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Submitted by Rachel on March 16, 2008 - 16:17.
i have never lived in a cave.
when i visit caves, I don't feel some uncontrolled, strong pull towards it like it was my home. Caves creep me out. When I see guys with rippling muscles and broad shoulders, I don't think of his ability to protect the cave and hunt big game. I don't care about guys being able to wrestle mammoths.
Basically, I don't have any caveman-ish instincts. but according to popular science, we are all cavemen and of course cavewomen at heart.
Funny how that brief period in human existence is said to dictate human nature. wouldn't human nature have evolved along with everything else? no, there seems to be some things that just can't be changed.
Basically, you have no control over your primal instincts because that's obviously what humans live by...the lives they never had as cavemen.
I think it's silly to blame everything on cavemen survival tactics, since most people now have never experienced that. Somehow, though, it's hardwired with genetics. How come life in grand junction doesn't get passed on? it's just the caves. I couldn't care less about life in a cave. The reason humans live is to be able to get OUT of the cave and life better lives than their ancestors or anybody else...
I don't really believe in the subconscious, and I especially don't know how cavemen could've had such an effect on that. Who knows what cavemen were really like, anyway? I think humans just like to blame their actions on cavemen-ish things.
If the point of survival is to reproduce, I think we've grown out of that. why bother getting an education and having laws and government if only to reproduce? We want something more for ourselves than that, so we should forget about "human nature" and start facing the consequences of our own desires and actions. We're totally capable of controlling our thoughts. We're not cavemen anymore. Humans are not essentially good or bad. We choose to be what we are, and cavemen were certainly not responsible for that.
Interesting Subject
Submitted by Anonymous Creeper on March 16, 2008 - 17:48.So where exactly did you get the idea to write such an intesting blog and what exactly is the point. I know that people shouldn't blame things on their caveman instincts, but I never see people blaming people on that anyway so I don't see a problem anyway.
Admittedly...
Submitted by Rachel on March 16, 2008 - 22:05.I was reading an article in Time about how we love love because it's our natuarl instinct to want to reproduce-- and the things that make us attractive to one another are mostly based off of caveman-type reactions. I disagreed...
Yeah, most people don't go around saying "I kissed so and so because of the caveman in me" ;-) but science seems to trace a lot of "Why?" 's back to that- basic human nature that cavemans have. But now that I think about it, maybe they were the epitome of human nature because they had nothing but the basics. So there were no distractions.
Honestly, beats me...
Atleast it's not a boring one, it's an interesting thought
Submitted by Anonymous Creeper on March 17, 2008 - 08:23.I don't think that love is a cave-man type reaction, just because we still have the instinct to reproduce like we did back then doesn't mean that that's why we feel the need to reproduce. Everything has to reproduce no matter what just to stay alive, so I don't believe that it can be called a caveman instinct.
I don't think it's very easy to even try to find exaclty where we got the instinct to reproduce in our minds, considering every type of animal or living thing alive has always felt that instinct. I would think that love is just embedded in our DNA. The only difference between us and animals is that we have 'love' which is more than just the impulse to reproduce, we also intend to stay loyal as well, but I think that's just because we put more thought into who we reproduce with, animals just do it and move on. It's pretty confusing I'd say...
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P.S. The first comment was me as-well, I forgot to put my name on it
Uh-huh
Submitted by Anonymous Creeper on March 18, 2008 - 21:19.Yeah, I don't think a lot of people fully comprehend what is so special about conscious thought in humans. It helps us make logical decisions against our instincts. ie, humans can tell if risks out weigh benefits of an impulse action. Logic, I guess.
But that draws up some interesting questions regaurding chimps and other animals that use tools. Is it their instinct to jab a stick down the termite nest, or did they figure it out? And how do you measure conscious thought?
And what do you mean by saying you don't believe in the subconcious? I thought the subconcious part of the brain was the part that told our heart to beat and such.
My brain hurts. I don't think I'm smart enough for these types of conversations.