Julia Mossbridge - How Humans Differ from Other Animals
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 8 янв 2021
- Physically, humans and animals seem similar. Mentally, humans seem so superior. What's so special about human nature? Language? Culture? Compare brain structures and functions of humans and animals. Human brains have advantages, in complexity and capacity of association for example, but are they sufficient to account for the vast superiority of human mentality?
Free access to Closer to Truth's library of 5,000 videos: bit.ly/376lkKN
Watch more interviews on human uniqueness: bit.ly/3jnTP6k
Julia Mossbridge, M.A., Ph.D. is a Visiting Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), the CEO and Research Director of Mossbridge Institute, LLC, and a Visiting Scholar in the Psychology Department at Northwestern University.
Register for free at CTT.com for subscriber-only exclusives: bit.ly/2GXmFsP
Closer to Truth presents the world’s greatest thinkers exploring humanity’s deepest questions. Discover fundamental issues of existence. Engage new and diverse ways of thinking. Appreciate intense debates. Share your own opinions. Seek your own answers.
I had to watch this 4 times because it's so thought provoking I was reeling, and I kept missing what she was saying. The whole interview from start to finish was a revelation.
So.. our cultural mileiu dominates our behaviour. The world _that we've created_ around our offspring is the driving force of our consciousness-driven intellect. As society developed, increasing in complexity, the human mind adapted to it, favouring conscious thought processes. And it takes so long to comprehend things like language that we evolved this extended period of neoplasticity. Whereas wild animals are able to operate almost entirely on an instinctive level because the world around them isn't constantly changing like human society does.
Every time we come up a criteria for what makes humans different, we end up later finding out that other animals have it too.
I agree. It's really hard for human beings to see past their own biases
@@superveganwhat consciousness is the consequence
@@darksidehendry7587 ?
@@superveganwhatoops I'm meant intellgence
@@darksidehendry7587 intelligence varies from person to person And is not a good indicator of Consciousness if that's what you were trying to go for.
The way of confidence like in this vid makes the difference.
Due to our uniquely long developmental time course, we can learn much more than other species about our culture, language and so on. This is certainly ONE important aspect in which we differ from other animals, but surely not THE distinctive characteristics, which is our capacity for abstraction, i.e. our conceptual faculty. I’m surprised that they didn’t even mention it. This fact is however crucial to this discussion. For example, in what way our uniquely long developmental time course influence our conceptual faculty, etc.
The long developmental time is baked into the conversation about abstraction. The rostrolateral prefrontal cortex (RLPFC), which develops from birth and through early childhood, is thought to play a critical role in abstraction.
Kudos -- 🗽
The beast of Language
Why does human consciousness get more disconnected from free will than other animals and all physical reality? Is something else separating humanity from free will and consciousness trying to reconnect to free will, or is human consciousness both separating and attempting to connect with free will?
There’s no such thing as as free will, that is dogmatic nonsense.
Listening this episode i would surely say NO
It's the culture that makes humans different from other animals.Humans have an ability to imitate effortlessly.Capacity to imitate makes us different from animals.A few animals and birds imitate but that imitation at very rudimentary level.
We also are animals 🙌🏻 animals are amazing especially doggy’s 😊
DOGGYS are cleverer than us,,,,especially their nose.....
Dogs are the product of eugenics. They have been selected to be beautiful to look at and to have a beautiful nature. That today's dogs are so cool is ultimately a credit to the judgement of people in the past who said, "I like *that* one", and also to most people treating their pet dogs more kindly than in the past.
Human brain is nothing ordinary but it is very much surprising to see how human uses his brain.
Is immortality(no death, infinite life) possible in reality?bcoz some
scientists successfuly achieved reverse
aging.like in Israel's latest research..
Absolutely impossible.
Religion is a tool of slavery. It is not intelligence.
The difference between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom is very simple and direct. Animals are conscious because they are sentient; they are sentient because they react to sensations. Humans are also sentient, but we are also sapient and no other animal is sapient. Sapient means humans can think conceptually, with words. Animals can think perceptually, meaning without words. We humans are animals and can think perceptually, which means acting without thinking, like when playing basketball, gardening, playing a piano, recognizing a familiar face, etc., etc, etc.
