The need for food, sleep, procreation is inherent in any person. In this he is not at all different from the animal. But along with natural instincts, a person has qualities that allow him to be considered a being above animals.
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One of them is the ability to be creative. Over the years of his existence, man has created many works of art - art canvases, architectural structures, clothing and household items, musical and literary works. Everything around is permeated with creativity. Home is not just a place for a person to retire, eat and sleep. The house is creatively furnished - curtains hang on the windows, sofas and beds are covered with bedspreads, paintings are on the walls. Even if a person himself is not strong in creating creative products, he needs the creative thought of other people to manifest itself even in everyday life, to surround him, making the world more beautiful. It is impossible to meet this need in the animal kingdom. The bear does not decorate the den with flowers and ruffles of herbs, the bird does not use any decorative ornaments in relation to the nest, the cow does not feel spiritual torment from contemplating the wretched appearance of the barn. A person not only cannot live in a space containing only functional objects, he is able to create literally from everything that surrounds him: sand, paper, glass, brick, sounds, paints, threads, letters and words. Creative thought is truly phenomenal, and there seems to be no limit to its resource.
Step 2
Human creativity is closely related to such qualities as fantasy and imagination, the ability to dream. A person asks himself questions, looks for answers to them, assumes, fantasizes. Is there life on Mars? It is unlikely that your cat asks himself this question and is tormented in search of an answer. Or maybe a lion with a crocodile at their leisure, having met by a stream, are discussing this topic? Alas, the animal world is deprived of fantasy. And a person is not only interested in this, he spends a lot of effort, energy, time to test his theory in order to understand how it really is. And this craving for knowledge cannot be designated by simple curiosity, which is also characteristic of animals. This is something more - like a cognitive itch that pushes a person to create new technologies that allow you to look deeper, see more and fly higher.
Step 3
Spirituality is another quality that is not inherent in animals. It would be strange if a dog, for example, wondered if she had sinned by taking a bone from a mongrel and how she could get to heaven now. In the animal world, everything is simple - physiology and reflexes. Spirituality, morality, morality, conscience - this is already a luxury of human existence.
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For example, the nature of procreation requires - the animals "went" and continued. The human body requires sex - you need to make sure that this does not contradict one or another social norms (whether there is a “individual” in marriage, is this “female” possible). There are, of course, people who blindly follow their physiological needs, but society calls them immoral.
Step 5
All these differences of a person exist only because he is endowed with an instrument of communication - language. Communication allows people to accumulate information, comprehend it, generalize, and pass it on to future generations. Thanks to this, all human descendants can use the experience of their ancestors, which allows them to improve their own lives from century to century, while the level of "development" of animals remains unchanged.
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Even at the beginning of times, when people lived in caves and hunted mammoths, they still differed from animals - after all, their fantasy told them how to hunt more successfully, what tools to create, and creative thought already gave these tools an increasingly organic form. Year after year, century after century - and the digging stick evolved into a spaceship. And the elephant, as was the elephant, remained. Except that he was smaller, if you believe the assumptions of scientists about the era of gigantism that existed in the distant past.
