not for nothing but if this is too much text for you to read then you ought to practice skimming and reading faster. not everything needs to be 60 seconds 140 characters.
ive never heard of humanity being defined as using tools. there was homo habilis sure but i thought modern humans, sapiens, were defined by our ability to know. before i get too involved in this discussion, i would wanna check the premise a bit more closely
It would be much better if it wasn’t broken up into a bunch of tweets, like this is the exact opposite of twitter’s use case. Just post it as one cohesive block of text with proper formatting and not in a ridiculously long screenshot.
1 & 3: yes.
2: I’m wondering if when they talked about a panic in science, they meant a panic in not-science, like maybe pop science news or religion?
Right now there are a number of pop science news articles and channels saying physicists are panicking over Webb’s confirmation of Hubble’s observations of Cepheid variable stars and the expansion of the universe. But I haven’t heard any actual physicists panicking, unless panicking means finding it really interesting and wanting to know more and do more observations and research.
Or maybe they meant there was a panic reaction to science news among religious politicians and public figures who were given a huge platform? They are always looking for ways to think of humans as distinctly more special than other animals. And they’re always looking for ways to deny rights to anyone who isn’t cis or straight.
There’s been numerous attempts to separate humans from other animals, various skills or behaviours said to demonstrate how we’re different and better and one by one each of those have been found in other species. Therefore I propose that the thing that actually separates humans from animals is that need to differentiate ourselves. No other species does that!
Have they found an “animal” capable of complex maths and philosophy yet? I submit the difference isn’t a whole category like tool usage, but the complexity of it.
Couple thoughts:
not for nothing but if this is too much text for you to read then you ought to practice skimming and reading faster. not everything needs to be 60 seconds 140 characters.
ive never heard of humanity being defined as using tools. there was homo habilis sure but i thought modern humans, sapiens, were defined by our ability to know. before i get too involved in this discussion, i would wanna check the premise a bit more closely
trans rights are human rights
It would be much better if it wasn’t broken up into a bunch of tweets, like this is the exact opposite of twitter’s use case. Just post it as one cohesive block of text with proper formatting and not in a ridiculously long screenshot.
1 & 3: yes. 2: I’m wondering if when they talked about a panic in science, they meant a panic in not-science, like maybe pop science news or religion?
Right now there are a number of pop science news articles and channels saying physicists are panicking over Webb’s confirmation of Hubble’s observations of Cepheid variable stars and the expansion of the universe. But I haven’t heard any actual physicists panicking, unless panicking means finding it really interesting and wanting to know more and do more observations and research.
Or maybe they meant there was a panic reaction to science news among religious politicians and public figures who were given a huge platform? They are always looking for ways to think of humans as distinctly more special than other animals. And they’re always looking for ways to deny rights to anyone who isn’t cis or straight.
What does “ability to know” mean? Don’t monkeys know things?
great question! I am only referring to the Latin meaning of homo sapiens, “man who knows”, distinct from homo habilis
I’ve heard the tools things before. Usually by older people. So it was definitely taught at some point.
There’s been numerous attempts to separate humans from other animals, various skills or behaviours said to demonstrate how we’re different and better and one by one each of those have been found in other species. Therefore I propose that the thing that actually separates humans from animals is that need to differentiate ourselves. No other species does that!
Have they found an “animal” capable of complex maths and philosophy yet? I submit the difference isn’t a whole category like tool usage, but the complexity of it.
A lot of species can do various things better, qualitative superiority just doesn’t cut it. We wanted a clear line that would prove we’re not animals.
Well that’s never going to happen because we are animals.
Exactly.