Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Human/Non-Human Animals
The difference between Human Animals and Non-Human Animals, in my opinion, is in the way that we think. Humans think about ways to make to give us an advantage, and Non-Human Animals still think with their primal instincts. Humans will mainly think of means to get them ahead in life, like ways of getting more money or developing new tools, whereas our Non-Human counterparts primarily think of how to hunt or survive. Humans also think with a conscious, determining what is right and wrong. Animals don’t think with a conscious, they think with instinct, and that is what separates Human Animals from Non-Human Animals.
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Whether or not animals think is up for debate, as Mitchell shows when he talks about Povinelli's experiment: "Do these experiments tell us whether the similarity of chimp and human behaviors indicate a similarity of internal mental cognition? Povinelli concludes that it is still open to interpenetration." Furthermore, Smuts article talks about her experience with apes and it heavily implies that, they to, can think. Animals do not only think with 'instinct' if these results are right, depending on who views them.
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