RE: Are the animals luckier than humans?
August 12, 2022 at 2:49 pm
(This post was last modified: August 12, 2022 at 2:49 pm by Angrboda.)
I'm uncertain what "just happened" to yield modern humans. Scientists are largely in the same boat. As to our having a fundamentally different mental world than them, since I'm not a chicken, a crow, an elephant, or any other animal, I must extend a certain agnosticism to the question. Just as being a woman, I don't know how a man's experience differs from my own, and being sighted, I don't know how a blind person's experience differs from my own, I have to assume a large grain of ignorance concerning what it is like to be a bat, or any other animal and confess that I simply don't know. We don't yet know in what way we experience the world in any objective manner, and I'm always reluctant to trust first-hand experience when used as a scaffolding for either metaphysics or such grand conclusions about either our consciousness or that of any other animal.
It sounds to me like you are asking questions rooted as much in your own personal ideology as they are in reality.
It sounds to me like you are asking questions rooted as much in your own personal ideology as they are in reality.