Are we just animals busy with the game called: "survival of the fittest?"?

Question

Are we really conscious beings or are we just slaves to the physical world just like all other animals?

Answer 1

According to some writers, all living creatures are part of a collective entity called infinite consciousness. But the illuminati, those with the secret knowledge of ancient times that is kept hidden from the masses, try to make out that we are all 'Individuals'.

They do this so that they can continue to rule over us by wars and fear. Can you imagine, if we all realised the true nature of reality and the government said 'OK we are fighting a war now with another country', with infinate consiousness we would immeadialty have the power to laugh at them and say that 'there is no other country. all living creatures are one and I will not kill me for you'.

According to this writer, the world that we live in, all of the physical surroundings is all an illusion. It is not real. The illuminati bombard us with propaganda from birth to make us believe it is real though.

Do you ever get the feeling that something is not right? That something about the world is just not right, but you cannot understand what the problem is? I do and I think this illusion theory is worth investigating further. Please see the link below.

So in direct answer to your question we are in a game, but it is between us and the illuminati. Other animals are in fact not slaves to the physical world only humans are. But once the awakening happens, you will see the true nature of reality. This stuff is mindblowing, but it feels right to me.

Answer 2

All animals are conscious beings, though we may not be able to discern their levels of consciousness. And, yes, we are involved in a process called survival of the fittest, which doesn't necessarily have anything to do with intelligence or domination of the planet. And we are just like all other animal except that, as a race or species, we have lost contact with the "real" world of the animals. We think ourselves to be above or outside of it, but we are not. Global warming is a global warning. Take heed.

Answer 3

Alfred Korzybski distinguishes humans from animals by noting that animals don't have the time-binding capacity.

In that sense, humans are in a different game as they're not animals.

Humans can develop consciousness, and by developing consciousness over certain processes, they can regulate them. For example, I may not be conscious that I bite my nails. When I become conscious of the practice, I can make different choices when I feel the impulse come on, or when I find myself doing that.

Animals, it would seem in general, are not very capable of changing their habits on their own. Thus, you could say in that respect they are slaves, but humans aren't truly slaves because they are able to make choices for themselves rather than have them dictated to them.

Answer 4

You're only a slave if you are forced into doing something you don't want to do. So maybe the problem is not that you are a slave, it's that you don't like what you are doing.

Animals, are so deeply involved in what they are doing, in their role in an ecology, that they usually don't have time to realize things like survival of the fittest. So maybe you should try to find a role for yourself that you can become deeply involved in.

Answer 5

We are animals, but we're way beyond "survival of the fittest." Now we're playing the game of trying to determine what the hell creatures designed for the old game should get up to next.

Answer 6

Humans are the only species that believe that there is more to this life than just surviving it. Animals only know how to surive. We survive but we also have a sense of connection with the universe around. And us as humans have all sat with ourselves at some point in time and questioned what our purpose is in this life. An animal's only purpose is to just live by any means. That's the difference between animals and humans, the realization of something more.

Answer 7

We're mostly just slaves to the "game" of survival of the fittest and particles in motion. Your conscious understanding of this enslavement is irrelevant of course, doesn't free you.

Answer 8

Survival is a requisite -- it's required!

Slaves to the physical world? It's essential to be, like all other animals.

"Just" is not a word I'd associate with the above comments...

Answer 9

Strange as it often seems we do indeed possess a consciousness that other animals do not. However, that consciousness can be exploited and rendered virtually non-existent for all practical purposes. Manipulating symbols, creating false links and associations and attempting to create truth through repitition can all result in human behavior devoid of free will even though the appearance of choice remains...in many respects, just like the behavior of other animals.

Answer 10

Social Darwinism is an archaic late 19th and early 20th century ideology that went out with Eugenics. We're a little past Herbert Spencer and Margaret Sanger.