Biology, asked by lasya5, 1 year ago

how human behaviour is different from animal behaviour ?explain with an example. Fast answer . With explanation

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Answered by leslieshongwan
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One word: Ego. Human behavior is very much driven by the conscious mind, or the ego (what I call the Lono.) This is the mind that over-rides the impulses sent to us by our sub-conscious mind, (what I call, "the Ku.")

Animals, while they do feel things like lack of self-esteem, which comes from th Ku, which holds all of our memories, they don't have the egos that we do. They can certainly make decisions and redirect their Ku, but they are primarily instinctual. They feel most all of the emotions we do, with the exception of those which are only ego based, like greed, or the desire to kill for sport.

 (And, no, when cats kill birds, they are not killing for sport. While they might be playing, and not doing it for food, they are doing it instinctually, not because they want to intentionally kill or harm another being.)

Also, animals live more in the moment than we do. They certainly can hold grudges (as evidenced by my own cat every time I go away for a bit) but this is again, an emotional reaction. They don't sit and consciously worry about the future, or kick themselves about the past, but they do react to the emotions stored in their Ku based on their experiences.

Lastly, my personal belief is that they are more spiritually based than we are. We either eschew the concept altogether, through logical conclusion, or we spend many lifetimes, learning to 'connect' with God, be it through meditation, or religion or whatever.

Animals, otoh, are simply connected to a higher plane. They are in almost a continuous state of meditation when they are not in a physical plane mode of eating, playing or getting love. They can sit and look out a window in peace for hours. They have far less need for 24 hour stimulation like we do.

That is not to say they don't need stimulation and exercise, they do, and lots of it, but far less comparatively when we consider how we "relax" by watching tv, social media, etc. We were probably much closer to animals in our consciousness and behavior when we lived as, for example, Native Americans did hundreds of years ago.

As I said in the first line, all of this primarily comes down to it being the difference of ego, that humans have developed into what is sometimes a shockingly dangerous state. That's why animals are so wonderful and can teach us so much if we would just stop using and abusing them.  We need them to ground us to what we were before all that ego got i,n the way.

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