Comment Re:Read Sagan's 'Dragons of Eden' (Score 1) 553
"self-consciousness (the realization that we are naked), and most interesting to me, pain in childbirth because of our big brain-holding heads." Yes, I find this interesting too.
I'm wondering if it's the consciousness of the proximity of birth that led to intelligence (in the way that it's looking at the future and seeing that something will be like that, so we must take care of this or that). I believe the greatest difference between us and the rest of the animal kingdom maybe that we do project ourselves in time (winter is coming) and in space (there is another tribe there, they move slowly, in a month they will be there). We do it in a conciously way, at a level unseen in the (other) animals, wich seem to rely more on instinct. Okay. that's not a very scientific way of approching
the question. But I'd like to hear your opinion on this hypothese.
(sorry for my bad english, eh I'm french).
I'm wondering if it's the consciousness of the proximity of birth that led to intelligence (in the way that it's looking at the future and seeing that something will be like that, so we must take care of this or that). I believe the greatest difference between us and the rest of the animal kingdom maybe that we do project ourselves in time (winter is coming) and in space (there is another tribe there, they move slowly, in a month they will be there). We do it in a conciously way, at a level unseen in the (other) animals, wich seem to rely more on instinct. Okay. that's not a very scientific way of approching
the question. But I'd like to hear your opinion on this hypothese.
(sorry for my bad english, eh I'm french).