On the other hand, I find it hard to believe a rational person would believe humans have instincts when our survival, both as individual entities and as a collection of entities, requires an evaluation of a very complex level of interacting variables.
Not hard if you believe that reason was not always an available methodology and that instincts were once the primary mode of operation for we humans.
Not hard if you believe that reason was not always an available methodology and that instincts were once the primary mode of operation for we humans.
And what’s the evidence for this? Is there *evidence* of humans–HOMO SAPIENS humans–who lived exclusively by the use of instinct?
Making up claims out of whole cloth is just silly.
Not hard if you believe that reason was not always an available methodology and that instincts were once the primary mode of operation for we humans.
How do you argue with someone who says “oh I know you define humans as rational animals, but I’m still right because humans are not rational animals because at some point there were these other entities, who died long ago, who were not rational animals, but they are connected to us because we evolved from them.”?
Without the law of identity I can prove anything by association. It’s easy to believe that you can’t possibly be typing at your keyboards, because everybody knows that at some point we humans were single-cell creatures , and our primary mode of operation was photosynthesis. So there you go, RationalBiker, q.e.d.: the reason why you like your bike is because you need to stay in the sun for energy.
The fact is that WE were never apes. We were born sometime during the end of the 20th century, and we do have reason available. They (apes 1 million years ago), were whatever they were. There is no logical connection between what they are and what we are. You are manufacturing that connection, by not distiguishing between them and we , but rather saying we were alive 1 million years ago.
Not hard if you believe that reason was not always an available methodology and that instincts were once the primary mode of operation for we humans.
Yea, I guess one can believe pretty much whatever they want. However, they can only know that which is fact. Believe away…
The technical term for this is Rectal Database Extractional epistemology.