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Because a species that makes the same mistakes over and over isn't a species for very long, it's just a dead end. Getting sick from a particular plant, for example, or knowing not to attempt eating that thing with all the spines again.

Just look at our own species in contrast with Neanderthal man. We, like the PS4, have a lot of working memory, or RAM, while the Neanderthal had good HDD storage and retrieval but very little RAM. The victor, in both instances, is as clear as day. RAM is win.