bluDesu

bluDesu t1_it12cxn wrote

Reply to comment by Whatwillwebe in The part of the human brain responsible for functions such as thought and creativity has a similar structure to other mammals including rodents. by QldBrainInst

>I'd argue that it's actually our suppression of urges and behaviors that sets us apart.

Oh yea that's deff a unique quality we posses, but our ability to reason and control our urges and instincts only comes to play thanks to our ability to understand and assign meaning to things rendering them as more detached from us. Being able to understand something is having power over it, is what I'm trying to say. It seems everytime I try and understand how we came to our sentience and grew all our qualities that define us as unique, it always comes down to the the same thing.

Have you heard about the theory of Bicameral Mentality by Julius Jaynes? Very interesting read highly recommend you check it out.

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bluDesu t1_it0vhdk wrote

Reply to The part of the human brain responsible for functions such as thought and creativity has a similar structure to other mammals including rodents. by QldBrainInst

Might be an amateurish thing to say but from all the things I've learned so far it seems to me like the only thing that really sets out apart from the Animal Kingdom which has also allowed us to expand and create and coexist impressively well in very large groups; is our ability to communicate and assign labels to things, if I may put it in such simple terms

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