Do you consider Humans to be Animals?

[Talrent]

I'd say humans are animals.

[Hyrull]

I'd say humans are animals.

I agree

[Artanili Datium]

Especially if you include Orks.

Alright, let me correct myself in that. We are the most advanced sentient animal.

Term is called : Sapient.

[Valdehmar]

Alright, let me correct myself in that. We are the most advanced sentient animal.

Term is called : Sapient.

Humans are both Sentient and Sapient.
Primates are Sentient but not Sapient.

[Chinese Regions]

Not if you're measuring, say, ability to obtain oxygen from water, or ability to withstand radiation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolysis_of_water

http://app2.nea.gov.sg/topics_radiation.aspx

Humans win.

But our bodies themselves don't necessarily do that, a scorpion and the awesome tardigrade can withstand more radiation than a human can.

[The Emerald Legion]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolysis_of_water

http://app2.nea.gov.sg/topics_radiation.aspx

Humans win.

But our bodies themselves don't necessarily do that, a scorpion and the awesome tardigrade can withstand more radiation than a human can.

Our bodies aren't human. So...

[Chinese Regions]

Yes, we are, no real argument to the fact.

No other animal comes even close to the way humans behave? How about that. There are a million and one different types of everything, and yet humans are unique.

Humans have eukaryotic cells that lack cell walls, plastids and chlorophyll . They are animals.

[New Unsociety]

Homo Sapiens.

That's a species allright.

[The Emerald Legion]

No other animal comes even close to the way humans behave? How about that. There are a million and one different types of everything, and yet humans are unique.

Humans have eukaryotic cells that lack cell walls, plastids and chlorophyll . They are animals.

For now we do.

[Chinese Regions]

Humans have eukaryotic cells that lack cell walls, plastids and chlorophyll . They are animals.

For now we do.

I don't see any reason to become plant like.

[Straight From Above]

Humans have eukaryotic cells that lack cell walls, plastids and chlorophyll . They are animals.

For now we do.

Good point.

The other day I caught my son in the bathroom, photosynthesizing.

[Dansbruck]

Very advanced animals, yes, but animals all the same.

[The Emerald Legion]

For now we do.

I don't see any reason to become plant like.

I don't see any reason to remain biological.

Let's join the mineral kingdom.

[Valdehmar]

I don't see any reason to become plant like.

I don't see any reason to remain biological.

Let's join the mineral kingdom.

Who likes minerals? NOT ME!

That's right Billy.

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[Sociobiology]

I was separating the components of the sentence. Scientifically (adjective) animals (Like fat animals) don't exist, or animals do not exist in a scientific sense?

I added something to your quote of me.

Scientifically, Animals don't exist.

sure they do animals (or Metazoa) are the most common ancestor of Porifera and Homo sapiens and all of its descendants.
it is a valid monophyletic group.

Humans are animals. There's a lot of scientific proof.

There can't be scientific proof of humans animal status because animal is a slot in a sorting system. It's not an innate portion of somethings being.

It is part of their history/ancestry.

[Atalem]

Well, yes!

[Pendragonia]

So yea was thinking about this earlier and I've never seen a thread on NS about it...so...NS...what do you think? Are we, humans, animals or something different?

Personally I consider us to be animals and follow the current scientific stance that we're of the kindom animalia and all that good stuff...so yea what do you think and why?

And no, I don't mean animal as in ruthless and horrid...I meant it as in do you consider humans to be an animal as in scientifically in the
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Hominidae
Tribe: Hominini
Genus: Homo
Species: H. sapiens

or do you reject that all and claim we are not?...as always if so, why?...

Sigh, NS really, anyways I am not asking this because I'm questioning it I ask it because I wonder if any of you question it.

Being a misanthrope, it is not out of character for me to say humans are animals in the pejorative sence. However, one should not ascribe to malice what can be explained via stupidity. Thus, humans aren't (in general) evil, just so fucking dumb.

[The Alchemists Guild]

I haven't read a single word of this thread other than the title so I've no idea if this has any relevance, but I can say one thing. We're sure as shit not plants.

[SaintB]

We're sure as shit not plants.

What she said.

[Chinese Regions]

I was separating the components of the sentence. Scientifically (adjective) animals (Like fat animals) don't exist, or animals do not exist in a scientific sense?

I added something to your quote of me.

Scientifically, Animals don't exist.

Yes they do, any eukaryotic organism who's cells do not possess a cell wall is an animal.

There can't be scientific proof of humans animal status because animal is a slot in a sorting system. It's not an innate portion of somethings being.

It's pretty much all semantics

Innate portion? Yes it is, we are all born as born as animals.

[Chinese Regions]

How do you mean "behave"? All animals behave differently. Please, elaborate.

Invent things. Search out truth often at the cost of evolutionary survival. Think.

Humans are the only ones who do that.

'ones' being animals.
We are animals, we are eukaryotic organisms, we share portions of our DNA with animals. We don't photosynthesise, we digest. Our cells lack cell walls, we are animals.

[The Emerald Legion]

I added something to your quote of me.

Scientifically, Animals don't exist.

Yes they do, any eukaryotic organism who's cells do not possess a cell wall is an animal.

There can't be scientific proof of humans animal status because animal is a slot in a sorting system. It's not an innate portion of somethings being.

It's pretty much all semantics

Innate portion? Yes it is, we are all born as born as animals.

Prove it. You can't. It's a word issue.

If I use the word differently you quite simply can't be correct, and I can't be wrong because it isn't an issue of fact, it's an issue of labeling.

Invent things. Search out truth often at the cost of evolutionary survival. Think.

Humans are the only ones who do that.

'ones' being animals.
We are animals, we are eukaryotic organisms, we share portions of our DNA with animals. We don't photosynthesise, we digest. Our cells lack cell walls, we are animals.

As I said, that's all temporary.

[Soleichunn]

Brainy chimps. That's all. We've yet to reach a stage where our behaviour can be considered distant enough from our animal brethren to classify us as anything else.

Brainy and uppity - humans are the snobs of the ape world.

[Soleichunn]

I dunno, sometimes I feel more like a Protist or an Archaebacteria.

Sometimes I just want a change from the same old ribosome, and I switch to a bacterial system. Of course then a number of my transcriptase just quit on me until I 'return to the fold'.

[Foamy XIII]

Scientifically, yes. Philosophically, no.