Philosphy

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             Skinner says that we are a product of environment and conditioning. Thus we are not a single person but a collaboration of people placed inside one. Indeed this may be true, but to disprove Skinner, we chose whether we wish to believe what we hear. Conditioning serves it purpose when upbringing, but not when the individual rebels. Rebellion is caused by a spark of free, individual thought, that does form into mass thought. Essentially then, there must be and individual, because we couldn't have evolved without individual thinking.
             As young fetus, all mammals resemble each other very much. You see a little body then with head and bottom, two arms on the shoulders and two legs on the hips. All mammals have the same inner-body, which resembles that of birds as well. Later however, all kinds of protection grow around that naked body of animals, like furs, feathers, scales, shields and sometimes even whole houses. All kinds of tools grow on the limbs as well, like hoofs and claws on arms and legs, wings on the arms, beaks on the mouth, horns and antlers on the head et cetera. Only the human keeps on looking like the fetus, even grown up. So, our body makes us not elevated above animals. On the contrary, we actually are the most beastly looking animals on earth, pure biology and naked existence, the essence of all animals. It is our mind that makes us different, makes .
             us human, or our spirit or whatever name one gives to that power of comprehension we have. Would we all lose our mind tonight, by some kind of virus, then tomorrow we would be ordinary apes again, naked apes. Clumsy apes too, who would have little chance to survive. If it were cold, we would not have the idea to put on clothes, and next to a wardrobe full of clothes we then could freeze. So the human, that is his mind. Understanding the human therefore means understanding our mind. What is our mind doing? How does it work? What exactly is understanding? Why do we have a mind? .