What makes Humans Human?

I think animals can realise themselves...I have 3 cats and they are far more than just "animals". Kelly is probably the most complex out of all of them...

But even so, we as humans are more complex, and we have more needs in this life.

What do you mean by realizing ourselves?

Many animals are very much self aware.

Uh...you apparently did not follow my earlier post... we owe much of the higher aspects of our nature and culture from emulating the monkey in areas where they have been long worshipped. This is the area stretching from Asia into the Middle East and Africa that became the cradle of civilization. They are the brilliant ones, showing the way. We are the copy cats.

i think animals use there natural born instincts more than us..as humans we dont seem to use it as much...as well as i think we have a much more of an urge to be curious outside our initial circle .

this is a real hard question

That is very evident and very true! All animals have body awareness,but humans have an higher form, self awareness of our selves as a distinct and questioning species,always exploring ourselves and where and why we are here! We often get wrong answers to those questions but we do try!

I would a l m o s t agree. But, then there is this recent case of the gorilla that gathers rocks all day long to toss at zoo visitors the following day. I think this demonstrates very clearly, imagining a future scenario, planning, and orneriness. We have to accept, in whatever case, that there are some of us who are relative monkey and some of them who are relative genius.

Wrong. That higher awareness is something we learned over many thousands of years emulating the shaman members of macaque tribes in areas that became the cradle of our own spiritual arise and where the macaque have been worshipped sense prehistory. You are just feeling all chauvinistic special about yourself, never having met a macaque shaman. We aint all that.

I agree that "we ain't all that".

Speak fer yerself, sweety. All depends on how close to the edge of the world one chooses to sail. Put it on the line...all of it...and them instincts will fire right up. Do it often enough and they will put any other species to shame. Man be the man...if we were just not so comfort oriented here in the west.

we dont have to use instincts as much as we did when we were primitive ....we dont have to hunt for our food it is right there on the supermarket shelf...i never said we didnt have it i merely said we dont use it in the same aspect as an animal would...this to me is what makes us different from them ..we have a choice to not use it they dont.

We are not only all that but we are the only species that has become a force of nature,changing the worlds ecology!
But not necesarily for the better!

Is this going to be an argument?If so I choose not to participate!

I wonder what thoughts the crow in this video had?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWnAqXCUzLI

our imperfection.

I stated an historic fact. What would be the point in arguing with that?