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> some cultures assume humans must be fundamentally different - it’s not a universal notion. Are you referring to hunter gatherers doing a mystical bear or eag
by fsckboy 5y ago
> some cultures assume humans must be fundamentally different - it’s not a universal notion.
Are you referring to hunter gatherers doing a mystical bear or eagle dance? Reincarnation as an ant? in those cases, it is belief in a non-corporeal spirit-being that underpins the other belief. Do you believe in non-corporeal spirit-beings, and if you do, aren't you more mystified by people who don't believe in them; or vice versa?
Otherwise, I'm skeptical and would love citations?
- burnished 5y agoLike, judeo-christianity? Western societies viewpoints on human intelligence and how it relates to animal intelligence for centuries? The notion, typically, is that while humans are animals our intelligence is not just different in degree but different in kind. I think it comes from that bit in the bible where their god places humans as above all other life forms, just a guess though.
- fsckboy 5y agoyou're telling me what I know, where I'm asking about the commenter's claim that there are cultures that do NOT do this
- PaulDavisThe1st 5y agoIt's not quite the same thing as "intelligence", but in "Braiding Sweetgrass" Robin Wall Kimmerer describes how (at least) several native American cultures ascribe great wisdom to the trees, since they've been here longer, and regard human wisdom as rather primitive.