we are all artists.
we are all artists.
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- PeterPancake3
Creativity, ambition, whatever you want to call it, is a curiously human preoccupation. Funny to compare us to the rest of nature, in that respect - at least as individuals.
Like, what's the most a shrew can achieve in a lifetime? How much impact can one penguin have on the future of existence?That snail you saw the other day, will s(he) achieve greatness?
I suppose an individual creature can evolve an adaption and change the course of history that way, but that's unknowing. Excluding the accidental, then, it's only really us privileged, smelly hulks that have the drive to do more than the basic requirements of life. Blessed be.
- I think all life wants for more. Wants to strive to become better than it is. That's the very nature of evolution. It's just far more apparent with us.set
- Personally I don't evolution is through freak accidents, I believe life changes itself through its intentions and desires.set
- Don't believe *set
- The differential is the scale. A crow will use creativity to dislodge a grub from a tree trunk, but it will never dream of building a cable-stayed bridge.PeterPancake
- A chimp might have the ambition to lead the troop, but won't ever aim to be the Chief Economist of the IMF.PeterPancake
- @set: Lamarck would be proud.
@pp: I don't much doubt your position, but humans are utterly blind to cultures outwith their own locality, never mind speciesNairn - True, most of the time. Regardless our impacts, +ive and -ive are huge compared to non-human nature. You have to wonder where this 'unharmony' will lead us.PeterPancake