Humans Are Autonomous Animals

Humans, or homo sapiens, are complex animals who are autopoietic entities. This means that they are self-generating and are not dependent on anything external to the body to direct construction and maintenance processes. While humans are alive, they continue to generate themselves. Because nothing from our outside organisation can direct our operation, we are autonomous. We are structure determined as our behaviour is determined by our structure in a particular environment. We can be perturbed by outside forces, but these do not trigger changes in behaviour that are determined by our structure. We are also autonomous entities as we have a self-generating nature due to our autopoietic organisation. We generate ourselves using our own internal …show more content…
However, not all humans eat both plants and meat, and adopt particular diets depending on food resources, cultural and religious norms, or other beliefs. Prior to the development of agriculture, humans used the hunted and gathered their food. Meat, or wild game, was to be hunted and killed. It has been suggested that fire was used to cook food. Agriculture brought about new ways of consuming food with the development of dairy farming. A significant aspect of being human is that we have an upright posture, and this frees our hands for tools. Humans use tools more often than other animals, and these tools are more complex. We build fires and cook food, clothe ourselves, and create technologies. These technologies are always evolving and …show more content…
Our explanations of these experiences are not the same as the experience itself, but must make sense to us and give us an acceptable understanding of the experience. However, before we can explain an experience we need to first observe the experience, thus being experiencer and observer at the same time. Observing our experiences and creating explanations for them is a key aspect of the human mind, which is central to humanity. This is a more abstract concept that has no physical location in the human body. It involves our mental processes, self-awareness, and our ability to be aware of the world around us. Our mind arises in our relationships with others. It requires our body to be functioning in a particular way, but is essentially found in relationships. Our mind is associated with our point of view and represents how we see and experience the world. It is a process of relating and making sense of things around us. In order for this to occur, a human body is needed, and we need to experience the world in some way, be perturbed and make sense of this. Our body’s structure and functions influence what we experience and how we observe and explain these experiences, therefore affecting human mind. Our body is also affected by how we use our mind. Therefore, our body and our mind are both affected by each other, but are two separate things. Additionally, we need to be able to observe the world around us and explain these