The Error that is Man

[Papewaio]

Was this post in response to mine? Then, let me rephrase my statement and ask, is it a good strategy for an animal to create an environment for herself, to which she cannot adapt? That is the thing that mankind is doing, that no other animal is stupid enough to do. And in the process, she calls herself rational. And she thinks she's having control over her creation, even though she does not. Adaption is a given part of the (subconscious or not) strategy of any animal. But changing the environment to undo all adaption capability, is not so common. In fact, mankind is evolution's first try at an animal that can dramatically change its environment. We shouldn't expect ourselves to be very good at it when we do it in the semi-random, crazy way we're doing it now.

Not true. We aren't the only organism to change the environment so much that we die off. Nor would I say we call ourselves rational, we might say that we have access to a rational tool... but most of us don't use reasoning on everything we do in either the short or long term. Intuition is an interesting thing in of itself... to have such understanding of a situation that we can come to the correct conclusion without conscious effort.

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