What truly distinguishes us?
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silver_tears
As humans from other animals?
What do you think it is? Speech? Abstract thought? etc.
dave123
the key difference is our intelligence: we don't survive by survival of the fittest, we accept any offspring and try to bring out the best in them
most animals will have (just say) 100 babies, of which only the 10 most adapted to survive will be the next generation
thats about it
Arachnoidfreak
Start from page 6, Alpha Centauri and I answer this question. http://www.killermovies.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=301407&perpage=20&highlight=free%20me&pagenumber=6
big gay kirk
we're nothing special... just another animal with the tools for survival... only as distinct from a mouse as a lion is from a rhino....
dave123
but we're not
we survive very differently to most other animals
Nazgulinthedark
humans are different from other animals because, as my geography teacher once explained, that we, instead of using brute force, or speed to defend ourselves from other animals, we use our mind and outsmart it.
The Force
you mean other than intelligence, well we do have the most complex brain, i believe, and of course that couldn't have came by chance
yerssot
try that in the evolution thread
The Force
tried it already, too many hethans on the boards
j/k
yerssot
or lack of proof on your side?
The Force
schmoll nope evidence was there... for both sides, but the deductions were different
darth_surgent
What distinguishes us?
Pornography.......... seriously...............think about it.
yerssot
both sides? wow, you must have missed the "post reply" button when you wrote that
Nazgulinthedark
and the fact that humans are the only animals that have sex for pleasure
The Force
huh? yerss you should do stand up comedy, so i can't be the only one laughing at that lame joke
just messin
silver_tears
dolphins too
sailormoon
I agree intelligence level is all that separates us. And do dolphins really have sex for pleasure?
The Force
you forgot about dolphins, but then again they'd be the only ANIMALS to have sex for pleasure, but what about monkeys?
mc pee pants
there are two things the species of this rock stive upon. one is survival. the other, breeding. we are animal as animal can get. our distinguishing characteristics? opposable thumbs and cognitive thinking.
Corlindel
The monkeys too
The difference is that humans pay for sex pleasure
...and ofc our DNA
Linkalicious
it's all about the opposable thumb!
silver_tears
I'll see what i can do
yerssot
BONOBOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
(sorry, brought back a funny little scene from two years ago
)
not sure how you write it in english but bonobo's (?) have sex for pleasure too and they pay with it too... like: I get this banana, you get the sex
darth_surgent
Oh Bonobo, will you ever learn?
Papaumau
Silver Tears.........
Humans stand above the animals because of our advanced sentience. We are self-aware where the lower orders are not. We are naturally cruel where the lower orders are not. We have advanced pleasure-centres, ( already mentioned ), in our brains. We Kill for pleasure as well as gain, where the animals don't and we have sex for pleasure where few of the lower-orders do, ( this one is hard to confirm ! ).
Besides our lesser or greater moral instincts and desires we also have the capability to generate original thought and to manufacture original art and literature and music - which the lower animals can not.
Like many of the other predators we have our eyes in the front of our heads instead of on the sides of our heads but we have an ability that none of the other predators have that makes us the most dangerous creatures on the earth: Along with the cognative ability that we have, ( already mentioned ), we have the ability to look into the future and make accurate estimates about what will happen if we do this or that. Because we can estimate future possible outcomes of our actions we can hunt and kill much more easily than the the rest of the animals on the earth can. Add to that our ability with our opposable thumb and our cognative abilities to create technology and this raises us far above the other intelligent creatures like the Dolphin or the Ape.
On top of all this our ability to think and to imagine and to theorise makes us vulnerable to the thoughts and ideas of other humans. From this comes the ideas of religion and of faith that even although we are powerful thinkers ourselves makes us also weak and easily influenced by stronger and more ambitious personalities.
So, you see, even although we are much more mentally advanced than the lower-order animals we pay for this ability by being wonderfully creative and good at one end only to terribly destructive and evil at the other end.
The animals don't have these gifts or these curses.
THIS....is what distinguishes us !
Corlindel
But that is a payment under the rules of Fair Trade Labelling Organizations International (FLO)!!! So they are different from us and less stupid and less corrupted than us.
What truly distinguishes us is our ability to learn; but we still have a lot to learn with monkeys
dave123
either that, or porn
Capt_Fantastic
The way I see it is that we are set apart because of our ability to conceptualize. I look at the book sitting next to me and say it's blue. A dolphine may be able to do that, but then again, the dolphine or monkey won't wonder why it's blue...or what makes it blue.
Another thing that sets us apart is our need for excess. This wasn't always the case. I don't think that cave men killed entire herds of buffalo for their skins. They killed what buffalo they needed to kill for their survival. It was all very in order with nature.
So, I don't think it's our humanity that has made us cruel, but rather our advancement as a species....which is a result of our intelligence. We are still animals, base animals. But what makes us different is that we strive to exist outside the naural order of the world.
Conversly, I think that for every step forward we make, we lose a step that we took in the past. So, when we gain one thing, we lose another. And I think that's something we aren't even aware of. Look at all the amazing things we did as a species in our past. Cures for diseases, building pyramids, creating society, etc. When we deny nature and our need to exist inside of it, we lose the benefits of doing so at the same time. So many mysteries of our past have been lost to time, but were they really lost to time or to our humanity?
Gory Game Lover
We are animals.But few other animals are as intelligent as us.No other animals have sex like us anyway!
Papaumau
One-liners about sex and pornography are eye-catching and glib but the human condition is much much more than that !
yerssot
almost every animal is that
[NotResponding]
What distinguishes us?
Clothes, religion, money, i dunno
WindDancer
I believe that OUR ability to create Art distinguishes us from the Animals.
yerssot
BONOBO! BONOBOBONOBOBONOBOBONOBOBONOBOBONOBOBONOBOBONOBOBO
NOBOBONOBOBONOBOBONOBOBONOBOBONOBOBONOBOBONOBOBONO
BOBONOBOBONOBOBONOBOBONOBOBONOBOBONOBOBONOBOBONOBO
BONOBOBONOBOBONOBOBONOBOBONOBOBONOBOBONOBOBONOBO... I'm sorry, it's still that scene that haunts me
mc pee pants
okay, everone that say says it's porn and thumbs, raise your hand and say "aye"...rock
Baylin
Nothing I am an animal!
[NotResponding]
we're all animals, just more 'evolved'
RaventheOnly
See i don't get that... you say more evolved... when we all had the same amount of time apparently... and in some cases far less.....
dave123
some animals were lazy, and didnt bother evolving, given they had the same amount of time
Kaleanae
The shape of the cranium/skull
Evy_O
the number of our chromosoms along with the morphology of them
seriously... that's the one
dave123
that's too vague
which features, exactly?
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