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RE: Humans Are Not Smarter Than Other Forms Of Life, Just Different

in #philosophy7 years ago

But a human in the water that didn't learn how to swim and he will drown. Put a human in a desert where he has not learned how to survive he will die. There is no human that holds the knowledge of the whole species. We evolve and adapt just like animals, we are the same only we seem to be able to put our capacities to cruel use. We create answers to complex problems that create increasingly more complex problems. Humans still die on a daily basis. All over the world people are dying because they haven't learned or predicted things that think they feel they could have. Humans commit suicide, they die in wars, through genocides, they die of hunger, through torture, because of love or hate. If you look at human behaviour on a individual level, we are utterly silly and laughably stupid, which is fine because it is fun and we like it. It doesn't make us 'smarter' than animals. We haven't learned how to overcome death in any way. Would you sacrifice anything for the survival of the species? Honestly? What would that mean for a species that calls itself human. If being smart is our purpose, but there is no meaning to it, why would we want it anyway? So if being smart is what we aim for without any purpose we are just doing things in a more complex way. Random complex activity is not the same as being smart.