Are Humans Animals Or Not ?

[Massimo2002]

And if so or not why ? I personally think that humans share lots of similar things to animals but I also know that there are things that separate us from animals so to me it would seem that humans are part animal and part higher than animal.

 

[Heyo]

And if so or not why ? I personally think that humans share lots of similar things to animals but I also know that there are things that separate us from animals so to me it would seem that humans are part animal and part higher than animal.

I just posted a link and still have it in the buffer, so here it goes again:

 

[sun rise]

Meher Baba's view is the the soul evolves through increasingly developed forms until evolution of consciousness is complete in the human form. To put it simply, humans are fully evolved animals.

The driving force of evolution consists in the momentum consciousness receives owing to the conservation of the impressions (sanskaras) left by diverse desires or conditions. Thus the sanskaras cultivated in a particular form have to be worked out and fulfilled through the medium of a higher form and a correspondingly more developed consciousness of the gross world. The soul, therefore, has to assume higher and higher forms (like metal, vegetable, worm, fish, bird and animal) until at last it assumes a human form, in which it has fully developed consciousness — in all the aspects of knowing, feeling, and willing — of the gross world.

Journey of the Soul

JOURNEY OF THE SOUL TO THE OVERSOUL Soul and its illusion Atma, or the soul, is in reality identical with Paramatma the Oversoul — which is one, infinite, and e

trustmeher.org

 

[danieldemol]

And if so or not why ? I personally think that humans share lots of similar things to animals but I also know that there are things that separate us from animals so to me it would seem that humans are part animal and part higher than animal.

What makes us higher than an animal?
Even if we possess a spirit that would just make us an animal with a spirit in my view.

 

[Twilight Hue]

And if so or not why ? I personally think that humans share lots of similar things to animals but I also know that there are things that separate us from animals so to me it would seem that humans are part animal and part higher than animal.

Of course we are animals. That is completely unavoidable since we do the same things as any other creature on this Earth. We fight over our women, we defend our territory , an employ our evolutionary strengths and weaknesses given to us by Nature.

Not to mention that we have fur, are warm-blooded , have remnants of our tails among other vestigial organs and characteristics within like our dormant genes holding our ancestry, webbing between our fingers on our very bodies. Cladistics and taxonomy maps our sojourney through the animal kingdom quite well and shows are common traits as animals as a part of the great ape family that branched off into hominids.

I wouldn't think we are higher than animals. In fact , we're not even the dominant species on the planet, as humans have their own predators to contend with , although we definitely and most certainly fall into the category as apex omnivores we are certainly not the most successful species on this planet.

I tend to think eventually , we will go out like the dinosaurs in some fashion either by our own hand , or by a massive act of nature.

 

[IndigoChild5559]

And if so or not why ? I personally think that humans share lots of similar things to animals but I also know that there are things that separate us from animals so to me it would seem that humans are part animal and part higher than animal.

Yes, the taxonomy of homo sapiens is the kingdom of animalia.

Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Haplorhini
Infraorder: Simiiformes
Family: Hominidae
Subfamily: Homininae
Tribe: Hominini
Genus: Homo

 

[Arnaud1221]

I would say that just the fact that animals don't have house and tools, car and much more. For the sexual relation, maybe it's a little primitive.

 

[Esteban X]

Humans are animals, that's a fact part of the kingdom Animalia. We differ from other species of animals as other animal species differ from each other. We"re not that special.

 

[IndigoChild5559]

I would say that just the fact that animals don't have house and tools, car and much more. For the sexual relation, maybe it's a little primitive.

Actually many animals DO use tools. Now, that given, there really is a significant difference between a termite stick kit and sending a rocket to the moon.

 

[Arnaud1221]

Actually many animals DO use tools. Now, that given, there really is a significant difference between a termite stick kit and sending a rocket to the moon.

And the car?

 

[IndigoChild5559]

And the car?

A car is simply a more sophisticated tool.

 

[bobhikes]

And if so or not why ? I personally think that humans share lots of similar things to animals but I also know that there are things that separate us from animals so to me it would seem that humans are part animal and part higher than animal.

It all depends on how you define "Animal" and "Human". The amount of things that separate us from animals is probably equal to the amount of things that can separate us from other humans. Individuality is the standard and humans tend to group similar individual things into categories based on certain aspects. When it comes to species we currently use DNA and genes, but within each species, humans included, there are significant differences individually. So, it all comes down to your definitions or basically your opinion. The world is not going to collapse whether Humans are animals or not as I doubt most animals consider themselves animals and we have no way of communicating with them.

 

[Secret Chief]

Is RF getting overrun with defective chatbots?

 

[SalixIncendium]

Yes, they are. Because humans are not plantae, fungi, eubacteria, protista, or archaebacteria.

 

[SalixIncendium]

I personally think that humans share lots of similar things to animals but I also know that there are things that separate us from animals so to me it would seem that humans are part animal and part higher than animal.

You're not wrong. I've seen many humans that are "higher" than other animals, especially since a certain substance became more readily available.

 

[SalixIncendium]

And the car?

And just think about how many humans can't drive a stick!

 

[It Aint Necessarily So]

it would seem that humans are part animal and part higher than animal.

You seem to be using a lay or colloquial definition of animal. Others have already given you your answer using a scientific definition: yes, man is an animal.

When I was growing up, sentences like, "Don't behave like an animal" and "We went to the zoo to see the animals" made sense because we were excluding humanity. We wanted people to behave like human beings, not animals, as if these were mutually exclusive classes. We also didn't consider insects animals then, but biologists do.

So the answer to your question varies by the meaning one assigns the word animal. YOUR answer will depend on YOUR definition of animal, which appears to be the one I've called a lay definition.

 

[Evangelicalhumanist]

Meher Baba's view is the the soul evolves through increasingly developed forms until evolution of consciousness is complete in the human form. To put it simply, humans are fully evolved animals.

Which implies that there's no further that evolution can go. I think that's a bit of a far-fetched notion.

 

[Audie]

Of course we are animals. That is completely unavoidable since we do the same things as any other creature on this Earth. We fight over our women, we defend our territory , an employ our evolutionary strengths and weaknesses given to us by Nature.

Not to mention that we have fur, are warm-blooded , have remnants of our tails among other vestigial organs and characteristics within like our dormant genes holding our ancestry, webbing between our fingers on our very bodies. Cladistics and taxonomy maps our sojourney through the animal kingdom quite well and shows are common traits as animals as a part of the great ape family that branched off into hominids.

I wouldn't think we are higher than animals. In fact , we're not even the dominant species on the planet, as humans have their own predators to contend with , although we definitely and most certainly fall into the category as apex omnivores we are certainly not the most successful species on this planet.

I tend to think eventually , we will go out like the dinosaurs in some fashion either by our own hand , or by a massive act of nature.

I.o.w. an inherently silly q.

 

[ChristineM]

Are Humans Animals Or Not ?

Yes we are animal, a fully fledged member of the great ape family

The alternatives would be vegetable or mineral