Are we Being human?

Question

If a fish did not know it was a fish could it be anything it wished?

Answer 1

Are you thoughtful? Meaning, are you in the habit of using your head (and respecting others who do the same) enough that people *do not* describe you as being "prone to Fits of reason?"

Do you have *and Use* your conscience? Do you pay attention at all to any sense of basic regard for or duty towards others? Do you ever, even once, live for or care for someone *besides Your Own Self?* Do other people matter to you *as people*, or are they mere obstacles and annoyances, objects to be manipulated?

I would say, so long as you can *think* like a reasoning being, and *also* feel with,. bear with the other people around you, that you're being as human as you can be under the circumstances. We've had better times surely, and we've also had much worse. These are difficult times for those who dare think for themselves, and harder times still for those who *care for other people's lives on this earth*, but times have, objectively, been harder and worse.

As for your fish question, it isn't relevant. Most fish aren't even "trainable" in the sense that we normally associate with pets, never mind able to reason abstractly. The meme of "psychology" is lost on them because the idea of a "mind" is lost on them.

Besides, your NLP/rhyming-wordplay-trick took me right out of the question, and made me *refuse* to take it at face value, seriously at all. ^_^ You're reminding me of the recent restaurant commercial, the one with the "square fish" that "fits on a bun". In what kind of Bizarro world would a fish *not* know it was a fish? What would a fish "think" it was....*Square* perhaps, like a slab off of a Rubik's cube?

This is like the old joke about the Thermos bottle: How does it "know" to keep hot things hot, and cold things cold?

It doesn't, because it is just made to hold heat....hmm, not so funny when you take that "How do it know?" punchline *outside* of its original joke and dissect it that coldly, is it? That's because the humor, the joke, wasn't *about* the Thermos bottle.

And Psychology, likewise, isn't about fish, but about humans, who are *not* fish stuck in the water, but rather are thinking creatures able to *imagine* fish being square where they themselves could not. :p So your 2nd Q isn't relevant. Nyeah. :p *lol* :))

Answer 2

A fish may look at a dog, and whether it knew it was a fish or not, it may like like what it sees in the dog. Then the fish could convince itself by reasoning in it's own mind that... "The dog has a mouth, and eyes, like I do. It eats and poops like I do too... therefore I'm going to call myself a dog bcause I believe I am a dog." But it would be ingnoring the DRASTIC DIFFERENCES that point to the fact that IT IS A FISH; it breathes through gills, it has no ears, it's body is conructed completely different, it has fins not legs and paws, It can only survive in water, etc... In it's own mind it can believe it's a dog but every other animal that looked at it would say "no you're crazy, YOU'RE A FREAKIN FISH." Now if you want to say that, "well as long as the fish is happy then why not let it believe it's a dog?" Well the fish is probably a little off the rocker if he tries to say he's a dog. In most cases that I've run into with people who seem a little "off the rocker", they aren't losing their mind because it's making them happy, their losing their mind because they are confused and can't make sense of reality.

In terms of people, a person could say "I am God! I cannot be killed!" the person could really truely believe it too. But the fact of the matter is they are human and if someone wanted to challenge that statement they could, by pointing a gun at the God claimer's head and pulling the trigger. Their claims of being God would quickly be disproven with a big cost at hand being their life.

Reality is very hard to make sense of, actually I would go as far as saying it is impossible to make sense of. No one has the answers, in fact there are many many more questions than there are answers. But there are things that have been given to us, such as science and the laws of nature, that are the only tools we have to understand the universe with. To begin to deny what little reality has been given to us is moving in a pointless direction where there will be no absolute answers. The only answer there is is the one that says "there are no absolute answers". Again, it's a meaningless and pointless philosophy where NOTHING can be argued either way.

Answer 3

If a fish isn't aware enough to know that it's a fish, then it is incapabable of wishing.

Of course we're being human. Being human is the only thing we can be. Unless you want to be inhuman.

I'm dizzy.

Answer 4

No, because a fish cannot wish for things.

Answer 5

I doubt it, because if he doesn´t know he´s a fish then he probably wouldn´t know what he would want to be.

Thought i would add, a fish is only a fish because we have named it so. The same applies to us.

Answer 6

A fish dose not act for its self, it acts on pure insistent, also fish and any other anima don’t kill there own kind only humans do this

Answer 7

We can be anaything we create and choose. This is why we are human BEing. The whole purpose of our life is to Be Who We Are, and Choose who we are, as we do, every moment of the day, with every thought, word, and experience, declaring who we are.

Answer 8

as long as we are not biased,prejudiced and take care of our actions we are human and even in better spirit if we use our position to change the conditions in a better way(noblesse oblige).
else not

Answer 9

as a human you probably have the power to be what that you want if you 'believed' in it, & physical if you had a budhist's belief

Answer 10

No clue. That's a toughy...