If you leave a child alone in a forest, in millions of years it will be dead.

A child left alone in the forest would likely die without parents or someone to teach it how to survive. The same way that a puppy would die without a parent to teach it how to hunt and feed itself.

Also, if it did survive and find a mate, after a mllion years its ancestors would probably be a different a different species.

So, no, propbaly not.

"An gift" requires a giver.

If we leave a young child alone in the forest, he will die in a few days ... unless of course, he's Mowgli, with a bunch of animal friends who protect him. But then, he will need to find a mate, and so forth. And yet, out of the bush is whence we all came, including the scientists, anthropologists and physicists.

the mind is not a gift. it's not well understood, but we know it's not been given to us by anyone. if we leave a young child anywhere -- forest, city, 'burbs -- he won't become anything in millions of years because he'll be dead, and if he's alone, as you said, he won't even reproduce, so his progeny, after millions of years, won't exist.

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