Would you as people consider us "animals?"

[QUOTE="UT_Wrestler"] Are you kidding? Animals kill each other over territory and mating rights all the time.markop2003

Just had a discussion on this in a recent thread that was basically identical to this one. I tried to explain to a couple people that warfare is not people fighting (means "warfare =/= people fighting"); there's more to it than that. I was marginally successful in my efforts.

We are part animal and part divine. We have the same basic needs and instincts as other mammals, but we are endowed by God with intelligence and problem-solving skills that are far beyond even the most intelligent animal.UT_Wrestler

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"Problem solving skills far beyond even the most intelligent animal" ? I think not.

[QUOTE="UT_Wrestler"]We are part animal and part divine. We have the same basic needs and instincts as other mammals, but we are endowed by God with intelligence and problem-solving skills that are far beyond even the most intelligent animal.svenus97

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"Problem solving skills far beyond even the most intelligent animal" ? I think not.

I don't think that's the kind of problem-solving skills he's talking about.

Well we aren't fungi, so I'll go with animals.

Yes, because that's how we are classified biologically.

We're more like parasites, actually

Yes, because that's how we are classified biologically.

With-Hatred

We are not animals because that's how we're classified. Rather, we are classified that way because we are animals. Subtle difference.

Alfred Korzybski's General Semantics

Chemical Binders: All life forms can make chemical changes

Space Binders: Humans and animals have self-locomotion

Time Binders: Humans alone can aticipate and imagine the future and remember the past

Hatiko

We're more like parasites, actually

RabidChocobo1

No more than any other form of life, except for differing scales.

Most of you mortals are.

Well we aren't fungi, so I'll go with animals.

dagreenfish

http://discovermagazine.com/2009/jan/071

In every sense of the word, yes. Humans are animals

[QUOTE="RabidChocobo1"]

We're more like parasites, actually

GabuEx

No more than any other form of life, except for differing scales.

more natural forms of life give and take... humans mostly take and take until our host is dead, in which time we too, will die, unless we can find a new planet/host to occupy

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[QUOTE="RabidChocobo1"]

We're more like parasites, actually

RabidChocobo1

No more than any other form of life, except for differing scales.

more natural forms of life give and take... humans mostly take and take until our host is dead, in which time we too, will die, unless we can find a new planet/host to occupy

No they don't. The only form of giving that any form of life is genetically programmed to do is that which helps its own survival and reproduction. A form of life that gave without concern for its own well-being would be one that would go extinct very quickly. The idea that humans are parasites or a cancer upon the earth as though we were fundamentally different from all other forms of life in this respect is just as wrong as the idea that humans are somehow objectively universally superior and fundamentally different from all other forms of life in that respect.

Honestly, people, lrn2biology. :P

Yes, we have all the basic animal instincts as any other lifeform. We always want to nurture, always are attracted to the oppisite sex (Gays are the exception of course) but you get they idea. We are animals.

[QUOTE="dagreenfish"]

Well we aren't fungi, so I'll go with animals.

Rougehunter

http://discovermagazine.com/2009/jan/071

That's pretty interesting. :)

When dolphins decide they want to evolve to land mammals, our inferiorly organized brains will be no match for them and we'll be dunDivergeUnify

Yes... I don't think that the ability to self actualise or communicate efficiently sets humanity above anything else in all honesty.

Yeah. We are eukaryotic multicellular heterotrophs lacking cell walls, so yeah, we're animals.

Yeah. We are eukaryotic multicellular heterotrophs lacking cell walls, so yeah, we're animals.

MetroidPrimePwn

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