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Post by sharingan29818 on Nov 17, 2005 20:08:13 GMT -5
thank you, not all animals are perfect, and that was a good example
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sunshy
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Post by sunshy on Nov 17, 2005 21:41:35 GMT -5
it was a good example, but, sharingan, i never said that animals are perfect. what i said was that they are smarter, which, in a sense, they are.
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Post by Rogue on Nov 18, 2005 14:09:18 GMT -5
That doesn't really make them smarter, although it depends on what you mean by intelligence. You're never going to see an animal that isn't a human (I'm just going by the animal kingdom here) develop a vaccine for smallpox or study the ways that enzymes work. Then again, put a human into a forest with absolutely nothing and they're probably not going to survive for a terribly long time. I don't really think you can say which species is the most intelligent because there are so many different factors involved.
As for the natural disasters, animals lack the ability to comprehend just how much damage those disaters have done. If animals could deem them as problems then they probably would because a large part of living in the wild is surviving. Like you said, some animals can detect when a disaster is going to happen, so it does affect them. They know that there's an earthquake coming and try to flee so it is an inconvenience to them whether they know it or not.
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Post by sharingan29818 on Nov 18, 2005 15:11:09 GMT -5
what i mean is that animals cant be smarter becaus they cant think(maybe some apes or dolphins or something though) instaed of thinking, they have instinct, they may be able to survive in the wild, and may be able to sense when danger is coming, but they dont actually say to themselves "ok, i need to do something about this," then come up with possiblities, they do what they do automatically, without question or judgement, which is also why they cxan react so fast to things and survive in the wild. however this also means that an animal will never be able to experience life as humans have it, because we can think for ourselves, though this is a reason why some people kill or start wars, since they chose to do this, it is also good for many other reasons because you would have to experience life without choices because you would do things automatically, though this will help you surive, you dont have the luxury of making right choices and have the technology and comforts of what you have now, such as your computer, if humans had instinct, instead of common sense, we would probably not wear clothes and have alot of hair, like animal's coats, in order to adapt to the climate, and we would have many less people due to diseases and be eating raw meat by killing animals with our bear hands, you have many good points about how humans are a threat to the world sunshy, im just saying that not all humans are bad, and that animals cant be smarter then humans in the way of technology and health
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