More importantly, does it matter? One of the biggest things separating humans from other animals on earth is our ability to learn from the experiences of others. I’m sure you learned lessons as a child watching someone else do something wrong but that’s been so internalized now that you can’t tell the difference. At some point other people’s experiences become our own and we share that with the people around us
Heaps of other animals learn from the experiences of others.
Orcas have culture, crows in europe taught each other how to peck out just the liver of frogs and make them explode, capuchin monkeys make stone tools, even plants release volatile organic compounds to warn each other of attackers and disease.
I’ve turned a “my friend” story into my story on the Internet. It’s just easier than adding “my friend’s” in front of every other word. It doesn’t change the point or value of the story, and for all you Internet strangers know, it could be him posting his own experience.
More importantly, does it matter? One of the biggest things separating humans from other animals on earth is our ability to learn from the experiences of others. I’m sure you learned lessons as a child watching someone else do something wrong but that’s been so internalized now that you can’t tell the difference. At some point other people’s experiences become our own and we share that with the people around us
Heaps of other animals learn from the experiences of others.
Orcas have culture, crows in europe taught each other how to peck out just the liver of frogs and make them explode, capuchin monkeys make stone tools, even plants release volatile organic compounds to warn each other of attackers and disease.
I’ve turned a “my friend” story into my story on the Internet. It’s just easier than adding “my friend’s” in front of every other word. It doesn’t change the point or value of the story, and for all you Internet strangers know, it could be him posting his own experience.