Pizza. Only man makes pizza. And beer. Dont forget beer.
The word "demonstratable" is for people who don't know that demonstrable is a word.
I’ve watched your videos for a while now, and they are always very thought provoking, but I just wonder whether you are simply gathering different opinions as opposed to getting “closer to truth”. I suppose there really is no way to tell whether these opinions are getting us closer to truth or not. It definitely doesn’t seem as though you feel any closer to truth by the end of any of your videos. Hopefully I don’t come across as being critical. I appreciate and enjoy your channel for sure.
Truth remains elusive. Perhaps the search is the thing.
We learn the same way. We can explain how we learn is how we differ :P
Kind of seems irrelevant atm. Got anything on mass psychology or the value of truth?
Humans differ mainly in that their efforts are directed to diverting energy and temporarily delaying the law of thermodynamics and increased entropy. Most other animals go with the natural flow of energy and follow instinctive but only temporary efforts such as nest building. Humans strive towards more permanent lasting monuments to their activity to survive by using their facility of symbolic thinking, imagination and systematic investigation and use of natural laws and application of that knowledge in controlling energy flow. Necessary because we are naked, have relatively few helpless young needing long nurturing and apprenticeship periods. Without the facility of our unique brains we could not survive as long as we have as a species. The need seems less for less long lived organisms. If we compare ourselves to similarly long lived animals such as elephants, some birds then it becomes clearer. Most other animals opt for shorter life rapid life cycle larger broods to maintain the species. The difference is less biological than how we can use what we have been equipped with to overcome our obvious weaknesses and vulnerabilities.
That said are we as successful as say dragonflies- probably not since they have survived in much the same way since carboniferous times
We survive in the short term by idea generation but there is no natural selection process for ideas- everything is experimental. One bad idea could shorten our life as a species and wipe us out overnight.
Another perspective. Since humans are claiming the top of the line of the species it seems even more perplexing that we've poisoned our habitat, killed over a billion in wars, starvation took millions more and we threaten our very survival in many ways. Perhaps we are totally wrong about our place in nature. Our view is that we are separate when in fact we are not separate the division arises in our minds not in the actual world. This is just an opinion I am not claiming to know.
egoic duality meta abstraction
As smart as she is there is no difference because we are still animals. Period
I can tell you what makes humans more different than any other life-form on Earth we split the atom is that different enough for you
And we used that to nuke other humans !! Is that different enough for you ???
See my other comment
@@francesco5581 we still nuke humans that's why we and other countries have 10,000 Warheads ready to take off a moment's notice
Just shows how evil humans are because what was the intent? To make a bomb.
@Lisa Jordan I don't believe in aliens but if you are right then why didn't they Advanced beings do something stop the bombing of Japan or the thousands of nuclear test conducted since 1950s
Julia, absolutely beautiful.
What we call "Geist" is the difference! We can transform us self in a way no animal can, but therefor animals don't do suicide! 😉
Humans have a long childhood. Maybe we should work on making it even longer. This might increase our abilities to remain optimistic, innovative, and, most of all, our abilities as universal explainers. Humans are problem solvers. We are the only animals capable of understanding the world, and thus, capable of transforming the world. Biological evolution is severely limited. There are no such limits in cultural evolution and we are capable of an infinity of progress.
We dont. We are animals. Nothing more ,nothing less
"How Humans Differ from Other Animals?" ---- Humans are humans and animals are animals, questions?
We're pretty dumb for a so-called smart, developed species
@@julmar4304if only dolphins and birds had hands
The ability to perceive our own intellectual limitations is quite remarkable, isn't it?
@@darksidehendry7587 The human hand, and our intelligence are closely intertwined. They evolved together.
@@itheuserfirst3186 what about brain it's more real than the body (the self), the brain has been proven to be making decisions before we are aware of it
The answer is, they do not differ at all. They are not smarter, even more stupid etc. The good question is to see in us what we have in common with animals, because since Freud, we know we don't want to see it.
That’s right, open up a rat and see how similar we are.
Yes they do. Almost all other animals on the planet are at the mercy of human beings because they do not control the environment as much as human beings do.
