What Makes Us Human? Comparative Philosophy of Human And Animal Consciousness
Consciousness as detailed and complex as ours is able to form realities beyond the instinctive nature of animals.
Consider the reality experienced by the tribes of wolves in the wintry dunes of snow and freezing northern winters.
In a realm that is more dictated by the conditions of the environment rather than how it is shaped with the abilities to think.
Not varying in degree in which the thinking skills have been advanced.
Lacking the accumulation of known history that in the case of humans fills the mental landscapes as representational portraits.
Their lives are but moving from one hunting ground to another and learning through imitation better hunting strategies.
With the life expectancy of up to twelve years of struggling existence for survival, they wander without the benefits of the development to more complex forms of being through consciousness.
Why? It was knowledge that shaped the antique pharaoh to become a pharaoh.
It is knowledge that shapes the educated business man who is about to learn from experience that what is to be a leader of a business enterprise.
Without knowledge organizing its foundations from, the sentience of wolves is limited solely to the bidirectional development witnessed in evolution.
They cannot guide the trajectories of their cultural reality by creating knowledge that can prevent global disasters.
They cannot create means to alter the trajectories of asteroids that could end the history of life on Earth.
They cannot create cultural events like the 20th century French surrealist movement that would paint our history with intriguing imagery.
Yet wolves have personalities, intelligence, emotional life, and an individual "I".
In essence, a soul, as we cannot duplicate the individual "I" with cloning, even though we can clone identical genetic structures.
To produce the causal event of conducting individual's "I" into existence is still beyond the range of our capabilities.
The tribes of wolves are limited to exist outside the infinite possibilities in knowledge.
They are more defined by the instinct and genetic information actualized in their innate nature.
And although lacking the sophistication of the human brain, tuned to even higher organization with the developed knowledge our modern kind, a wolf must non-the-less be admitted to be a distinctive existential cultural realm.
A form of life whose existence in a void would be at least as miraculous as the emergence of life itself in the unbound rich forms the cosmos must contain.
What separates humans from other animals are in scale and in degree increasing the more developed forms of knowledge shapes our subconscious.
Enabling us travel in mental, representational realms incomprehensible to animals.
Consider the reality experienced by the tribes of wolves in the wintry dunes of snow and freezing northern winters.
In a realm that is more dictated by the conditions of the environment rather than how it is shaped with the abilities to think.
Not varying in degree in which the thinking skills have been advanced.
Lacking the accumulation of known history that in the case of humans fills the mental landscapes as representational portraits.
Their lives are but moving from one hunting ground to another and learning through imitation better hunting strategies.
With the life expectancy of up to twelve years of struggling existence for survival, they wander without the benefits of the development to more complex forms of being through consciousness.
Why? It was knowledge that shaped the antique pharaoh to become a pharaoh.
It is knowledge that shapes the educated business man who is about to learn from experience that what is to be a leader of a business enterprise.
Without knowledge organizing its foundations from, the sentience of wolves is limited solely to the bidirectional development witnessed in evolution.
They cannot guide the trajectories of their cultural reality by creating knowledge that can prevent global disasters.
They cannot create means to alter the trajectories of asteroids that could end the history of life on Earth.
They cannot create cultural events like the 20th century French surrealist movement that would paint our history with intriguing imagery.
Yet wolves have personalities, intelligence, emotional life, and an individual "I".
In essence, a soul, as we cannot duplicate the individual "I" with cloning, even though we can clone identical genetic structures.
To produce the causal event of conducting individual's "I" into existence is still beyond the range of our capabilities.
The tribes of wolves are limited to exist outside the infinite possibilities in knowledge.
They are more defined by the instinct and genetic information actualized in their innate nature.
And although lacking the sophistication of the human brain, tuned to even higher organization with the developed knowledge our modern kind, a wolf must non-the-less be admitted to be a distinctive existential cultural realm.
A form of life whose existence in a void would be at least as miraculous as the emergence of life itself in the unbound rich forms the cosmos must contain.
What separates humans from other animals are in scale and in degree increasing the more developed forms of knowledge shapes our subconscious.
Enabling us travel in mental, representational realms incomprehensible to animals.