Living Things

Hi, everyone. My name is Jay, Jay Chun -che. I'm teaching the division of Echoscience at Yihua Women's University. Far too many people often say things like, animals do this, but we don't. Or, this animal does this, and that animal does this, but the humans don't do things like that. Those statements have some hidden assumption that we're not animals. When we say, animals do this, animals do that, we often assume that we're not animals. If we're not animals, what are we? Are we plants, or trees, or flowers? No, we're not. Then, okay, we're not plants, and are we microorganisms, really tiny microscopic things? No, we're not. Then, the natural conclusion must be, we're not living things. That's not true. Yes, we are animals. I see animals in us, and I see humans in animals. I'm going to talk about the animal behavior and human nature. In order to understand human nature, we can look into animals' eyes and animal behavior, and find something about what made us who we are.