Re: Challenge: Define the difference ...
Animal cannot become man.
Man can become animal.
BTW: Why exclude women? ;)
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This thread is not about YOU.
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I am glad you realized that after your initial post…
Lets see…if i reply to your own post…with your own words… see how does it make you feel..
get my point??
Re: Challenge: Define the difference ...
I am glad you realized that after your initial post.......:)
Now you should realize that this thread is not about men vs women either. :)
Re: Challenge: Define the difference ...
@psyah, so what's the answer?
Re: Challenge: Define the difference ...
the conscience to differentiate b/w the right and wrong maybe
animals are only concerned about things like shelter, food and mating mostly. And they are satisfied with what they get. Humans on the other hand look for the best in these things as well search for spirituality and ideas higher above the ordinary needs of the body.
Re: Challenge: Define the difference ...
There are three types of creatures
1 - acts only on Hawwas' (khwahish e Nafs) -- example (animals)
2 - acts only on wisdom (Aqal) -- example (angels)
3 - has choice of using both Aqal and Khwahish e Nafs or Hawwas' -- Human
In normal human both Aqal and Hawwas are ballanced. If Aqal dominates Hawwas a human is more an angel than an human and if Hawwas is dominant then human becomes more an animal than a human.
Re: Challenge: Define the difference ...
... I often wonder whether the animals sit and wonder and ask themselves whether humans wonder ...
Humans have a unique ability to create ideas ... this gives us the ability to reason ... as others have mentioned above - we have free will - what this means in practice is we have the ability to do other than our instinctual needs ... and animals may be trained or a robot may be programmed to do certain things ... however our ability extends beyond this ... A lion will not think about his friend's feeling when he takes all the females as his own ... A dolphin will not ever think of making a device with which it can roam land ... A chimp will never attempt to find out his family tree.
Our ability to go against our design some people argue is actually within our design but that we have become more capable ... However certain animals either as intelligent or more intelligent than us could never do the things we have achieved. The aspect of humanity that sets us apart is all life does as per its nature ... we "create" a nature for ourselves within the universe of our own minds .... We are creators of ideas and manipulators of tangible matter to an unparalleled extent ... nothing else on this world achieves this.
Re: Challenge: Define the difference ...
^isn't that what I said? :p
Re: Challenge: Define the difference ...
^isn't that what I said? :p
Peace Theorist
With the exception that our measure of intelligence in other species suggests they should be more intelligent than us ... I feel they may well be more intelligent ... but they are still incapable of creating concepts which is a human trait.
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^Depends how you define intelligence, no?
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^Depends how you define intelligence, no?
Well if you define intelligence as the ability to create concepts then all animals are unintelligent except humans.