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Old 03-21-2017, 09:28 AM
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"The human race does not have a very good record of intelligent behavior."

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Old 03-21-2017, 11:30 AM
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"The human race does not have a very good record of intelligent behavior."

Who's your guess? Google link below for those with little willpower


https://www.google.com/webhp?sourcei...behavior.%22&*
I know that many of us have said it right here in this forum at one time or another because it has been relevant to many discussions we have had here, as well as being such an obvious thing that can't be ignored. I am sure somebody said it first, but many, without having heard that first utterance of it, have noticed the same thing. There are quotes that people have come up with that really are interestingly unique, but this would not be one of them.

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Old 03-21-2017, 12:15 PM
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I know that many of us have said it right here in this forum at one time or another because it has been relevant to many discussions we have had here, as well as being such an obvious thing that can't be ignored. I am sure somebody said it first, but many, without having heard that first utterance of it, have noticed the same thing. There are quotes that people have come up with that really are interestingly unique, but this would not be one of them.

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All I have to say to that is this:

"We tend to think of our selves as the only wholly unique creations in nature, but it is not so. Uniqueness is so commonplace a property of living things that there is really nothing at all unique about it. A phenomenon can't be unique and universal at the same time."
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"The human race does not have a very good record of intelligent behavior."

Who's your guess?
I'm going with Bambi. Final answer. Either Bambi or Spock. Or the little yellow butterfly now enjoying the flowers on our back deck. Maybe D. All of the above.

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IDK the answer but I can tell you it wouldn't take very much in the way of observation to figure that out!

We think we are sentient beings. Which also means we are species-centric and infinitely gullible!
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Old 03-21-2017, 01:59 PM
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All I have to say to that is this:

"We tend to think of our selves as the only wholly unique creations in nature, but it is not so. Uniqueness is so commonplace a property of living things that there is really nothing at all unique about it. A phenomenon can't be unique and universal at the same time."
Same writer, a physician, said this, appropriate for this forum:

"The need to make music, and to listen to it, is universally expressed by human beings. I cannot imagine, even in our most primitive times, the emergence of talented painters to make cave paintings without there having been, near at hand, equally creative people making song. It is, like speech, a dominant aspect of human biology."

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All I have to say to that is this:

"We tend to think of our selves as the only wholly unique creations in nature, but it is not so. Uniqueness is so commonplace a property of living things that there is really nothing at all unique about it. A phenomenon can't be unique and universal at the same time."
We are unique in that we have the ability to reason and our brains have a usable complexity unequalled by any other living creature.
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"The human race does not have a very good record of intelligent behavior."
I believe he's on his third marriage. So he should know.

The human mind does not operate on logic. The Id runs the show.
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All I have to say to that is this:

"We tend to think of our selves as the only wholly unique creations in nature, but it is not so. Uniqueness is so commonplace a property of living things that there is really nothing at all unique about it. A phenomenon can't be unique and universal at the same time."
Fully agreed.

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We are unique in that we have the ability to reason and our brains have a usable complexity unequalled by any other living creature.
One thing I have discovered is this...

Whenever I am thinking that I am doing or experiencing something unique, all I have to do is look around the internet to find many, many people thinking or experiencing the same thing. This has happened often enough for me to realize that regardless of the unique abilities we may have been given (or developed or evolved or whatever we choose to believe about this), we all seem to use them in a very similar manner. If there is one thing we all do have in common, it is thinking that we are unique.

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"The human race does not have a very good record of intelligent behavior."

Who's your guess? Google link below for those with little willpower


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This is a very good reason to sincerely hope that we are not alone in the universe. If we truly are the only "intelligent" life around, then we really are in trouble.

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I believe he's on his third marriage. So he should know.

The human mind does not operate on logic. The Id runs the show.
Nah. Much more complicated than that. The ID, ego, and superego interact and modulate one another in a very complex way to produce inner experience and behavior. The id is the first that appears, developmentally speaking. So "the id runs the show" only in immature or regressed individuals. According to the theory....
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As *I* have said, we humans like to think that we are rational creatures, but the reality is that we are creatures that can rationalize just about any goofy thing that enters our brains.
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I guessed wrong, but as others have pointed out, it's hardly an original observation. I respond with, "Compared to what?"

ETA: I'd like to note for the record that the average human has an IQ of 100. So, to the quoted gentleman in his cozy ivory tower many standard deviations to the right of the mean, I say, "Well, duh!"
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