(April 5, 2010 at 4:18 pm)Welsh cake Wrote: That was their world-view, their perspective or subjective take on reality, like the world being flat, the idea we're superior to all other life is as dead as a doornail.
I disagree that the idea that humans are 'superior' should be considered as dead as doornail. I think that position on our own species is harsh. I personally believe we should care more about or own species than any other species, but I'm not sure that means thinking our own species is superior to all others. I do not think we are 'superior' in the same way as Christians because Christianity and in other religions we are told that a deity created all other life 'for us' and there is no evidence for this... Humans die to other life all the time 'no matter how much they pray' that the snake venom won't kill them.
I gave you kudos for posting that cool video of the whale's interacting. I wonder how they taught the whales to make ring bubbles on command. They either showed the dolphins how and rewarded them when they mimicked the behavior or most whales know how to make ring bubbles and they rewarded them every time they made ring bubbles so they would make them more often eventually attaching a command to the behavior...