RE: Are you a lumper or a splitter?
April 26, 2018 at 4:14 am
(This post was last modified: April 26, 2018 at 4:19 am by Edwardo Piet.)
The way I see it is, as mammals... we're only special insofar as we have the egos to think we are.
And as intelligent apes... we out-killed and out-fucked other species of intelligent humans, such as neanderthals.... so we're ultimately only really special because we're violent and horny. And yet, with nature in general, that's completely normal.
I can't really understand the idea that we're special just because we have technology and some shit. We are 2% difference in D.N.A. to chimps, all that happened is things snowballed. In actuality we're no different to any other animals. We just murdered and fucked all competition to death.
As far as I'm concerned, the quickest shortcut to realizing how not special we are is this: Apply the anthropic principle.
And as intelligent apes... we out-killed and out-fucked other species of intelligent humans, such as neanderthals.... so we're ultimately only really special because we're violent and horny. And yet, with nature in general, that's completely normal.
I can't really understand the idea that we're special just because we have technology and some shit. We are 2% difference in D.N.A. to chimps, all that happened is things snowballed. In actuality we're no different to any other animals. We just murdered and fucked all competition to death.
As far as I'm concerned, the quickest shortcut to realizing how not special we are is this: Apply the anthropic principle.
