Is thinking the luxury of man alone?

[blazeofglory]

We are what we are today by virtue of our capacities for thinking. We are thinking animals and we rose to the statures we are in for we have the power of reasoning, seeking meanings, causes and effects or the sciences beyond phenomena.

As a matter of fact we luxuriate in thinking and we are here only owing to that capacity for thinking. But do not animals think? Has there been enough investigation or scientific research on this issue? Also I want to know that at what point in history man has suddenly or mutatively undergone a big transformation.

Both men and animals have the same ancestors. In the course of time men have advanced and dominated the animal kingdom. I have read about the Jurassic park or the epoch of dinosaurs or tyrannosaurs and I do not know in that epoch of time man existed or not. I have not read the geological / geographical history of the world. Yet I am a little inquisitive about that part of the evolution of the universe.

The point however I am raising is what sudden abruption happened in history and only Homo sapiens have emerged to dominated the rest of other species or genera.

That question may seem stupid to many, yet this question been have weighing heavily upon my thinking.

I think that is where man today aligns himself with some spiritual source. Or the concept of god builds up. For man is very different despite the fact that biologically he is akin or similar to his fellow beings. He eats, grows, matures, mates and begets babies and dies in the end. And in following this cycle man is not the littlest bit different from animal beings.

But there is something, the genetic content or DNA factors that distinguishes or keeps him distinct from the rest of genera.

So many debates have taken place and so many books have been written on this subject and still researches are taking place. But I always wonder and my questions could never be answered.

At times I become bound to mull over something that this sudden, abrupt mutative change in man, a kind of transmutation or metamorphic phase. Somewhere deep down I feel that it has some remote connection that there is some source of connection and man only could resource himself with it. Maybe you call God or some cosmic power or the universal power or by any other names you understand it.

This is just a doubt, not a firm or confirmed belief.

I want to share the thought that sprang up in my mind with all.

[wilbur lim]

What a decent perspective to cite that!

[blackbird_9]

Our cerebral cortex is more developed and evolved than the rest of relatives in the animal kingdom. It's the part of our brain that enables complex thought and awareness of self in addition to a multitude of other functions. It's what makes us human. But, it's humbling to remember that, just like any other animal, out basis is in striving for survival of the fittest.

[kasie]

Anyone who has had any kind of contact with animals knows that they 'think' but whether they have the ability for abstract thought is not known because we cannot communicate with them.

[wilbur lim]

Precisely,great perspective,blackbird.

[blazeofglory]

Anyone who has had any kind of contact with animals knows that they 'think' but whether they have the ability for abstract thought is not known because we cannot communicate with them.

I grew up with animals. I was born in a village, very remote from the noises, hustle, bustle of the city. I am the son of a farmer. We had many animals, cows, calves, oxen, baffles, goats, kids, and even pigeons. I had an intimate relationship with them, I took them to graze, I used to scratch their bodies thinking that it would comfort when they felt itchy and caressed them. They liked me and I could read the language of it in their eyes and the way they responded when I went close to them. Though I was a student my interest was not in books but in the animals and animals. I never whipped them and always took great care of them.

I had dogs, stray dogs. I loved them very much. They always ran after me wherever I went. When some of them used to beget babies I cared for them and gave extra foods to the mothers.

I can read what they feel, their angers, their joys, their pains even the frustrations and desperation they had at times. They could read my feelings too. I knew it was reciprocal. I knew lots of things about animals when I was a small kid. Then I started caring or tending animals when I was a mere five years old.

However I did not know anything beyond that. I am just interested if there has been any study or investigation about this.

[Humanity]

I am literally impress of thy language,blazeofglory!