 100. 5% more is 105. Einsteins IQ was like 160. So if the average IQ of the alien was 105, a dumb alien would be much lower than 100
@@Dc-kk9bd that's not how it works lol going by ur logic a chimp would be smarter than many humans since by ur logic it's iq would be 99 nd there r many countries with average iq below 80
@@-IGRIS- no. I'm saying he's wrong. And a smart chimp is way smarter than a dumb human. Its not even close. Just watch them take tests and compete against scientists and crush them. If u and a chimp try to learn sign language at the same time, the chimp would learn much faster than you
Correct. The DNA responsible for our intelligence is actually a tiny number of changes relative to all the differences between us. How much smarter we are is not proportional to the changes, but rather related to what the actual changes did.
We also share about half of our DNA with bananas don’t we? That isn’t to say that we have double the intelligence of a banana. I don’t think the equivalence between similar dna and intelligence can be compared like that.
@@MM-pv5tpNo its not. Not in every factor. Theres is a bird that is less related to us than a chimp and has sinilar if not greater intelligence to chimp. But as so, they are limited to their body and compisition.
@@bitgh0st he's not saying .5% smarter, he's say the .5% contributes to our higher intelligence. If he was saying .5% smarter he would just word it that way.
People keep thinking Aliens would look hash, naked, and dirty. If a creature is much smarter than human, wouldn't it make sense that they would also look cleaner, healthier, and perhaps have on impressive fashion designs?? Maybe their intellect and appearance would seem to us as the literal definition of an angel even if they didnt have humanoid features?!
the question would then be, is fashion smart seen from an intelliget point of view. Or is fashion only smart see from an extreme consumer and capital point of view.
@@nicolaichristensen4207 fashion is a mating thing so to speak, It also is about status too..I would assume anything vastly intelligent wouldn't need that because it's animalistic in a way. And they could possibly reproduce without a mate...so maybe they're "clothes" would be for different environments if they were sensitive to certain climates or atmospheres.
@@jonathan2847 No kidding, it will achieve in a few seconds what took us a hundred thousand years to achieve. All of human knowledge is but a single point of data for it, from that it draws conclusions that we couldn't possibly make and starts creating its own knowledge base from that point on. Within the first year it will have ideas beyond anything we have even started to comprehend. We help it build on those ideas physically until it no longer needs us around to help it. We best be nice to it and each other when that time comes because the last thing we want is to upset the mind of a god.
Im fairly certain they would find us just as fascinating as we would them. Humans that are grounded and yearn for understanding tend to appreciate seemingly simple yet truely complex creatures. Ants and bees are insanely complex. But only if you look at them.
