(February 12, 2017 at 3:32 pm)Won2blv Wrote: You know how when you're trying to learn something but you can't understand it, but then someone uses an illustration and it suddenly makes sense? I think that basically sums up why different cultures threw in arbitrary details, like red. Humans started using more and more symbols to represent the ideas that were becoming more and more cognizant. But while some could understand without the symbols, the majority needed the symbols to make sense, because they have brains that are conditioned to understand the tangible.I think that we're all the "some" in your rebuttal, personally.
Quote:And I would just say to your last point about qualitative vs qualitative. Humans have learned from thousands and thousands of years of discovery, that there is always more to discover. Humans have also learned that discovery, usually, is a benefit. I just don't think the quantitative or qualitative, the advantage is efficiency.I think that you're misunderstanding me. I was suggesting that the difference between "animal" consciousness and human consciousness (and perhaps even machine consciousness) is quantitative, no qualitative. That there is no uniquely human concious -quality-, rather, a preponderence of conscious quantity in human beings that yields a greater range of practical application.
Quote:It is a beautiful evolutionary advantage, whereas other animals keep adapting to their strengths, they end up going extinct when the ever changing ecosystem, changes too fast for them to adapt. Humans on the other hand, developed the ability to adapt without having to wait for thousands or millions of years to pass. Of course, that begs the question about their advancements bringing their own demise, but that is a completely new can of wormsWe, also, keep adapting to our strengths. Differences that are not different are not differences.
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