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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted, clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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One of the biggest problem of humanity is that We are Animals pretending not to be Animals (self.showerthoughts)
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And what are we pretending to be?

"Humans".

And what are Humans?

"Not animals, that's for sure!"

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We are humans. We are animals. And we are more than that. Perhaps we are also lesser than that at the same time?

The duality was how the idea was presented to me - this is not my OC, or perhaps the words are but the concept I first heard told by an atheist apologeticist (if that's a thing) Daniel Dennett speaking out against Intelligent Design (which at the time was still a thing that people bothered arguing against). I believe he was relating it to a binary classification scheme such as machine learning approaches are often built to follow. Anyway it's just a vehicle for the conveyance of the idea - obviously nuances exist irl, yet there is some value in keeping things simple too, especially at first.

[โ€“] NONE_dc 3 points 1 week ago

Hmm, ok. Now I can see the point you where making. Thanks for elaborate.