Hmm, re-reading that I see that I never answered alobar's question: Just what ever brought you to that conclusion [that humans are the first animals ever to contemplate the "big picture"]?
I'll concede that other animals have have contemplated this before humans, perhaps well before humans. It is not something which evolution has prepared us to contemplate, however. When it comes to contemplating the big picture, our brains are not, speaking from the perspective of evolution, particularly suited for this task.
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Date: 2003-12-23 07:59 am (UTC)Just what ever brought you to that conclusion [that humans are the first animals ever to contemplate the "big picture"]?
I'll concede that other animals have have contemplated this before humans, perhaps well before humans. It is not something which evolution has prepared us to contemplate, however. When it comes to contemplating the big picture, our brains are not, speaking from the perspective of evolution, particularly suited for this task.