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Species purity alarm: David Cameron and the pig's head : Comments
By Evelyn Tsitas, published 25/9/2015Not much separates the human from the non-human animal. And humans have never been comfortable with this obvious familiarity.
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<<It's the mind, not the body, that's the important difference between us and animals.>>
The existence of this "mind" as distinct from the brain, is merely a hypotheses, even more so the claim that if such a thing exists then it is unique to humans, to all humans and to no animals.
What distinguishes between us and animals is that unlike ourselves, animals are physical objects - but so also are humans (other than this unproven hypothetical "mind"). Naturally humans and animals are not the same, but even the difference between a human and a chair is relatively tiny in comparison.