Are human beings really so different from animals?
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Or are we just more "specialized" than others through adaption to our environment?
Cuttlefish are descendants of the slug, however, through time they have adapted most extraordinarily to levels seemingly unimaginable.
So you can appreciate what you are seeing...all cuttlefish are white and colorless. Any color or texture they exhibit is a thought process created intentionally by them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x-8v1mxpR0
So...from a slug to a Cuttlefish. What were humans originally then?... or... what was the slug before the slug? Are cuttlefish that much more incredible and special than us to develop so vastly while we have styed the same? ....Man was supposedly created in gods image... so I guess god is a blob or mass of something looking nothing at all like us.
The reality of evolution before your very eyes....
Watch:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/preview/i_3404.html
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Cuttlefish are descendants of the slug, however, through time they have adapted most extraordinarily to levels seemingly unimaginable.
So you can appreciate what you are seeing...all cuttlefish are white and colorless. Any color or texture they exhibit is a thought process created intentionally by them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x-8v1mxpR0
So...from a slug to a Cuttlefish. What were humans originally then?... or... what was the slug before the slug? Are cuttlefish that much more incredible and special than us to develop so vastly while we have styed the same? ....Man was supposedly created in gods image... so I guess god is a blob or mass of something looking nothing at all like us.
The reality of evolution before your very eyes....
Watch:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/preview/i_3404.html
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Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
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and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
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we have cars, guns, bands, internet porn and cheesecake...
I guess you skipped the understanding part...
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
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rule....and that means what exactly?
strip away the inorganic elements of man's creation and I like to see your thumb rule things in the wild...
dude...you'd be dinner...
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In-fact our brains are very very similar. Ours are a bit superior.
I believe it's all purely environmental influence and the "pressures" imposed therein. 1 tiny highly evolved virus can wipe us all out. Impose a pressure on a strain of bacteria and it inflicts growth and adaptation over successive generations.
I find it interesting that many animals look the same because they have evolved to perfection. The Thomson's gazelle is a good example of this. There are bound tightly in a particular form of existence (hunted agressively) so they remain the same. they are niched or fated to a specific condition of existence.
Only when the genetic composition begins to break down do we see wider variation in a species. Like man for example....we all look different as our gene pool is degrading somewhat from a integrity perspective. Babies that would normally not survive in the wild are kept alive now. We are changing our natural course of nature, and introducing undesirable elements.
All cause and effect.
We are just animals 2.0...
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
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pps, I hunt or grow most of my food when in the states, so I think I'd do just fine.
huh? I'm not angry....just stating facts on a highly misunderstood issue.
Looking for intelligent discussion that's all. My point is that when naked, like all other animals, were are not so for removed as to be divine. Outside of our element we are much less than many animals in terms of survival and dominance.
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over specific principles, goals, and policies.
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We are specialized in some regards...but so are other animals. We can't camouflage our skin, or live underwater so well, or possess the superior strength, speed, and agility of some. tit for tat...same deal..
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Do0n't under-rate thiumbs.
We don't lock ourselves into a behavioural niche, we use our thumbs and our brains to enable us to survive from deserts to mountaintops to snowfields to outer space. Instead of relying on "organic elelments" as you put it, we survive by being able to manipulate inorganic ones. Like the spring I suspect you have in your aneurysm.
No, I don't think we are very different. I use lots of behavioural analogies, esp for boy behaviour , between my colts and human boys. I use adolescent albatross behaviour to teach parents not to ground their children.
I think ahnimus needs to get his bolts tightened if he thinks bacteria have brains, but other mammals certainly do. The fuirther animlas get from us evolution wise, the less we resemble each other in behaviour, other than infra-species competition, that never goes away.
yeah thumbs for us...fins for fish... wings for birds...etc...etc... same deal... same advantage. I'm not seeing one over the other given environmental influence. It's all the same.
Like the spring relating to an aneurysm?.....what exactly is that?
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http://www.wnckids.com/images/vop.jpg.
Plus chimps, orangs and other old world primates have 4, not just 2.
When have you seen a bird start a fire with its wings? I'm not saying I'm any better than an animal, just that the HUGE brain I have makes it easier for me to adapt.
Plus did you ever think that just for you to be here, you human precursers had to live in the wild and not be dinner.
You in yourself are a sucess in nature.
Ithink he was saying you have a hole in your brain.
no, not at all... The ants think they are smart too
I'd suggest that our success as a very vulnerable species several million years ago is that the females developed the menstral cycle instead of the eustrus cycle that other mammals have. It allowed a female to produce a baby a year as opposed to a chimp which only can have one about every 5 years. This allowed a huge population and easily replaced babies. A huge population means more diversity and when the weak were killed, which they probably were ALOT, the strong survived putting natural selection into fast forward, so to speak, leading from chimp like anscestors to us in just over 5 million years.
That's my theory anyway for what its worth. And I'm pretty well versed in this subject. Regardless, I think the development of the menstraul cycle is themost significan/unique adaptation in human history.
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humans ARE animals. the difference is our free will. if i am hungry and see a loaf of bread; i can choose to steal it or remain hungry. a hungry animal will steal the bread based in it's instinct for survival.
God created us in his image; then put us in this "vehicle" for our life on earth. the "image" is not our human image; but the image that goes on after this body or vehicle dies.
Too often I see society heading towards a serious disconnect with reality in this regard....
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naw just the people who make and sell the shit...it's cancer.
Cancer combo's...
git some...mmm...tumors...
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over specific principles, goals, and policies.
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and i guess you skipped cheesecake
I've had my fair share....but in reality all it does is make your ass fat....:D
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Yes. Also it was proven goldfish have a memory span of months and can interpret the passage of time. They can also exhibit problem solving skills. Octopus can twist open jars of food in as little as 10 seconds after watching their keepers do it a few times.
These are not casual levels of consciousness and perception.
Our understanding of nature has become seriously faded and self centered over time.
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