Chapter 4. As always I have many doubts/questions while I'm reading this book, but let's focus on one that draws my attention. While Savater talks about the similarities and differences there are between us (humans) and animals, there was this statement that says: “...animals use their intelligence to procure what they need, whereas humans use it to discover new needs.”
Here’s my point of view from this statement, I think Savater is correct. Why? Animals only seek to be stable and with their requirements fulfilled, after they achieve this they are okay and they don’t search or start to look for other things. In the other hand, in humans were always trying to be stable and have everything we need to live (water, food, electricity, etcetera), but the problem here is that we are not satisfied with these things that are required to live well, we always try to find new things or seek new ways to make or gather things.
For example, there’s this experiment about the Large Hardon Collider about the particles, even though scientists have stated that it can make a black hole and create problems to Earth, we as humans don’t take it into consideration and want it to make it happen. There are many examples as the one I gave before in this world, examples where humans aren’t satisfied with what they have and are always trying to look for many things, there is never a time where we could say we have finally reached it and have everything. As Savater said before “...humans use it (intelligene) to discover new needs”. In resume, humans use intelligence to live well, but sometimes we want more things that we can't have.
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That is totally correct. I really support this blog. Humans always want more and more. People want to know more, people want to produce more, people want to dicover more, etc. Animals just live day to day. They are only worried about the present. In the other hand, humans are worried about future, present, past, etc. Also people discover and create things that are not essential for life (luxuriopus stuff, ipods, cars). Nobody have ever died for not having an ipod, a car or a computer.
ResponderEliminarMartin I think your are correct in your opinion because we as humans are able with our intelligence to do many wonderful and new things, that really help us to progress, to do thing more efficiently and to be communicated with the rest of the world, that’s awesome, but the problem I found here is that we are never satisfied with what we have, we always want more and more, when are we stopping and start to be happy with what we do?
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ResponderEliminarMartin, reading your blog I remember that quote; I also agree with that quote, and with your point about it. There are many things that we, humans, want to do and that are not essential. Like your example, it wasn’t the most essential thing for us, and it caused an international controversy; although many scientists outside the project explained that it was impossible to create a black hole big enough to “eat the Earth”.
ResponderEliminarPS: For Alejandro Murra, this will sound silly, but you never know if someone has died for not having an iPod, car, or something else; suicides can have happened for that…=S, but I got your point.