How did our ability to think at the level we do evolve in the first place.

How did our ability to think at the level we do evolve in the first place... did XM and the "Shaper Mind Virus" play a role?
http://investigate.ingress.com/2018/01/22/mind-virus/

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  1. Wouldn't it be better called "Exogenous Mind Virus" at this point, considering the knowledge of more races than the Shapers?

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  2. The human body is full of viral DNA and, in turn, viral proteins that have been repurposed.

    I wouldn't go so far as to say the mind virus is why we think as other organisms think and remember as well or better than we do. Some, like cephalopods, have distributed that power across their entire bodies.

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  3. A Popular theory about the Brain Evolution is that it was caused by Spores from outer space that grown into Mushrooms consumed by early human.
    That change the perception and open the mind to new discoveries.
    We (as Ingress Players) can theorize that the Spores where the Shapers Virus.

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  4. CAUTION! this image is dangerous. my intuition says so. don't look at it closely. it might have virus which works through our visual organs.

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  5. Michel Matteau did you eat too much 'magic mushrooms'?

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  6. I agree with Mustafa Said​... Shapers have never been alone. Nzeer, Tecthulhus, Exogenous.... Things we have known have now been around for much longer than previously believed....

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  7. The spores idea is not new, where do you think the story for the old War Of the Worlds and Invasion of the Body Snatcher came from?

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  8. It could be possible that XM "saw" what plants and fungi were doing and with sending nutrients and/or warnings through the water and air. Then copied such data into us, then watched us evolve to use and abuse.

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  9. This is facinating. We know that the Shaper Mind Virus goes one of two ways, it either assists with memory or it destroys your mind. But that is rare. This may be the explanation is and many researchers are looking for. Oliver Lynton-Wolfe looked into this... No one believed him.

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  10. Human evolution was first driven by individual intelligence, but as society developed social intelligence became a higher priority to natural selection. Perhaps that's what got Shaper attention. The symbol they have for themselves means either Shaper or collective. So they seem to indentify more with the group.

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