Susan Greenfield - How Humans Differ from Other Animals

[@WyreForestBiker]

Wow.. What an impressive communicator this lady is.

[@michaelpumo83]

Here you have some intriguing and insightful conversation on the human condition and yet here in the comments we have religious fanatics who are seemingly incapable of extending this conversation. Yes, it seems we do have a long way to go.

[@RadicalShiba1917]

Closer to Truth comment sections overwhelmingly tend to be... strange, inexplicably. For content so good, the quality of the discussion is so poor.

[@Solarimeshari]

I’d really like to hear a discussion with Dr. Robert Sapolsky about this topic.

[@suecondon1685]

I have that excellent book by Stephen Mithen, The Prehistory of the Mind. Well worth a read.

[@themedicallinguist6456]

A baby does not have language, but it does have the capacity for language. Likewise, it’s the capacity for symbolism, and not just symbolism, that distinguishes us from other animals.

[@Michael-xp6jt]

We can make a necklace but can't remember to flush the toilet we need to evolve another 5,000 years...

[@jesternotclown]

The argument for human superiority is that we are more adapt to wanting more. A symbol of power expresses superior human mental capacity. Am I alone in finding this sad?

[@Slarti]

I would dispute his first question regarding humans being so different to animals. I work as a software developer, supposedly one of the most advanced areas of human development - yet software development is full of people with personalities and behaviours which are far more feral and cruel than those of many animals.

[@cinikcynic3087]

Slartibartfast Geddadahreer!!!

[@JohnPopcorn06]

I am always wondering how many generations needed for our species to evolve from monkeys to humans (i mean into homo habilis that s basically where we first draw a line between the animal kingdom and humans). Could there be an exact point in time where the last generation were still considered "monkey" while their offspring were already prehistoric humans. Is this a valid question? Or is it totally arbitrary in which exact year we separate them, and cant really be answered in "high enough resolution"?

[@MisterWebb]

Levente Czelnai Humans are not evolved from monkeys

[@HardKore5250]

Zeke Bean But Neanderthal could talk like us

[@HardKore5250]

Zeke Bean just confusing must be a lot of interbreeding

[@avecina6460]

Thats invalid question 🤣🤣, There was no point in time.....haha because humans came from crypton hahahaha just kidding transforted by a Light vehicle called Ligthing striker ...hahaha weird,, im just joking... Seriously, Humans did not came out from the womb or any other animal wombs, ..There were exist a humans, first set of Human called Adam/ Eve, just like there were sets of first animal parents that multiplies and produced their own kind... So, the question is ," Which came first , The Chicken or the Egg?? How the first egg or the first chicken was formed ???😂🤣

[@daithiocinnsealach1982]

Some would seemingly indeed argue that a baby isn't human until we say it is. Isn't that one of the major issues around which the whole abortion issue is centred?

[@slamee100]

Babies are human at conception, when God has sent their soul into the womb.

[@xspotbox4400]

It's very strange animals doesn't use any symbols and tokens, birds often show off front of their mates, with their colorful feathers. So even very small brain feel excitement in presence of glorious aesthetics. Or moths, being attracted to bright artificial lights, those must be something divine for those small creatures. And it's no wonder animals doesn't carry weapons and tools around because they doesn't ware clothes, has nowhere to stash and hang various utilities.We should consider many evolutionary factors before first symbolic language and rituals has emerged among population of special kind of monkeys. Who knows how their forehead got swollen, maybe they were falling on their head during sleep or water was constantly dripping on their skulls, deforming bones and forcing brain tissue to grow where it didn't suppose to.

[@supersmileyclub544]

Moths use the light of the moon as guidance, artificial lights just confuse them.

[@daithiocinnsealach1982]

Birds and moths getting excited over aesthetics and tying this in with the idea of the divine. I like it. What we cannot explain but want to control or have deep mysterious feelings for, we often assume must be godlike in nature.

[@xspotbox4400]

@@supersmileyclub544 Maybe, it's all light at the end of a tunnel for them in a way, artificial light bring them closer and provide more intense sensations.

[@xspotbox4400]

@@daithiocinnsealach1982 Finally something that makes sense.

[@primatesrusb.p4823]

She was impressive...I'd want to go on a second date for conversation if anything

[@jefferee2002]

How amazing the abilities God gave us. We are God's compared to all other animals

[@justinlinnane8043]

oh go away you absurd little man !!

[@kencusick6311]

Absolutely correct. Other animals have only perceptual consciousness. Human beings have Conceptual Consciousness in addition to perceptual.

[@findbridge1790]

language is not a bunch of symbols

[@pkosh1]

We have KZbin

[@cozyslor]

Humans aren't afraid of vacuum cleaners.

[@TheHistoryguy10]

Man has decided to go down in nature and see himself as something less than what he really is. The small phrase that would solve all of his confusion and many problems is “created in God’s image,” but man decided to forget God for the time being. He will inevitably find his way back and science will lead him back, surprisingly.

[@laurenth7187]

Reverse all your words and you will see the truth.

[@TheHistoryguy10]

@@laurenth7187 In an atheist/materialist universe, if you believe you exist in such a place, truth does not exist. You have to step into the biblical worldview to even have the ability to speak not only of truth but Truth. Be well.

