James Lindsay's Life in Light of Death looks at transcendence narratives & instinct to deny that we're mammals
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So when you say “humans instinctively deny they are mammals” you really mean something entirely different?
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I have explained what I mean several times now. Disdaining our animal status, carnality, biology.
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But that is how we say it, isn't it? Often? Stop behaving like an animal? Sex beast?
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Then you don't *literally* have an argument? A wink and a nudge is not an actual claim.
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We know they do this. We see it.
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To act in a manner appropriate to a lower form of being is inappropriate for a higher being.
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There is nothing unreasonable about that claim. It is true, in fact.
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If a human male went about humping legs like a male dog, it would be INAPPROPRIATE human conduct.
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Such a man would be either arrested or institutionalized.
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It is entirely reasonable to expect human conduct of human beings, and not of irrational animals.
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It's not that they deny that humans have mammalian traits, they insist we have "something more"...
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There is our capacity of λόγος or reason, which obviously DOES set us apart from other animals.
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We are the only beings that ask questions, philosophize, do science, are political, use syntax, etc.
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We are the only mortal beings capable of cognizing truth and understanding being qua being.
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