What's So Special About Humans?

Sunday, December 1, 2024

What Is It

Human beings share the planet with many different organisms with vastly diverse ways of life. We like to think we're a higher form of intelligence. But are we really that unique? How different are we as a species when it comes to language, thought, and culture? Where does our specifically human form of consciousness come from? And if other animals are so similar to us, should we stop eating them? The Philosophers walk the Earth with Peter Godfrey-Smith from the University of Sydney, author of Living on Earth Forests, Corals, Consciousness, and the Making of the World.

Transcript

Transcript

Josh Landy
We humans think we're so smart. But are we really that unique?
 
Alison Gopnik  
Do other animals have language, thought and culture? 
 
Josh Landy  

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KEldridge

Friday, December 27, 2024 -- 1:14 AM

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incomefuture

Tuesday, May 27, 2025 -- 2:07 AM

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