Not chewing your leg off when caught in a trap, but waiting for the hunter to return and take out an enemy of your kind. (cookies if you get the reference)
No, I believe animals can go to heaven if there is one, its just that my interpretation of a soul is bit different than the popular vision.JoesshittyOs said:Is this one of those "Dogs don't go to heaven" things?Haseo21 said:I don't want to say "soul" because I don't think everyone believes in one, but, personally, that is one to me.
I'm going to have to go with the ability to stray from instinct and making certain decisions based on critical thinking.
Because I disagree strongly
And that "particular way" is what I think separates us. We were the first primates to start making tools and planting crops. No other animal has spread its influence as far we have. THAT is separates us. And it is all that great because that "particular way" is what drives us to land on the moon, build skyscrapers, engineer microchips. Because that slight change altered the behavior of the whole species.Azahul said:And that, there, is a big part of my point. We're no different from animals. The only reason we have all this technology and visible and obvious culture is because we evolved in a particular way. There's nothing innately special about humans that separates us from animals. We just evolved in a slightly different manner to the other species around us. Which isn't anything great in and of itself, if everything evolved the same way there would be only one species, which would be kinda weird.A Satanic Panda said:But those wouldn't not be gorillas and orangutans, but a species with gorilla and orangutan ancestors. If evolution took its course, they would probably looking alot like humans.
I'm pretty sure there's like a checklist with 7 things on it you need to be considered sentient.Nouw said:Creativity and in some cases, sentience. But I've never really seen a solid definition for sentience. Some people tell me it's self-awareness, others tell me it's having a subjective experience.
my favorite clip is the one that shows the dog trying to bite it's own footRasmus Emilsson said:Stupidity
actually the title mammal only applies to warm blooded creatures that give live birthZhadramekel said:Ok correct me if I'm wrong here but I thought that both humans and animals were both classed as mammals, not animals. But the first thing that springs to mind is that humans can speak.
Creativity and imagination.CulixCupric said:What do you think separates humans from other animals?