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> The strong drive to adapt the world to what we see fit is literally what separates us from animals... You are saying animals does not have the drive to adapt
by babyrainbow 9y ago
> The strong drive to adapt the world to what we see fit is literally what separates us from animals...
You are saying animals does not have the drive to adapt the world to what they see fit?
I would say that the bigger differentiator is that human beings can, to an extent, control their drives.
- TeMPOraL 9y agoI think the difference in quantity here creates a whole new quality - both in terms of doing the adapting and in what it means to imagine a different world state than we see.
- babyrainbow 9y agoOk. But I stand by my point that controlling our drives and using intelligence to override what it tells us to do,is what that really differentiates us from other animals. Isn't the haste to abandon earth and colonize other worlds just like a panic response of an animal that finds it's resting place on fire? I mean, it is not going to see if the fire can be quenched, it is just going to take off..
- TeMPOraL 9y agoYou have an interesting point here. Personally I do sometimes wonder if sci-fi movies depicting space travel don't make people feel it's much closer a reality than it really is, thus making them care less for our planet because "if shit hits the fan, we'll surely find another one". That said, the current crop of space entrepreneurs seem to care more about long-term survival of our species in case of cataclysmic events not necessarily of human making - e.g. asteroid impacts.