Researchers show conscious processes in birds' brains for the first time

[Jim__]

6. Interesting post. I certainly agree with most of it.

I don't think humans are vacuous and trivial. We are animals, born of the earth just like all the other animals. We have been thrown into the world, surrounded by a certain set of people and a certain culture. We struggle to adapt to that culture. That culture was born as part of the human struggle to survive. We have largely transcended the struggle to survive; we reign over most other animals. But our culture doesn't yet seem to grasp this. People, as individuals, are coming to understand our connection to, and dependence upon, nature. But this individual understanding hasn't changed our culture, yet. Perhaps the hope is that individual changes eventually percolate upwards into the culture.