Why aren't humans as atuned to nature as other animals? Did we lose that abiltiy through evolution?

Question

I mean, look at the tsunami, a couple of years ago. In nature, the animals r always the first to know, whereas us humans have know idea what's about to happen. I hope u get my point

Answer 1

I think we still have the ability but don't always recognize it. Just a generation or so ago you use to hear a lot of people say things like "my elbow is telling me we'll be getting a storm" or "My knee is acting up so we should expect snowfall." I think in recent year we've just become too dependent upon the news and weather forecasters. We just don't know how to interpret our internal signals anymore.

Answer 2

,The problem for humans is that we have self awareness, animals don't have this capacity. That means we are capable of independent free thought. Animals operate at the instinctive level all the time and are unable to do otherwise, whereas we can manipulate the world around us. You won't find animals pondering the meaning of life.

I agree with your fundamental point that having become, in part at least, observers of the world, we have lost some of the primitive understanding of nature still retained by animals.
Animals live off, and interact with, the earth and other life forms. It could be that we only think that we are more intelligent than other animals, but as you suggest in terms of survival strategies, maybe the animals have it right and we only exist in a noddy world of our own creation. Because we have a free and independent will, we presumably carry responsibilities that animals are not burdened with.

Maybe it's ironic that the more indepenedent we become the more we move apart from nature, and become isolated in our own world of thinking and trying to explain the world, rather than simply accepting it.

The more we know, the more cursed we are.

Answer 3

We have not lost that ability but because we have brains decided that we didn't need to. We are a greedy species and one that does not care and one that will corrupt anything that stands in our way---that's why we got global warming now. Mother nature is totally out of balance, melting ice, tsunami, and super hurricanes like Kathrina, plus all the tornadoes etc. Man decided that he could do better than live off what earth had to offer and man took it therefore upon himself to decide what he needed, and what man thinks he needs is money. The big tsunami for example would not have been as horrible had they not hacked off all those trees protecting the island. Those trees where a natural barrier agains taifuns and even though this tsunami was bad, leaving the trees around the island could have prevented that a lot of people died because they would have broken the waves somewhat. But man wants to make money, so the trees had to go and vacation resorts built.

Just look at how we, the white man in particular, has corrupted others to get their way: the old Indians used to be very much into this earth, live of what mother nature had to offer, knew healing herbs---but they got corrupted so that other men could get a hold of their land and build things to make money(they got corrupted with alcohol) Look at the old Africans who had such a rich land and who got corrupted via coloniazation and therefore lost their history. Money was and is the root of all evil, because of the materialistic things we have chosen to forfeit the rest, but I do not think that we have lost the ability.

Answer 4

Most humans do not pay any attention to nature. So why would they notice when nature goes nuts?
Animals live in nature and so are more likely to know when somethings wrong with nature.
I saw a TV program (like Dateline or something) about a group of natives that live on one of the islands hit by the tsunami. They were fine. They some how knew to move inland before the wave came and smashed everything on the beach to splinters. No they did not have radios, TVs, or cellphones!
How did they know before hand? They payed attention to what was going on around them in nature! Strange things started happening.
The fish went away, the birds went inland, and the water started pulling away from the beach when it wasn't low tide. They'd seen these things before, knew what it meant, and beet-feet to a safer place!

Answer 5

I don't think we have ever been as attuned to nature as some animals, and I also don't think all animals are, its all about observation. animals feel stress and know when things aren't calm, as do a lot of people. As soon as one animal panicks they all do. All it takes is for one bird to see or feel what is coming and panic- so will its flock, seabirds coming in land will also let animals know something is up and they all flee. If we observe as much as they do we would notice much more about the world around us. If I'm out in woodland and I hear no bird song then I know something is around that has worried them be it myself or some kind of other predator, if all the animals were running the same way I'd run too! when we realise that we are not invincible to nature and take note more then maybe more of us would pick up on whats happening rather than just looking at all the pretty animals run.

not everybody is like this though just the majority. I think it depends on how you live your life too - in my house we can't really afford heating in winter so we need to keep warm in other ways most people houses its the same temperature all year round so they don't notice the difference it all matters less and less what season it is to them. I only buy fruit and veg that is in season from local farmers, if I had my own garden I would only eat what I grow, which differs through the year. living like this helps a lot in keeping in tune with nature.

hope this helps a bit :o)

Answer 6

But you did change your attire that day and were anxious to bathe. Rain was missed in the world and many saw tv looking for this event, to bring better news on Cambodia and Burma. Oil price was raised and more fundraisers got on the commision of aid and peace. Nature is common to live beings and some mushrooms. Most humans will say as other we are savage and wild animals, so it makes true and sure at both, you can see most donot reason nor folly, that is joke and hearsay, some others will not enable reason yet are smart and telepathic. Bye William Bully.

Answer 7

Your question states as fact, something that is simply not true. Apart from a few anecdotal accounts of a handful of animals of 2 or 3 species, who's actions, with hind-sight were interpreted as precognitive, the rest of the animal world suffered the same fate as the human inhabitants of the tsunami affected regions.

Try and ask the same question based on statistical data and scientific observations.

Answer 8

Because once we left the farming lifestyle, we do not need to be attuned to nature. With the exceptions of tsunamis which strike relatively quickly with minimal warning, some humans think that they are immortal and do not have to leave areas even when nature gives them hints. Look at all of the fools who live on rivers who complain every time it floods. If you back door is a river, it will flood.

Answer 9

I believe that animals are more prone to be atuned with the environmental changes as well as nature itself, they do not need electricity nor do they need a tv. Us, Humans are so far advanced in technology these days that we do not stop and smell the roses. The evolution is a word that effect our species only.

Answer 10

It's because humans early on developed in a totally different direction than all other animals. Our evolution mainly takes place on brain level. We've developed our brains more than any other animal on earth.. at the same time, we saw need to develope language. That is a creative process. Unlike other animals, we have the ability to creat something outside ourselves that we don't need to survive. There are some animals that are more creative than others, some birds use tools, like we do, but it's all to survive, they need the tool to open shells for instance. Our brains are so highly developed that we've started to create stuff we really don't need to survive. Being on that track, we've also started to move away from nature during the industrial period. Industrialisation caused people to have an indirect relationship with the countryside, with their environment and with nature. For most people on earth, nature is something outside, not something that is involved in their daily lives. I don't think we've really lost the ability to pick up signals in nature, but we've certainly not learned how to use them, we've been focussed on something else.

Answer 11

How much does a flower do?
A tree?
The ocean?
Little fishes in a garden pond?

And then look at humans... We are soooo busy!! Always moving, always DOING, never content, always with one eye looking at the past and either running towards it or running away from it, and the other eye, looking at the future, planning for it, dreading it, working for it... Constant frenetic activity, until in the West, we are the most sleep-deprived society that has ever walked the face of the Earth. Everywhere, people on cellphones, telephones, in cars, people speeding faster and faster.... Instant news, fast food, microwave meals, sound bytes, faster
computers, faster cars, faster planes, computerized checkout lines...

What I have the hardest time doing, is sitting still for twenty minutes a day, singing the HU, (my daily prayers) and DOING nothing but BEing.