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Anthropologists, at what point do you believe we became sentient?
Posted on 5/10/20 at 11:46 pm
Posted on 5/10/20 at 11:46 pm
Somewhere between 13 billion years ago and now, we are believed to have developed a conscience, at what point in evolution do you believe this happened?
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Posted on 5/10/20 at 11:47 pm to Tunasntigers92
I'm gonna need some more pot for this conversation
Posted on 5/10/20 at 11:49 pm to Tunasntigers92
Curious how many anthropologists are on this board
Posted on 5/10/20 at 11:49 pm to Tunasntigers92
Who are you? I dated a girl who was an anthropology major for a while, and these are the conversations I was often dragged into.
Posted on 5/10/20 at 11:49 pm to Tunasntigers92
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Somewhere between 13 billion years ago and now, we are believed to have developed a conscience, at what point in evolution do you believe this happened?
Sentience is a social construct. My dog acts guilty if he poops inside, is that because he understands right and wrong, or because he understands consequences? Now apply that to humans in a slightly more complex fashion.
This post was edited on 5/10/20 at 11:54 pm
Posted on 5/10/20 at 11:51 pm to LegendInMyMind
Anthropology chicks were by an far the most enamoring girls at LSU. As long as you didn't have an occipital bun.
Posted on 5/10/20 at 11:51 pm to TigernMS12
quote:I'm gonna need less.
I'm gonna need some more pot for this conversation
Posted on 5/10/20 at 11:52 pm to Tunasntigers92
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13 billion years
You better check your math.
Posted on 5/10/20 at 11:52 pm to AMS
That's because you trained it. Do you think feral dogs give a shite where they shite?
Posted on 5/10/20 at 11:53 pm to LSUSUPERSTAR
The universe is supposedly 13.8 billion years old.
Posted on 5/10/20 at 11:54 pm to cable
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That's because you trained it. Do you think feral dogs give a shite where they shite?
Yes i do, they will eat their own and each other’s poo to cover their tracks. Or use it as marks of teritorry. But I edited my first post to be more representative of my perspective. I think that similar concept applies to humans, just more slightly more complex in our own perspective .
This post was edited on 5/10/20 at 11:56 pm
Posted on 5/10/20 at 11:55 pm to Tunasntigers92
13 billion? There's probably a reddit that covers the sentience of inanimate objects
Posted on 5/10/20 at 11:55 pm to Tunasntigers92
quote:We can probably go ahead and rule out the years before earth formed.
The universe is supposedly 13.8 billion years old.
Posted on 5/10/20 at 11:55 pm to LSUSUPERSTAR
Hydrogen is also the simplest of all elements.
Posted on 5/10/20 at 11:55 pm to Tunasntigers92
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Anthropology chicks were by an far the most enamoring girls at LSU. As long as you didn't have an occipital bun.
Try dating one from UT who frequents the Body Farm.
Posted on 5/10/20 at 11:57 pm to Tunasntigers92
Posted on 5/10/20 at 11:57 pm to Tunasntigers92
The Earth is only ~4.5 billion years old. Are you talking any sentient lifeform or specifically humans?
Posted on 5/10/20 at 11:58 pm to Tunasntigers92
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Hydrogen is also the simplest of all elements.
Hydrogen is no more complex than any other element. Just has a smaller amount of protons. If you can comprehend what 1 proton means, 2 isnt really more complex, its just more.
Posted on 5/10/20 at 11:58 pm to molsusports
The earliest life forms on earth are guessed to be around 3.8 billion years old.
Posted on 5/10/20 at 11:58 pm to Tunasntigers92
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at what point do you believe we became sentient?
That depends on how you define sentience? For much of our history we have largely dismissed and ignored the actual and emotional intelligence of other animals. If we're talking just humans, it is believed that a mutation in the FOXP2 gene is what allows us to speak.
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Previous genetic analysis had suggested that the H. sapiens FOXP2 gene became fixed in the population around 125,000 years ago.[42] Some researchers consider the Neanderthal findings to indicate that the gene instead swept through the population over 260,000 years ago, before our most recent common ancestor with the Neanderthals.
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