Posted: Sep 01, 2012 2:50 pm
GrahamH wrote:DavidMcC wrote:I'm abandoning this thread, because there is too much ignorance-based sarcasm from certain posters, who seem to think humans are really, really special. There is simply no arguing with such people.
Do you mean this dedication to the idea that humans have something unique in nature called "free will"?
If you are suggesting humans aren't that special and are very much part of the natural world then I agree with you.
Of course I agree that humans are part of the natural world, that's what I have been talking about throughout this thread, but I thought I had also made it clear that the evolution of the social primates created the conditions for FW (based on the primate brain) to be expressed - ie sometimes not be "buried" under learned habits and instincts, because there is sometimes time to think (as when scheming to become the alpha male), because of the social primates' lifestyle.