@@itheuserfirst3186 That's true, my biology teacher said once (upon a time) that it is false to see the tiger in the forest as free, he doesn't control it's environment. But imho it's more important now, to have a sens about what we have in common with animals, for example as Nietzsche said, humanity has a character, that was formed through the prehistoric times. We are bound to nature more than we think, despite all idealism, meaning we don't control our behavior, even if we control our environment. We are as animals, not products of mind but of evolution, blind animal instinct. We should not forget that or minimize it.... We cannot do everything we would like to, because of what we are.
Creation of society is comparatively recent history in terms Homo sapiens time !!!
Human has good and evil cognizant common sense potential accompanied freewill.
Mentions in alQuran,
Surah Ash-Shams, Verse 7,8
وَنَفْسٍ وَمَا سَوَّاهَا
And the soul and Him Who made it perfect,
فَأَلْهَمَهَا فُجُورَهَا وَتَقْوَاهَا
Then He inspired it to understand what is right and wrong for it;
(English - Shakir)
via iQuran
since that whale had to learn it was hungry and felt it needed to eat that tasty seal to satisfy it's belly i can tell this lady is confused
Ever notice that beings who speak in the language of music can create joy that energizes thousands of beings to celebrate and dance?
Ever notice that corpses that speak with brain numbing, soul sucking numbers do the exact opposite?
Sanction, starve, torture, murder and bomb (wheeeee)! Ignorance (hate) is bliss for vampires (greed). But not much fun for the humans (love) who they are sucking the joy out of.
Unlike earthling poets, artists, musicians, mystics, human beings and creators of joy... the counting corpses that rule US can't create harmony (real intelligence) because vampires (greed) are ignorant (dead).
We are not made in the image of dogs, wolves and pigs.
We are supernatural mystics made in the image of Love (god).
Please get a better interviewer
We pay rent.
we are more similar than different -but my dog cannot water ski. that's my comment.
Yeh, but you can't learn anything about another human by sniffing its butt.
And i can not jump 2 meters high over a wall and my dog can
@@dextermorgan7439 and you are both cognitively similar in your typed expressions.
@@dextermorgan7439 but funny
@@willsumnall3499 ok ok you are right did you try?
Bodies evolved into complex things but, the soul is the same, timeless
OMG 😍💋 💝💖❤️
Speak for yourself!
“Humans have always thought they were the most intelligent species on earth because they had made things like cars and cities, while all the dolphins had ever done was swim about in the sea having a good time...
Meanwhile, the dolphins thought they were the most intelligent species on earth....
For exactly the same reasons”
Douglas Adams
It reminds me of the story about poor fisherman and a rich man.
Except Dolphins are anchored to their specialized environment. Dolphins do not reproduce as successfully as human beings, and they cannot control their environment to the degree that humans can. Dolphins cannot leave the planet. Finally, dolphins are at the mercy of humans, not the other way around. Humans' unique intelligence is a real thing, but we are definitely not separate from the natural world, and thinking so will cost us dearly.
Inner construction of brain of animals to animal n human being is more differen n varies to their ecology n enviornament .It is fact that human body n it's brain have amazing peacularity then others mind of human are wonderfull in functioning which can not sort out for long period .....
Just thank ful there is no top predator or say good bye to fat people and disabled.
I'm waiting for the last video made by chimps... 😜
Look at her . She is a chimp in descise
Humans create gods & religions, other animals do not.
How can You know?
For manipulation purposes.
SHE BELIVES HER OWN NONESENSE !!!!
Man was created to be like God.
Even considering that we are still under the curse of God that followed the expulsion from Paradise,
who is like God cannot be like an animal, nor a mere "rational animal" (whose existence is unreal)!
The story is that humans were, when becoming like God as conscious. Which implies human beings conscious of God. Animals and leftists(trying to return as cursed) are not. Paradise was the perfect life in the subconscious. Innocent. When humans became conscious they left that state to work it out.
@@brandursimonsen4427Yes, basically, I agree with you.
Humans are different than animals in so far as while humans are created in the image of God, animals are not.
Does that mean God is 99% chimpanzee too
@@invisiblechurch9621 Hahaha! What a great comeback!
@@mechannel7046 What a foolish comeback.
@@realitycheck1231 I hope God's mind is nothing like ours 🤣
@@rocio8851 if its foolish - defend Your thesis.
Do it with logic and arguments.