Does it bother you???

[Sunde91]

That you're an animal

Urges, desires, needs..emotional, sexual, social, ego feeding...can't control it or you go crazy.

WE ARE ANIMALS

[Brock Landers]

a sex animal maybe

[Sunde91]

Why doesn't my all caps show up after i post. This title was supposed to be in caps.

[Jimmy Proffett]

It didn't. Up until now. Won't sleep tonight that's for sure.

[Extra Innings]

You outlined what distinguishes us from animals

[Sunde91]

EI, real animals live off instincts, there is little to no thinking.

Most people live off emotions, a near substitute for instincts imo. There is no rational basis for emotions, desires, or urges. We are still living as the creatures that we evolved from over hunreds of thousands of years.

I think we are getting worse as a whole, more and more emotional, more and more pleasure seeking animals.

People in civilized countries (East Asia, Europe, US/Canada, etc.) up until the last 50 years would look at us in horror as mindless animals with no morals and no purpose. But maybe religion/the state kept people in order then

Just look at this forum! Degenerates who will kill for action, guys down 100k betting dogs, taking out a loan on the house to stay in the chase, sex addicts everywhere like Dad, fuks who get mindlessly shit faced every weekend to the point where they can't remember anything, drugees, wannabe gangstas who talk in ebonics, the works!

I'm delirious

[Extra Innings]

Actually, Sunde91...

The people on this forum (including myself) are closer to primates when it comes to higher level decision making.

[rookie]

People in civilized countries (East Asia, Europe, US/Canada, etc.) up until the last 50 years would look at us in horror as mindless animals with no morals and no purpose.

Ah that peaceful and prosperous period. Just hark back to 19th and 20th centuries; colonialism, Nazism, endless wars: all perfect indicators of morals, purpose and civilization.

[DiggityDaggityDo]

I like to fuk and eat red meat. It does not bother me one bit.

[acarmelo1]

nope, I am an Animal Woof Woof

[JoeB]

Animal Consciousness

First published Sat Dec 23, 1995; substantive revision Wed Feb 3, 2010
There are many reasons for philosophical interest in nonhuman animal (hereafter “animal”) consciousness. First, if philosophy often begins with questions about the place of humans in nature, one way humans have attempted to locate themselves is by comparison and contrast with those things in nature most similar to themselves, i.e., other animals. Second, the problem of determining whether animals are conscious stretches the limits of knowledge and scientific methodology (beyond breaking point, according to some). Third, the question of whether animals are conscious beings or “mere automata”, as Cartesians would have it, is of considerable moral significance given the dependence of modern societies on mass farming and the use of animals for biomedical research. Fourth, while theories of consciousness are frequently developed without special regard to questions about animal consciousness, the plausibility of such theories has sometimes been assessed against the results of their application to animal consciousness.
Questions about animal consciousness are just one corner of a more general set of questions about animal cognition and mind. The so-called “cognitive revolution” that took place during the latter half of the 20th century has led to many innovative experiments by comparative psychologists and ethologists probing the cognitive capacities of animals. The philosophical issues surrounding the interpretation of experiments to investigate perception, learning, categorization, memory, spatial cognition, numerosity, communication, language, social cognition, theory of mind, causal reasoning, and metacognition in animals are discussed in the entry on animal cognition. Despite all this work, the topic of consciousness per se in animals has remained controversial, even taboo, among scientists, even while it remains a matter of common sense to most people that many other animals do have conscious experiences....

[Chi_archie]

I love it

[BatemanPatrickl]

Wow this guy Sunde is the next Darwin. Man this is deep.

[Chuck74]