The word they're probably looking for is 'sapient'. Sentient means the ability to feel sensations or be conscious. Sapience is the ability to act upon such sensation with appropriate judgement. So far, only humans are truly sapient, though there are a few animals that come pretty close.

I think a good argument can be made for crows; they can transfer information both laterally and vertically among generations, which is pretty close to true sapience.

Genetic altruism?

Altruism = kindness

It manifests as what we could define as kindness, but in reality; the baby squirrel is possibly closely related to the adult, and the adult has an urge to protect it,and thus a portion of shared DNA.

Sounds like the definition of it to me.

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Half Life 3 confirmed?

My exact thoughts

r u ok

It's religion.
Logic need not apply.

Ooooooo, touchy are we ?
Logic is not subjective.

Logic is possible the most objective thing we as a species have created.
Humans are animals. We share 92% of our DNA with mice for fuck sake.

But anyway, logic does not work with religion, a man cannot turn water to wine, a man cannot cure blindness through touch, and no magic can raise the dead, harry.

I'd just like to interject something here. I'm not taking a side in this argument but just because you can't understand something doesn't mean it's not possible. For all we know, Jesus was a scientific visionary capable of feats beyond the comprehension even of modern science, so claiming all these things like turning water into wine and curing blindness are illogical isn't necessarily true, it could just be that science hasn't advanced to the point we can understand them yet.
tl:dr jesus = science master who could do anything

>Children like me, you're getting defensive, trying to argue ad hominem. I'd stop that, it's a surefire way to present yourself as a twat.

>Intellectually superior because of other belief / perspective. When it comes to logic, if you don't believe in it. Then I am intellectually superior as anyone who doesn't believe in logic is fucking retarded.

What abstract idea are you talking about ? That we aren't animals ? Because we are. We fuck, kill, eat, shit and die like every other animal on this planet, we've just developed a "nicer" way of doing it.

The christian messiah is the perfect example of how logic and religion cannot coincide. Ignoring that is ignoring the argument. I'm not missing the point. You're trying to change it.

Anyway, my original point stands firm. Religion - Logic need not apply.

There is no point with talking reason with him friend, his head is too far up where the sun refuses to shine, like preaching to a brick wall, although I think the wall could have been reasoned with *shrug* the worlds full of people, even "twats" like "them", let it be

That don't make sense, we have a heart like other animals, a brain like other animals, two kidneys like other animals etc.
The only difference from us and other animals is that we have managed to form togethrer from tribes to civilisations, we ensure that we live in large numbers to live, isolate and quarintine those who are sick, so that it is easier to care for them, which is exactly what dogs/wolfs do when one of them contract an illness, they seperate themself from the pack to make sure the others don't get ill. How does that make us creatures?

all of the great apes do something similar. the main reason homo sapiens were more successful than the other great apes is due to our greater vocabulary and range of communication.

no problem man, i love you

Because mice can shoot lightning
that's not my point smartass