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"Intelligence, in the sense of the ability to learn from experience, is a product of natural selection. But its greatest survival value lies not merely in adapting to the environment, but in the ability to criticize and reject ideas. The survival value of intelligence is that it allows us to extinct a bad idea, before the idea extincts us. This is the essence of the critical method: we let our hypotheses die in our stead, as I have often put it. By criticizing our ideas, by testing them against reality, we can avoid the disastrous consequences of acting on false or harmful beliefs. This is what distinguishes human intelligence from the trial-and-error learning of other animals."
—Karl Popper, Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach (1972), Chapter 7, p. 243

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