Why We Think Differently Than Animals!

This is very interesting.

I would add that human beings, unlike animals, are forward and backwards-thinking. We can map out our ideas, beliefs, values, fears, culture. Meanwhile, animals are concerned with the immediate. They have fear, naturally, which results in flight or fright. But human beings suffer from an existential fear of death, constantly, and not just the immediate fear that animals suffer from. This is only one example of the concsiousness that animals do not have, scientifically speaking.

I meant fight or flight..

That is, of course, assuming that you are referring to the segment of the population that actually thinks. There are a lot of people who seem to prefer that others do the thinking for them while they follow mindlessly. Many animals behave in a similar manner.

We change to thinking in language. That is why you can't remember anything in detail prior to learning to talk. You remembered differently then, and cannot now call it up in your current mode of thought... (supposedly)

Maurice, I agree..

John, interesting point.

Well, we are not animals. I do know a lot of sheep who no matter what allow their husbands to do all the thinking. Poor them as their husbands die and they are ill equipped to handle anything.

We are, indeed, not animals. That says it all.

I thought animals thought with their noses.

What they smell is what they get.

Sorry Felix but we are animals. Just a bit smarter than your average bear! (Thanks Yogi)

We're nor animals Allan.

Felix are you living on a different planet than the rest of us or just delusional.
If we're not animals then what the hell are we, pray tell?

Once I was a dog in the manger.
I should have realized that but I stuck my head in the sand.
I tried not to be like this but a leopard can't change its spots.

"a dog will "see" itself doing things (like chasing a rabbit in it's dreams) while we (humans) have a running dialogue going through our brain that depends more on the verbal parts of our intellect!"

I think that makes me a dog. I think and problem-solve in visual terms.

Alan, What about dolphins and bats, who have a huge part of their brain devoted to processing sound? (Their vision is actually somewhat dispensible. For them, it's a secondary means of receiving and processing information.).

We're human beings, Allan, made in God's image.

Ann, good point but these theories are not etched in stone or black and white. Nor are they the only thing that sets us apart from other animals.

We're human beings, Allan, made in God's image.

Felix my boy, you have got to learn to think for yourself and stop blindly following the crap they indoctrinate you with at church.

Allan, my boy, you have got to learn to think for yourself and stop blindly following the crap they indoctrinate you with at school.

I came to God through a personal encounter and continuing relationship with Him...the Church had very little to do with it.

Allen,

I believe you suffer under a sort of delusion, which is perfectly understandable, and something we all fall into at times. The delusion being; that what seems most reasonable to us, must be most reasonable.

While one can see a given possibility as most reasonable, one can also see the multitude of times, both personally, and in the sense of mankind in general, wherein what seemed quite reasonable, even outright "obvious", turned out after more learning, to be completely erroneous. What that ought I feel, to be telling a rational person, is that there is no point in running little imaginary "tests" within our minds, wherein we attempt to appraise the "truth" of what we already find reasonable, by finding it reasonable again. It's a form of "feed-back loop", wherein one can compile innumerable "proofs", which are in fact nothing more than self reinforcing exercises in futility. Once, and for all, realize that what you don't know, you don't know. No amount of surmising, based on the very same evidentiary landscape, can actually render one knowing.

You may imagine, that all those who speak of "knowing" God, are just kidding themselves, but no matter how many times you rerun that tired old "filmstrip" of gullible people in your imagination, being gullible . . . you don't know that. And I tell you the truth, it is very rude of you to judge actual human beings, based on what you can "see" them doing in your imagination.

I KNOW there is a God. You cannot KNOW that I do, but I can. There is one, and only one, way for you to know if there is indeed a real God (at this point in time). That would be ONLY, if there was such a God, AND, that God revealed itself to you. That's it, there are NO other "positive" facts, one could even theoretically KNOW, in this vein. I suggest you ask God to reveal Himself to you, if you want to get past not knowing.

God is pleased with that thought.
So many ignore her.