What do you mean by special?
Are humans more "deserving" of peace and love than other animals? I don't think so. Are we unique as metacognitive symbol users? Apparently so (though, IMO, this does not necessarily make us more deserving). We're the tip of consciousness, able to ask the biggest questions.
Originally posted by Alfheim
Ok lets rephrase the question. Does the intelligence of the human race make it the most mportant species?
lol
I'd say its our civilizations and culture, not our "intelligence". They are closely related, but I find intelligence a bad word to use in this. Don't want those Green-os to think you are calling animals stupid 😄
haha, in reality its just that "intelligence" is very difficult to define.
Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
From our PoV? Hellz yeah!From anything elses? No, not at all.
Well like i've been saying our intellignce can enable us to "evolve" into highier lifeforms such as robots and its not completely illogical to think we could find a way to become living energy. Other creatures and animals cannot.
I dunno people say everything is subjective but you got to draw the line somewhere.
Originally posted by inimalist
lolI'd say its our civilizations and culture, not our "intelligence". They are closely related, but I find intelligence a bad word to use in this. Don't want those Green-os to think you are calling animals stupid 😄
haha, in reality its just that "intelligence" is very difficult to define.
Argh!
Originally posted by Alfheim
Well like i've been saying our intellignce can enable us to "evolve" into highier lifeforms such as robots and its not completely illogical to think we could find a way to become living energy. Other creatures and animals cannot.
wow, I missed that part of the thread....
maybe look up what "energy" is... It cannot have substance in the way you think it can. It's not the X-Men, Energy isn't this pink or blue substance that just permiates everything.
Originally posted by Alfheim
Ok.....but energy can be controlled can't it?
not in the way I believe you are phrasing it. In physics "energy" refers to the potential for something to interact with something.
For instance, "heat" is the transmitter of potential action from a chemical reaction to other matter. There is no "energy" in a tangible sense.
Originally posted by inimalist
not in the way I believe you are phrasing it. In physics "energy" refers to the potential for something to interact with something.For instance, "heat" is the transmitter of potential action from a chemical reaction to other matter. There is no "energy" in a tangible sense.
Well anyway i'll look it up.
Originally posted by inimalist
What does this have to do with anything?Ok, so a man in a sash with a knige in the jungle is special. Very special in fact. The fact that this man might die is redundant. Take a fish out of the water and then critisize it for not being able to breathe.
This is point: everyone speaks as if men can do anything and everything. We are just animals if you take into account one man. It would be the civilizations that set men apart but that does not make them special though.
What the hell do we mean by special? Better than other creatures?
Originally posted by chithappens
This is point: everyone speaks as if men can do anything and everything. We are just animals if you take into account one man. It would be the civilizations that set men apart but that does not make them special though.What the hell do we mean by special? Better than other creatures?
ya, I'd agree with you. I took special to mean unique. And importance to be more of a universiality, such as, it is more important if another intelligent life form found us on this planet than a tree or zebra, given the complexity of the interactions that would follow.
I wouldn't say humans are better than other creatures without specifying what I think they are better at.
Originally posted by inimalist
🙄/sigh
or we can be like a superhero and channel mystic extra-dimensional energies through our fingertips on quantum wavelength fluctuations, tapping into the supersymmetry of the meta cognitive universe.
I don't know what that was all about. I said I would look into it.
Originally posted by AlfheimImportant in terms of what? Searching for meaning? Conceptualizing as to what may lie behind the phenomenal world? We seek the Big Picture, one way or another. As far as we know, no other creature is like this.
Ok lets rephrase the question. Does the intelligence of the human race make it the most mportant species?
Originally posted by inimalistThat sounds pretty cool, actually.
or we can be like a superhero and channel mystic extra-dimensional energies through our fingertips on quantum wavelength fluctuations, tapping into the supersymmetry of the meta cognitive universe.
Take out religious overtones, and we're just animals. And there's definitely some people who don't accomplish anything or do harm to others. So on an inidividual level, no, we're not all special.
As a species, also no. We have by far the highest intelligence and level of consciousness, but that doesn't confer some special place in the hierarchy of the cosmos. Most dominant species on Earth? Sure. So if you're talking about physical or mental superiority, we're >> them. But the definition of "special" is crucial, because any other way we're no more important than any other species.
Originally posted by inimalist
or we can be like a superhero and channel mystic extra-dimensional energies through our fingertips on quantum wavelength fluctuations, tapping into the supersymmetry of the meta cognitive universe.
Rock!