That would be depend on the human and the animal. If we’re using consciousness as a measuring stick, one might metaphorically simply put it in inches or less.
At what point did us humans become fully evolved humans, insofar as looking human I mean. We will never ever bcome fully evolved.
Philosophy is waiting for a reply and debating that reply without maliciousness or Ill intent but with a yearning to understand more.
A while back I replied to posts with replies that I liked the sound of but that were contradictory to what I’d said prior to the contradictory reply, and I thought I’d get replies hi-lighting the contradiction but instead I got abuse and aggression, so I learned that people just ain’t nice even if we expect they should be due to our mutuality.
of course that is what the dummies are waiting for…discussion/debate/reply without attack on persons…
emotional maturity is a problem on these forums…please direct us dummies to a philosophy post that is a philosophy discussion…the older mature members need to lead the way…
Exactly. Though with seven billion people, further evolution is almost out of the question, while a reversion to the medium is very likely.
As to your question, I do think I have an answer. The highest peak of genetic evolution was probably achieved by the end of the last ice age more or less 10,000 years ago.
we are on the way down…our smart cortex can no longer control our technology…our violence is taking over…
just hang on and observe the fall…we can still help each other on the way down…
In the former there’s always a chance for the species to survive in a meaningful way. Unfortunately, I believe the latter seems slightly more likely. Humanity would become a hive mind that would lose all sophistication until it had nothing left but an advanced version of the functionality based intelligence of an actual bee hive.