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domingo, 5 de julho de 2020

Human irrationality and the logic of non-human species ...

Non-human living beings, in a healthy state in their adaptive faculties, do not distort (cannot distort) the reality (truths) that they manage to build for survival. That is why I believe, for now, that they should not be considered irrational. They are only consistent with their adaptation perspectives. It would be the same if human beings were absolutely compared to living beings that fly and are then called "disabled flyers".

Irrationality is basically a form of hallucination, only extrasensory or intellectual, in which the (human) individual distorts his precise or objective understanding of reality, especially when he confuses his opinions derived from his sensations, that is, that result in his subjective truths, with what they perceive or should be perceiving of factual reality. Fanaticism and prejudice are the most important faces of irrationality, uniquely human, if, to be irrational, one must have the potential to be rational ...

The same applies to the example of the ability to fly if, to be a "disabled flyer", there is a natural potential, of a kind, for flight, which is not the case for humans.

Another intellectual difference between human and non-human beings: knowledge / truth as an end in itself


All species of non-human living beings need to have minimal knowledge about what they do (morality) and where they live in order to survive. For them, knowledge is fundamentally a means for survival / adaptation. For the human being, ideally, knowledge, besides having this utility, is also conceived as an END in itself, because we can recognize truths or knowledge that, a priori, has no direct use for our survival, even on the contrary because they can be quite disheartening, for example, that we are going to die one day and that there is no life after death. Only the human being who is capable of knowing that everything he does, in terms of personal interest, will be 'in vain'. That is, we spend a life protecting ourselves from death knowing that it awaits us. Even if, with the advance of science, if we managed to circumvent finitude, life will still not have the meaning that most of us would like it to have, a meaning beyond itself, metaphysical and [absolutely] "comforting". Despite this cost, the objective search for truth can also be very useful in maximizing one's own survival.