Re:The four ways that ex-internet idealists explain where it...
by imartin2k on Saturday August 25, 2018 @02:48AM
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Well, humans are the only animal which is able to actually act against its animal nature. But this requires work, education, self-awareness. Acceptance and understanding of one’s cognitive biases. Not everyone on the internet is acting equally destructive. But possibly at this point in collective human evolution, people (on average) maybe are not ready for the internet.
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Re:The four ways that ex-internet idealists explain where it...
by anonytrary on Saturday August 25, 2018 @03:01AM
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> Well, humans are the only animal which is able to actually act against its animal nature.
Think about this some more, it doesn't actually make sense. There are aspects of humans we can differentiate between other species, but there exists no subset of behaviors amongst humans that are non-animalistic. It's a contradiction.
Re:The four ways that ex-internet idealists explain where it...
by imartin2k on Saturday August 25, 2018 @03:05AM
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I don’t see what you mean.
If certain patterns of behavior characterize 99,9 % of the animal species, and if humans are the only species which is able to deliberately act in a way which 99,9 % of the animal species can’t/won’t, then describing this as “non-animalistic” behavior is very practical to use for the topic at hand, and not a contradiction, in my opinion. Because this is what sets humans apart from all animal species.
Re:The four ways that ex-internet idealists explain where it...
by aluren on Saturday August 25, 2018 @06:13AM
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>certain patterns of behavior characterize 99,9 % of the animal species
There is no such thing. Unless you mean very basic things like eating and sleeping, and that's not even certain.
Also, every species has its own idiosyncracies that no one else does. The idea that humans somehow 'arose' through evolution atop the masses of the mindless animal kingdom is a bit quaint.