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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey
No, outsmarting nature is the defining charactaristic of humanity. If we lost every time, we wouldn't exist.
We don't win every time, but the accumulated wins we've got are what separate us from other animals.
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I disagree. Most of what you would categorize as our "wins," I see as nature winning. We have language because language is beneficial to survival. We are social creatures because cooperation is beneficial to survival. Our successes occur when we harness and cooperate with nature, not try to defy it.
The key difference between us and animals is that we can learn from our mistakes. The question is, do we really?