2006-10-29 02:04:21 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Intelligence.
2006-10-29 02:08:23 · answer #1 · answered by Pink Rose 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I saw a documentary that had a cave where prehumans had built fires in many places around the cave over the hundreds of years. Later in history ancient humans also lived in the cave, but they built fires in the mouth of the cave, exclusively. At the mouth of the cave the smoke was allowed out and the fire kept the animals away. Same technology used by two different species, but one understood consequence, adapted to improve outcome, and continued that information through generations.
2006-10-29 03:42:58 · answer #2 · answered by PJ H 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thumbs
2006-10-29 02:11:31 · answer #3 · answered by Captain Moe 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The biggest difference is people want everything and have a hard time being satisfied with their life. Animals just want the basics. They want to survive and we need an existence.
2006-10-29 02:13:04 · answer #4 · answered by dustin g 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Consciousness is immensely complicated.
I vote for complexity.
Our ability to act given the limited data we receive, with fluidity, according to profuse arrays of rules both apparent and subconscious is truly amazing.
The technology is just the same, really.
What sets us apart is our capacity for language.
2006-10-29 06:36:02 · answer #5 · answered by -.- 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Intelligence first of all. We have a soul and believe in our gods (depending on each one's religion) and are able to have a spiritual life. Animals don't.
2006-10-29 02:14:05 · answer #6 · answered by Adriana 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Humans are the only species on the planet that are naked and have to wear the skin of something else.
2006-10-30 01:25:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Opposable thumbs and reasoning.
Humans are one of the few creatures with opposable thumbs, that allow us to handle and use a multitude of tools.
2006-10-29 02:13:42 · answer #8 · answered by Gem 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Man is the only creature we know of who can comptemplate his own mind. This is what leads him to religion.
2006-10-29 12:14:40 · answer #9 · answered by Sophist 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
humans are under the delusion that they are the image in their mind of who they are, called an identity
animals are not
2006-10-29 02:18:29 · answer #10 · answered by ewen sinclair 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