[@moayadsalih3563]

I think these episodes about difference between humans and animals are among the weakest in the whole series. So much wild speculation with very little evidence. The human brain is still a black box for us but anyway, I think that the endeavor to reduce human consciousness to the biological workings of the brain will get nowhere.

[@moayadsalih3563]

@Zeke Bean No one can separate consciousness from the brain but that doesn't mean that consciousness is a product of the brain. This video presents some scientific evidences that the mind is separate from the brain, you can check it if you like kzbin.info/www/bejne/eKKro6N4hcmnias

[@moayadsalih3563]

@ Roq Steady You also have to have the humility of appreciating that our knowledge is still limited and there are things which we don't yet fully know/understand. Therefore, the first few lines of your comment is just a personal opinion. Can't be proven to be true.

[@daithiocinnsealach1982]

I think that is the only viable option moving forward. As the subject doing the observing perhaps the mystery will have to wait to be solved by conscious super computers who are not us. And then we'll just have to accept what they say by faith because we will have no way of testing their hypotheseses.

[@daithiocinnsealach1982]

@@moayadsalih3563 The Discovery Institute is a Christian institution. You are basically arguing for the existence of a soul.

[@moayadsalih3563]

@@daithiocinnsealach1982 Yes I know, but I am only interested in the scientific evidences presented in the video. It seems to me that we can never get consciousness from chemistry. Consciousness belongs to a completely separate realm of reality and no amount of mixing dead chemicals in the lab can turn them into conscious beings

[@olmeckrav]

She did not answer the initial question: “where are we in the evolutionary scale? It’s seems like evolution was not linear but “jumped” from animal to human.” She talked and did nothing.

[@olmeckrav]

Aaron. She should’ve said that. At least she would’ve addressed the question.

[@chrisc1257]

@@olmeckrav We are the scale, the measure and the madness.

[@slamee100]

Man is different from other creatures because we are the only beings that GOD created in HIS IMAGE, with a spirit, that is CAPABLE OF RELATING to GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT, able to have a loving, spiritual, intelligent, relationship with God our creator, now in this fallen world, and forever in His eternal kingdom, and to be ABLE TO ATTAIN SALVATION, THROUGH BELIEF in the sacrifice for us of JESUS CHRIST on the cross to wash away our sins! Dogs, cats and other beasts cannot do that. Man has never evolved, we act and think and speak intelligently, and relate to God the exact same way now as Adam and Eve did with Him in the garden of Eden. Adam and Eve were created human, and all of us since have been born human through procreation, there is and never has been any evolving involved! Read the Bible, and ask GOD for spiritual understanding of HIS WORD , HE WILL HEAR YOU AND HELP YOU! God loves you and wants you know the truth!

[@MarkDemarest]

She lost me at "birth right." 😒 Had me until then. 👈 #WanderingIntoPseudoscience 🤨.

[@JonMcG]

Of all the explanations , this one was terribly chosen .

[@timgrinton7859]

The difference is animals have no idea that tomorrow is come ing

[@MisterWebb]

Humans are not animals

[@myopenmind527]

You doubt that we are vertebrate mammals?

[@martinet1985]

you definitely are.

[@Music_Creativity_Science]

We are a VERY different kind of animal, a complex form of thinking energy which can handle/extract energy from matter (possibly imitating the sun in the future) to increase the probability concerning survival in the star system. Humans can, hypothetically, and with a little bit of luck (no gamma ray bursts from nearby supernovas etc), survive until the sun dies. Any other land living species has no chance of doing that. And there can not be a more distinct difference than being extinct or survive as a force (an energy with a direction is a force). So the main difference is our own increase of energy density as a "weapon" to survive (ice ages , asteroids, becoming polyglobal on the moon and Mars with atomic driven rockets etc). Our evolution process is not trying to follow the principles in the animal world, we are trying to imitate the sun, to survive. That is vastly different than the big teeth of a T.Rex, the speed of an antelope etc, still 100% dependent on the random happenings in nature/cosmos.

[@laurenth7187]

It is much more interesting to tell what we have in common with other animals, than this eternal LIE ! About we being better ! First of all we haven't stop fighting wars 1/2 days since beginning of History ! So we are NOT better than animals, and each time i look in the eyes of my cat, i love him.. he is so innocent, pure.. We have inherited a lot of animal behavior, that we should stop denying, because extremism will win if we continue to try to make mankind living in a world of ideology ! , for example a multi-ethnic world. Obviously, not a single animal was ever multi-ethnic. In the contrary, they hate other tribes, every animal is hostile to others, on average, so stop the "love lie"; face the reality, otherwise, "they" will win. Trump will be back. Not Obama.

[@mohibkhan3473]

Because we have a soul, a more advanced one as compared to the animals

[@jeramyeswan4014]

"Secret of the Torah the tree of knowledge" Book soon to be release 2021. It explains human intelligence that propel to civilization that none of the animals can't. It also explains Sin. How it causes all kinds of problems in the world and also suggested solutions for a better World. This book will shock everyone, all atheists and otherly religious beliefs must reconsider their faith against the GOD of the Jewish Torah.

[@Fascistbeast]

Albert Einstein If you can’t explain it simply You don’t understand it well enough ^^^ 🤦‍♂️