Animals have no concept of tomorrow. Even if they can look into the future for a few hours, they don't know that they will go to sleep and face the next day. The pyramids show that humans know that they face eternity. Squirrels don't time travel, they are ruled by blind instinct.
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While many animals greet each other enthusiastically, parting rituals are completely absent in the animal kingdom, also hinting at a lack of developed future thinking. http://ishe.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/HEB_2016_31_4_5-14_doi.pdf …pic.twitter.com/jc86krn5Ol
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Thomas Suddendorf has much more evidence of animals being "blind" to the future in his great book "The Gap". https://www.amazon.com/Gap-Science-Separates-Other-Animals/dp/0465030149/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1514483897&sr=1-1&keywords=the+gap …pic.twitter.com/fZXOKxZYDy
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Why have they not progressed much further over thousands of years than finding new ways to wash potatoes?
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Humans also did not progress much further over even longer periods than finding small new ways to make stone axes.
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To first understand tomorrow we need to understand time as we all know time does not exist, its just a measurement.
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It exist but only in our mind
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You got me there
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I don't really understand the question
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Oh no, that's not true. All behaviour is genetically determined. Obvs.
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