September 21, 2009 at 13:46Animal Level +1
News from the Membrane:
The ability to reflect on the thinking of others, the ability to recognize the presence of a different consciousness and other feelings in another individual - for a long time these qualities were attributed exclusively to humans, or to any chimpanzee and orangutans with gorillas. However, it seems that this property of the psyche is present to one degree or another in other animals. It was not easy to answer which one ...
In nature, there are four levels - obviously, it is inanimate, plant, animal and human. *
The difference between the first three is obvious, while between an animal and a person in my present state it is more difficult to trace - yes, the person seems to be not so limited by space and time, in addition to the inborn program of behavior, I have what is called the mind, as well as sensation freedom of choice of my actions, but the more critical I look at all these human qualities, the less they have a real foundation and the more a person looks like an animal, only very much developed.
Well, for example, a feeling of freedom of choice.
I wake up in the morning and choose which of my desires to fulfill for me: to go to work or not to go. Not to go is nice, but then I will not get paid and I will suffer. It’s unpleasant to go, but then I’ll have something to get out of the refrigerator and what to go to the cinema to see Tim Burton’s new film. So I get up and go. Well, or vice versa - depending on what I rated as more pleasant - to bask in bed or be left without a livelihood.
Or I’m a girl, it’s evening, candles, etc. I am sitting in front of a piece of cake and thinking whether to eat it or not. Option A: eating is nice, but I will look bad and I will not like anyone, including myself. Option B - there is no cake, you will have to suffer for this, but my reward is good looks. I choose what is more important to me. I would not eat, for example (if I were a girl).
This is a banal calculation - I “choose”, preferring more pleasure to less, well, or at least less suffering over more, and I can not choose the opposite, because the desire to enjoy is my nature . And the mind does the calculation.
What qualities should the next level have after our animal? What is really my free choice?
To the point:
* Description of each level can be found here .
The ability to reflect on the thinking of others, the ability to recognize the presence of a different consciousness and other feelings in another individual - for a long time these qualities were attributed exclusively to humans, or to any chimpanzee and orangutans with gorillas. However, it seems that this property of the psyche is present to one degree or another in other animals. It was not easy to answer which one ...
In nature, there are four levels - obviously, it is inanimate, plant, animal and human. *
The difference between the first three is obvious, while between an animal and a person in my present state it is more difficult to trace - yes, the person seems to be not so limited by space and time, in addition to the inborn program of behavior, I have what is called the mind, as well as sensation freedom of choice of my actions, but the more critical I look at all these human qualities, the less they have a real foundation and the more a person looks like an animal, only very much developed.
Well, for example, a feeling of freedom of choice.
I wake up in the morning and choose which of my desires to fulfill for me: to go to work or not to go. Not to go is nice, but then I will not get paid and I will suffer. It’s unpleasant to go, but then I’ll have something to get out of the refrigerator and what to go to the cinema to see Tim Burton’s new film. So I get up and go. Well, or vice versa - depending on what I rated as more pleasant - to bask in bed or be left without a livelihood.
Or I’m a girl, it’s evening, candles, etc. I am sitting in front of a piece of cake and thinking whether to eat it or not. Option A: eating is nice, but I will look bad and I will not like anyone, including myself. Option B - there is no cake, you will have to suffer for this, but my reward is good looks. I choose what is more important to me. I would not eat, for example (if I were a girl).
This is a banal calculation - I “choose”, preferring more pleasure to less, well, or at least less suffering over more, and I can not choose the opposite, because the desire to enjoy is my nature . And the mind does the calculation.
What qualities should the next level have after our animal? What is really my free choice?
To the point:
* Description of each level can be found here .