In summary, the conversation discusses the chances of life evolving into an intelligent species on a planet with the necessary ingredients for life. Some believe that intelligence is a necessary outcome of evolution, while others argue that it requires luck or a long period of time for intelligence to develop. There is also a debate on whether intelligence is the same as knowledge, and if humans are the only intelligent species in the universe. The conversation concludes that intelligence is a valuable survival trait, but it took a long time for it to become a dominant trait in human evolution.
I don't believe it necessarily does. Biological complexity, like intelligence, is a response to an environmental pressure. If an organism has no need to grow in complexity, it simply does not. After all, we still have bacteria and viruses today, the simplest forms of life known.
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But we also have organisms that are more complex than bacteria, you could view it from both sides. Yeah the simplest forms of life still exist but complex life does too, so I guess another question is will complex life emerge from simple life?, not all simple life evolve to complex life.