Self-preservation would only require knowledge of the immediate sensory world and by interaction with it what the individual can obtain.
Only the most rudimentary ideas would develop. By association of different experiences connected by memory. The only consideration of others outside an immediate interaction would be when an experience bring them to mind and what feelings are associated with them. A snapping of a branch may signify a predator, following my movements and not wanting to be discovered.
Yet, humans are not like this at all. We desire more than we can achieve on our own with what we can procure from nature. Self-consciousness is intermingled with other-consciousness.
Self-consciousness by itself rather empty.
Humans do not live in the objective world. The arrival of self-consciousness which defines human nature accompanies and is given purpose by social interaction. The lives of others cannot be directly experienced, either as an object or introspectively.
Only the most rudimentary ideas would develop. By association of different experiences connected by memory. The only consideration of others outside an immediate interaction would be when an experience bring them to mind and what feelings are associated with them. A snapping of a branch may signify a predator, following my movements and not wanting to be discovered.
Yet, humans are not like this at all. We desire more than we can achieve on our own with what we can procure from nature. Self-consciousness is intermingled with other-consciousness.
Self-consciousness by itself rather empty.
Humans do not live in the objective world. The arrival of self-consciousness which defines human nature accompanies and is given purpose by social interaction. The lives of others cannot be directly experienced, either as an object or introspectively.
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