We Humans (Draft) (Information to be Added) (On research)

We are unique in that we’re the only animals that can conceptualize and think about ourselves abstractly.

Dogs don’t sit around and worry about their career. 

Cats don’t think about their past mistakes or wonder what would have happened if they’d done something differently. 

Monkeys don’t argue over future possibilities, just as fish don’t sit around wondering if other fish would like them more if they had longer fins.

As humans, we’re blessed with the ability to imagine ourselves in hypothetical situations, contemplate both the past and the future, and imagine other realities or situations where things might be different. And it’s because of this unique mental ability, we give a lot of concern about things. 

Becker (psychologist)says, that we all, at some point, become aware of the inevitability of our own death. Because we’re able to conceptualize alternate versions of reality, we are also the only animal capable of imagining a reality without ourselves in it

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